The Swamp

I'll be gone most of the day, so getting these out early again this week. I also have Friday off so no guarantees about the reveal - it might even be next Monday - but the deadline remains the same. Emails will go out later today.

SEASON-LONG REMINDERS

-Each week consists of 10 questions (5 sports, 5 not). The Swamper Bowl will have 20 questions.
-I'll post questions here and email them to the group. Make sure you DO NOT REPLY ALL if answering by email
-No Googling, No Doubt
-Answer every week, even when your NFL team has a bye

SCORING

-Correct answers get a score equal to the number of people who said it
-Wrong answers get the value of the highest-scoring correct answer +5
-If you're the only player with a one-pointer, you are credited with a score of -1
-Low score wins
-Weekly ties will be broken by best score in Q10, Q9, etc.
-Standings, tiebreakers and playoff matchups all determined exactly as they would be in the real NFL

INSTRUCTIONS

-Send answers to ryantfriedman (gmail, and don't forget the middle initial T) or private message here
-Unless you're giving something away by asking, bring up any questions or clarifications in the weekly thread so everyone can see the answer. I will NOT be emailing any important updates to questions that may affect answers, so it's on you to keep up before submitting

SCHEDULE



ANSWERS DUE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10TH @ 12PM ET

WEEK TEN QUESTIONS

1. MISCELLANEOUS
Name ONE cohost of any of the following podcasts that are currently in the top 200 on Spotify (12)

Smartless
The Always Sunny Podcast
2 Bears, 1 Cave
Fly on the Wall
New Heights

2. NBA
Name anyone that was playing in AT LEAST their 10th NBA season that scored more points in the 2022-23 regular season than Kevin Durant's 1366 (12)

3. TELEVISION
From Rolling Stone's 2022 list of the 100 Greatest Television Shows of All-Time, name one of the top 50 that aired at any time during the 1980s (10)
NOTE: Next on the list would be Taxi at 60 and The Golden Girls at 64

4. NFL
Bill Belichick is in the middle of his 29th season as an NFL head coach. Name anyone else with between 20-29 years of NFL head coaching experience (12)
NOTE: There are three coaches that are at 30 or more - don't say them

5. CANCELLED LITERATURE
Name any word of 7 letters or more in the title of an American version of the original 7 Harry Potter books (8)

6. NHL
Name any of the NHL players pictured below, all of whom led the league in penalty minutes at least once (9)



7. SCIENCE
Name one of the 6 U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters used by NASA or one of the first 6 different kinds of animal sent to space by any country (12)

8. MLB
Name a member of the 500-HR club with fewer career stolen bases than Jimmie Foxx's 87 (11)

9. GEOGRAPHY
Less than 20% of the countries of the world have a capital that is NOT also the largest city. Name a city that is one or the other for any of the countries listed below (12)

Vietnam
Tanzania
Syria
Ecuador
China
Nigeria

10. GOLF
Name anyone whose first AND/OR last name starts with T or W that is in the Top 50 all-time money winners on the PGA TOUR or in the Top 50 for most wins on the PGA Tour (14)

God, that hockey question.

Alright, not a lot of chatter out there. Still need:

AB
Bengal
BFJ
Bronto
BSF
Carwash
Chedda
DiS
Duff
Enoch
Giff
Citgo
LJam
Mister D
PDX
Rass
Rex
Rush
Sancarlos
Shirley
Syb
Tony

Also, on the golf question, it looks like the money leader list on the official PGA Tour website is extremely petty at the cost of being totally inaccurate! So there are, I think, 2 new answers but I'll still take the 2 that they would bump off. TL:DR - instead of Top 50, now just pretend it's Top 62. The wins list remains the same.

Guess sent.

Huge lol to the NHL question this week.

Yeah, I kinda just played the odds there.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:49 am Yeah, I kinda just played the odds there.

