Find the NFL Team in Each Sentence Trivia Game | Brain Teasers

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1. Here's the first sentence containing an NFL team hidden within it: "The sheep trampled over the shepherd." Hiding within that sentence is one of the teams of the National Football League. Figure out which team it is, and then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team.

Answer: Aries symbol

You can find the team in the sentence: "The sheep tRAMpled over the shepherd." The Ram, in addition to being the symbol of the zodiac sign Aries, is the mascot of the Los Angeles Rams, one of two NFL teams playing in Los Angeles. They have one of the better designed helmets in the league, with the ram horns spiraling on each side of the helmet.

Originally, when they were founded in 1936, they were the Cleveland Rams, and then relocated to Los Angeles in 1946. Aha, but then they moved to St. Louis in 1995 and became the St. Louis Rams until 2016 when they moved to...yes, back to Los Angeles, winning Super Bowl LVII on February 13, 2022.

2. Where is the team in this sentence? "Intravenous therapy was given to Edgar to treat his alcoholism." Concealed within that sentence is a team in the NFL. Find where that team is, and then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team.

Answer: It's a bird!

You can find the team in the sentence: "IntRAVENous therapy was given...." The Baltimore Ravens of the AFC Conference's North Division are found. They debuted in 1996 after the team owner Art Modell, relocated them from Cleveland, where they were the Cleveland Browns, to Baltimore.

The team was renamed The Ravens, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Raven"-Poe was a famous denizen of the city of Baltimore. They've won several Division Championships, as well two Super Bowls, Super Bowl XXXV in 2000 and Super Bowl XLVII in 2012.

The Cleveland Browns, by the way, re-emerged in 1999 with a new owner, Al Lemer. The Lemer family would sell the team in 2012 to businessman Jimmy Haslam.

3. And the third sentence with a hidden NFL team is: "Auto workers went on strike as executives made gazillions of dollars." Somewhere within that sentence is an NFL team. Work out which team, and then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team.

Answer: Roars

You can find the team in the sentence: "...as executives made gazilLIONs of dollars."
The Portsmouth Spartans in Portsmouth, Ohio were one of the NFL's earliest teams, founded in 1930. They moved to Detroit in 1934, becoming the Detroit Lions. In the Pre-Super Bowl era, they had won four NFL Championships: in 1935, 1952, 1953, and 1957. Ever since 1934, the Lions have always played on Thanksgiving Day. It was by agreement between their team owner back then, George A. Richards, and NBC TV that Lions games would be broadcast on Thanksgiving Day on the network's stations across the country, a tradition that continues to this day.

4. Here is the next sentence: "When grilling meat, if you can get a nice char, germs on the burger will die." Somewhere within that sentence is an NFL team name. Work out where that team is, and then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team.

Answer: Horse with a credit card?

You can find the team in the sentence: "...if you can get a nice CHAR, GERms on the..." The Los Angeles Chargers began life in 1960 as...The Los Angeles Chargers, playing in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. But after playing just one season there, they moved to San Diego, playing in Balboa Stadium as the San Diego Chargers.

Then, in 1967, they moved to San Diego Stadium, renamed Jack Murphy Stadium from 1981 to 1997, whereupon the stadium was renamed Qualcomm. But the Chargers left there in 2017 when team owner Dean Spanos moved the Chargers back to their birthplace in Los Angeles where they played at StubHub Center, later known as Dignity Health Sports Park.

The Los Angeles Chargers then moved to SoFi Stadium in 2020.

5. In the following sentence, can you find the NFL team name? "Okay, so Snoopy is a beagle but what the heck kind of bird is Woodstock?" Somewhere within that sentence is the name of an NFL team. Work out which team it is, and then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team.

Answer: bald

You can find the team in the sentence: "...Snoopy is a bEAGLE but..."
The Philadelphia Eagles never beat Don Shula, Joe Gibbs, George Halas, Bill Parcells, Paul Brown, or Curly Lambeau in a post-season game.
The Philadelphia Eagles are however, the ONLY NFL franchise to have defeated Vince Lombardi and Bill Belichick in a playoff game. In 1960, the Eagles defeated Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers in the NFL championship by a score of 17-13. And a few years ago, the Eagles played that memorable Super Bowl LII against Bill Belichick's New England Patriots, and the Eagles outlasted the Patriots in that thriller 41-33. Here's the funny thing-in both those victories, the Eagles had less total yards of offense then their opponents. They were outgained in yardage 401-296 against those Packers, and they were outgained in yards again to those Patriots 613-538.

