Canadian footballs are bigger than NFL footballs, which led to a popular t-shirt a few years ago: “The CFL: Our Balls are Bigger!”
According to the current standards the regulation size for a Canadian Football League football is specified as:
short circumference from 20-7⁄8 to 21-1⁄8 inches;
long circumference from 27-3⁄4 to 28-1⁄4 inches.
The regulation size for a National Football League football is specified as:
short circumference from 21 to 21-1⁄4 inches;
long circumference from 28 to 28-1⁄2 inches.
So NFL balls are bigger.
Ernie Nevers, of the pro football hall of fame, pitched in for the St. Louis Browns and gave up a home run to Babe Ruth (the year Ruth hit 60).
Nevers is a commune in, and the administrative capital of, the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne region in central France. It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais, and is located 260 km SSE of Paris.
Bourgogne, or Burgundy in English, is the home of many of the world’s finest wines, mostly made from Pinot noir and Chardonnay grapes. The region is divided into the Côte-d’Or, where the most expensive and prized Burgundies are found, and Beaujolais, Chablis, the Côte Chalonnaise and Mâcon.
The Golden Arrow (in French: Flèche d’Or) was a luxury boat train of the Southern Railway and later British Railways. It linked London with Dover, where passengers took the ferry to Calais to join the Flèche d’Or of the Chemin de Fer du Nord and later SNCF which took them on to Paris.
The first official cars of the White House included two Pierce-Arrows of the Buffalo NY car company. They were ordered by President Taft in 1909 for official state business.
The quote for which King Louis XIV of France is best known, “L’état, c’est moi” (“The state, it is I”) is said to have been addressed to the Parliament of Paris on 13 April 1655, according to Jacques-Antoine Dulaure in his Histoire de Paris (1834). Scholars consider it likely to be apocryphal.
The Super Bowl is played at a neutral site, and not in the city of any of the teams playing. However, Super Bowl sites are chosen years in advance of the game, when the teams playing are not yet known. Super Bowl XIV, played in the Los Angeles area at the Rose Bowl, was the first Super Bowl to unintentionally featured a home team, the Los Angeles Rams. This has happened only one other time so far in Super Bowl history, in Super Bowl XIX in Stanford Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area when the home team San Francisco 49ers played in that Super Bowl. All of the 49 other annual Super Bowl games played to date have not featured any home teams.
Rams that have been castrated are known as wethers.
The Rams are the only NFL team to win championships in three different cities (Cleveland, Los Angeles, and St. Louis).
The Cleveland railway line is a suburban railway line in Queensland, extending 37.3 kilometres east-southeast from Brisbane, the state capital. It is part of the QR Citytrain network.
The Cleveland line has a track gauge of 1,067 mm.
The Cleveland Rams won the NFL championship in 1945 before moving to Los Angeles in 1946 to become the only NFL champion ever to play the following season in another city.
The epact is an important component of the calculation of the date of Easter according to the Gregorian calendar. For any year the epact is defined as the age (in days) on 1 January of the notional moon, the phases of which determine the occurrence of Easter. The epact for 1946 was 27.
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album was on the Billboard Top LP’s and Tapes charts for a record 741 weeks. from 1973 to 1988. Observers playing the film The Wizard of Oz and the album simultaneously have reported apparent synchronicities, such as Dorothy beginning to jog at the lyric “no one told you when to run” during “Time”, and Dorothy balancing on a tight-rope fence during the line “balanced on the biggest wave” in “Breathe”.
When Wicked became such a huge Broadway hit, author Gregory McGuire was inspired to write three sequels: Son of A Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz.
The actor Gregory Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning once. He was nominated for *The Keys of the Kingdom *(1945), *The Yearling *(1946), *Gentleman’s Agreement *(1947) and *Twelve O’Clock High *(1949). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
The day before yesterday, thoroughbred racehorse American Pharoah won the American Triple Crown, the first horse to do so in 37 years since Affirmed won in 1978. American Pharoah’s time in the Belmont Stakes was the second-fastest ever, behind Secretariat’s 1973 track record. In August 2013 when American Pharoah was a yearling, he was put up for sale at auction. His owner, Ahmed Zayat, changed his mind and bought him back for the posted minimum of $300,000. A bump on American Pharoah caused other potential buyers to be leery.
The *Triple witching hour *is the last hour of the stock market trading session (i.e. 3.00-4.00pm, New York time) on the third Friday of every March, June, September, and December. On those days three different types of securities expire: stock market index futures, stock market index options, and stock options.
American Pharoah’s Triple Crown was the twelfth in history. There have been 23 unsuccessful bids, where a horse won the KY Derby and the Preakness but not the Belmont. The last two were in 2014, California Chrome, and in 2012, I’ll Have Another.