Fall brings football. Whether you are a fan or not, you can’t miss it. Grocery stores have football displays, commercials on TV are football themed and Halloween brings a truckload of football player costumes! Thought you might like to learn some things you might not already know about this nation-wide all consuming sport.
- The last scoreless NFL game was between the Detroit Lions and the New York Giants in 1943.
- “Mr. Irrelevant” is the nickname given to the player picked dead last during the draft each year.
- Out of the 32 teams in the NFL, 28 have made it to the Super Bowl. 3 of the remaining four teams have, at least, hosted the Bowl- only Cleveland has never experienced any aspect of the most watched game!
- If you signed up for season tickets to watch the Green Bay Packers- your wait would be 1,000 years.
- Wilson has been the exclusive football maker for the NFL since 1941. they make 4,000 balls per day!
- Most think that the NFL can only play on Monday, Thursday and Sunday- the League has actually played on everyday of the week.
- There’s a, mostly verified, legend that in 1958 a NBC employee ran on to the field during a championship game acting like a drunk spectator to stop the game. He did this because the TV cable had come unplugged by the crowd so he bought NBC time to plug it back together.
- The Super Bowl trophy costs $25,000.
- O.J. Simpsom and Joe Namath were both in the Monday Night Football booth in 1985.
- The total audience for the first televised Super Bowl game was 500. That’s only about 112,200,500 less than watched last year’s game!
- The longest field goal in NFL history was kicked by a man who only had half a foot! Tom Dempsey, a 22 year old kicker for the New Orleans Saints, kicked a 63 yard field goal.
- The average NFL cheerleader only makes between $50-$75 per game and is absolutely forbidden to socialize with the players.
Great post, Stacey. Love football. GO HOUSTON TEXANS!
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