6. In this sentence, can you find an NFL team name hiding out? "The detective played it cool, never raising an eyebrow, nor looking askance." Somewhere within that sentence is the name of an NFL team. Scan it and find the team name, and then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team name.

Answer: green + red =

You can find the team in the sentence: "never raising an eyeBROW, Nor looking askance."
The Cleveland Browns have a simple orange helmet with no logo on either side. Actually they played with a simple white helmet on Monday Night Football on September 18, 2023, but there was no logo on that helmet either. The Pittsburgh Steelers have one side of their helmet logoless, but the other side has their signature three stars logo, established in 1962 and known as the "Steelmark."

7. Can you find the name of an NFL team in this sentence? "After Levi Strauss invented blue jeans, the Levi kin gained fame and fortune." Concealed within that sentence is the name of an NFL team. Which clue applies to the team's name?

Answer: Leif Erikson

You can find the team in the sentence: "...the LeVI KIN Gained fame and fortune."
The Minnesota Vikings lost their first four forays into the Super Bowl. They lost Super Bowl IV to the Kansas City Chiefs 23-7 in 1970, Super Bowl VIII to the Miami Dolphins 24-7 in 1974, Super Bowl IX to the Pittsburgh Steelers 16-6 in 1975, and Super Bowl XI to the Oakland Raiders 32-14 in 1977.

8. In this sentence, can you find an NFL team's name? "According to NFL, protocol teams must bench a player for undue horsing around." Your task here is to find where an NFL team name is hiding, and then see which of the clues applies to that team name.

Answer: firearm

You can find the team in the sentence: "According to NFL protoCOL Teams must..."
The Colts are one of the first two teams to win a Super Bowl while playing for two different cities: They won Super Bowl V in 1971 as the Baltimore Colts, beating Dallas 16-13. And then they won as the Indianapolis Colts in 2007 beating the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI, 29-17. The Colts are also the first team to win two Super Bowls in the same host city (Miami). The Las Vegas Raiders by the way are another team that won Super Bowls playing in two different cities...but neither of those cities was Las Vegas. The Raiders won Super Bowls as the Oakland Raiders and also the Los Angeles Raiders. The first team that has won NFL Championships in three different cities is the Rams, having won in Cleveland (1945), St. Louis (2000), and Los Angeles, (1951, and 2021)

9. Here is the next sentence that has an NFL team name within it: "A car ride from Bulgaria's Sofia to Macedonia's Skopje takes over three and a half hours." The name of an NFL team is in that sentence. Find where that team name is, and then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team.

Answer: Lear

You can find the team in the sentence: "...Macedonia's SkopJE Takes over three and a half hours."
The New York Jets appeared in the AFC Championship game on January 23, 2011, and lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers by the score of 24 to 19.

10. Here is another sentence containing an NFL team hidden in it: "Whenever he went camping he would backpack erratically through the wilderness instead of along a trail." The hidden NFL team name in that sentence is what you're looking for. Then see which of the clue answers best applies to that team.

Answer: loader or compressor

You can find the team in the sentence: "...he would backPACK ERratically through the... Founded in 1919, The Green Bay Packers are the first team to win three consecutive NFL titles, and they accomplished it twice: They won the NFL Championship from 1929 to 1931 under Coach Curly Lambeau, and they did it again from 1965 to 1967 under Coach Vincent Lombardi. Truly America's team, The Packers have been the only North American franchise among the four major league sports to be owned by the fans, as opposed to team ownership being in the hands of an individual or corporation.

They have been owned by over half a million fans who are stockholders in the team, in a non-profit structure, all despite the team being from the smallest market in North America.

Source: Author Billkozy

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Find the NFL Team in Each Sentence Quiz

Each sentence has an NFL team name within it, i.e. in "I have a trip at Rio tonight" the hidden team is PATRIOT: " I've a triP AT RIO Tonight," then pick the appropriate answer choice, i.e. "New England" in this case, or "freedom fighter" or "Tom Brady."

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