Obscure sports trivia

nope

 

Then I'll go with Jerry Rice?
I think that was the last January Super Bowl, and I remember the Raiders scoring a garbage time touchdown.

EDIT TO ADD: Looked it up. It's not Rice, but I was on the right track. Rice got his to cut it to 34-21 and make it a game for a hot second, then Brooks returned an interception for a TD, but the Bucs got one more right at the end.

 

As we would say at the Seder looking for the afikomen, you are very warm.

 

The Bears and Cardinals would seem to be a non-brainer, but probably not. The Giants and whatever other NY team was around at the time (Bulldogs? Yankees?)?

 

No on the Chicago teams. No on the Giants. Not quite on the other NY team.

 

You said not quite New York teams? So one then?

Brooklyn and Boston?

 

Bingo.

In 1945, the Brooklyn Tigers (they changed their name from the Dodgers) merged with the Boston Yanks (who did eventually move to NY for a few years and became the Bulldogs/Yanks/Texans/kinda Colts). The combined franchise was merely called “The Yanks”.

After the season, Tigers owner Dan Topping announced he would accept a franchise in the AAFC. The NFL canceled the Brooklyn franchise and awarded its players to Boston.

Another funny thing. In 1944, both the Tigers and the Card-Pitts went 0-10 for the season. They didn’t get to play each other.

 

Dwight Smith with the garbage time pick 6 in SB XXXVII

 

The New York Yanks later gained lasting infamy by allowing Norm Van Brocklin to throw for a still-record 554 yards against them in the 1951 season opener.

 

This notorious poison made history as the first performance-enhancing substance in the modern Olympics. (And please provide the Olympics and event.)

 

I’m pretty sure it was an early Olympics and a long distance (marathon?) runner took something like cyanide to boost his performance. I’ll say Paris 1900.

 

I definitely remember it being a marathoner. And I think it was strychnine.

Can’t place the year. Maybe Berlin 1936?