Carolyn's Corner
Just to
lighten things up—the last couple of articles have been on the heavy side, I
know—here are a few crazy, but interesting, facts about the NFL that even the
most diehard fan might not know. This is
a quick “pick six”:
1. Even if you signed up on the waiting
list today to get Green Bay
Packers’ season tickets, you would have to wait almost 1,000 years for your name to come up.
Supposedly, there are about 86,000 people on the waiting list now. Since fewer than 100 season tickets are given
up per year, the math says it would take 955 years for your name to make it to
the top. Hope your name is Methuselah! (He is the guy in the Bible who lived to be
1,000 years old, remember?)
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| courtesy of USA Today Sports |
2. The Wilson Company has been the
exclusive and official maker of NFL footballs since 1941, producing 4,000 per
day.
It takes 1 full cowhide to make just 10 balls. The cows come only from Nebraska, Iowa and
Kansas. Each ball has 16 lace holes but
only 1 continuous white lace.
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| courtesy of Associated Press (AP) |
3. Since the Super Bowl era began in 1967,
no team has ever “three-peated.” In all
of NFL history, there has been only one that did: Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers, who won
the NFL Championship in 1966, 1967, and 1968.
Is there any wonder the Super Bowl Trophy is named for him? (Hint:
The Lombardi Trophy)
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| courtesy of Associated Press (AP) |
4. The Lombardi Trophy costs $25,000.00.
That is just a little more than Ndamukong Suh makes in one minute!
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| courtesy of Getty Images |
5. The new Rocky movie “Creed,” which is
coming out soon, has a connection not just to the boxing ring but to the NFL,
too.
Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the early movies, actually
played 2 seasons for the Oakland Raiders in the early 1970s, then left to go on
to battle Rocky Balboa in the ring.
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| courtesy o USA Today |
6. One of the oldest NFL records is also one of the most famous: in 1929, one player, Ernie Nevers, was himself
responsible for putting 40 points on the board by scoring 6 touchdowns and 4
extra points!
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| Public Domain picture |
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