Impress Your Friends with Football Factoids
Posted: January 16, 2009 Filed under: football, Sports | Tags: Cardinals, Eagles, Giants, NFL playoffs, Ravens, Steelers, Super Bowl Leave a comment »Impress your friends, win bets, make money with these 10 NFL tidbits:
The Giants, coming off the best Super Bowl ever, are the only team in the NFL to have beaten the Steelers, Ravens, Eagles and Cardinals this year.
The Cardinals are one of six teams never to have played in a Super Bowl. The Lions, Saints, Jaguars, Texans and Browns are the others.
Now that the Cardinals are playing for the NFC title, only the Texans have never made at least a conference championship game since the Super Bowl began..
The Eagles have never won a Super Bowl. Philadelphia lost Super Bowl XV to the Raiders, 27-10, and Super Bowl XXXIX to the Patriots, 24-21.
Super Bowl XXLIII certainty: The NFC will have an entrant that has never won a Super Bowl. Never ever.
The Ravens won the only Super Bowl they played, beating the Giants, 34-7, in Super Bowl XXXV.
The Steelers are tied with the Cowboys and 49ers for most Super Bowl championships — five.
A Philadelphia-Pittsburgh all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl would mark only the third occasion where two teams from the same state faced off for the NFL’s ultimate prize. Giants-Bills in Super Bowl XXV and 49ers-Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX were the others.
A Philadelphia win in the Super Bowl would give the NFC East 12 championships, twice as many as any other division.
No team has ever played a Super Bowl at home. Next year’s game is scheduled for Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
What Are The Odds?
Posted: March 28, 2008 Filed under: football, NFL, quarterbacks | Tags: Giants, Jim Kelly, John Elway, NFL, Ravens, Tom Brady, Trent Dilfer Leave a comment »What are the odds? The Giants have played in four Super Bowls, all since 1987. In those games, they have faced two Hall of Fame quarterbacks — John Elway and Jim Kelly — a certain Hall of Famer to-be in Tom Brady, and rag-armed vagabond Trent Farris Dilfer.
Yes that same Trent Dilfer who has played for five teams and thrown more interceptions than touchdowns. The same Trent Dilfer who was recently released by a terrible 49ers team, perhaps signalling the end of a nondescript, 14-year NFL career.
The Giants won three of those four Super Bowls. The one they lost — a 34-7 beating in 2001 — Dilfer was the quarterback for the Ravens. Go figure.
Like I said, what are the odds?
