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You might be a bit surprised to know that Canadians have a different name for American football. Instead, they can ll it Gridiron football, which also goes by North American Football. It is simply a football game that has the same set of rules as American football. But the name is a bi...
According to the book “The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr,” Detroit’s NFL team came to be known as the Lions as a counterpart to the existing baseball team in the city, the Tigers.A team spokesman later said,“The lion is monarch of the jungle and we hop...
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For whatever reason, the namesoccerstuck for association football andfootballfor the gridiron sport. In fact, the governing body for soccer in the US was called the United States Soccer Football Association until 1974. How many football fans know the origins of the terms used in the American sp...
And that’s why Bucky Dent, in Boston, is Bucky F***ing Dent. Baseball makes monuments of the most unexpected moments, and even if football can answer with David Tyree’s miraculous Super Bowl catch, the gridiron cannot mandate, as the rules of baseball do, that he must be thrown to....
Question: Why is it called a teddy bear? Gifted Animal: Children are inundated with a multitude of different toys. However, one toy has stood the test of time, the teddy bear. Many children are gifted this type of stuffed animal at some point in his or her life. ...
While it is true that the NCAA doesn’t award national championships in what was once called Division I college football, that is the problem. Since 1926 there have been many entities, often called “selectors” that name national champions (both contemporaneously and retroactively), and in many...
Big Ben is a nickname formally applied to the bell within the tower (officially the Great Bell), not the tower itself. The tower was originally known as the Clock Tower, later called St Stephen's Tower, before having the name officially changed to the Elizabeth Tower. Still, the nickname ...
No matter the team you root for, watching football on Thanksgiving is a Turkey Day tradition. Although there are plenty of Thanksgiving myths, these football games do go all the way back to a few years right after Abraham Lincoln declared the national holiday. In 1876, Yale and P...