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Dougsqbclub already has 120 Participants partially paid or paid in full for the 2025 season.
First Time Visitors
Feb. 02-
New Participant INCENTIVE
Tell Doug
if you are interested in
6.
or have
an update for
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below.
1. Club Status:
When the ofp pools are activated in early August
you will get an
email stating that you can activate your username(s) on our
club for 2025. To ensure you get that email you
should verify that your email address on ofp is correct. To
check your email address Log
into ofp and click on "My Account" at the top right of your screen.
2. When Activated:
When you get
that email telling you to Activate your Username(s), accept the invitation
and log
into ofp. And
because of the bookkeeping needed, Doug asks that if you are playing
this season please Activate your Username(s) asap so he
is not overwhelmed the week before the first games. To previous
participants, you can pay entry fees at your convenience but we
do
ask for all fees to be paid by the second Sunday games in September.
A number of participants are already paid. Doug is notified when
a username is activated on OFP after which he will send an email stating how
much you have paid and/or give you entry fee payment
options.
Have a great Summer and again I hope you participate in 2025.
Count on Feb. 11, 2025 = 4,003
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Fun Football Facts From 22. down added July 16, 2019 1. Did you know that the Superbowl Trophy costs $25,000? It stands at 22" (56 cm) tall, weighs 7 pounds (3.2 kg) and looks a football in a kicking position on a three concave sided stand. Plus it is made entirely of sterling silver. The original trophy was produced by Tiffany & Co. in Newark, New Jersey back in the day. 2. Total play time in an NFL football game is just 11 minutes. 3. Every NFL football is made in a Wilson factory in the village of Ada, Ohio. 4. The NFL requires that all stadiums be facing North & South... so the sun never interferes with a play. 5. Football "Huddle" created by a deaf quarterback, Paul Hubbard so the other team couldn't see his hand signals. 6. The league minimum salary for a rookie in 2013 was $405,000. 7. The NFL is considered Non-Profit.. and is thus Tax-Exempt. 8. President Theodore Roosevelt introduced the Forward Pass to the NFL in 1906. 9. Since the American Football Association became the NFL in 1922 the Chicago Bears is the only team not to change it's name or city. 10. The NFL averages 290 million tv viewers a week... that's 4x's the population of the United Kingdom. 11. It takes about 600 cows to make one full season's worth of NFL footballs. 12. A cow has a 1 in 17,420,000 chance of becoming a football used in the Super Bowl. 13. Approximately 80% of Super Bowl tickets go to corporate sponsors. 14. Only two players have caught, rushed, and thrown a touchdown against the same team in the same game: Walter Payton in 1979 and David Patton in 2001. 15. Just two years after finishing their careers, approximately 78% of NFL players go bankrupt. 16. Deion Sanders is the only person in history to both hit an MLB home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week. He's the only person to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl. 17. The NFL has an annual revenue of $9 billion, with a profit of 1 billion. MLB has an annual revenue of $7.2 billion, with a profit of $49 million. 18. The 'G' on the Green Bay Packers helmet doesn't stand for Green Bay- it stands for 'Greatness'. 19. Helmets weren't mandatory for football players until 1939. 20. Ronnie Lott had his left pinky amputated after the 1985 season. It had been crushed during a tackle on running back Timmy Newsome. 21. The oldest NFL stadium still in use is Soldier Field in Chicago. 22. The longest oldest franchise in the history of the NFL Green Bay Packers.. joined the league in 1921.23. The NFL is a non-profit unincorporated organization. Because it does not make a profit it does not have to pay income tax. All teams except the Green Bay Packers pay tax because they make a profit. 24. A large percentage of professional football players are bankrupt within a few years of retiring. 25. On Super Bowl Sunday each year fewer people get married than on any other day in the United States. 26. The largest point spread in NFL history came when the Denver Broncos were favoured by 26.5 over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 2 of 2013. The Jags covered, falling 35-19.27. The Arizona Cardinals had the longest postseason victory drought in NFL history (1947 to 1998).28. The Baltimore Colts made an 80-cent long-distance call to sign Johnny Unitas as a free agent. 29. Jerry Rice and Brett Favre are the only non-kickers to play in more than 300 games. 30. The defensive player with the highest total is Darrell Green, who played in 295 games. 31. Emmitt Smith won the rushing title in 93, the year he held out the first 2 season games in a contract dispute. 32. Steve Young is the only left-handed quarterback in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 33. Andrew Luck already has more playoff passing yards than two-time Super Bowl champion Bart Starr.34. The Indianapolis Colts won 23-straight regular-season games in 2008 and 2009. 35. The Arizona Cardinals scored 126 POINTS in the first three weeks of the 2015 season. In 1992, the Seattle Seahawks scored 140 points for the entire season.36. Only one quarterback in NFL history has an undefeated record in multiple playoff starts. It's Frank Reich, who went 2-0 in relief of Jim Kelly in 1993 and helped pull the biggest comeback of all time, something he'd also done while in college at Maryland.37. In 2004, 26 of the 32 NFL teams were in playoff contention with two weeks left in the season, a record.38. NFL Hall of Famer, Terry Bradshaw, and Duck Dynasty cast member, Phil Robertson, played collegiate football together. He started over the future football legend for two years and eventually turned down an offer to play professionally in order to pursue hunting.39. Only 1 NFL player has died on the field: Chuck Hughes in 1971. The game continued with a silent crowd.40. As of Sept. 8/14 Brett Farve & Peyton Manning are the only NFL Quarterbacks that have beaten all 32 teams. 41. Crazy but Joe Gibbs is the only coach in the history of the NFL to average more than one playoff win in 10+ seasons of coaching. This former Redskins coach had 17 playoff wins in his 16 year career, and 17 in his first 12 with the Redskins. 42. At the end of the 1985 NFL season, both Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson would be replaced as commentators, with critics noting their lack of journalistic skills. 43. That's right, Carl Weathers, who played the legendary Apollo Creed in the Rocky franchise once played two seasons with the Oakland Raiders back in the 70s.44. Today, if you signed up for the Green Bay Packers season ticket waiting list, you'd wait about 1,000 to get your tickets. The Packers list has about 86,000 people on it. And with something like just under 100 people giving up their tickets per year, if you do the math, that's 955 years. 45. There were 1,286 offensive touchdowns scored this season, the most in a single season in NFL history. The previous high was 1,229, which was set during the 2016 campaign. 46. The quarterback position thrived in 2018. In fact, the position scored a collective 8,805 fantasy points. That's the most in a single season since at least 2000 (as far back as we can track). 47. Brady turned 42 on Aug. 3, 2018. Only two players in NFL history have recorded more than 150 fantasy points at the age of 42 or older, and both were kickers ...Matt Bryant and John Kasay. 48. The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks have gone a combined 46-8 since their states became the first and only to date to legalize recreational use of marijuana. 49. Of the past 17 QB's to win the Heisman, only 1 has won an NFL playoff game: Tim Tebow.50. The Pittsburgh Steelers first-ever draft pick was William Shakespeare
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