Archive for the 'Football Legends' Category
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: Monster Cable sued the Chicago Bears for their nickname “Monsters of the Midway” Big corporations have a […]
October 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | 1 Comment
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: The beginning of the second half of Super Bowl I was re-played because NBC missed it. The […]
October 8th, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | 3 Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: The famous photograph of Y.A. Tittle was never published in a newspaper. Morris Berman’s photograph of New […]
September 10th, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | No Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: In 1941, the owners of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers actually traded franchises. There quite […]
August 7th, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | No Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: Spurred on by coach Knute Rockne’s halftime speech, Notre Dame player Jack Chevigny scored the winning touchdown […]
June 27th, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | No Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: Two Detroit Lions players received a Gold Record while they were still playing pro ball! If the […]
June 17th, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | 2 Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: Edgar Allan Poe played an early form of football. Reader David wrote in to ask: I know […]
June 16th, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | No Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: A player played professional football under an assumed name so that he could play college football, as […]
June 15th, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | No Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: The Super Bowl is named after the Super Ball. In the late 1960s, the National Football League […]
February 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | No Comments
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: The Steelers and the Eagles combined teams for a season. During World War II, the National Football […]
February 21st, 2013 | Posted in Football Legends | No Comments