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  On 2/2/2018 at 5:29 PM, boogielicious said:

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.

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Yeah, but as a Pats fan, you probably cheated.

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  On 2/2/2018 at 5:09 PM, Missouri Swede said:

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

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At least football has a play clock so something has to happen every 40 seconds. JB Holmes would be in trouble last Sunday would have cost him like 30 yards in penalties!

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  On 2/2/2018 at 6:28 PM, iacas said:

Yeah, but as a Pats fan, you probably cheated.

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:-Pnah. I’m just wicked good at Jeopardy!

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In fairness, while the questions seemed really easy to anyone with a passing interest in football, they did require at least a baseline understanding of game. 

The only question I'm really surprised that no one got was the Tom Landry question. I see Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi as iconic figures that transcend into the "general knowledge & pop culture arena." The fact that none of them had any idea who Landry was is pretty surprising. 

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That was funny.  I'm actually surprised nobody got the first one.  Even if they've never seen football, that was one of those Jeopardy questions where you could tell that the answer wasn't really about football but about the context of the question and how it was written.  I've been able to "guess" the answers to a lot of Jeopardy questions based on context similarly.

Also, this reminded me of an old SNL skit (Carvey/Myers/Hartman days) where they had a fake game show with George Will (Carvey) asking 3 ballplayers (one was Pete Rose, played by Hartman) questions about baseball.  None of them could answer any of the questions because they were next level nerdy questions, and finally they just all started taunting Will into trying to throw a ball.  I wish I could find it on youtube.

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  On 2/2/2018 at 1:39 PM, nevets88 said:

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.

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FWIW, Jeopardy is syndicated - it's not on the same network everywhere. It's on ABC where I live but CBS where @boogielicious lives. And it debuted on NBC.

  On 2/2/2018 at 7:35 PM, Golfingdad said:

That was funny.  I'm actually surprised nobody got the first one.  Even if they've never seen football, that was one of those Jeopardy questions where you could tell that the answer wasn't really about football but about the context of the question and how it was written.  I've been able to "guess" the answers to a lot of Jeopardy questions based on context similarly.

Also, this reminded me of an old SNL skit (Carvey/Myers/Hartman days) where they had a fake game show with George Will (Carvey) asking 3 ballplayers (one was Pete Rose, played by Hartman) questions about baseball.  None of them could answer any of the questions because they were next level nerdy questions, and finally they just all started taunting Will into trying to throw a ball.  I wish I could find it on youtube.

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  On 2/3/2018 at 1:36 AM, jamo said:

FWIW, Jeopardy is syndicated - it's not on the same network everywhere. It's on ABC where I live but CBS where @boogielicious lives. And it debuted on NBC.

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I watch it on CBS-All Access

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Hell! Even Sheldon Cooper knows football! But then, he did grow up in Texas.

It might surprise some to know that it is estimated that about 35% of the population of the US could be considered a "sports fan". One could then guess that the percentage of NFL fans might be even less.

I heard that number years ago by a local radio sports screamer, who said that his station manager told him that if he wanted to broaden his audience, he'd have to widen his subject matter. He likes to say that if the Neilsen Survey tells you that 30 million people in the US watched the Super Bowl, that means that at least 300 million did not!

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  On 2/2/2018 at 7:35 PM, Golfingdad said:

Also, this reminded me of an old SNL skit (Carvey/Myers/Hartman days) where they had a fake game show with George Will (Carvey) asking 3 ballplayers (one was Pete Rose, played by Hartman) questions about baseball.  None of them could answer any of the questions because they were next level nerdy questions, and finally they just all started taunting Will into trying to throw a ball.  I wish I could find it on youtube.

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Ha ha, skit was funny. THROW THE BALL!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/george-f-wills-sports-machine/n9910?snl=1

  On 2/3/2018 at 1:36 AM, jamo said:

FWIW, Jeopardy is syndicated - it's not on the same network everywhere. It's on ABC where I live but CBS where @boogielicious lives. And it debuted on NBC.

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Ah, I see. Thanks! 

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  On 2/3/2018 at 1:36 AM, jamo said:

Answer: Yes, I would eat the moon if it were made of ribs.

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  On 2/3/2018 at 1:52 AM, dennyjones said:

I watch it on CBS-All Access

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Wait wat? I'm learning all sorts of things from this thread.

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Change the category to opera, or ballet, or popular entertainers, and I'd fare no better.  

 

 

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I don't know man.  Football just isn't the "jam" for some people.  You ask me some soccer questions and I won't get many correct.

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