Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013

POSTED: Monday, February 4, 2013, 5:25 AM

Delaware's Joe Flacco becomes the 10th Super Bowl Most Valuable Player to come out of a non-BCS college:

 SUPER BOWL MVPs from NON-BCS SCHOOLS
 Year(s)  MVP  Pos.    Team  College
 1972  Roger Staubach    QB  Cowboys  Navy
 1978  Harvey Martin  DE  Cowboys  Texas A&M-Commerce  
 1979-80    Terry Bradshaw  QB  Steelers  Louisiana Tech
 1986  Richard Dent  DE  Bears  Tennessee St.
 1987  Phil Simms  QB  Giants  Morehead St.
 1988  Doug Williams  QB  Redskins    Grambling St.
 1989  Jerry Rice  WR  49ers  Mississippi Valley St.
 1995  Steve Young  QB  49ers  Brigham Young
 2000  Kurt Warner  QB  Rams  Northern Iowa
 2013  Joe Flacco  QB  Ravens  Delaware
POSTED: Monday, February 4, 2013, 3:47 AM

Are you ready for just one more Andy Reid/Eagles stat ... Well, we'll give it to you anyway ...

In five of his 14 seasons as head coach here, his team managed to beat the team that would go on to win the Super Bowl five times.

The Eagles as a franchise have done that 13 times, all in the last 34 seasons.

 EAGLES WINS vs. EVENTUAL SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS
 Season   Wk.   Opponent  Score  Super Bowl Result
 1979    5  Steelers  17-14   Steelers 31, Rams 19
 1980  12  Raiders  10-  7  Raiders 27, Eagles 10
 1987    8  Redskins  31-27  Redskins 42, Broncos 10
 1990  12  Giants  31-13  Giants 20, Bills 19
 1991  17  Redskins  24-22  Redskins 37, Bills 24
 1992    5  Cowboys  31-  7  Cowboys 52, Bills 17
 1994    5  at 49ers  40-  8  49ers 49, Chargers 26
 1995  15  Cowboys  20-17  Cowboys 27, Steelers 17
 1999  17  Rams  38-31  Rams 23, Titans 16
 2002    7  Buccaneers   20-10  Bucs 48, Raiders 21
 2008    3  Steelers  15-  6  Steelers 27, Cardinals 23 
 2011  11  at Giants  17-10  Giants 21, Patriots 17
 2012    2  Ravens  24-23  Ravens 34, 49ers 31
POSTED: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 5:20 AM

The object of the game is to get the ball into the endzone, and no one has done it in the Big Game moreso than these six players:

 PLAYERS WITH MOST CAREER SUPER BOWL TDs
 TD   Player  Pos.   Team(s)  GP   Run   Rec. 
  8  Jerry Rice   WR  49ers-Raiders    4    0    8
  5  Emmitt Smith   RB  Cowboys   3    5    0
  4  Franco Harris   RB  Steelers   4    4    0
  4  Roger Craig   RB  49ers   3    2    2
  4  Thurman Thomas     RB  Bills   4    4    0
  4  John Elway   QB  Broncos   5    4    0
POSTED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 5:25 AM

Sure, the Eagles' two appearances in the Super Bowl can best be described as forgettable (XV) and frustrating (XXXIX), but they did manage to ring up 31 points in those games. Here are their scorers:

 Player  Pts.  SB  How
 Keith Krepfle    6  XV  8-yard pass from Ron Jaworski
 L.J. Smith    6  XXXIX   6-yard pass from Donovan McNabb
 Brian Westbrook     6  XXXIX  10-yard pass from Donovan McNabb
 Greg Lewis    6  XXXIX  30-yard pass from Donovan McNabb  
 Tony Franklin    4  XV  30-yard field goal + PAT
 David Akers    3  XXXIX  Three PATs
POSTED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 12:15 AM

Here's a look at the contestents, and the odds, for SportsRadio WIP's Wing Bowl 21:

Click here for a full version of the Wing Bowl 21 Contestants list.

POSTED: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 5:15 AM

In more than half (25) of the 46 previous Super Bowls, a quarterback was named the Most Valuable Player. Throw in seven running backs and six wide receivers and a kick returner (Desmond Howard, Packers, SB 31), and that leaves seven times that a defensive player (or players) was named the SB MVP:

 SB
 No. 

