Obscure sports trivia

No, but in that game.

 

The last touchdown in AFL history was scored by Buffalo tight end Willie Grate on a 19-yard pass from Tom Sherman. It was the final score in San Diego's 45-6 victory.

Grate was a rookie from South Carolina State and it was his only catch of the season. He played one more year in pro football and died in 1980. It was the only game Sherman, a former Boston Patriot from Penn State, ever played with the Bills, and it was his final NFL game.

 

I ask this question because he's in the news for offering to sell four of his six NBA championship rings: In his 20-year career, how many years was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar an All-Star?

 

Probably a lot less than we’d think, since he didn’t work hard enough on defense and lots of times he didn’t even run down the court. And he didn’t really try — except during the playoffs.

 

Incorrect. 20 year career and almost all-starred it all. Almost

 

Glad he got recognition for dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

 

19 out of 20 seasons

 

See? That kid was right.

 

Name the three-time World Series champion who twice finished runner-up in the MVP balloting in the 1970s, but who received 0 votes in his lone year on the HOF ballot in 1988.

 

Gene Tenace?

 

No, sir.

 

Sal Bando?