Eck your score in our football quiz
Make the first string u a bench warmer? the answers to the football trivia quiz 22-23.
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5. a) In a 2013 game, the 49ers tried for a “fair catch kick,” which allows receiving teams to line up on the first play and try a field goal. It was one of John Madden’s favorite plays, although it’s rarely used and is pretty much a desperate ploy. The 49ers tried it with four seconds left at the end of the first half, with kicker Phil Dawson attempting a 71-yard field goal. Interestingly, the choice to decline to receive the fair catch and turn the ball over to the opponent is an option in the rule book, but that’s not what the 49ers did.
6. c) In the 49ers’ first-ever game, they played the New York Yankees, but not those New York Yankees. The Niners were part of the All-American Football Conference, and the Yankees, which shared both its name and a stadium with the baseball Yankees, played only three seasons before becoming defunct.
7. d) Leo Nomellini, the 49ers first draft pick in 1950, wrestled in the offseason under the moniker The Lion.
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