 Player(s)

 Team

 Pos. 

 Statistics
   5  Chuck Howley  Cowboys  LB  3 tackles, 1 assist, 2 interceptions
   7  Jake Scott  Dolphins  S  2 tackles, 2 interceptions
 12
 Randy White
 Harvey Martin
 Cowboys
 Cowboys
 DT
 DE
 5 tackles, 1 sack
 2 sacks, 1 pass defensed
 20  Richard Dent  Bears  DE  2 tackles, 1 assist, 1.5 sack, 1 PD
 30  Larry Brown  Cowboys  CB  5 tackles, 2 assists, 2 interceptions
 35  Ray Lewis  Ravens  LB  3 tackles, 2 assists, 4 passes defensed
 37  Dexter Jackson   Buccaneers   S  1 tackle, 2 interceptions
POSTED: Monday, January 28, 2013, 5:30 AM

Either the Ravens' Joe Flacco or the 49ers' Colin Kaepernick will become the 30th different starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl. But the victor will have to wait at least another 12 months to join the exclusive list of QBs to start and win multiple Super Bowls (11).

Here is the complete roll call of Super Bowl-winning starting quarterbacks: 

 QBs WITH MULTIPLE SB WINS AS STARTER
 Starting
 Quarterback
 SB
 Wins 
 Super Bowls 
 Won
 Terry Bradshaw    4  9-10-13-14
 Joe Montana    4  16-19-23-24
 Troy Aikman    3  27-28-30
 Tom Brady    3  36-38-39
 Bart Starr    2  1-2
 Bob Griese    2  7-8
 Roger Staubach    2  6-12
 Jim Plunkett    2  15-18
 John Elway    2  32-33
 Ben Roethlisberger     2  40-43
 Eli Manning    2  42-46

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 QBs WITH ONE SB WIN AS STARTER
 Quarterback  SB            Quarterback  SB 
 Joe Namath    3  Mark Rypien  26
 Len Dawson    4  Steve Young  29
 Johnny Unitas    5  Brett Favre  31
 Ken Stabler  11  Kurt Warner  34
 Joe Theismann    17  Trent Dilfer  35
 Jim McMahon  20  Brad Johnson  37
 Phil Simms  21  Peyton Manning    41
 Doug Williams  22  Drew Brees  44
 Jeff Hostetler   25  Aaron Rodgers  45
POSTED: Monday, January 28, 2013, 12:02 AM

Daily News Flyers beat writer Frank Seravalli points out that the Flyers have ranked as one of the two most-penalized NHL teams in four of the last five seasons ... and they are right back in that area this year.

Here is where they have stood in every season since the 2004-05 lockout:

 
 Season
 Minor
 Pens.  
 Pens./  
 Game
 NHL
 Rank  
 
 Head Coach(es)
 2012-13       39   6.5  30th  Laviolette
 2011-12   382   4.7  30th  Laviolette
 2010-11   347   4.2  22nd  Laviolette
 2009-10   402   4.9  30th  Stevens/Laviolette  
 2008-09   446   5.4  30th  Stevens
 2007-08   461   5.6  29th  Stevens
 2006-07   465   5.7  19th  Hitchcock/Stevens
 2005-06   496   6.0    8th  Hitchcock
POSTED: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 12:00 AM

(We post a baseball trivia question every Saturday, just for fun. On Sunday, we publish the answer with charts and commentary. Pass along your questions, thoughts and ideas to boopstats@phillynews.com.)

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION

Who was the last pitcher to throw 300 or more innings in a season?

POSTED: Saturday, January 26, 2013, 4:36 AM

(We post a baseball trivia question every Saturday, just for fun. On Sunday, we publish the answer with charts and commentary. Pass along your questions, thoughts and ideas to boopstats@phillynews.com.)

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION

Who was the last pitcher to throw 300 or more innings in a season?

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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

His favorite books growing up were the NBA Guide and the Baseball Encyclopedia, which was, for all intents and purposes, the Internet before there was an Internet.

He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook. Email him at boopstats@phillynews.com.


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