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    Big Book of WHO Football
    Big Book of WHO Football
    Big Book of WHO Football
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    Big Book of WHO Football

    By The Editors of Sports Illustrated Kids

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    Big Book of WHO is a book your young sports fans will return to again and again! Football is a game of stars. From gridiron greats such as Joe Montana and Jim Brown to Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, this newly revised and updated edition of The Big Book of Who: Football is a collection of the 101 football stars every fan needs to know, past and present. Featuring the latest NFL photography and the most current information about football's best players, this Sports Illustrated Kids reference book for young sports fans is written in a fun and easy-to-navigate question and answer format. Player profiles, facts, and stats are organized into five comprehensive categories: Champions, Personalities, Record Breakers, Super Scorers and Yardage Kings.Completely redesigned to match the modern look of Sports Illustrated Kids, this fun collection of questions and answers will have kids stumping their friends and adult sports fans with their expert knowledge of football's brightest stars.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSports Illustrated
    Release dateDec 6, 2022
    ISBN9781637274248
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      Big Book of WHO Football - The Editors of Sports Illustrated Kids

      CHAMPIONS

      The players who achieved football’s ultimate prize, many of them more than once

      FAST FACT: Drew Brees was selected by voters to appear on the cover of EA Sports’ Madden NFL 11 video game.

      SUPER STAT

      13

      THE NFL RECORD NUMBER OF TIMES BREES PASSED FOR 300 OR MORE YARDS IN A GAME DURING THE 2011 SEASON

      Who was the MVP in the Saints’ only Super Bowl appearance?

      On February 7, 2010, DREW BREES led the New Orleans Saints to a 31–17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV. He completed 32 of 39 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns, and was named the game’s most valuable player.

      The Saints’ Super Bowl was very special to New Orleans fans who had endured many losing seasons—the Saints failed to have a winning record in any of the first 20 years they existed! When Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, it seemed New Orleans would never have an NFL champion. That’s because the team’s home stadium, the Louisiana Superdome, suffered so much damage in the storm that many people thought the Saints would have to permanently move to another city.

      The Superdome was repaired before the 2006 season, just in time for Brees’s first game as a Saint. Three seasons later, the city of New Orleans finally had a Super Bowl champion! When Brees retired after the 2020 season, he was second all-time in touchdown passes (571) and passing yards (80,358).

      DID YOU KNOW?

      The Saints joined the NFL in 1967, but they won only one playoff game in 39 seasons before Drew Brees became the team’s quarterback. New Orleans played in the first Super Bowl in the history of the franchise in 2010. That left only these four NFL teams to have never played in a Super Bowl:

      Cleveland Browns

      Detroit Lions

      Houston Texans

      Jacksonville Jaguars

      Who was the first player to be named Super Bowl MVP?

      Green Bay Packers quarterback BART STARR is the original Super Bowl hero. He won MVP honors in each of the first two Super Bowls. The Packers won both games easily, but the road to the second title wasn’t so simple. In the 1967 NFL Championship Game, Starr led Green Bay to a last-minute, come-from-behind, 21–17 win over the Dallas Cowboys. The Ice Bowl was one of the coldest games ever played (minus-45 wind chill temperatures). The weather was so brutal that one official’s whistle froze to his lip!

      FAST FACT: Eli Manning set several school records in college at Ole Miss, including overtaking his dad, Archie, in career touchdown passes. Eli threw for 81 scores, 50 more than his father.

      Who is the only Giants player to win two Super Bowl MVP Awards?

      The MVP of Super Bowls XLII and XLVI was ELI MANNING . Both games were come-from-behind wins over the New England Patriots. And both featured remarkable completions to keep game-winning drives alive.

      Trailing by four points on his final possession of Super Bowl XLII, in February 2008, Manning escaped the clutches of two Patriots, and launched a pass downfield. Seldom-used receiver DAVID TYREE made a remarkable jumping catch, pinning the ball to his helmet with one hand while falling to the ground. Four years later, Manning completed a deep ball along the sidelines to Mario Manningham, who caught it in between two defenders and deftly touched his feet inbounds. Both plays helped lead to Giants wins.

      SUPER STAT

      423

      NUMBER OF YARDS RODGERS THREW FOR ON JANUARY 10, 2010, THE MOST BY ANY QB IN HIS FIRST PLAYOFF START

      Who was the MVP the last time the Packers won the Super Bowl?

      After waiting for three seasons behind superstar QB Brett Favre, AARON RODGERS finally got his chance to be the Packers’ starting quarterback in 2008. Though the Pack finished 6–10 that season, Rodgers soon turned the team around. He guided Green Bay to an 11–5 record in 2009. The following season, the Packers made it all the way to Super Bowl XLV to face the Pittsburgh Steelers.

      Rodgers led the team to a 31–25 victory, the Packers’ NFL-best 13th NFL championship. The QB was named the game’s MVP after completing 24 of 39 passes for 304 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. Both Rodgers and Packers fans certainly agreed that his late arrival as the team’s starting quarterback was worth the wait. He has added many more awards since, including NFL MVP titles in 2011, 2014, 2020, and 2021.

      FAST FACT: Otto Graham spent a season in the National Basketball League (now the NBA) before signing with the Cleveland Browns. His Rochester Royals won the NBL championship in 1946.

      SUPER STAT

      5

      NUMBER OF TIMES GRAHAM LED HIS LEAGUE IN PASSING YARDS, THREE TIMES IN THE AAFC, AND TWICE IN THE NFL

      Who has the best winning percentage in NFL history as a quarterback?

      In his 10-year pro football career, OTTO GRAHAM led the Cleveland Browns to a 114–20–4 record and played in his league’s title game every season! Cleveland won all four All-America Football Conference (AAFC) championships before the league merged with the NFL in 1950. Many expected the Browns to struggle once they moved to the NFL, but they won the title that season and twice more before Graham retired. Cleveland went 57–13–1 over the six seasons Graham quarterbacked them in the NFL. His winning percentage of 81.4 is a league record.

      The Browns lost three close title games in the only years that Graham failed to lead the team to its league’s championship. He won three NFL MVP awards in addition to an AAFC MVP and an AAFC co-MVP. Graham’s career average of 8.98 yards per pass attempt remains the highest mark in NFL history.

      DID YOU KNOW?

      The Browns were named in 1946 after their first head coach, Paul Brown, who at the time was considered a young football genius. Brown had led nearby Ohio State University to a college football national title in 1942. Known as The Father of Modern Football, the Hall of Fame coach set lasting trends in the sport with a number of innovations. Among them were using playbooks, introducing the concept of film study, and coming up with the idea to put a radio receiver in the quarterback’s helmet so that coaches could talk to the player when he was on the field.

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