To play the odds, you have to know some names. I had almost nothing. There was one guy I recall getting a fuckton of penalties who played for one of those teams so I said him. That's all I had.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:53 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:49 am Yeah, I kinda just played the odds there.

To play the odds, you have to know some names. I had almost nothing. There was one guy I recall getting a fuckton of penalties who played for one of those teams so I said him. That's all I had.

Exactly. I can think of exactly one name. No idea if he's in the pics or what teams he played for. I can only remember one other goon with a nasty reputation back in the day, but for the life of me, I can't remember his name.

Don't worry, those of us who follow hockey will all pick the same guy.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:08 am Don't worry, those of us who follow hockey will all pick the same guy.

So do folks who follow hockey know those guys? Is top penalty minutes something people pay much attention to?

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:35 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:08 am Don't worry, those of us who follow hockey will all pick the same guy.

So do folks who follow hockey know those guys? Is top penalty minutes something people pay much attention to?

Kinda depends on when you watched. I started watching hockey in 1992 when the Bolts were born, and definitely had ebbs and flows in the attention I gave the sport over the last 30 years. Pretty sure I know 4 of them for sure and have good guesses on three others.

My GMail suggested replies for AB's answers are Very Funny!, That's Funny!, and Good One!

Sent!

Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:53 am My GMail suggested replies for AB's answers are Very Funny!, That's Funny!, and Good One!

I'm so clever that gmail suggests that to everyone I send an email to.

Shirley wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:35 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:08 am Don't worry, those of us who follow hockey will all pick the same guy.

So do folks who follow hockey know those guys? Is top penalty minutes something people pay much attention to?

At least in the 80s and 90s, the enforcers or goons were well known and had their own celebrity cache. Not sure if fighting has the same role in the game as it used to, but in that era, everyone who followed the game knew the names and faces of the goons. Announcers would talk about them pretty frequently during games. There was usually a Tale of the Tape before a game with two big name goons in anticipation of an eventual fight.

The one hockey goon who I would have recognized by appearance wasn't on the list. I think others may have been in the same boat.

playing NHL video games in the 1990s saved my butt on that one (I think, I still wasn't totally sure)

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:08 am Don't worry, those of us who follow hockey will all pick the same guy.

I think I recognize six or seven of them. But as chedda said, I’ll probably overthink it and score seven.

Sent (and I want negative points for creativity on the hockey question).

Only player I could come up w/

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:04 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:08 am Don't worry, those of us who follow hockey will all pick the same guy.

I think I recognize six or seven of them. But as chedda said, I’ll probably overthink it and score seven.

I know my old-time goons. Very confident about that one.

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 7:51 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:04 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:08 am Don't worry, those of us who follow hockey will all pick the same guy.

I think I recognize six or seven of them. But as chedda said, I’ll probably overthink it and score seven.

I know my old-time goons. Very confident about that one.

Sent and I watched the Habs a lot when the CBC was one of 3 channels we got, so I feel pretty good about it as well.

Sent. Had this mostly done yesterday and should have finished it. No time today.

STILL NEED:

Carwash
Rex
Shirley

And we WILL do the reveal today at about 1 PM ET

Thank gawd I'm so bored.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:27 am STILL NEED:

Carwash
Rex
Shirley

And we WILL do the reveal today at about 1 PM ET

Found two of them. Shirley is still missing, I think.

There's a 20-point difference between the best and worst score on the last question right now, so nobody leave early.

Game of the Week

We gotta go with the only game between 2 winning teams, as the Giff Broncos (6-2) face the Nonlinear Bills (5-4)

Football Video Game of the Week

Walter Payton Football on the Sega Master System



Halftime Report of the Week

Q1 - Name a cohost of any of the following podcasts that are currently in the top 200 on Spotify (12)

