Question Re: Final Jeopardy (Category: NFL)

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A couple of days ago the Final Jeopardy category was “THE NFL”. The clue was:

“It’s the only NFL team to play its home games out-of-state in a stadium named for another team”

I had only half-read the question, and immediately said “who are the Saints”.

Bzzzt! Wrong. The answer they was looking for was

Now, if I’d have taken the time to fully read the question, there is no way I’d have missed it. However, it got me to thinking – if I happened to be on that show and used that answer, would I have been able to argue the accuracy of it?

I had been referring to the 2005 Week 2 game in which the Saints were the “home” team in Giants Stadium, since the Superdome was still ravaged post-Katrina.

I think I’d be overruled because of the pluralization in “its home games” rather than “a home game”, but anyone think I’d be able to successfully argue this one?

2

Nope. Your logic as to why is spot on. The question is phrased present tense, which means 2005 doesn’t apply.

3

Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen…

4

Didn’t look at the answer. It’s the Jets.

5

Actually, the Jets is technically incorrect.

During Jets home games, the facility is the Meadowlands. During Giants games, it’s Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands. Everyone knows it’s really Giants Stadium but the Jets and the NFL pretend it isn’t true.

Cite: http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/29450/NYJ_Gamebook.pdf - all official records of Jets home games (and the tickets) record the venue as simply “The Meadowlands”.

Anyway, if you were counting games played prior to the 2007-2008 season, the Arizona Cardinals played their home games at Sun Devil Stadium.

ETA: Sun Devil Stadium is of course in Arizona, so there’s no correct answer.

6

I guessed the Jets, but it was a toss up between them and the Giants for me.

7

Watching Jeopardy! it often seems that Alex tosses it to the judges to determine alternative answers and their decisions are often somewhat capricious. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of them accepting that answer. I’m sure a decent argument could be made. Strikes me as the type of situation where Alex begins the next show with both the previous weeks champ and the “Saints” answering guy having a rematch with some poor redshirt in the third spot.

8

Quoth Trebek when the first player’s answer was revealed: “They play in Giants Stadium, but when they play their home games they refer to it as the Meadowlands.”