Test your Lehigh Valley/Pennsylvania Super Bowl knowledge
Test your Lehigh Valley/Pennsylvania Super Bowl knowledge
Trivia buffs get set to take the second annual football history quiz, featuring national, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley athletes connected to NFL championship games, which became the Super Bowl in 1967. The test includes multiple choice plus true and false answers.
Trivia buffs get set to take the second annual football history quiz, featuring national, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley athletes connected to NFL championship games, which became the Super Bowl in 1967. The test includes multiple choice plus true and false answers.
Otto Graham led the Cleveland Browns to the league (AAFC and NFL) championship game every year of the 10 years he played from 1946 to 1955. He won seven titles. "Automatic Otto" also played for the Rochester Royals, who won the 1946 National Basketball League championship.
Behind the record-setting running of Steve "Wham-Bam" Van Buren, the Philadelphia Eagles played in three straight NFL championship games in 1947, 1948, 1949, winning the title in 1948 and 1949. What number did Van Buren wear?
When the Philadelphia Eagles, with Bethlehem's Chuck Bednarik at center and linebacker, defeated the Green Bay Packers, with Phillipsburg's Jim Ringo at center, 17-13, for the 1960 NFL championship, who scored the Eagles' winning touchdown?
Quarterback "Sonny" Jurgensen, who backed up Norm Van Brocklin, the MVP of the Eagles' 1960 championship team, later went on to his own Hall of Fame career with the Washington Redskins. What was "Sonny's" first and middle birth name?
Catasauqua's "Big Mike" Bundra earned an NFL championship ring in 1964 with Cleveland as the Browns blanked which team, 27-0, for the title?
In preparing for the first-ever Super Bowl in Los Angeles in 1967, who said "Make it an event the media will want to cover every year"?
When Green Bay defeated Kansas City with Phillipsburg's Bill Walsh as assistant coach, 35-10, in the first-ever Super Bowl in 1967, who scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?
Which Pennsylvanian, who appeared in four NFL championship games and earned two rings with the New York Giants in 1956 and the Green Bay Packers in 1961, was the first African-American to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967?
These four Super Bowl quarterbacks — the New York Jets' Joe Namath from Beaver Falls and MVP of Super Bowl III in 1969 and his back-up Vito "Babe" Parilli from Rochester, plus the Oakland Raiders' George Blanda from Youngwood and Kenny "the Snake" Stabler — all share what in common?
Miami, with Wm. Allen's Larry Seiple as punter, played in three straight Super Bowls 1972, 1973 and 1974 and won two rings in 1973 and 1974. What was the nickname of the Dolphins' defensive unit?
When Pittsburgh defeated Dallas, 21-7, in Super Bowl X in 1976, he became the first wide receiver to be named MVP of the game?
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw, out of Louisiana Tech, and San Francisco 49er quarterback Joe Montana, out of Monongahela, Ringgold High School and Notre Dame, are the only signal-callers to win four out of four Super Bowls.
Which Philadelphia Eagles head coach was defensive line coach for the Super Bowl III-winning New York Jets in 1969 and then defensive coordinator for Super Bowl XX-winning Chicago Bears with Liberty's Mike Hartenstine in 1986?
Head coach Dick Vermeil and his Philadelphia Eagles, with Bethlehem Catholic's John Spagnola, lost to the Oakland Raiders, with Whitehall's Matt Millen, 27-10, in Super Bowl XV in 1981 and then, 19 years later, Vermeil's St. Louis Rams, with Wm. Allen's Nate Hobgood-Chittick, defeated the Tennessee Titans, with Whitehall's Les Steckel as assistant coach, 23-16, in Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000.
Versatile John Elway, who led the Denver Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowl victories over Green Bay in 1998 and Atlanta in 1999 (named MVP), was drafted out of Stanford in 1983 by which NFL and MLB teams?
Buffalo 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. When Kelly was drafted in the first round out of Miami of Florida by Buffalo in 1983, he played instead for which USFL team before he joined the Bills in 1986?
This Hall of Fame quarterback, who played in four AFL championship games and earned two rings with the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and 1965, was a member of President George H. W. Bush's cabinet from 1989 to 1992.
Which college coach was the keynote speaker at the Lehigh Valley chapter of the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete dinner in 1983 and 12 years later was the head coach of the San Diego Chargers, with Emmaus' Joe Milinichik, in Super Bowl XXIX in 1995?
Marcus Allen and Desmond Howard, along with which two quarterbacks, are the only four players to win the Heisman Trophy and also be named the MVP of a Super Bowl?
The Baltimore Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 34-31, to win Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 behind MVP quarterback Joe Flacco. Who was Flacco's coach at Delaware?