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Football Trivia - Mike Tomlin’s streak of 17 straight seasons without a losing season is the most ever from the start of a head-coaching career. With Sunday’s win at Seattle, Tomlin moved past George Halas (16) into third on the all-time list of consecutive non-losing seasons.  Who are the two Coaches ahead of him?

Pop Culture Trivia - What year was the first Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop?

When was that??? - The Lions won the NFC North, their first division title since 1993…to put that in perspective that year:


Bill Clinton was sworn in as the President for the first time


Michael Jordan left Basketball to play Baseball


Beanie Babies were first released


The first Jurrasic Park movie was released


Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake join Britney and Christina in "The New Mickey Mouse Club."



 

So You're Saying There is a Chance? - 20 teams are still in contention for a trip to the Super Bowl, which ties for the most with one week remaining in the last 41 years, since a record 22 in 1982. Of course, 82 was a strike year, and 16 teams made the playoffs in a weird shortened season.

D Adams is the best thing about the Raiders - Adams is the fifth player with four career seasons of 1,300 receiving yards and double-digit touchdowns. Rice, Moss, Harrison, and Owens are the other four.

Purdy Good - Brock Purdy passed Justin Herbert and tied Russell Wilson for the most games with a 110-plus passer rating in a player’s first two seasons.

MVP - Lamar Jackson moved into a tie for the most games with a perfect passer rating in NFL history (three), joining the likes of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner, and Ben Roethlisberger.

Pat’s Pretty Good as Well - Patrick Mahomes joined HOFer Peyton Manning as the only player with 4,000-plus passing yards in six or more of a player's first seven seasons. Mahomes' only season under 4,000 was his rookie season in 2017, when he only started one game.

Records that could be set this Week - 


Tyreek Hill needs 247 yards to pass Calvin Johnsons' record for receiving yards in a season. 


Puka Nucua needs three catches and 29 receiving yards in Week 18 to set a new record. The WR’s 101 catches are second-most behind Jaylen Waddle’s 104 (2021), and his 1445 yards are third behind Ja’Marr Chase (1,455) and the record holder, Bill Gorman (1,473), who set the record in 1960 with Houston in the AFL.


Lions TE Sam LaPorta needs one catch to break the rookie TE catch record.  



Football Trivia Answer - Tomlin is behind Bill Belichick (19, from 2001 to 2019) and Tom Landry (20, from 1965 to 1985).

Pop Culture Trivia - First held on December 31, 1907, to welcome 1908, organized by Adolph Ochs, owner of The New York Times newspaper, as a successor to a series of New Year's Eve fireworks displays he held at the building to promote its status as the new headquarters of the Times. The ball drop has been held annually, except in 1942 and 1943, in observance of wartime blackouts when a moment of silence was observed along with the playing of a recording of church bells. 

The ball's design has been updated four times to reflect improvements in lighting technology; the original ball was 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, constructed from wood and iron, and illuminated with 100 incandescent light bulbs. By contrast, the current (fifth) ball is 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter and uses over 32,000 LED lamps. Since 1999–2000, the ball has featured an outer surface consisting of triangular panels manufactured by Waterford Crystal, which contain inscriptions representing a yearly theme.

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The game in Hell’s Sports Bar - On a weekend where several teams played in terrible weather, last week the Vikings and Raiders played in the climate-controlled comfort of Las Vegas last week and scored three points between them—narrowly avoiding the dreaded 0-0 tie at the end of regulation.  The last time that happened, America was at war…in 1943!  It was the first 3-0 game since Pittsburgh beat Miami on Nov. 26, 2007, the third in the past 40 years and the seventh in the Super Bowl era; it was also the only such game played indoors.  All the others (the Steelers/Miami game, for example, was played in rain so intense that a punt stuck in the field like a lawn dart!) were outside and in some sort of weather. 

 

Mostert is the Most - Raheem Mostert’s rushed for his 17th touchdown of the season, a Dolphins team record. It's the fourth-most in a season by an undrafted player in the common-draft era.

Tua may have an arm  - Tua Tagovailoa’s 60-yard touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle traveled 48.59 yards in air distance. It was only Tagovailoa’s seventh-farthest tracked completion this year, he has six he has thrown father...which is crazy.  

Tee Higgins finally got going: Lost in Jake Browning's incredible second-half comeback was the resurgent play of Higgins, who caught his first touchdown pass since Week 2 in Saturday's victory. Higgins caught not one, but two, touchdown passes as he finished with four catches for 61 yards. Playing in just 10 of 14 games, Higgins has just 36 catches for 497 yards and four touchdowns, but significantly stepped up with the absence of Ja'Marr Chase (shoulder). The Bengals will need Higgins to be the No. 1 he's capable of being down the stretch, especially with Chase expected to miss time. 

Maybe he should have gone before Round 7? Week 15 marked Brock Purdy's 13th career start with a 100-plus passer rating. Purdy's 13 such games only trail Patrick Mahomes (16) and HOFer Kurt Warner (14) for most games with a 100-plus passer rating in a QB's first 20 starts since 1950.

