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38 Questions: A Football Perspective Contest

Below you will find 38 pairs of numbers. In each case, you tell me which number will be bigger. One point for each correct answer. Most points wins.

Ties — and I expect there to be a nontrivial number of them — go to the side that had fewer votes. For example, here is a pair:

Number of wins by the Lions
Number of wins by the Ravens

Let’s say 41 people take the Lions and 54 take the Ravens. If the Lions and Ravens end up with the same number of wins, then each Lions-backer will get a point and each Ravens-backer will not.

GRAND PRIZE: the main prizes will be (1) honor and (2) glory. There will also be some sort of trinket to be named later. By the time this thing is over, more than five months will have passed, so that gives me some time to scrape something together. But you probably shouldn’t enter unless honor and glory are sufficient.

MORE RULES:

1. Everyone is limited to one entry per person. This will be enforced by the honor system. If caught breaking this rule, you, your children, and your children’s children will be banned from all future FP contests.

2. I won’t enter the contest myself, which will allow me to arbitrate any dispute impartially. Any ambiguities in the rules will be clarified by me in whatever way causes me the least amount of hassle.

3. While there are quite a few items that refer in some way to the NFL postseason, unless specifically stated, all the items below refer to regular season totals only. For example, here’s a pair:

Margin of the Titans biggest win.
Number of Passing TDs thrown by Marcus Mariota.

This one will be decided based on the Titans regular season and Mariota’s regular season numbers. I’d hate for there to be confusion when Tennessee wins a playoff game by 28.

4. If you try to get cute and complain that the Titans one-point win over the Colts was actually their “biggest win” even though it wasn’t their win with the biggest point margin, see rule #2. Ignoring your comment is generally my hassle-minimization strategy of choice.

5. You may enter until 1:00 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, September 13th, 2015. However, you can earn a bonus of two (2) points if you enter before kickoff of Thursday’s game.

6. In the event that the contest ends in a tie, the winner will be the person whose entry was submitted first.

HOW TO ENTER: Cut-and-paste the list of questions below into your editor of choice, delete the choices you don’t like (thereby leaving the ones you do like), and then cut-and-paste your 38 answers into the comments of this thread. Do not worry about whether the players are linked to their PFR page or not. Please do not edit the text in any way other than deleting half of it. If you want to leave non-entry comments, you are free to do so either at the very end of your entry or in a subsequent comment, but please do not put commentary in the body of your entry.

The 38 questions:

Number of wins by the Cardinals
Number of wins by the Falcons

Number of wins by the Dolphins
Number of wins by the Cowboys

Number of wins by the Lions
Number of wins by the Ravens

Number of wins by the 49ers
Number of wins by the Bucs

Number of wins by the Jets
Number of wins by the Giants

Number of wins by Washington and Oakland combined
Number of wins by the team with the second-most wins

Number of wins by the Bears, minus one
Number of wins by the last place team in the AFC East

Number of home wins by the Rams
Number of road wins by the Seahawks

Number of wins by the Packers
Number of interceptions thrown by Aaron Rodgers

Number of games started by QBs drafted in the 2015 draft, minus three
Total number of TD passes thrown by the Giants.

Number of receiving TDs by the player with the MOST in this group: Dez Bryant, Odell Beckham, Julio Jones, and A.J. Green
Number of COMBINED receiving TDs by Pierre Garcon, Eddie Royal, Jarvis Landry, and Percy Harvin

Number of distinct players to have a 100-(or more)-yard rushing game
Yardage of the longest passing TD thrown by Derek Carr.

Number of rushing yards by Jeremy Hill
Number of combined passing yards by all Bills players EXCEPT FOR Tyrod Taylor.

Number of combined kick and punt return TDs by Devin Hester
Number of combined kick and punt return TDs by Darren Sproles

Number of receiving TDs by C.J. Spiller and Danny Woodhead, combined
Number of rushing TDs by Cam Newton

Number of Blake Bortles rushing yards times three
Number of receiving yards by the Jaguars leader in receiving yards

Number of interceptions thrown by Jameis Winston, minus two
Number of interceptions thrown by Jay Cutler

Margin of the Titans biggest win.
Number of Passing TDs thrown by Marcus Mariota.

Maximum number of points scored in a game by the Ravens
Number of Passing TDs thrown by the league’s leader in passing TDs

Number of rushing yards by Adrian Peterson and DeMarco Murray, combined
Number of rushing yards by Chris Ivory, Todd Gurley, and Frank Gore, combined

Number of receptions by the player with the MOST receptions from this group: Rob Gronkowski, Greg Olsen, and Martellus Bennett
Highest single-game receiving yardage by a player from this group: Tavon Austin, Ladarius Green, and Shane Vereen

Maximum number of passing TDs by a player from this group: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Geno Smith, Josh McCown, Johnny Manziel, Brian Hoyer, and Ryan Mallett
Minimum number of passing TDs by a player from this group: Tony Romo, Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, Ben Roethlisberger, Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan

Number of players in the NFL’s top 10 in rushing yards who were born in the 1990s
Number of players who throw 35 or more TD passes

Number of games started by Sam Bradford
Number of interceptions thrown by Kirk Cousins

Number of Blair Walsh missed field goals and missed extra points, combined
Number of Jamaal Charles games with 100 yards from scrimmage

Number of LeSean McCoy rushing yards
Number of Sammy Watkins receiving yards

Number of total TDs scored by Le’Veon Bell
Number of J.J. Watt sacks

Number of games started by RG3
Number of interceptions caught by Darrelle Revis

Number of divisions whose 2015 champ is the same as the 2014 champ, minus 0.5
Number of divisions whose 2015 champ is NOT the same as the 2014 champ

Number of postseason games where the winner scores under 32 points
Number of rushing TDs by the rookie with the most rushing TDs

Number of playoff (non-Super Bowl) games won by the visiting team
Maximum number of TDs thrown by Drew Brees in a single game

AFC Championship Game victories by AFC South and AFC North
AFC Championship Game victories by AFC East and AFC West

NFC Championship Game victories by the Packers and Seahawks
NFC Championship Game victories by the rest of the NFC

Number of points scored in the AFC Championship game, minus 5
Number of points scored in the NFC Championship game

Number of playoff games won by NFC South teams, plus 0.5
Number of playoff games won by the Patriots

Super Bowl Championships won by the Patriots, Colts, Broncos, Cowboys, and Seahawks
Super Bowl Championships won by all other teams

Number of catches by the player with MOST receptions in this group: Eddie Lacy, Giovani Bernard, Ameer Abdullah, C.J. Anderson
Total points scored in the Super Bowl

Number of interceptions thrown in the Super Bowl
Number of double-digit losses suffered by the Eagles during the regular season.

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