Family Feud XIV - the sports edition

The Game Room
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Even though I have no chance of winning

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SSG Schwartz

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The flow of responses seems to have dried up.

I’ll leave this one more day, and if we don’t have 50 responses by then, I’ll just multiply by 100/(number of responses) rather than by 2.

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  1. Dominican Republic
  2. Bobby Orr
  3. Babe Didrikson
  4. Kick returner
  5. 4
  6. St. Louis
  7. Arthur Ashe
  8. Gator Bowl
  9. Yankee Stadium
  10. Green Bay
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OK, I know when I’m licked. I obviously don’t have what it takes to fashion a feud game that attracts 50 responses. Instead of 2, the number of answers will be multiplied by 2.25, and rounded off to the nearest whole number. (BTW, the ties are actual exact ties, none created by rounding.) Final results:

  1. Frosted Glass 327
  2. Lamar Mundane 321
  3. Enginerd 317
  4. Paintcharge 316
  5. fachverwirrt 315
  6. Hawkeyeop 312
  7. Yeticus Rex 302
  8. pulykamell 298
  9. RickJay 295
  10. 5 time champ 294
  11. Leaffan 293
  12. Wargamer 290
  13. Really Not All That Bright 285
  14. ZipperJJ 284
  15. robardin 272
  16. Happy Lendervedder 269
  17. Dolores Reborn 266
  18. tesseract 266
  19. Wilson 262
  20. What Exit? 258
  21. Sternvogel 255
  22. Asimovian 253
  23. Justin_Bailey 251
  24. Mullinator 249
  25. MadTheSwine 248
  26. as_u_wish 240
  27. Drain Bead 234
  28. El_Kabong 232
  29. Hal Briston 227
  30. ShibbOleth 227
  31. delphica 226
  32. ShermanAtor 225
  33. Darth Sensitive 223
  34. Mr. Greenjeans 207
  35. Hockey Monkey 197
  36. IvoryTowerDenizen 196
  37. Justin Credible 187
  38. SSG Schwartz 180
  39. mshar253 177
  40. Zebra 163
  41. AirBlairxxx 161
  42. Purgatory Creek 144
  43. MonkeyMensch 117
  44. anyrose 89

Answers given:

1. Name a country where baseball players play during the major league off-season.

Dominican Republic - 11
Japan - 11
Mexico - 11
Cuba - 4
Puerto Rico - 4
1 response, no points - USA

2. If Wayne Gretzky did not exist, who would be considered the greatest player in NHL history?

Bobby Orr - 18
Gordie Howe - 11
Mario Lemieux - 7
Bobby Hull - 4
Mark Messier - 2
Patrick Roy - 2

3. Name a champion female golfer.

Annika Sorenstam - 28
Michelle Wie - 8
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias - 2
1 response, no points - Lorena Ochoa, Nancy Lopez, and…Wonder Woman?

4. Name a “special teams” member position in football.

(Place) Kicker - 26
Punter - 9
Kick Returner - 3
Punt Returner - 3
Long Snapper - 2

5. Besides Jackie Robinson’s universally-retired 47, name a number that has been retired by many major league baseball teams.

I allowed the “42” responses, because it was my own fault, even though those responding 42 obviously knew what I meant.

3 - 10
5 - 5
4 - 4
42 - 3
6 - 2
7 - 2
9 - 2
21 - 2
44 - 2
1 response, no points - 1, 20, 23, 24, 32, 33

6. Name a city that used to have an NBA team but no longer does.

Vancouver - 7
Charlotte - 6 (a surprisingly popular answer, since Charlotte has a team again)
St. Louis - 5
Kansas City - 4
San Diego - 4
Buffalo - 3
Fort Wayne - 2
New Orleans - 2
Oklahoma City - 2
Rochester - 2
1 response, no points - Atlanta, Cincinnati, Columbus

7. Name an African-American professional tennis player, male or female.

Arthur Ashe - 22
Serena Willaims - 12
Venus Williams - 9
1 response, no points - James Blake

8. Name an NCAA football bowl game other than the BCS “big four” (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta).

Cotton - 16
Capital One/Citrus - 6
Outback - 3
Holiday - 2
Peach - 2
1 response, no points - Alamo, Aloha, AT&T/HP/RCA, Blockbuster, Coconut, Gator, Hula, Independence, Las Vegas, Liberty, Motor City, Sun

9. Name a pro sports venue that is expected to be replaced (for any of its tenants) within the next five years.

Yankee Stadium - 17.5 (one person said Yankee and Shea)
RCA Dome - 8
Shea Stadium - 4.5 (see above)
Giants Stadium - 2
Texas Stadium - 2
1 response, no points - Arco Arena, Astrodome, MacAfee Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, Monster (formerly Candlestick) Park, Qualcomm Stadium, Ralph Wilson (Buffalo Bills) Stadium

10. Name a city (or other named location) that has a team in only one of the four American major-league team sports.

Green Bay - 18
Portland - 6
Sacramento - 5
San Antonio - 4
Utah - 3
Orlando - 2
1 response, no points - Columbus, Houston, Oklahoma City, Raleigh

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For what it’s worth, I thought your game was a good one and I enjoyed participating.

66

I started a new non-theme game.

67

Hey,

Even adding up my answer totals I managed not to come in last.

How did that happen :slight_smile:

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Damn, get to sports and I do worse. This was a fun one cmkeller.

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see? last. toldyaso.

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Me too – I thought that was a great one. Thanks.

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Nice, I finally got one! This was a good category, too bad we didn’t get more responses.

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I liked it too. And…Charlotte has an NBA team again? I guess that shows how much attention I pay to pro sports these days.

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Thank you, CM. First time for me and I think my position says it all. I was so sure when I typed my answers though!

::Goes off in hunt for next feud thread…::

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I enjoyed it, too, even though I know virtually nothing about sports and even less about international sports.

And look, I didn’t even come in dead last!

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Slight nitpick - the Citrus Bowl and Capital One Bowl should really have been counted separately; they’re two different games that just happen to be played in the same stadium.

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Really Not All That Bright:

That’s not the impression I got from this Wikipedia article. If the article is wrong, or I misinterpreted it, I apologize.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

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No, you’re absolutely right, actually.

I had just woken up… was thinking of the Champs Sports Bowl/Capital One Bowl.

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  1. Venezuela
  2. Gordie Howe
  3. Annika
  4. Kick returner
  5. 7
  6. Fort Wayne
  7. Ashe
  8. Cotton
  9. Buffalo NFL
  10. Calgary NHL