Five Fun Facts About The Cleveland Browns


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The Cleveland Browns have a rich history and a passionate fan base. Here are five fun facts about this great pro football franchise.

1. When the All American Football Conference folded, three teams were taken into the National Footbal League: the Cleveland Browns, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Baltimore Colts.

2. The Cleveland Browns won the 1950 NFL Championship. This was the team’s first year in the National Football League.

3. Following the 1982 strike shortened NFL season, the Cleveland Browns qualified for the playoffs despite putting up a record of just four wins and five losses.

4. Former NFL punter and quarterback Tom Tupa scored the first two point conversion in NFL history in 1994 while playing for the Cleveland Browns.

5. For the Cleveland Browns first two seasons in the NFL, 1950 and 1951, they used all white helmets. They wouldn’t change to their traditional orange helmets until 1952.

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Five Fun Facts About NFL Head Coach Jack Pardee


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Jack Pardee had a long career in the NFL that included playing from 1957 to 1970 with the Los Angeles Rams and then with the Washington Redskins from 1971 to 1973. He was a full time linebacker who also saw occasional time at fullback. He was a hard working player who always had the respect of teammates, coaches, and opponents.

Following his playing career, Jack Pardee would quickly move on to start his career in coaching. He was head coach with a number of teams and in a number of leagues. Though often overlooked, Jack Pardee made some big contributions to the world of pro football.

Here are five fun facts about NFL head coach Jack Pardee.

1. Jack Pardee did not have to wait long for his first head coaching job in pro football. He retired from the Redskins in 1973 and in 1974 was hired to be the head coach of the brand new Florida Blazers of the World Football League. The team had actually started as the Washington Ambassadors and then became the Virginia Ambassadors before relocating to Florida. Pardee was 38 years old at the time of getting his first head coaching job.

2. Jack Pardee was back in college in the late 1980s as he returned to coach his alma mater, the University of Houston. In a game against SMU his team wuld become the first major college team in NCAA history to have over 1,000 yards of total offense in one game. This happened when they racked up 1,021 yards in a 95-21 victory.

3. Jack Pardee was the head coach of the Houston Gamblers that featured a young Jim Kelly in the USFL. He was also technically later the head coach of the New Jersey Generals after the Gamblers and Generals merged, but this new team did not take the field before the league folded and the USFL was finished.

4. The best record any NFL team would have with Jack Pardee as their head coach was 12-4 which was put up by the Houston Oilers in 1993.

5. Jack Pardee was the only person to serve as a head coach in the NFL, CFL, USFL, WFL, and NCAA.

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Five Fun Facts About The Detroit Lions


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The Detroit Lions can trace their days back to the early days of the NFL. They have had ups and downs over the years and a lot of great players. Here is a quick taste of some Detroit Lions trivia.

1. Detroit Lions legend Barry Sanders had an amazing career and put up some incredible numbers as a star running back during the 1990s. Over the course of his entire Hall of Fame career though he would only play in one winning playoff game.

2. In Ty Detmer’s first start at quarterback for the Detroit Lions, he would throw seven interceptions.

3. The 1989, 1990 and 1991 winners of the Heisman Trophy, signifying the best player in college football, would all end up playing for the Detroit Lions. They are Barry Sanders, Andre Ware, and Ty Detmer, respectively.

4. At the time of their founding in the late 1920s, the original name of the team that would become the Detroit Lions was the Portsmouth Spartans.

5. The Detroit Lions first hosted a Thanksgiving Day game in 1934.


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Five Fun Facts About The Rams


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The Rams can trace their history back to multiple previous cities. They have had a very interesting history. Here is a quick look at some fun Rams trivia.

1. Dick Vermeil coached the Rams to their very first Super Bowl title. In 1969, Vermeil had been hired by the Los Angeles Rams to be the very first special teams coach the NFL had ever had.

2. Most teams that relocate to a new location do so during times when they are not successful. In one of the more unusual relocations, the Cleveland Rams moved to Los Angeles the very year after winning the 1945 NFL Championship.

3. Before moving to St. Louis in 1995, the Rams were very close to moving to Baltimore instead.

4. The Cleveland Rams sat out the 1943 season due to worker shortages related to World War II

5. The Rams were the first American professional football team to put logos on their helmet.

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Five Fun Facts About The Green Bay Packers



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Few teams can compete with the historical success and prestige of the Packers. Here is a look at some interesting Packers trivia to check out.

1. Green Bay Packers legend Paul Hornung was called up for active military service during the 1961 NFL season. He would regularly receive weekend passes so that he could also continue playing professional football.

2. The only year of his career that longtime Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown did not lead the league in rushing was 1962, that season Packers running back Jim Taylor was the league leader.

3. The first, and through the 2009 season the only, NFL player to win the MVP Award three consecutive seasons is former Packers quarterback Brett Favre (1995, 1996 and 1997).

4. The wide receiver who caught more touchdown passes from Brett Favre than any other receiver was former Packers great Antonio Freeman.

5. Bart Starr is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and a Green Bay Packers legend. It wasn’t until his seventh season in the NFL though that he first threw more touchdown passes than interceptions in a season.


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Five Fun Facts About The Colts


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The Colts had a very successful time in Baltimore and then moved to Indianapolis and were successful there too. Here is some quick Colts trivia for you to check out.

1. The first quarterback to ever beat all 31 other teams in the NFL was Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning.

