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Sports Quiz
Football : Third Down
...aaaand we’re still not done telling you all about the great Jews of the gridiron! So here is our amazing third installment of our football quiz: Hut… hut…hamentash!
1. Sid Luckman was a Chicago Bears quarterback who lead the team to four championship wins in the 1940s. His team was so feared they were nicknamed "The Monsters of the Midway." Sid was the first QB to merge distance and accuracy. He once threw 7 touchdowns in one game, and 8% of his passes resulted in touchdowns, a record which still stands! Sid used an offensive formation that looks like a letter also used to describe the shape of a golf-ball holder and a kind of short-sleeved shirt:
2. Hall of Famer Ron Mix played offense for the Chargers for all of the 1960s, and was on the AFL All-Star team nine of its years. He also had a law degree and was one of the first players to use weights to work out! He was both so smart and strong they called him "The Intellectual Assassin." He was All-League and All-Pro an amazing __ years in a row!
3. Ed Newman played guard for 12 years with the Miami Dolphins. He was All-Pro for four straight years in the early ’80s and played in four Pro Bowls and three Super Bowls. Ed was a football star in college, too, where he was also a champion wrestler. After football, he wrestled with legal decisions as a:
4. Harry Newman (no relation to Ed!) was a quarterback and kicker in the 1930s. In his rookie year with the Giants, he led the entire league in completions, yards, and touchdown passes, plus he completed a 78-yard pass! They went to the championships, where Harry threw the first touchdown pass in NFL championship history! He was All-American, All-Pro, and the highest-paid player in the game. Before the pros, though, he was one the very first ever to make it into the College Football:
5. Alan Veingrad played offense for the Packers for five seasons, then switched to the Cowboys. In his third year with the new team, they won the Super Bowl! But after he retired from football, he became Orthodox and joined the Chabad movement. Someone who does this is called "one who returns," or, in Hebrew, a "ba'al ______":
6. In 2001, Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler his team to a record of 11-5, the AFC East title, and a division championship! He is one of the top 3 QBs Miami has ever had, ending of his four season seasons with them with 10 or more wins. Jay is so open and proud of his Jewish heritage that his nickname is: Fiedler _____:
7. Receiver John Frank helped his 49ers get to two Super Bowls in the 1980s, and they won both! In the second one, he made two catches. In his 66-game career, he made 65 receptions, including 10 for touchdowns. After football, John surprisingly co-founded the Olympic team in bobsled, a winter sport, for the not-very-snowy country of:
8. Linebacker Bob Stein, who played for many teams, got just shy of the Super Bowl three times: when the Chiefs he won the AFL West, when the Rams won the NFC West, and when the Vikings won the NFC Central. Bob even played in the AFL’s last championship game against the before it merged with the NFL, and they won! "AFL," by the way, stands for "______ Football League":
9. Benny Lom didn’t play pro football, but he was one of the best college players ever. He played for a California team called the Golden Bears, receiving the Player of the Game Award at the 1929 Rose Bowl. Strangely, he was honored for tackling someone on his own team— who was mistakenly running into:
10. Shawn Lipman plays an international sport often compared to football. He is the only Jewish player ever to be in its World Cup! He has represented the US in more than 20 games, some against the toughest teams in the world, and earned an MVP Award an amazing eight times! In his sport, anyone can throw, kick, or run with the ball. It’s called:

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