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Football Fans In The Off Season

Football fans can be rowdy
A wild and happy bunch
Who can easily wager their money
On nothing more than a hunch

They’ll root for their favorite team
For the rest they do not care
Unless because of free agency
Their team has let go of their favorite player

But, what to do in the off season?
When no games are being played.
The fans sit at home in boredom
And the players sit home and get paid

Now, fans can use the internet
To watch videos the networks would not show
Or visit an NFL trivia site
And learn football facts they did not know

So football fans stop pouting
Stop your crying and your praying
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Football Trivia At IQFB.com

Learn tons of New York Giants information and trivia at IQFB.com. The things you can learn there should raise an eyebrow or two… stuff from early on near the team’s founding and stuff from this year’s Super Bowl victory.

Not a New York Giants fan? All the other teams in the league are covered there… have fun and come back often.

Latest Premier League Soccer News

In the latest premier league soccer news, Liverpool beat Bolton 3-1 away at the Reebok stadium. It was a bad bad blunder on the part of the Bolton keeper in conceding that very first goal. School boy error - he misjudged the ball and it hit his head and bounced in goal. Tsk Tsk.

In other results, Everton beat Portsmouth by the exact same margin too 3-1! And they regain position of 4th back from Liverpool.

http://www.premiersoccernews.com

IQFB.com Analyzes The NFL All-Decade Teams

IQFB.com has put together a nice in depth study of the NFL All-Decade teams. Which teams have the most representatives, which the least, which colleges surprise you with alumni on the All-Decade team, and more. Check out IQFB’s look at the NFL All-Decade Teams.

England Out Of Euro 2008

The biggest football fest after the world cup is Euro Cup. The upcoming Euro 2008 will not feature England as they have been thrashed out in the qualifying rounds. It is a disappointing one for all English fans. I too was disappointed when England lost 3-2 to Croatia and was eliminated from Euro 2008 where England just needed a draw to remain in the Euro Cup. England being such a huge footballing nation and not being able to make it to the Euro Cup is a sad incident. This happened some years back in the World Cup tournament as well. Is the new coach Steve Mclaren to be blamed? However he was immediately sacked from his job. Ericson had done best to the English Football which was proven in the last World Cup. However the new coach is not to be blamed as well because that’s how football goes. In England at present the hunt for a new and capable coach is a big buzz. Even Morinho, Alan Shearer, Liverpools coach are among the most favored coaches.

Quarterbacks Who Run

Since 1970, there have been three quarterbacks who have led their team in rushing during a season. This is an unusual occurrence and depends on a number of factors including: having a quarterback who runs well, lacking a solid running back who would normally lead the team in rushing, and having a coach who will call running plays for the quarterback.

Who’s done it then?

Bobby Douglass - 1972 Chicago Bears

Ran for 968 yards on 141 carries (6.9 yard average) and scored 8 touchdowns.

Donovan McNabb - 2000 Philadelphia Eagles

Ran for 629 yards on 86 carries (7.3 yard average) and scored 6 touchdowns.

But, the king of this stat is definitely:

Randall Cunningham - 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Philadelphia Eagles

For four consecutive years, Randall Cunningham led his team in rushing from the quarterback position. Running for 505 yards on 76 carries with 3 touchdowns in 1987, 624 yards on 93 carries with 6 touchdowns in 1988, 621 yards on 104 carries with 4 touchdowns in 1989, and 942 yards on 118 carries with 5 touchdowns in 1990.

More great football trivia can be found at www.iqfb.com - IQFB.com… Get Football Smart!

Toronto Sports Players: Find a Game, Find a Team, Find Players

I know there are a lot of adults that play recreational sports in Toronto but don’t always have enough players for their team or enough players to put a game together. A new Web site launched the other week that solves this problem. Find games or teams needing players, or create a player profile indicating what sports you are interested in playing - all at sportaholik.com. It’s Toronto-specific, and completely free. So, if you have a Toronto sports team that requires a few players to fill out your roster, simply post that request. Likewise, if you have a game of pickup going on somewhere in Toronto, post that you need more players for your game. Looking for a game or team in Toronto? Search the database of Toronto games, but also create a player profile so others can find you for their team or game. It’s all free, at sportaholik.com!

Football - What’s In A Team Name?

Football – What’s In A Name?

In this modern age we are constantly hit with the idea of brand loyalty. How will customers, or fans, be able to make that connection with a company or team without continuity in a name? While Green Bay has always been the Packers, not every team has always played under the name they have today.

The Chicago Bears started out as the Decatur Staleys. The Decatur Staleys? Try picturing fans nowadays cheering for the mighty Decatur Staleys.

When the AFL came about in 1960 the New York team was the New York Titans. After two unproductive seasons, the new ownership changed the name to the New York Jets. Years later, Titans would resurface in the NFL when Tennessee changed its name from Oilers to Titans after moving from Houston to Nashville (with a brief stay in Memphis as the Tennessee Oilers).

The Kansas City Chiefs have some of the most vocal and loyal fans in the NFL, few of them were there to cheer the team when they were first known as the Dallas Texans. The NFL would again bring back a previously used AFL name when the expansion Houston franchise took the name of Texans in 2002.

The name game is also prevalent in the Canadian Football League. The most extreme CFL example would be the Montreal Alouettes. The Alouettes played in the CFL from 1946 until the team ceased to exist in 1981. In 1982 a new Montreal football team joined the CFL, the Montreal Concordes. Two years later the Concordes renamed themselves the Alouettes before going out of business themselves not long after. The saga of the Alouettes doesn’t end there. The CFL had a short lived franchise in the American city of Baltimore which debuted as the Baltimore Colts, and then due to litigation changed its name to the Baltimore CFL Colts and the Baltimore CFLers, before finally settling on the Baltimore Stallions. When the NFL announced the Cleveland Browns would be relocating to Baltimore and becoming the Ravens, the ownership of the Baltimore Stallions moved the team to Montreal and became the latest incarnation of the Montreal Alouettes.

The Arizona Cardinals, back in the time they played in Chicago, were known early on as the Racine Normals.

Originally playing football as the Portsmouth Spartans, the Detroit Lions would go on to become one of the oldest NFL franchises.

Playing their first games as the Boston Patriots, the team changed its geographic name to New England without even moving. Not unheard of, the Phoenix Cardinals similarly became the Arizona Cardinals without moving.

Because of World War II and the shortage of players, the Eagles and Steelers merged for a year forming the Phil-Pitt Steagles.

The Rams have been the Cleveland Rams and Los Angeles Rams before settling in St. Louis as the St. Louis Rams in 1995.

Though Seattle has always been the Seahawks, there was a prior Seahawks in professional football. In 1946, the AAFC had a team called the Miami Seahawks. That year Miami was horrible on and off the field and ended up folding and going out of business.

The World Football League of the 1970s had a team known as the Memphis Southmen, the franchise had originally been planned to be in Toronto and have the nickname of the Toronto Northmen.

Even the National Football League itself was originally named the American Professional Football Association, or the APFA.

So, really… what’s in a name?

 

More great football trivia can be found here!