Gunpowder's Gold Star Trivia

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:16 pm

Phalon Algebra.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:30 pm

Not Pharell, not GPJ (unfortch). His real name is Phalon Alexander of course but that won't get the gold.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:13 pm

Where's Johnnie? Must have just missed him. I'm basically just giving him a gold star if he sees this.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:15 pm

F it. This one was forced.

JAZZE PHA - he's yelling his name in the first 5 seconds of probably 100 popular songs.

Make-up question:

Seattle's defense is very good. BUT - it did not set the modern NFL record for fewest points per game allowed (regular season only). What defense has that record? Need the year within, let's say, +/- two years.

Modern basically means Super Bowl era.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:26 pm

Gunpowder wrote:JAZZE PHA - he's yelling his name in the first 5 seconds of probably 100 popular songs.

Wouldn't even know how he pronounces that.

And I'll guess the '85 Bears.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:28 pm

Nope. This answer truly is an unexpected one.

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:29 pm

Chuck Knoll era Steelers, I'll guess '76 season (77 bowl, which did not feature the stillers).

ETA: well, this guess is not exactly unexpected.

Post by **Sabo** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:31 pm

1983 Cincinnati Bengals

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:37 pm

2011 Indianapolis Colts.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:49 pm

Errrmmm . . . the Los Angeles Rams around 1976?

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:51 pm

None of the above.

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:52 pm

Not the '76 Steelers. They lost four of their first five games, giving up plenty of points. But over the next nine games, gave up 28 points. Basically averaged a field goal per game, five shutouts.

Franco Harris and Rocky Blier were out with injures, didn't play the AFC Championship game in Oaktown, and Raiders cruised to a 24-3 win. Swann caught three balls, Stallworth one; that is a fun reminiscence. Skip Thomas, Willie Brown on the corners, Atkinson and Tatum the safeties.

Yeah, that Ram team was sick. Until Tom Landry got ahold of them in the NFC final. That was before Isaiah Robertson got done by Earl Campbell, and he was a premier MLB.

wwlis--The List: Best NFL defense of all-time (posted 2007)
Don't look until after you are through guessing.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:57 pm

08-09 Steelers.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:57 pm

This defense is so unheralded...that it's not even on that list.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:59 pm

I doubt anyone will get this, so I'll just reveal the answer.

It was a team that didn't even make the playoffs. A team with basically zero starpower. The brainchild of Jerry motherfucking Glanville.

The....

1977 ATLANTA FALCONS

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:00 pm

Oakland Raiders around, oh . . . 1973?

ETA: Too late, didn't matter anyway.

The Falcons? The Falcons? </Jim Mora>

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:06 pm

Oh yeah. The Joe Namath Rams (you can look it up), Steve DeBerg Niners and a really old-Jim Hart Cardinals twice each. Despite that six-game pad, they were pretty good.

ETA: I gotta look up this shit before I post from memory. Cards were still in the east; Saints were the fourth team in the NFL West. The original Manning face.

Also, DeBerg came to the niners the following year. Bad Jim Plunkett. A wonder what a difference an O-line makes, especially anchored by Shell and Upshaw.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:08 pm

Two of the top 5 least intercepty years ever by a QB were freak KC Chiefs years...DeBerg at #5 and the weirdest of all time...Damon Huard of the 2006 Chiefs...the most difficult QB to intercept in NFL HISTORY. Yes. For real. Weird.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:11 pm

howard wrote:Oh yeah. The Joe Namath Rams (you can look it up), Steve DeBerg Niners and a really old-Jim Hart Cardinals twice each. Despite that six-game pad, they were pretty good.

Manning Saints. Second season Bucs, too.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:20 pm

That was a great trivia question (and answer), by the way.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:34 pm

Gunpowder wrote:Two of the top 5 least intercepty years ever by a QB were freak KC Chiefs years...DeBerg at #5 and the weirdest of all time...Damon Huard of the 2006 Chiefs...the most difficult QB to intercept in NFL HISTORY. Yes. For real. Weird.

That Chiefs offense with Damon Huard was downright Larry Johnsonian.

That was the year that Trent Green got concussed for the first half of the season by Robert Geathers (I think?) in week 1 against Cincinnati.

ETA: Johnson had 457 touches in the regular season and 18 more in the playoffs.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:20 pm

howard wrote:It was in Modesto, Ca, right? I remember the newspaper headlines the next day, I was about 11 or 12.

I could've at least come up with Bob Hays (wind-aided, hand-timed) five years or so earlier.

Bob Hays is who I kept thinking of. But of course, in my brain it was coming out as "Lester Hayes", which I knew wasn't quite right, so I didn't guess.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:16 pm

Gunpowder wrote:Where's Johnnie? Must have just missed him. I'm basically just giving him a gold star if he sees this.

Had no idea. Does Jazze still produce music? That was a good question though.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:57 am

Brontoburglar wrote:
Gunpowder wrote:Two of the top 5 least intercepty years ever by a QB were freak KC Chiefs years...DeBerg at #5 and the weirdest of all time...Damon Huard of the 2006 Chiefs...the most difficult QB to intercept in NFL HISTORY. Yes. For real. Weird.
That Chiefs offense with Damon Huard was downright Larry Johnsonian.

That was the year that Trent Green got concussed for the first half of the season by Robert Geathers (I think?) in week 1 against Cincinnati.

ETA: Johnson had 457 touches in the regular season and 18 more in the playoffs.

Steelers just hired that year's RB coach. Hope he doesn't ruin LeVeon Bell.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:03 am

TODAY'S QUESTION

Who was the first NFL player with consecutive 100 reception seasons?

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:05 am

Herman Moore

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:07 am

Moore appears to have been the first to do it three years consecutive, but he was not the first with two straight.

I can work him into another question that Brian would get in three seconds. Maybe that one will run next month.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:08 am

Man, it was hard not to put a "?" after that, but given my limp dick joke up above I had to leave it off.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:26 am

Art Monk

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:30 am

Mark Duper

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:32 am

No on Monk and Duper.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:34 am

Carl Pickens and Larry Centers came damn close.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:37 am

Cris Carter

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:41 am

Not CC

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:49 am

Henry Ellard

Update - I just checked his stats, and no. He never got to 100.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:03 am

Steve Largent

Post by **brian** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:14 am

Gunpowder wrote:Moore appears to have been the first to do it three years consecutive, but he was not the first with two straight.

I can work him into another question that Brian would get in three seconds. Maybe that one will run next month.

Is it that he and Brett Perriman still hold the NFL record for most receiving yards by a pair of wide receivers? (3,174 in 1995).

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:18 am

brian wrote:
Gunpowder wrote:Moore appears to have been the first to do it three years consecutive, but he was not the first with two straight.

I can work him into another question that Brian would get in three seconds. Maybe that one will run next month.
Is it that he and Brett Perriman still hold the NFL record for most receiving yards by a pair of wide receivers? (3,174 in 1995).

Would have been first WR tandem to each have 100 receptions in a season.

So basically.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:18 am

The Sybian wrote:Steve Largent

Never had a 100 catch season.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:21 am

Well helll...Jerry Rice with the MJ answer.