2. Only three quarterbacks compiled quarterback ratings of 100 or above over the course of the entire 1970s decade, and former Colts quarterback Bert Jones is one of them (the others being Roger Staubach and Kenny Stabler).

3. When kicker Adam Vinatieri played during the Colts’ Super Bowl victory following the 2006 season, he became the first kicker in NFL history to play in five Super Bowl games.

4. The first former Colts player to play for the team after they moved to Indianapolis and then make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame was running back Eric Dickerson.

5. The first NFL franchise to make use of cheerleaders was the Colts.


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Five Fun Facts About The Jacksonville Jaguars



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Jacksonville came into the NFL in 1995, the same year as the Panthers did, and since then have had some successful years in their short history. Here is a look at some fun facts about this great team.

1. The first player ever drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars was offensive lineman Tony Boselli.

2. One of the early members of the original ownership group that was intent on bringing NFL football to Jacksonville, Florida was future governor of Florida Jeb Bush.

3. Counting playoff games, the 1999 Jacksonville Jaguars team finished with a record of 15-3. All three losses came at the hands of the Tennessee Titans.

4. The Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Miami Dolphins in the 2000 Divisional round of the playoffs by a score of 62-7. This was eventual Hall of Fame Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino’s final NFL game.

5. The Jacksonville Jaguars and the Carolina Panthers came into the league during the same season, 1995, officially though the Panthers are the 29th NFL franchise and the Jaguars are the 30th.

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Five Fun Facts The Kansas City Chiefs



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The Kansas City Chiefs are one of the original AFL teams from 1960. They have had a fascinating history over the years and here is a look at five fun facts about this great team.

1. Longtime Raiders running back Marcus Allen played the final five seasons of his career with the Kansas City Chiefs. During those five seasons, the Chiefs won more regular season games than any other franchise in the NFL.

2. In a 1968 win over the Oakland Raiders, the Kansas City Chiefs ran the ball sixty times, gaining over three hundred yards and only passed the ball three times.

3. The Kansas City Chiefs franchise is one of the few in professional sports that relocated to a new city following a season in which they won the league championship. They had won the AFL Championship in 1962 as the Dallas Texans and moved to Kansas City the very next year.

4. The first pure kicker elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame was former Kansas City Chiefs kicker Jan Stenerud.

5. The Kansas City Chiefs were the first team to lose a Super Bowl, when the first AFL-NFL Championship Game was won by the Green Bay Packers.


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Five Fun Facts About The Miami Dolphins



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The Miami Dolphins have a rich history and a lot of passionate fans. If you are a fan of this great team, you may

1. Miami Dolphins quarterback David Woodley joined an exclusive club in 1982 when during one NFL season he scored touchdowns by passing, rushing, and receiving.

2. The first player to win the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award was Miami Dolphins quarterback Earl Morrall.

3. During the 2007 game that pitted the Miami Dolphins against the New York Giants in London, England, Dolphins quarterback Cleo Lemon threw what would be the first touchdown pass in a regular season game played outside of the United States.

4. The Miami Dolphins are the oldest major league level professional sports franchise in the state of Florida.

5. Hall of Famer Don Shula coached the Miami Dolphins for 26 years, during that time the Dolphins would post losing records on only two occasions.


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10 Fun Facts About Donald Driver Of The Green Bay Packers



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Donald Driver retired at the end of the 2012 season after a 14 year NFL career as a wide receiver, all of them with the Green Bay Packers. He had a very successful career and was one of the best of his era. Here is a look at 10 fun facts about this great player.

1. The most receiving yards Donald Driver would ever have in one season was the 1,295 he put up in 2006 when he caught 92 passes, which is also a personal best.

2. Donald Driver’s best receiving day saw him catch just six passes and turn them into 191 yards in a 2006 win over the Vikings.

3. Donald Driver ran the ball 34 times during his career. His longest rushing attempt came in a 2003 win over the Vikings and went for 45 yards.

4. The Green Bay Packers chose Donald Driver in the 7th round of the 1999 NFL Draft. There were 24 wide receivers taken ahead of him that year. He was even the second wide receiver taken in that draft by the Packers. They had selected Dee Miller out of Ohio State in the 6th round.

5. The fourth TD Donald Driver ever scored in the NFL came on a 31 yard run in a win over the Vikings in 2001. He never scored another rushing touchdown during his career.

6. Donald Driver gained more yards over the years against the Detroit Lions, a total of 1,413, than he did against any other team in the NFL. In second place on that list is the Minnesota Vikings.

7. Donald Driver caught eight TD receptions of 50 yards or more in length. Five of those were thrown to him by Brett Favre and three were thrown to him by Aaron Rodgers. His longest ever was 85 yards, thrown to him by Favre, and came in the first quarter of a 2002 win over the Bears.

8. Donald Driver finished his rookie season in 1999 with just three catchest for 31 yards and one touchdown.

9. It was in a victory over the Lions on October 18, 2009 that Donald Driver would pass Sterling Sharpe and become the Green Bay Packers all time leader in receptions. Sharpe retired from the Packers in 1994 with 595 career receptions. Driver retired in 2012 with 743 career receptions.

10. Donald Driver caught 61 regular season touchdown receptions during his career. Those 61 TD passes were thrown to him by five different players. Brett Favre threw 36 TD passes to him, he and Aaron Rodgers would hook up for touchdowns 22 times, and Ahman Green, Matt Flynn, and Bubba Franks each threw him one apiece.


 

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