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| 1. | Let's start you with a gimme. Tom Brady got engaged this past weekend. Who is his intended bride? | ||
| Bill Belichick | |||
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Gisele Bündchen | ||
| Bridget Moynahan | |||
| Elisha Cuthbert...no, wait, she's only into hockey players. | |||
| 2. | Speaking of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, who is the AFC East champion through the magic of arcane NFL tiebreakers? | ||
| Buffalo | |||
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Miami | ||
| New England | |||
| New York Jets | |||
| 3. | In order to help his team win the AFC East yesterday, Miami QB Chad Pennington had to do what? | ||
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Beat his former team, the Jets | ||
| Catch a TD pass from Ronnie Brown while in the Wild Hog formation | |||
| Play with a concussion | |||
| Punt due to an injury to regular punter Brandon Fields | |||
| 4. | Yesterday may well have been the final game of Brett Favre's career. Stop us if you've heard that one before. Anyway, who took the final snap at QB for the Jets in yesterday's game? | ||
| Kellen Clemens | |||
| Brett Favre | |||
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Brad Smith | ||
| Leon Washington | |||
| 5. | The Carolina Panthers won at New Orleans yesterday thanks to a last second field goal. They wound up with a #2 seed in the NFC. Where would they have been seeded had the kick been no good? | ||
| #2 seed | |||
| #4 seed | |||
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#5 seed | ||
| #6 seed | |||
| 6. | Again, thanks to the magic of tiebreakers, who would have won the NFC South if Carolina had lost to New Orleans? | ||
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Atlanta | ||
| Carolina | |||
| New Orleans | |||
| Tampa Bay | |||
| 7. | One of these teams won at least 11 games yet is not in the NFL playoffs. Which one is really, really, really unlucky? | ||
| Baltimore | |||
| Indianapolis | |||
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New England | ||
| New York Jets | |||
| 8. | Okay, let's move on to the future-years bar trivia portion of the quiz. Which team led the NFL in points scored this year with a whopping 463? | ||
| Arizona | |||
| Carolina | |||
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New Orleans Saints | ||
| New York Giants | |||
| 9. | Who led the NFL in rushing in 2008? | ||
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Adrian Peterson | ||
| Clinton Portis | |||
| Michael Turner | |||
| DeAngelo Williams | |||
| 10. | Who led the NFL in receiving yardage in 2008? | ||
| Larry Fitzgerald | |||
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Andre Johnson | ||
| Calvin Johnson | |||
| Roddy White | |||
| 11. | Who led the NFL in scoring defense with only 223 points allowed? | ||
| Baltimore | |||
| Indianapolis | |||
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Pittsburgh | ||
| Tennessee | |||
| 12. | Who led the NFL in TDs with 20? | ||
| Brandon Jacobs | |||
| Thomas Jones | |||
| Michael Turner | |||
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DeAngelo Williams | ||
| 13. | While most of them suck, especially hockey (sorry, Canadians but it's true), there are other sports than football. Which of these is not true of the Christmas Day NBA matchup between the Celtics and Lakers? | ||
| It had the highest ratings of any regular season NBA game in four years. | |||
| It was a rematch of last year's NBA Finals. | |||
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Kobe Bryant scored over 30 points. | ||
| The Lakers won. | |||
| 14. | Prior to losing that game, how many consecutive wins had the Celtics pulled off? | ||
| 8 | |||
| 12 | |||
| 16 | |||
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19 | ||
| 15. | Someone was a bad boy last week. Which NBA star was suspended a game for punching out the pride of Georgia Tech, Matt Harpring? | ||
| Dwight Howard | |||
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Dirk Nowitzki | ||
| Amare Stoudemire | |||
| Rasheed Wallace (he gets suspended more often than Ron Jeremy gets lucky) | |||
| 16. | Speaking of punching out the competition, which of these players has not been paid at least a hundred million dollars this off-season to play for the Yankees? | ||
| A.J. Burnett | |||
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Manny Ramirez | ||
| CC Sabithia | |||
| Mark Teixeira | |||
| 17. | Now is the time in college football when sucky teams play to determine who is the king of the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. So, who is the king of the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl? And where were you at that seminal moment in your life when that game became a final? That part is not a question. I'm just making conversation. | ||
| Boise State | |||
| Brigham Young | |||
| South Florida | |||
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TCU | ||
| 18. | Continuing the theme of over half of the teams in major college football playing in bowl games these days, which of these teams did not win a bowl game last week? | ||
| Arizona | |||
| Florida Atlantic | |||
| Notre Dame | |||
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Troy | ||
| 19. | And we'll finish this week like we began: with a gimme. Which of these players won the 2008 Heisman Trophy? | ||
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Sam Bradford | ||
| Colt McCoy | |||
| Tim Tebow | |||
| Roger Federer...he wins everything. | |||
| 20. | In a shocking turn of events, ESPN announced that Bill Parcells could quit as executive vice president of football operations after only a year and a week on the job. How much would he be paid if he triggers this escape clause in his contract? | ||
| $0 | |||
| $1 million | |||
| $8 million | |||
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$12 million | ||
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