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2 unusual facts about Gridiron football


Free throw

While this allows the leading team to shoot free throws and increase their lead, it also stops the clock, similar to a time out in football (in basketball, a time out may only be called by a team with possession of the ball).

Gridiron football

Nine-man football, eight-man football and six-man football are varieties of gridiron football played with fewer players.


Alabama Steeldogs

In addition to the NFL, ten players were signed to AFL teams: Bobby Keyes (Dallas), Terrell Browden (Colorado), James Clark (Georgia), Jerry Turner (Las Vegas), William Mayes (Las Vegas), Herman Bell (Detroit) and Ernest Ross (Detroit).

Brodrick Bunkley

In the next-to-last game of the regular season against Florida, Bunkley injured his left knee on an apparent “chop block” by Gators guard Mo Mitchell, which caused him to miss the remainder of the season including the 2003 Sugar Bowl.

Gabe Nyenhuis

Gabriel 'Gabe' Nyenhuis (born June 26, 1981 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a professional American and Canadian football defensive lineman who is currently a free agent.

Garbage Bowl

Many famous Montreal gridiron members of the past, present and future have either played with or coached Garbage Bowl teams.

Ken Jubb

Resilient as an India-rubber ball, restless as a panther patrolling its patch, Ken Jubb was a rattling good forward, whose 'party piece' was a massive punt, occasionally way off target, that soared into outer space to the accompaniment of good-natured banter from Headingley's South Stand.

Lou Agase

Lou Agase (August 2, 1924 – June 26, 2006) was a Gridiron football player and coach of Assyrian ancestry.

Michael Mauti

Mauti left the game versus Ohio State in the second quarter with a shoulder injury, and was limited for the rest of the season until playing 59 snaps versus Florida in the 2011 Outback Bowl.


see also

Eric Campbell

Erik Campbell (born 1966), gridiron football coach and former player

Fairbanks Grizzlies

(The northernmost gridiron football team of any sort is the high school football team of Barrow High School.)