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Patriots, Rams feature several links to Ohio

Super Bowl week is often a time when football fans reflect on obscure trivia centered around the big game.

This time around around presents us with two teams who have distinct connections to Ohio. We probably mostly remember New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick from his days as the Cleveland Browns head coach roaming the sidelines at the old Cleveland Stadium.

In the same breath, history may have forgotten the Cleveland Rams winning the 1945 NFL championship at the same place.

In any sense, here’s 15 Super Bowl trivia questions that dig deep into the past and even deeper into local football lore. Perhaps you’ll learn a trick or two.

QUESTIONS

1. How many NFL teams with Ohio origins have won NFL championships (this includes the pre-Super Bowl era)?

2. Who is the only player to have kicked in the NCAA Div. I-AA/FCS championship game and the Super Bowl as part of winning teams?

3. What is the oldest Super Bowl venue still in use?

4. The New England Patriots tried to match the 1985 Chicago Bears anthem “Super Bowl Shuffle” with one of their own before Super Bowl XX. What was this song called?

5. In 1944, Cleveland Rams head coach Aldo Donelli became the first and only person to have coached an NFL game and play in this prestigious global tournament.

6. A year before being picked by the Cleveland Rams in the 1944 NFL Draft, future Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Waterfield married which Hollywood starlet?

7. East Liverpool High School graduate and Canadian Football Hall of Fame member Less Browne won his last Grey Cup in 1994 with the BC Lions. What former New England Patriot quarterback had a brother on that team?

8. New England Patriot head coach Bill Belichick’s father Steve is a member of this Mahoning County high school’s athletic hall of fame.

9. What Columbiana County high school played a road game at a former home of the Cleveland Rams in 2017?

10. The Cleveland Rams defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 35-6 on Aug. 21, 1942 in an exhibition game played at Patterson Field in East Liverpool. Which team was considered the home team?

11. Following its 1945 NFL championship season, the Cleveland Rams were the first major American franchise to do these two things.

12. Former Salem High School and Ohio State University coach Earle Bruce and Super Bowl XXXIV MVP Kurt Warner had this school in common in their career paths.

13. Which current Los Angeles Rams player had a front row seat for Youngstown State’s famous 31-17 upset win over the University of Pittsburgh on Sept. 1, 2012 at Heinz Field?

14. What is the only Big Ten Conference marching band to have performed during a Super Bowl halftime show?

15. New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels was a wide receiver at the University of John Carroll from 1995-98. What future Super Bowl champion was his teammate?

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