Lehigh Valley Super Bowl Connections Quiz
Lehigh Valley Super Bowl Connections Quiz
Here is The Morning Call's third annual football history quiz featuring national, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley athletes connected to NFL championship games.
Here is The Morning Call's third annual football history quiz featuring national, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley athletes connected to NFL championship games.
While he played for the powerful Canton Bulldogs, he was also named the first president (today’s commissioner) of the National Football League in 1920?
The first NFL championship game between the Eastern Division champion and the Western Division champion was in 1933 when the Chicago Bears defeated which eastern team for the title?
Which former Muhlenberg fullback and then long-time Allentown resident played for the New York Giants in the 1946 NFL championship game against the Chicago Bears?
Pro Football Hall of Fame center/linebacker Alex Wojciechowicz, who played on the Eagles 1948 and 1949 championship team, was one Fordham’s famous “Seven Blocks of Granite” linemen during his college days in the 1930’s along with which future Super Bowl winning coach?
Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback Charlie Trippi, who was an All-American at Georgia, played for the Chicago Cardinals from 1947 to 1955 and helped the Cardinals to the NFL championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1947 (won) and 1948 (lost). Trippi was from which town?
He led the 1960 champion Philadelphia Eagles in receiving for the season with 46 receptions and was second all-time franchise leader with 452 receptions for 7,412 yards?
Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Y. A. Tittle led the New York Giants, with Dick Lynch from Phillipsburg Catholic and Notre Dame at defensive back, to three straight NFL championship games from 1961 to 1963. The Y. A. in his birth name stood for?
Cleveland’s Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown along with Catasauqua’s Mike Bundra helped lead the Browns to the 1964 NFL championship. After the 1965 championship game with Green Bay, Brown retired as the game’s greatest runner. How many touchdown passes did he throw in his pro career?
On November 8, 1966, this president signed Public Law 89-800, the Suspension of the Credit Act, which carried a rider approving the merger of the National Football League and the American Football League?
Which was the first Lehigh Valley player to play in a Super Bowl?
Who is the only coach to win championships in both the NFL and AFL?
After Vince Lombardi died in September of 1970, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle named the Super Bowl Trophy in memory of Lombardi whose Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968?
These two Pro Football Hall of Fame receivers finished their distinguished careers by playing for Dallas where they caught touchdown passes in the Cowboys win over Miami with Allen’s Larry Seiple in Super Bowl VI in 1972?
How old was Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback/kicker George Blanda of Youngwood, University of Kentucky when he retired in 1975 with NFL career records at the time for 26 years in pro ball (Bears, Colts, Oilers – two AFL championship rings, Raiders – one Super Bowl game), 340 games played and 2,002 points scored?
When the Philadelphia Eagles with Bethlehem Catholic’s John Spagnola played the Oakland Raiders with Whitehall’s Matt Millen in Super Bowl XV in 1981 at New Orleans, who was Ron Jaworski’s back-up at quarterback who came out of Kingston Central Catholic and New Mexico State?
Buffalo’s Pro Football Hall of Fame passing combo of quarterback Jim Kelly from East Brady and wide receiver Andre Reed from Allentown’s Dieruff High School played in four consecutive Super Bowls from 1991 to 1994. Although in a losing cause, Reed had a big day with 8 receptions for 152 yards in Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena?
What do quarterbacks Terry Bradshaw of Pittsburgh, Doug Williams of Washington, John Elway of Denver and Kurt Warner of St. Louis share in common in Super Bowl games?
Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Reggie White, who played for Philadelphia, 1985-1992, Green Bay 1993-1998 with one Super Bowl ring, and Carolina in 2000, was known as?
This Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback with two NFL championship rings and one Super Bowl ring died of a heart attack at age 69 on September 11, 2002 one year after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
When the Philadelphia Eagles met New England with Whitehall’s Dan Koppen in Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 in Jacksonville, the Eagles quarterback was Donovan McNabb. What college did he go to?