Trivia Question

Paul heard this on WFAN and asked me and it paralyzed my brain for about an hour and a half yesterday. I eventually got the answer only referencing Wikipedia to find out one of the Presidents.

Four colleges have produced both a Super Bowl winning Quarterback AND a U.S. President. Name the colleges, the quarterbacks, and the Presidents.

I'll give you these hints:

1) Only one of the four schools has produced TWO Super Bowl winning Quarterbacks. None of the four schools have produced more than one U.S. President.

2) Grambling is not one of them.

Feel free to use all resources at your disposal.

Blog Synergy

I am headed back to Columbus this weekend and like I do every time I go to Columbus I will do a "The Ohio State Weekend Blog". This time, Buckeye Basketball and 2007 NBA Draft No. 1 Pick Greg Oden will be front and center as well as the usual charm Columbus provides which I have blogged about before. This weekend was chosen because

1) I've never been to an Ohio State Basketball Game and this is their best team in 8 years.

2) It's the usually painstaking "In-Between Weekend", in-between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl. I usually watch a ton of College Basketball this weekend anyway as my head starts thinking to March Madness and by office basketball pool. This year I'll be seeing one game in person.

3) Its never a chore to visit my brother, especially in his nice new house.

4) JetBlue flies direct from Boston to Columbus, bringing down the price of a flight to well affordable, more than once a year.

This time, my friend at Paul's Poop, Paul Amin is meeting me. This may very well be my first time hanging out with Paul and not one of our mutual friends, which now that I think back on is suprising. It promises to be an all-time weekend.

Come Monday, both Paul and I will have Ohio State Weekend Blogs up so you can view Columbus from two perspective. From myself, someone who may be jaded by frequent trips to Central Ohio and Paul, who has not been since 1999 when we endured terrential rains and a sloppy Ohio State-Purdue football game.

The '98 Broncos: The Giant Game

To go 14-0, all the Broncos had to do was beat a 5-8 New York Giants team that was in a Quarterback controversy between Kent Graham and Danny Kanell. Which was like having a President controversy between Michael Dukakis and Charles Logan. The game was in the Meadowlands but this looked to be a mere speed bump in Denver's dream season.

The game was much closer than anticipated and I ended up watching the game by myself in the 920 Ackerman living room. Dave Dunleavy who was beginning a separation process from "The Kliq" which is now complete came over with his usual Sunday Kimmel or Goldstein Lunch but sensed how nervous I was then went upstairs.

Then with :48 left in the game, Kent Graham threw a 37 Yard Touchdown Pass to the well dressed Amani Toomer, ending the Broncos perfect season and sending me into a furniture throwing fit.

The Broncos lost their next game to then division rival Seattle, their only other loss on the season and it was on to the playoffs...

The '98 Broncos: Dominance Unseen

Before 1998, the Broncos had embraced the identity of an underdog franchise, characterized by a 98 yard drive, a fumble on the 2, and the close but never close John Elway, they were almost two touchdown underdogs to Green Bay and won the game mainly because they're small scrappy Offensive Linemen out hustled and outdistanced Gilbert Brown and the vast Packer Defensive Line.

So I didn't know how to handle the dominance of the 1998 Broncos. I never did grasp my team becoming the year's version of the '72 Dolphins or '85 Bears, but they put as much of a scare to Mercury Morris and Nick Buonoconti as any team since the '91 Redskins.

Terrell Davis had one of the Five Best Fantasy Football Seasons of all-time, rushing for 2,008 yards and 21 Touchdowns.

While I resisted the urge to refer to this team and myself as "we". I did just about the next best thing. I would speak about games as if I was Mike Shanahan using post-game cliches like "You can't take any team in the National Football League lightly" or "Gotta tip your hat off to them, they put out a gutsy effort".

The Broncos were favored in their final three games of the regular season, prompting many experts and my friends to assume the Broncos were going 16-0 in 1998. Of this, came about one of my favorite phrases, mixing two overused cliches. I warned many Broncos observers and myself "Don't Count Your Chickens Before They're All in One Basket".

The New York Giants would prove those words to be foreshadowing...