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National Football League Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

Test your knowledge of the National Football League with this engaging quiz covering its history, teams, and significant events.

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1 Starting the 2007 season, the new rule would prohibit any player testing positive for banned substances from being able to play in the ________ that year.

2 ________

3 Though the league stopped signing black players in 1927, the league reintegrated in 1946 following ________.

4 Where does National Football League come from?

5 Which of the following titles did National Football League have?

6 ________

7 In 2005, some Saints games were played in San Antonio and Baton Rouge because of ________.

8 Which team was the champion of National Football League?

9 Which of the following teams did National Football League play for?

10 What network showed National Football League?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • defunct Christian radio station KPBA was owned by former National Football League tight end Jackie Harris.
  • during the 1973 Buffalo Bills season, O.J. Simpson set the current single-season National Football League record for average rushing yards per game.
  • former Michigan Wolverines football player Keith Bostic was elected by his teammates as the toughest guy on the National Football League Houston Oilers defense.
  • former Michigan Wolverines rushing leader and teammate of Russell Davis, Harlan Huckleby only scored 13 touchdowns in six National Football League seasons, but three were in a single game.
  • at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 165 pounds, Howard Stevens was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League.
  • after retiring from the National Football League, Po James survived being shot six times in a YMCA in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
  • Toney Douglas and his brother Harry are the sixth pair of brothers to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL), respectively.
  • Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League.
  • a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor.
  • about 12 plays into his NFL career Charles Fisher tore three ligaments in his knee and never played in another game.
  • former National Football League wide receiver Tai Streets was named after former female figure skater Tai Babilonia.
  • former fighter pilot Robert V. Whitlow (pictured), although trying to secure an NFL franchise for Phoenix, said the Philadelphia Eagles' plans to relocate to Arizona did not "seem very wise".
  • the Dayton Triangles, a traveling team, folded after their 1929 season, losing their final seventeen games as a National Football League franchise by a combined score of 301–22.
  • the Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas, Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft, but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL, the team traded the pick.
  • the Electric Company helped O.J. Simpson set several current National Football League records.
  • the title roles in the 1974 blaxploitation film The Black Six were played by six then-current National Football League stars.
  • the Buffalo Bills' 2008 home game in their rivalry with the Miami Dolphins was the first National Football League regular-season game played in Canada.
  • the 2008 New York Giants became the fifth National Football League team to have two players rush for at least 1,000 yards, Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward.
  • investment banker Bill Hambrecht has pledged $2 million to help start an American Football league to compete with the National Football League.
  • long-time NFL scout Ralph Kohl was considered the top "judge of football flesh" in BLESTO, the scouting combine of the Bears-Lions-Eagles-Steelers Talent Organization.
  • one of the Roman soldiers in the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant Jesus the Christ was played by NFL offensive lineman Deuce Lutui.
  • retired American football player William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks.
  • Stanley Muirhead helped lead Michigan to a national football championship in 1923 and was a first-team All-NFL player in 1924 for the Dayton Triangles and Cleveland Bulldogs.
  • Rob Carpenter retired from the National Football League after catching his second touchdown in the 1995 NFL playoffs.
  • National Football League offensive tackle Jake Long was hospitalized in intensive care for smoke inhalation while in college.
  • Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews is the son, grandson, brother, and nephew of National Football League players.
  • quarterbacks Billy Joe Tolliver and David Archer were teammates as backups in the National Football League, but competed against each other as starters in the Canadian Football League.
  • Alvin Powell was addicted to crack cocaine as a player in the National Football League, but later became a substance abuse counselor.
  • National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co-class president, salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school.
  • Minnesota's Pudge Wyman scored the first kickoff return for a touchdown, the first blocked punt returned for a touchdown, and the first passing touchdown in the history of the NFL.
  • American football wide receiver Jaymar Johnson became the first player from Jackson State University to be drafted by the NFL since Sylvester Morris in 2000.
  • American football player DeWayne Patmon appeared in a few movies after his National Football League career ended.
  • College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians.
  • Floyd Womack of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash.
  • Angus Goetz played for Buffalo in the National Football League on the weekends while attending medical school at the University of Michigan.
  • Bill Guckeyson, the first Maryland football player selected in the National Football League's Draft, attended West Point and was later shot down as a fighter pilot in World War II.
  • Iolas Melitus Huffman reportedly played in every quarter of every Ohio State football game except one from 1918 to 1921 and later played for the Cleveland Indians of the NFL.
  • Jamie Morris of the Washington Redskins, originally considered too short to be a running back, holds the NFL record for the most rushing attempts in a game with 45.
  • Lupe Joe Arenas, one of the first Mexican-American football stars, once held the NFL career record with 4,572 kick and punt return yards.
  • Luv Ya Blue was the term given to a 1970s movement by fans of the Houston Oilers that featured fight songs, pom-pons and other gimmicks more reminiscent of college football than the NFL.
  • Gaynell Tinsley, a two-time All-American end at LSU, set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937.
  • Ernie Zampese coached the leading pass offense in the NFL six times in seven years and has been credited with putting the "air" in Air Coryell.
  • Bob Timberlake, an unsuccessful placekicker for the New York Giants who made only 1 of 15 field goal attempts in his NFL career, was an award-winning quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines before he was drafted in 1965.
  • Charles Leigh played six seasons as a running back in the National Football League despite never playing college football.
  • Derrell Palmer, winner of both AAFC and NFL championships with the Cleveland Browns, was called one of the two best defensive tackles he ever coached by Paul Brown.
  • Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968, after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas, and led the Colts into Super Bowl III.
  • American football defensive tackle O'Brien Schofield, who completed his college career for Wisconsin in 2009, is a cousin of the National Football League veterans Vonnie Holliday and Bobby Engram.
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