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T&F - All Good Things - For The Glory
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Football Trivia - Mike Tomlin’s streak of 17 straight seasons without a losing season is the most ever from the start of a head-coaching career. With Sunday’s win at Seattle, Tomlin moved past George Halas (16) into third on the all-time list of consecutive non-losing seasons. Who are the two Coaches ahead of him?
Pop Culture Trivia - What year was the first Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop?
When was that??? - The Lions won the NFC North, their first division title since 1993…to put that in perspective that year:
Bill Clinton was sworn in as the President for the first time
Michael Jordan left Basketball to play Baseball
Beanie Babies were first released
The first Jurrasic Park movie was released
Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake join Britney and Christina in "The New Mickey Mouse Club."
So You're Saying There is a Chance? - 20 teams are still in contention for a trip to the Super Bowl, which ties for the most with one week remaining in the last 41 years, since a record 22 in 1982. Of course, 82 was a strike year, and 16 teams made the playoffs in a weird shortened season.
D Adams is the best thing about the Raiders - Adams is the fifth player with four career seasons of 1,300 receiving yards and double-digit touchdowns. Rice, Moss, Harrison, and Owens are the other four.
Purdy Good - Brock Purdy passed Justin Herbert and tied Russell Wilson for the most games with a 110-plus passer rating in a player’s first two seasons.
MVP - Lamar Jackson moved into a tie for the most games with a perfect passer rating in NFL history (three), joining the likes of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner, and Ben Roethlisberger.
Pat’s Pretty Good as Well - Patrick Mahomes joined HOFer Peyton Manning as the only player with 4,000-plus passing yards in six or more of a player's first seven seasons. Mahomes' only season under 4,000 was his rookie season in 2017, when he only started one game.
Records that could be set this Week -
Tyreek Hill needs 247 yards to pass Calvin Johnsons' record for receiving yards in a season.
Puka Nucua needs three catches and 29 receiving yards in Week 18 to set a new record. The WR’s 101 catches are second-most behind Jaylen Waddle’s 104 (2021), and his 1445 yards are third behind Ja’Marr Chase (1,455) and the record holder, Bill Gorman (1,473), who set the record in 1960 with Houston in the AFL.
Lions TE Sam LaPorta needs one catch to break the rookie TE catch record.
Football Trivia Answer - Tomlin is behind Bill Belichick (19, from 2001 to 2019) and Tom Landry (20, from 1965 to 1985).
Pop Culture Trivia - First held on December 31, 1907, to welcome 1908, organized by Adolph Ochs, owner of The New York Times newspaper, as a successor to a series of New Year's Eve fireworks displays he held at the building to promote its status as the new headquarters of the Times. The ball drop has been held annually, except in 1942 and 1943, in observance of wartime blackouts when a moment of silence was observed along with the playing of a recording of church bells.
The ball's design has been updated four times to reflect improvements in lighting technology; the original ball was 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, constructed from wood and iron, and illuminated with 100 incandescent light bulbs. By contrast, the current (fifth) ball is 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter and uses over 32,000 LED lamps. Since 1999–2000, the ball has featured an outer surface consisting of triangular panels manufactured by Waterford Crystal, which contain inscriptions representing a yearly theme.
