A few NFL Trivia Questions

[Marmel]

Just 4 this time. No internet search helps!!!




1) What former defensive lineman was the first player in NFL history to play in six Superbowls? Mike Lodish - Troy

2) In 2000, the NFL's attendance topped 16 million. In what year did it first top 1,000,000?

3) Which former Washington Redskin sub - filling in for an injured Art Monk - scored 5 touchdowns in the 1982 postseason?

4) Everybody knows who the top 3 leading career rushers are in the NFL (Smith, Payton, Sanders). Who are the 4th and 5th players on that prestigious list? E. Dickerson and T. Dorsett - wheels

[cuervo72]

1. Charles Haley
2. 1959
4. Marcus Allen and Thurman Thomas?

[VPI97]

1. Charles Haley

[Marmel]

All wrong on all accounts.

[TroyF]

1) Mike Lodish

[Marmel]

Correct on #1 Troy.

[wheels]

4) dorsett and dickerson
2) 1970
3) rickey sanders
1) steve furness

[henry296]

Are 4th and 5th - Jim Brown and Eric Dickerson?

[Marmel]

wheels is correct on #4, Dickerson and Dorsett.


No others answers posted are correct.

[Marmel]

dola (hint)....

wheels is going in the worng direction from the first guess at #2

[VPI97]

3) Charlie Brown?

[Marmel]

No, sorry VPI.

Where are all the DC area board members today with the answer to this one??

[cuervo72]

Another shot on #2 - 1950 (AAFC teams added?)

[Marmel]

getting closer there cuervo.

[cuervo72]

Well, I guess it has to be somewhere between 1920 and 1949 then. :)

[Marmel]

Somewhere right in between there, yes.

[Nyarlahotep]

2. 1939
3. garrett or garrity something like that

[Marmel]

Correct on 1938 Nyar.

Also, correct with Garrett, Alvin Garrett to be exact.

Nice job guys.

[Nyarlahotep]

Can't figure out why attendance went up in '39 though. Why go see the game in person when you can watch from the comfort of your own home on a 7 inch b&w television.