1. Backup QB Frank Reich Leads Biggest Comeback In College, Then NFL, History frank-reich
Here are the facts: in 1984, senior backup quarterback Frank Reich led the University of Maryland back from 31 points down, to overcome the previously undefeated Miami Hurricanes. At the time, this was an NCAA record, the largest comeback in the history of collegiate football.
Nine years later, destiny would plunk Reich down in the centre of the greatest coincidence in all of sports. In 1993 Reich, filling for an injured Jim Kelly, brought the Buffalo Bills back from 32 points down to earn a playoff victory against the Oilers. The person who left the greatest college football comeback ever, now led his team to the greatest comeback in the history of professional football. That he, as the Bills’ backup, no less, would ever find himself in a position to try the feat in the NFL is a bizarre coincidence; that he actually achieved it is absurd.
No surprise he’s found a thriving post-football career as a motivational speaker; any person who has achieved the impossible not once but twice must have great tips on how to kick ass and take names.
2. Tampa Bay Rays Are A Magnet For Perfect Games perfect-game
A “perfect game” in baseball happens when a pitcher does not allow any opposition runner to reach base, in any manner, shape or form. No hits, no walks, no bribing, no nothing. It is an exceedingly unusual achievement, having been done just 23 times in MLB history.
The Tampa Bay Rays have faced the indignity of having three perfect games thrown against them - not in the history of the club, but in four seasons, between 2009 and 2012. Again, there have only been 23 of them … ever. To put that in perspective, that’s 13% of all perfect games ever pitched in the 144-year history of big league baseball, in a three-year stretch, against the same club. Furthermore, two of the games were within one year of one other. This is not the way any club wants to create insanely impossible history.
3. Mark Sanchez = Lucifer?
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Whether or not Mark Sanchez is a flop as a quarterback is up for discussion. So is if he is the Lord Of Lies. To proponents of a specific religious faith, the data simply sort of speak for themselves:
On week 6 of the 2012 NFL season, New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez began on the 666th broadcast of Monday Night Football. At the time, he had recorded the following statistics: Touchdowns: 6. Interceptions: 6. Average yards per pass attempt: 6.6. Longest completion: 66 yards. Quarterback rating (drum roll, please): 66.6.
For those who don’t know, Sanchez wears number 6 and was backed up by none other than Tim Tebow, who wears his Christian beliefs on both sleeves. What does this mean? Probably that the football gods have a fantastic sense of humor.
4. “Redskins Rule” Predicts Victory For … US Presidents Redskins-Rule
The Redskins have offered a crucial service to the city of Washington, D.C., for decades, outside merely offering football fans a team to cheer for. Over a 60-year period, the outcome of the Redskins’ last home game before a Presidential election exactly predicted the result of the election.
Between 1940 and 2000, the following rule applied without fail: “If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that won the previous election wins the next election; and if the Redskins lose, the challenging party’s candidate wins.” The run was interrupted in 2004, when the ‘Skins lost the key game to the Tennessee Titans, meaning the incumbent – George W. Bush – should have lost, but beat John Kerry to retain the Presidency.