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The NFL season kicks off tonight in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as the Washington Redskins visit the New York Giants. To make sure you’re sufficiently prepared for some football, let’s see how many of the 32 opening weekend starting QBs you can name in 5 minutes. If you haven’t been following last minute injuries and watching the waiver wire, some of these starters may surprise you.
Take the Quiz: Name the 32 Starting QBs
Not a football fan? Give our Quarter Backs Quiz (state quarters) a try.
The question is.. Does 100% make me a winner, or a loser?
posted by Rabbit on 9-4-2008 at 10:47 am
Got em all in 2:43 – Redskins QB stumped me the most
posted by Dan on 9-4-2008 at 11:02 am
I’ve got some money on the Bills to win the AFC. My crazy longshot bet of the year hasn’t paid off since the Ravens won the Super Bowl, but you never know.
posted by Buffalo William on 9-4-2008 at 12:11 pm
I put $50 on the Jets to win the Super Bowl after they picked up Favre. I would also put $50 on “the Jets go 7-9 and this whole Favre thing is a disaster.” Where can I get odds on that kind of thing?
posted by greg j. on 9-4-2008 at 12:21 pm
I will place a $100 bet that Jets fans will boo their first round pick next year. Or are those even odds?
TMQ predicted my Falcons to go 8-8, which made me shake with excitement. 8-8? Really? Dare to dream.
I predict Chad Pennington will have a Second Coming with the Dolphins. Or maybe I just have a thing for guys sent to the Miami Halfway House for Troubled Atheletes (former drop outs: Daunte Culpepper, Joey Harrington)
posted by Allison Keene on 9-4-2008 at 12:48 pm
I got all of them except for one – although I’ve never even heard of Trent Edwards. I entered a couple different spellings of ‘Losman’ before I gave up.
reCAPTCHA – his flank. Whoa there.
posted by Zach on 9-4-2008 at 3:52 pm
intrade.com will take bets on anything
posted by erin on 9-4-2008 at 4:01 pm
I only got a few correct, which made me happy because i’ve been cutting back on sports over the past few years. once i got stuck i started reading the instructions and saw that you only needed to put in last names, so I wrote ‘Jackson’ on a whim, i’m still not sure who ‘jackson’ is, or what team he plays for, but my answer was accepted and i chuckled.
I got stuck again and started cheating by pulling up a list of teams, which also inadvertantly revealed ‘matt schaub’ to me… but did help me think of one more, unfortunately, it was rothelissburger and the computer was also testing spelling.
by the way, if you want a good laugh, try deciphering the audio version of ‘reCAPTCHA’.
posted by I want to be brett savages bicycle seat on 10-19-2008 at 8:17 pm