 Remember the Titans – How crazy was the Titans’ 28–27 comeback win over the Dolphins last week?  Teams down 14 points with less than three minutes to go in regulation were 0–767 since 2016 until the Titans pulled off their win.  The Titans were also the first team to be down 14 points with less than 2:55 left and win without overtime.

 Trade Joe Burrow??? - Bengals backup quarterback Jake Browning has a 79.3 completion percentage in his first three career starts, the highest by any quarterback in their first three starts.  Browning is the second quarterback since 1950 to complete at least 70 percent of his passes in his first three career starts, joining Chad Pennington, who did so in 2002 with the Jets.  In addition to his 79.3 completion percentage, Browning has 856 passing yards in his three career starts. Browning and Justin Herbert (2020) are the only quarterbacks since 1950 with at least 800 passing yards and a completion percentage of 70-plus for their first three starts. Oh, and as of today… the Bengals are in the playoffs. Who would have thought that a few weeks ago?

 Football Trivia Answer - 14 is the record, and three games are tied for that “honor” all before the Super Bowl Era.


Washington Redskins (8) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (6), November 14, 1937


Chicago Bears (7) vs. Cleveland Browns (7), November 24, 1940


St. Louis Cardinals (8) vs. New York Giants (6), September 17, 1961 



 Pop Culture Trivia -  Four movies have won 10 or more Oscars.  

1.   Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003) - 11 

2.   Ben-Hur (1959

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The Cheetah can run – Tyreek Hill needs 519 yards in his next five games to be the first receiver to break the 2000-yard mark.

CMC one of the few – Christian McCaffrey scored his 50th rushing touchdown this week.  He also has 27 career receiving touchdowns, making him one of only three players ever to do that.  The others?  Hall of Famers Marshall Faulk and Lenny Moore.

Belichick heading for a bad record – The Patriots are now 2-10, the first time they have had double-digit losses since Belichick's first season in New England.  If he finishes with three or few wins, he will tie the record for worst season ever by a coach who won Super Bowl, tying Tom Landry, who was 3-13 in 1988, Landry’s last year.  Belichick is also three losses away from the all-time record 165, held by Jeff Fisher and Dan Reeves. 

Commanders get blown out. The Commanders gave up 45 points to the Dolphins, marking the second straight week that they surrendered at least 45 points. Washington has only given up 45 points in consecutive games one other time in franchise history, and that came all the way back in 1954.

Football Trivia Answer – Three…they have only had three.  Starting in 1969, the Pittsburgh Steelers have had only three coaches, all of whom won Super Bowls.  Chuck Noll had four, and Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin each had one.  The next team with the fewest head coaches is Seattle, with 7…but they only started in 1976. 

For the home team, the Bengals have had ten coaches since 1969, and tied for the most are the Arizona Cardinals and New York Jets with 17, with the Bills close behind with 15. 

Pop Culture Trivia – There have been 33 official Marvel movies, with around 11 more in development or shooting right now!  This does not count five Spider-Man movies, two Hulk and Fantastic Four movies, or the various other films made by other studios, or the number would be much higher!

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Hurts hurts the Bills and sets a record - This was Hurts' 11th career game with multiple rushing touchdowns, breaking a tie with Cam Newton for the most such games by a quarterback in NFL history.  Hurts has 11 rushing touchdowns on the season, marking his third consecutive campaign with double-digit rushing touchdowns. No other quarterback in NFL history has had 10-plus rushing touchdowns in even two consecutive seasons.

 

T.J. Watt is in a league of his own with multi-sack games - In a win that will be remembered as the day the Steelers finally totaled 400 yards of offense, Watt recorded two-plus sacks for the 20th time in his career (the most in the NFL since 2017).  Watt has now played in 98 career games and has 91.0 sacks to his name. Only one other player (since sacks started being recorded in 1982) has brought down opposing quarterbacks at least 90 times within his first 100 games -- Hall of Famer Reggie White, who had 105.0 career sacks in his first 100 games.

 

Bland sets INT record - During Thanksgiving, Cowboys cornerback DaRon Bland set an NFL record with his fifth interception return for a touchdown. He surpassed Eric Allen, Ken Houston, and Jim Kearney, who had four interception returns for a touchdown in a season.

 

Football Trivia - if you are a Bears fan, avert your eyes.  The Bears are the only team that has never had a 4,000-yard passer.  The closest the Bears have come was in 1995(!) when Erik Kramer threw for 3,838 yards with 29 TDs, leading the Bears to a 9-7 record.  It was the only year of his career where he played a full season.  Kramer has had a problematic post-playing career, suffering from depression and the suicide of a son, as well as attempting suicide himself. He is now an advocate for mental health and released a book about his life this month that has been very well-reviewed. 

Pop-Culture Trivia - It’s been 23 years since Hallmark released its first original Christmas movie: “The Christmas Secret,” starring Beau Bridges and Richard Thomas, about a professor who sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and then meets Santa.  This year, there are 42 Christmas movies on the channel, which joins 21 more on the rival Great American Family.  There are rumors that a second plot for the films have been developed, but that is unconfirmed at this time.

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