CORRECT
Dana Carvey (1) - BFJ
Rob McIlhenney (1) - Citgo
Will Arnett (1) - Pruitt
Travis Kelce (1) - Bronto
Jason Kelce (1) - Rush
David Spade (2) - Carwash, Enoch
Bert Kreischer (2) - DSafe, Giff
Charlie Day (2) - AB, Romero
Glenn Howerton (4) - Bengal, Brian, LJam, Sancarlos
Sean Hayes (4) - Chedda, Jerloma, Nonlinear, Trav
Tom Segura (5) - BSF, DiS, Duff, FPJ, Syb
Jason Bateman (5) - Cerrano, GoodKarma, PDX, Rex, Tony

INCORRECT (10)
Yet another accurate description of a guy - Mister D
Kaitlyn Olson - Rass

LEFTOVERS
none

Q2 - Name anyone that was playing in AT LEAST their 10th NBA season that scored more points in the 2022-23 regular season than Kevin Durant's 1366 (12)

CORRECT
Klay Thompson (2) - Enoch, Jerloma
Kyrie Irving (2) - Nonlinear, Rush
LeBron James (3) - BFJ, BSF, Cerrano
Jimmy Butler (4) - AB, GPJ, Citgo, LJam
DeMar DeRozan (4) - Carwash, Mister D, Pruitt, Trav
Damian Lillard (5) - Bengal, Duff, GoodKarma, PDX, Rass
Steph Curry (7) - Brian, Chedda, DiS, Romero, Sancarlos, Syb

INCORRECT (12)
James Harden - Giff, Tony
Khris Middleton - DSafe
Harrison Barnes - Rex

LEFTOVERS
Giannis!
Anthony Davis!
CJ McCollum
Nikola Vucevic

I took the day off of work for this (and some veterans). LFG

BFJ on an offensive tear in first quarter.

As god is my witness, I had no idea that Giannis has been around that many years.

If anyone had said Vucevic an investigation would have been warranted.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 1:15 pm As god is my witness, I had no idea that Giannis has been around that many years.

I counted the years out on Anthony davis and still couldn't convince myself between that and injuries.

Q3 - From Rolling Stone's 2022 list of the 100 Greatest Television Shows of All-Time, name any of the top 50 that aired at any time during the 1980s (10)

CORRECT
Sesame Street (MINUS 1) - Enoch
Saturday Night Live (2) - AB, Syb
Cheers (4) - DiS, Duff, Rass, Trav
Seinfeld (5) - Carwash, Chedda, Giff, PDX, Romero
M*A*S*H (7) - Bengal, BFJ, Bronto, BSF, Cerrano, Sancarlos, Tony
Hill Street Blues (7) - DSafe, Jerloma, LJam, Nonlinear, Pruitt, Rex, Rush

INCORRECT (12)
The Cosby Show - GoodKarma, Citgo, Mister D
St Elsewhere - Brian
Full House - GPJ

LEFTOVERS
The Simpsons
Late Night with David Letterman
Columbo
Jeopardy!

Where's Shirley?

Glad I made it to the variety sketch shows, but never thought of sesame street or the game shows. That was a neat question.

Q4 - Bill Belichick is in the middle of his 29th season as an NFL head coach. Name anyone else with between 20-29 years of NFL head coaching experience (12)

CORRECT
Mike Shanahan (1) - Cerrano
Weeb Ewbank (1) - GoodKarma
Jeff Fisher (1) - Rush
Marty Schottenheimer (2) - Bengal, Brian
Dan Reeves (2) - Duff, Rex
Tom Landry (5) - AB,Giff, LJam, Nonlinear, Sancarlos
Chuck Noll (5) - Carwash, Enoch, Jerloma, Rass, Syb
Andy Reid (9) - BFJ, Bronto, BSF, DSafe, Mister D, PDX, Pruitt, Romero, Tony

INCORRECT (14)
Joe Gibbs (16 yrs) - Chedda
Mike Holmgren (17) - DiS
Don Shula (33) - Citgo
Curly Lambeau (33) - GPJ
Pete Carroll (18) - Trav

LEFTOVERS
Paul Brown
Chuck Knox
Tom Coughlin