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18 unusual facts about National Football League


Borah High School

Cedric Minter, CFL & NFL running back, high school principal, class of 1977

Byron Thames

After meeting actor/director Michael Landon, Thames was cast in the NBC television network dramatic television series Father Murphy in 1981 at the age of eleven opposite actor and former NFL athlete Merlin Olsen.

Cass Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Harry Butsko is the only known Cass Twp resident to play football in the National Football League, playing for the Washington Redskins in 1963.

CJMT-DT

During the 2007 season, CJMT began airing NFL games, usually the alternate to whatever airs on Sportsnet and CKVU-DT.

Dawmont, West Virginia

Former National Football League player and University of Pittsburgh football coach Foge Fazio was born in Dawmont.

DiskothiQ

The band released five albums between 1994 and 1999, including The Football Albums, a double album consisting of one song about each team in the NFL.

Edge coloring

Similar coloring techniques may also be used to schedule other sports pairings that are not all-play-all; for instance, in the National Football League, the pairs of teams that will play each other in a given year are determined, based on the teams' records from the previous year, and then an edge coloring algorithm is applied to the graph formed by the set of pairings in order to assign games to the weekends on which they are played.

Gus the groundhog

Gus has also appeared dressed in both Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms with other similarly uniformed men in a licensed co-branding with those two National Football League teams, as certain instant games are branded for those teams.

Meant for Each Other

The opening track, "To Me" was co-written by former NFL player, Mike Reid, who would later become a country artist in the early 1990s.

Nick Campofreda

Nicholas William Campofreda (January 14, 1914 – May 23, 1959) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins.

Normal Park

The Cardinals joined the new American Professional Football Association (soon renamed the National Football League) and continued to use Normal Park as their home field for several years and continue to be called the Racine Cardinals for a while.

They changed their name again, to "Chicago Cardinals", to avoid confusion after the National Football League fielded a team in Racine, Wisconsin.

Rico Smith Jr.

(born January 14, 1969) is a former American college and professional football player who was receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons.

Rudder Middle School

Priest Holmes, NFL Running back who played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, attended Rudder Middle School from 1985 to 1988.

South Dayton, New York

Bill Bergey, retired National Football League player who made five Pro Bowls during his career, was born and raised in the village.

The Band That Wouldn't Die

The film follows the story of Baltimore's Marching Ravens, a marching band that has supported three separate American football franchises since 1947 and witnessed the controversial relocation of the National Football League's (NFL) Baltimore Colts franchise to Indianapolis in 1984.

Tonawanda High School

The school's football field was at one time the home of the Tonawanda Kardex, a professional football team, who achieved fame by playing in just one game as a member of the National Football League in 1921.

XEWW-AM

The out-of-market team was carried because the son of station manager John Lynch was on scholarship with the team; the younger Lynch would go on to star in the National Football League.


1994 Denver Broncos season

The 1994 Denver Broncos season was the team's 35th year in professional football and its 25th with the National Football League.

2005 Carolina Panthers season

The 2005 Carolina Panthers season was the 11th season for the team in the National Football League.

All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise

In the film, Rosie and Kelli's family, along with several other families on the cruise are interviewed, including former Hawaiian NFL star Esera Tuaolo along with his partner and their children.

All American Football

The game did not have licenses from the NFL, NFLPA or the NCAA.

Alvin Maxson

Alvin Earl Maxson (born November 12, 1951 in Beaumont, Texas) is a former American football running back in the National Football League.

Baltimore's Marching Ravens

When Baltimore was in the running for a National Football League franchise in the 1990s, Ziemann enlisted the band's help in convincing the Maryland General Assembly, the state legislature, to approve funding for a new football stadium.

Booker Reese

Booker Reese (born September 20, 1959) is a former American Football defensive end who played four seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Los Angeles Rams from 1982 to 1985 in the National Football League.

Brad Loesing

He played on the same team as fellow Cincinnati natives Kyle Rudolph and Greg Scruggs, who both went on to careers in the NFL.

Brandon Jamison

Brandon Leon Jamison (born July 31, 1981 in Hopkins, South Carolina) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Bree Cuppoletti

Randolph Bruno "Bree" Cuppoletti (born June 19, 1910 – September 22, 1960) was a professional American football player who played guard for six seasons for the Chicago Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.

Chris Polian

He was the vice president and general manager of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League from 2009 to 2011.

Cookie Cunningham

After the folding of the AFL, he played the same position for the Cleveland Bulldogs (1927), Chicago Bears (1929), and the Staten Island Stapletons (1931) of the National Football League.

Dave Noble

After his college years, Noble played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and one in the American Football League (AFL), and was voted to the NFL All-Pro team in 1925.

Del Shofner

Delbert Martin Shofner (born December 11, 1934 in Center, Texas) is a former American football wide receiver who played for eleven seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and the New York Giants from 1957 to 1967 in the National Football League.

