Football category dumbfounds Jeopardy contestants

[nevets88]

I don't watch football much anymore I don't think they were that easy. The thing I don't get is game is on NBC and Jeopardy is on ABC.

 

Edit (@iacas): Here's a better version:

 

[dennyjones]

The look on their faces said it all.   They don't watch football.   The $1000 question would probably be answered by somebody that watched football and was at least 40 years old.  

[Groucho Valentine]

Thats not MAGA. They need to be deported to a shithole country. 

[Foot Wedge]

I saw this last night!  I watch a good bit of jeopardy and I had never seen anything like it.  Yes most people on the show can taken as bookworms, but it's not the first time sports questions have been on there, nor has it been the first category that can be seen as non-intellectual such as tv shows, or popular culture.  It was really astounding.

[Papa Steve 55]

I drew a total blank on the 'option play' question. Many times while watching I feel I know the answer, I just cant quite find it. That's what amazes me about some of the players, they pull the answer out so fast.

[Missouri Swede]

1 hour ago, dennyjones said:

The look on their faces said it all.   They don't watch football.   The $1000 question would probably be answered by somebody that watched football and was at least 40 years old.  

... and grew up dere.  Ya sure, dat’s me. Skol!

 I didn’t think any of those were hard. But the last one I can see being tricky unless you liked the Vikings or hated them back then (Bears, Packers fans).

(Just don’t ask me about British literature.)

Edited February 2, 2018 by Missouri Swede

[Kalnoky]

The most sports those people do is go on a hike or ride a bicycle. Maybe some of them climb an indoor rock wall sometimes.

[Foot Wedge]

2 minutes ago, Papa Steve 55 said:

I drew a total blank on the 'option play' question. Many times while watching I feel I know the answer, I just cant quite find it. That's what amazes me about some of the players, they pull the answer out so fast.

That's what's so incredible about what happened last night.  You can think you know the answer and when that happens they buzz in and just freeze.  It happens on the show, but the fact that nobody even hit the buzzers means all three of them were absolutely clueless on EVERY SINGLE QUESTION.  No matter the category, that's unbelievable on that show.

[Kalnoky]

Those questions were so easy it was laughable.

The average value of an NFL franchise is $2.5 billion. The NFL alone earned over $13 billion in 2016. That's just the NFL... not including college and major high school. Football is not an insignificant part of life in the United States.

Those people are ign'ant

[NM Golf]

The funniest thing about it was when the studio audience started laughing at them. My wife, NOT A FOOTBALL FAN, even knew the fair catch question, and she's literally watched an hour of football in her entire life. 

[mcanadiens]

Those three looked the perfect stereotype. The dude in the bow tie on the far right takes the cake.

Let's face it. Football is actually a pretty complex game. I'd guess half my family (the non-sports half) would have gone O-fer on those questions. 

[Lihu]

1 hour ago, dennyjones said:

The look on their faces said it all.   They don't watch football.   The $1000 question would probably be answered by somebody that watched football and was at least 40 years old.  

I'm sure I'm going to take flack for this. . .

I could only answer one of the questions either because I never actually watch football games for more than a few minutes at a time. I could probably tell you more about the cheerleaders than any of the players. I've been asked to play it before and been to many super bowl parties to eat great stuff with beer and whiskey, but never actually paid attention to it.

Takes too long to keep my interest. Supposed to only take only an hour and a half, but takes hours and hours and hours. . .  

 

1 hour ago, Groucho Valentine said:

Thats not MAGA. They need to be deported to a shithole country. 

Sure, but the MAGA POTUS also went head to head against NFL too.

[nevets88]

I watched football not casually a long long time ago, went to some games, played touch and flag football. Pretty good at throwing a tight spiral. Definitely forgot a lot. My answer to the option question was play-action but I knew that wasn't the right answer. Also knew Tom Landry was with the Cowboys. That's it. Fair catch, offsetting, maybe I could have answered it back then. If they asked stuff like line of scrimmage, what stops the clock, what's a touchback, extra point vs two point conversion, time of possession, that I know. 

[allenc]

I’ve watch football occasionally and didn’t know any of these.  Sure, I knew “fair catch”and “option play” were things you could do but the terms didn’t come to me on time.  I don’t know any history or anything about any team.

It was pretty obvious that the contestants would do badly on the football category by the fact that that was all there was left at the end of the round.

[Missouri Swede]

1 hour ago, Lihu said:

Takes too long to keep my interest. Supposed to only take only an hour and a half, but takes hours and hours and hours. . .  

Wait a minute ... is this about football or the golf pace-of-play thread? 

Make football great again! 

[Lihu]

16 minutes ago, Missouri Swede said:

Wait a minute ... is this about football or the golf pace-of-play thread? 

Make football great again! 

[boogielicious]

I'm a huge Jeopardy fan and occasionally they get categories that the contestants whiff on. But in this case, they didn't even try. Even someone with decent generally knowledge should have gotten at least one. I got all five as did my wife.

[billchao]

I didn't get the last one /shrug