Super Bowl Answers

So, the Super Bowl didn't go as I had hoped, but I have to give credit to the Saints, they played an excellent game. At least a former Alabama player, Roman Harper, got himself a Super Bowl championship since he never won a BCS Championship.

Well, without further ado, here are the answers to the questions from yesterday.

1. In 1998, John Elway and the Denver Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.

2. The Cowboys, the 49ers, and the Steelers are the 3 teams who have won at least 5 Super Bowls.

3. In 1969, Joe Namath, guaranteed victory in the Super Bowl and delivered by leading the Jets to an upset victory over the Colts.

4. The Washington Redskins have won the Super Bowl 3 times, in 1983, 1988, and 1992.

5. In 2001, the Baltimore Raven's middle linebacker Ray Lewis was named MVP of Super Bowl XXXV.

6. Backing his team in 1999, Atlanta's mayor put up peanuts and a case of coke in a bet.

7. The Buffalo Bills lost 4 straight Super Bowls.

8. Mike Jones, whose tackle saved the Super Bowl for the St. Louis Rams in 2000, was released in 2001.

9. Super Bowl XXXVIII was in 2004, Super Bowl I was in 1967.

10. The only city to have a Super Bowl champion and Stanley Cup champion in the same year was Pittsburgh in 2009.

The Super Bowl

Since today is the day of the big game, I thought I would post some trivia questions about the Super Bowl. The questions (or answers I should say) come courtesy of Jeopardy and the website J! Archive. I'll list the answers and then tomorrow list the questions, you can see how many you know. Go Colts!

$100 - In 1998 John Elway and this team sent the Green Bay Packers packing to win their first Super Bowl.

$400 - These 3 teams have won at least 5 Super Bowls.

$400 - In 1969 this QB guaranteed victory in the Super Bowl and delivered, beating the Colts 16-7.

$500 - 3 time Super Bowl champs, they won in 1983, 1988, and 1992.

$800 - In January 2001 this team's middle linebacker Ray Lewis was named MVP of Super Bowl XXXV.

$800 - Backing his team in 1999, this city's mayor put up peanuts and a case of coke in a bet.

$800 - This football team from New York state lost 4 straight Super Bowls.

$1600 - Mike Jones, whose tackle saved the Super Bowl for this team in 2000, was released in 2001.

$2000 - Super Bowl XXXVIII was in 2004, this was the year of Super Bowl I.

Final Jeopardy - It's the only city whose teams won the Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup in the same year.

Sweet Potatoes

February is National Sweet Potato month. In honor of that, I thought I would tell some interesting facts about this wonderful vegetable.

• North Carolina is the #1 producer of sweet potatoes in the country, producing almost 700 million pounds of sweet potatoes in 2007.
• Sweet potatoes were grown in Peru as early as 750 BC.
• George Washington Carver is known for his peanut inventions, but he also came up with 118 different products using sweet potatoes.
• During World War I when wheat flour was running low, sweet potato flour was used to stretch supplies of wheat flour in baked goods.
• They are delicious!

What is Right

Today, I did something that was right. It was very obviously the right thing to do, even a child would have known it was the right thing to do. Yet, it was a difficult thing to do. I wanted to ignore it, walk away, and pretend to be ignorant. I knew what the right thing was, it didn't even inconvenience me all that much, but it was still a difficult decision. Why is it that even the simplest decisions become so difficult when it comes to choosing between right and wrong?

It reminds me of the verse: "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." - Romans 7:15

On a side note I wanted to mention my wife's blog: http://kmcbride83.blogspot.com/. In the last few years, Kimberly and I have been wanting to cut back on what we spend on gifts for christmas and also give more to charity as well. Kimberly has a very obvious passion for giving to others as well as doing various crafts...she has recently discovered a way to combine the two passions. Please go check out her blog to read more about it.