Dick Frahm

Herald Samuel Frahm (April 11, 1906 – October 19, 1977) was an American football halfback for the Staten Island Stapletons, the Boston Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the St. Louis/Kansas City Blues of the 1934 version of the American Football League.

Don Phelps

After graduating from Kentucky in 1949, Phelps was selected by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) in the sixth round of the 1950 draft.

Doug Van Horn

Douglas Claydon Van Horn (born June 24, 1944 in Sedalia, Missouri) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions and New York Giants.

Ernie Bonelli

Ernest Bernard Bonelli (born July 27, 1919, Russellton, Pennsylvania; died October 12, 2009, Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania) was an American football player for the Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.

Football Friday

Football Friday is a fast-paced program that covers everything from college football to the National Football League and even high school football.

Frank Scalercio

During this time he compiled an overall record of 7–30–1 with future NFL All-Pro guard Larry Allen being his most notable player.

George Munday

George Munday (June 13, 1907 – October 1975) was a professional football player who played 4 seasons in the National Football League for the Cleveland Indians, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Gunners.

Harlan Huckleby

Harlan Charles Huckleby (born December 30, 1957) is a former professional American football running back and kick returner who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).

Jeff Posey

Jeffery Lavell Posey (born August 14, 1975 in Bassfield, Mississippi) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Jerrell Freeman

On January 16, 2012, Freeman announced that he had signed a contract with the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL.

Joe Rutgens

Joseph Casimiere Rutgens (born January 26, 1939 in Cedar Point, Illinois) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins.

Le'Shai Maston

Le'Shai Edwoin Maston (born October 7, 1970) is a former American football running back in the National Football League and current head football coach at Providence Christian School of Dallas, Texas.

Longport, New Jersey

Heinie Miller (1893–1964), football player who played in the early years of the National Football League for the Buffalo All-Americans and the Milwaukee Badgers.

Michael Bamiro

Michael Bamiro (born October 9, 1990) is an American football offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL).

Nancilea Foster

Foster also came from a sporting family, where her sister Holly Jo was a successful Big Ten diver at Ohio State University, and her father Olen Underwood, a retired state administrative judge, played for the New York Giants, Houston Oilers, and Denver Broncos in the National Football League (NFL).

Nate Menkin

Nate Menkin (born October 4, 1988) is an American football player for the Houston Texans of the National Football League.

Nolan Gottlieb

His father Stuart Gottlieb played four years as an offensive tackle with the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL.

Norris Division

As part of his shtick, ESPN's Chris Berman often refers to the National Football League's NFC North division (previously the NFC Central division) as the Norris Division or "NFC Norris" since the two divisions included teams from three of the same cities: Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis–St. Paul.

Original Six

By 1963, when Rangers governor William M. Jennings first introduced to his peers the idea of expanding the NHL, other major sports leagues were growing: Major League Baseball and the National Football League were adding teams, while the American Football League was becoming an attractive alternative to the NFL.

Percy W. Griffiths

He played one professional season (1921) with the Canton Bulldogs of the National Football League.

Porkchop Cash

Floyd Womack of the National Football League's Seattle Seahawks received the nickname "Pork Chop Womack" from his mother because she thought that her son looked like Porkchop Cash.

Ron Davenport

Ronald Donovan Davenport (born December 22, 1962 in Somerset, Bermuda) is a former professional American football fullback in the National Football League.

Scottish Claymores

The Claymores' first roster included five players sent to the club from the NFL, including quarterbacks Matt Blundin from the Kansas City Chiefs and Lee Williamson from the Houston Oilers; as with all World League teams, it included 7 "national" players, including wide-receiver Scott Couper.

Spec Sanders

Orban Eugene "Spec" Sanders (born January 26, 1919 in Temple, Oklahoma) was a former American football running back, quarterback, and punter in the All-America Football Conference and a defensive back in the National Football League for the New York Yanks.

Steve Spurrier

He played professional football for ten seasons during the 1960s and 1970s with the San Francisco 49ers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL).

The Big Salad

Although the character of Major League Baseball catcher Steve Gendason is fictional, the National Football League player Bobby Hebert that George discusses with Julie is an actual former Pro Bowl quarterback.

Tropical Park Race Track

A major gambler from Cleveland, Ohio, Silberman was a former majority shareholder of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League who had also owned Randall Park Race Track in North Randall, Ohio and the Painesville Raceway in Northfield, Ohio.

Trot Nixon

In football, as a senior, he broke school passing records held by former National Football League quarterbacks Sonny Jurgensen and Roman Gabriel.

Twan Russell

Twan Sanchez Russell (born April 25, 1974 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, the Miami Dolphins, and the Atlanta Falcons.

Ty Knott

Ty Knott is a former assistant coach in the National Football League and current defensive coordinator at the University of Minnesota Crookston

Tyrone Nix

He is the brother of Derrick Nix, a former Southern Miss star and former Southern Miss assistant coach as well as a former Atlanta Falcons assistant coach in the NFL.

Wind River Systems

His early clients included the National Football League and film director Francis Ford Coppola — for whom he designed a unique film editing system.