Another NFL fun Facts
Here comes another round of NFL facts!
25. Of the 55 players who have played in an NFL game in their 40s, 41 were quarterbacks, kickers or punters. Beyond the 1920s, the oldest position player who wasn't a QB, K or P was 43-year-old Ray Brown, who played guard for the Washington Redskins in 2005.
26. The Chicago Bears have the most retired numbers of any NFL team with 13.
27. Five teams don't have any players' numbers retired. Three are due to a lack of history: Baltimore, Houston and Jacksonville. The other two are because the teams don't «believe» in such honor: Dallas and Oakland.
28. College juniors weren't eligible for the NFL draft until 1990.
29. Oakland's last playoff game was Super Bowl XXXVII. Tampa's last playoff win was Super Bowl XXXVII.
30. In his eighth NFL start, Adrian Peterson set the record for most rushing yards in a single game with 296. Remarkably, Peterson went into halftime with a pedestrian 43 yards on 13 carries (3.3 ypc). But in the second half, he carried 17 times for 253 yards (14.88 ypc), a yardage total that would tie for ninth all time in a single game.
31. Art Monk held the single-season reception record (106) for eight years. Since it was broken in 1992, it has been surpassed 40 more times.
32. In 1992, the NFL experimented with two bye weeks.
33. After two years at Memorial Stadium, the Baltimore Ravens moved to its new digs, which was called «NFL Stadium at Camden Yards» for one season before PSINet bought naming rights.
34. Jerry Rice and Brett Favre are the only non-kickers to play in more than 300 games.
35. The defensive player with the highest total is Darrell Green, who played in 295 games.
36. Franchises in Houston have experienced the worst single-season drop-offs in NFL history. The 1993 Oilers followed up a 12-4 season with a 2-14 turn in 1994 that included QB starts by Billy Joe Tolliver, Cody Carlson and Bucky Richardson, names that evoke, well, a 2-14 season. Then, in 2012 and 2013, the Texans pulled the same trick, including the quarterback name thing. Case Keenum went 0-8 in '13.
37. The Seattle Seahawks were originally owned by the Nordstrom family � yes, the same family who owned the upscale department store. When the Seahawks won the Super Bowl in 2014, the team classily presented John Nordstrom with a Super Bowl ring.
38. Emmitt Smith still won the rushing title in 1993, the year he held out the first two games of the season in a contract dispute.
39. Team names that have existed in the NFL include the All-Americans, Celts, Reds, Panhandles, Triangles, Heralds, Eskimos, Yellowjackets, Colonels, Marines, Tornadoes, Maroons, Jeffersons, Gunners, Stapes and Maroons.
40. There have been six trades in the NFL with 10 or more players. The biggest? Like you have to ask:
41. When the Seahawks were created, a «name the team» contest received 20,365 entries and 1,742 different names. How do that many different names exist? Were people sending in stuff like «Frank» and «Dave?»
42. Steve Young is the only left-handed quarterback in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
43. The Super Bowl trophy was renamed for Vince Lombardi exactly one week after he died in September 1970 at the young age of 57. Andy Reid and Marvin Lewis are 57 years old right now, which is bizarre to think about.
44. Before 1975, offensive holding was a 15-yard penalty.
45. The coldest Super Bowl was at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, when the Cowboys and Dolphins kicked off Super Bowl VI with the mercury at 39 degrees.
46. The hottest Super Bowl would take place one year later, when the Dolphins capped their perfect season with a Super Bowl VII victory over the Redskins in 84-degree Los Angeles heat.
47. Take that, Favre. George Halas retired as coach of the Chicago Bears four times in total.
48. John Elway was responsible for 90 of the Broncos' 98 yards during «The Drive.» He was 6-9 for 70 yards through the air and scrambled twice for 20 yards.
49. Football officially surpassed baseball as «America's Pastime» in 1965, when more people named it their favorite sport in the long-running Harris Poll on the subject.
50. Andrew Luck already has more playoff passing yards than two-time Super Bowl champion Bart Starr.
