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TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, January 10, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Some friends and I were out to dinner on Saturday night, and
one of the NFL playoff games was on the television. Somebody
asked how the Green Bay Packers got their name, and this led
to a whole discussion about NFL team names. This gave me the
inspiration to uncover the origins of some of these names...
and you can check them out below!
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is
what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a
civilization work."
HINT: (1913-1970), Italian-American football coach,
legendary football figure, best known as the head coach of
the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Cleveland Browns - The Cleveland All-America Football
Conference franchise conducted a fan contest in 1945 to
name the team. The most popular submission was Browns in
recognition of the team?s first coach and general manager
Paul Brown, who was already a popular figure in Ohio sports.
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Chicago Bears - The team was originally located in Decatur,
IL, and was named after team sponsor, the Staley Starch
Company. The team moved to Chicago in 1921 and became the
Chicago Staleys. In 1922, after team founder-manager and
star end George Halas purchased the team, he changed the
name to the Bears. Halas reasoned that because football
players were generally bigger than baseball players, and
the city?s baseball team was the Cubs, then logically the
football team should be the Bears.
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Philadelphia Eagles - When Bert Bell established his NFL
franchise in Philadelphia in 1933, the country was
struggling to recover from the Great Depression. New
president Franklin D. Roosevelt had introduced his ?New
Deal? program through the National Recovery Administration,
which had the Eagle as its symbol. Since Bell hoped his
franchise also was headed for a new deal, he picked Eagles
as the team name.
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VIDEO CLIP
NFL Meltdowns
There can be a lot of pressure associated with professional
sports regardless of whether you're a coach or a player.
Here is a collection of breakdowns of several coaches and
players in the media room.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1044
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Green Bay Packers - Curly Lambeau solicited funds for
uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He
was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition
that the team be named for its sponsor. Today Green Bay
Packers is the oldest team name still in use in the NFL!
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Baltimore Ravens-Ravens was selected from among three
finalists in a poll conducted by the Baltimore Sun.
Baltimore fans selected the name in honor of Edgar Allan
Poe, the American poet who penned his famous poem, ?The
Raven? while living in Baltimore.
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Indianapolis Colts-Baltimore?s first pro football team was
a member of the 1947 AAFC. A fan contest produced the Colts
name reflecting the great tradition and proud history of
horse breeding and racing in the Baltimore region. The
original Colts disbanded after the 1950 season but the name
was retained when a new Baltimore franchise began play in
1953. The Colts moved to Indianapolis in 1984.
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QUOTE: "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is
what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a
civilization work."
ANSWER: Vince Lombardi.
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