Plymouths and Pontiacs are former US auto companies. With Super Bowl LII around the corner, it is noted that one and only one Super Bowl has ever been played in Pontiac MI, at the Pontiac Silverdome. The San Francisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21 in Super Bowl XVI on 24 January 1982. It was the first Super Bowl appearance for either team.
There have only been four Super Bowls where it was the first appearance for both teams are:
Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs
Super Bowl III: Baltimore Colts and New York Jets
Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers and Cincinnati Bengals
Super Bowl XX: Chicago Bears and New England Patriots
In today’s NFL, the only way this can happen in the future is if the Detroit Lions play either the Cleveland Browns or the Jacksonville Jaguars or the Houston Texans in a Super Bowl.
Comment: yeah, and I’ve been to Hell when it was frozen over, too!
(Hell, Norway, near Trondheim — gMap, Google Maps)
The only teams that were in the NFL before the AFL merger that have never made it to any of the 52 Super Bowl games are the Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns. The Browns went to league championship games (including in the startup AAFC) every year from 1946 to 1955, winning 7 of them with Otto Graham at quarterback.
No. There are thematic similarities - both are about the Queen’s close emotional connection to men deemed inappropriate by the Royal Family and courtiers - but they are set at different times in her life and are about two different men, an older Scot and a younger Indian, respectively.
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There have been three warships named USS Cleveland to serve in the U.S. Navy, the most recent of which was an Austin-class amphibious transport dock decommissioned in 2011.
The first team to appear in 2 straight Super Bowls are the Packers. Since then, 10 total teams have done it: in turn the Cowboys, then Dolphins, Vikings, Steelers, Redskins, Broncos, 49ers, Bills (or, the BILLLLS :D), Patriots, and Seahawks. The Dolphins, Cowboys, Steelers, Broncos, and Patriots did it twice. The Bills and Cowboys did it three times.
The first team to appear in 3 straight Super Bowls are the Dolphins. Since then, 2 total teams have done it: the Bills are the only other team to do it, and they did it twice in their 4-in-a-row run as posted by Annie.
The first team to appear in 4 straight Super Bowls are the Bills. They are the only ones.
No team has ever appeared in 5 straight Super Bowls.
As noted above, The Buffalo Bills lost the Super Bowls in 1990, 1991 1992, and 1993. The first edition of Chicken Soul for the Soul, published in 1993, had a story above a little boy, living in poverty, who stood outside the stadium to meet his hero, football player Jim Brown, who asked him his name. “Orenthal James. People call me O.J.”
O.J. Simpson, one of the best and most famous players for the Bills, took a tumble in 1994. Coincidence, or curse?
It was Nicole and Ron who tumbled, by OJ’s hand (and knife).
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The Bills lost four Super Bowls. The Vikings, Patriots, and Broncos have, also (the Broncos lost 5). The Cowboys and Dolphins have lost 3. No other teams have lost as much as these, the Broncos, Bills, Vikings, Patriots, Cowboys, and Dolphins.
In addition to the four teams noted above who have never played in the Super Bowl, there are nine more teams that have never won the Super Bowl. Here is the list of those 13 teams: Bengals, Bills, Browns, Cardinals, Chargers, Eagles, Falcons, Jaguars, Lions, Panthers, Texans, Titans and Vikings.
The term ‘Super Bowl’ was supposedly coined by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt after watching his kids play with a popular toy at the time, the ‘Super Ball’. Before the NFL adopted that name, the game had been referred to as ‘The AFL-NFL Championship Game’.
(I also had a Super Ball around that time. It was removed from my possession by my Father after the second incident with a florescent light in our basement.)
Of those 13 teams never to have won or even gone to a Super Bowl (Bengals, Bills, Browns, Cardinals, Chargers, Eagles, Falcons, Jaguars, Lions, Panthers, Texans, Titans and Vikings; and let’s hope by Monday morning there are only 12 teams on that list), six teams have never won any sort of League championshipm the Bengals, Falcons, Jaguars, Panthers, Texans, and the Titans. The Browns have the most, with 8 League championships.
This Sunday’s Superb Owl LII will be the New England Patriots’ 8th in 17 years, all with Tom Brady at quarterback. The team also made it in, but lost, once each with Tony Eason and Drew Bledsoe under center. The Pats have played in the AFC championship game, the qualifier for the big one, in the last 7 consecutive seasons.
Drew Bledsoe’s middle name is McQueen. It was Bledsoe’s injury in 2001 that led to second-year QB Tom Brady, then only 23 years old stepping in to play. In the second game of the 2001 season, Bledsoe was hit by New York Jets linebacker Mo Lewis and suffered a sheared blood vessel in his chest - which almost resulted in his death. Brady took over and led the Patriots to the playoffs that year. Though he never regained his starting role, Bledsoe proved integral to the Patriots’ playoff run when he replaced a hobbled Brady in the AFC Championship Game against Pittsburgh. Bledsoe, starting from the Steelers 40-yard line, capped a scoring drive with an 11-yard touchdown pass to David Patten to seal a 24–17 victory. Brady started and won the next game, Super Bowl XXXVI. It was the first championship for the Patriots, and Brady, and Belichick.
Brady will win his 6th Super Bowl in a few days. The only other quarterbacks with 4 wins are Terry Bradshaw of the Steelers and Joe Montana of the 49ers.
Terry Bradshaw played for 14 years in the NFL, all with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He started 158 regular season games, and had just a 51.9% completion percentage in those games; he threw only 2 more touchdown passes than interceptions, 212-210. Yet the Steelers went to the playoffs nine times in those 14 years, and were 14-5 in playoff games that Bradshaw started, with 4 Super Bowl wins.
212[sup]O[/sup]:The Extra Degree is a motivational training program. The idea is that at 211 degrees water is just hot but just one extra degree makes water boil then turn to steam and power a train.
Note: I had a boss give us the one day training. It basically boils down to work harder so the company & your bosses make more money.
Isn’t trivia supposed to be factual? Yes, it’s possible that Brady will win, but not a fact.
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“Voluntary manslaughter” is also referred to as “third-degree murder”, and sometimes called a crime of passion murder. It means any intentional killing that involves no prior intent to kill, and committed under circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to become emotionally or mentally disturbed.
The most championships ever won by one player in a major North American sports league is 11; Henri Richard of the Montreal Canadiens was on eleven Stanley Cup champions, and Bill Russell of the Celtics played for 11 NBA champs.
The records for the other major sports leagues are ten World Series rings by Yogi Berra of the Yankees, and in the case of football Tom Brady holds the record of five along with Charles Haley, who won two with the 49ers and three with the Cowboys. (Brady has not had a teammate who lasted the entire time with him on the Patriots.)
Other people may have more rings - but not as a player.
Actors who have played the role of the Artful Dodger in the musical Oliver!, on Broadway and the West End, include Phil Collins, Davy Jones (of Monkees fame) and Joey Baio, a cousin of Scott Baio.
No. In its early stages as a popular meme, trivia very often was about fictional characters or events. Trivial Pursuit has many questions of fictional “facts”
