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Trivia for January 28, 2019

Question

Bill Belichick was the head coach in Cleveland for five years. Now he’s gone on to win five Super Bowls with the Patriots. What two teams have twice had head coaches in place for more than a season, only to see them later win Super Bowls with other teams?

Answer

It happened twice early with the Baltimore Colts, with Weeb Ewbank and Don Shula. Ewbank’s win came against them. And it happened with two young coaches for the Raiders – Mike Shanahan and Jon Gruden. The Jets technically could also be part of this group. They had Pete Carroll for the 1994 season, and Belichick was twice named the coach of the team. But Belichick never actually coached a game for them.

20 Reader Comments:

Jay Dasgupta

Eau Claire, WI
2019-01-28T14:29:24Z
My first guess was Shula and Dick Vermeil.

Andy Richardson

Port Chester, NY
2019-01-28T14:52:29Z
I believe the Philadelphia Eagles (with Dick Vermeil) is a correct answer as well.

BRYAN BERTSCH

Hopkins, MN
2019-01-28T14:56:17Z
What about Tony Dungy?

ROBERT POLILLI

New Port Richey, FL
2019-01-28T15:03:52Z
What about Tom Coughlin?

Dennis Lyons

Elk Grove, CA
2019-01-28T15:07:11Z
Your question and your answer don't matchup. Based on your question Vermeil, Shanahan, Kubiak, Dungy Shula, Ewbank, Gruden and Carroll are correct answers.

ROBERT POLILLI

New Port Richey, FL
2019-01-28T15:07:53Z
“What two teams have twice had...” seems to be the way the question was meant to be phrased.

Andy Richardson

Port Chester, NY
2019-01-28T15:39:03Z
Robert is correct. I will fix the wording.

Ben Hogevoll

Siletz, OR
2019-01-28T16:28:42Z
Again and again and again you screw yourself by showing the answer!Another of many examples that you should let your subscribers answer your questions.

Andy Richardson

Port Chester, NY
2019-01-28T17:45:44Z
Your criticism is duly noted, yet again. The decision-making that went into doing it this way has been explained many times. Consider that if we HADN'T shown the answer for this particular question, we'd be getting lots of answers written in that were right based on the way the question is written but wrong based on how the question was supposed to be written. So I guess it then wouldn't be as clear that we had made a mistake, but since these are just fun and there's no money involved, nobody needs to sit around cursing the stars over having made a mistake. Your "solution" to a problem that's not considered a huge deal by anyone but (as near as I can tell) you alone would add an extra layer of daily work where we go back in and post the answer. Considering it's a fairly small staff with plenty going on (especially during the season, in the 60-hour period between when the games end and the Weekly is published), at least consider that the occasional error like the above that needs to be addressed is preferable to going in daily to post the previous day's answer. The question are for fun; that's it.

Bruce Sadler

Lakeland, FL
2019-01-28T18:21:10Z
Andy ,
Well said and agree 100%

Dennis Lyons

Elk Grove, CA
2019-01-28T18:47:35Z
Hey Ben about 20 years ago there was a book written called " Don't Sweat the Small Stuff". You should read it

Ben Hogevoll

Siletz, OR
2019-01-28T19:26:32Z
Yeah,I agree,its minor.I didn't realize they would have to hire a bunch of new staff members to do the horrible amount of added daily hours it would take to address the triva questions and answers if they changed the format and didn't provide the wrong answers to the questions...My bad.

Ben Hogevoll

Siletz, OR
2019-01-28T19:33:02Z
Hey Dennis,a few years ago,Thomas Paine wrote a book titled Common Sense.You should read it.

Dennis Lyons

Elk Grove, CA
2019-01-28T20:03:57Z
Will Rogers never met Ben

ROBERT POLILLI

New Port Richey, FL
2019-01-29T14:05:28Z
I don’t get Ben’s problem. If he received the email, then the answer is not in the email and he can ponder awhile before pressing the link to go to the website and there he would for the first time would see the answer. That seems to be such a simple solution and works great for me.

Ben Hogevoll

Siletz, OR
2019-01-29T17:37:03Z
Robert,I don't know what your talking about??I read the question,then click on comments to try and answer the question ,and the wrong or correct answer pops up above comment box in front of me.who really knows if anyone really answers the question correct?

Bruce Sadler

Lakeland, FL
2019-01-29T17:42:08Z
Either way Ben they will not be changing it JUST FOR YOU ,
Andy explained why ....So thats settled

Ben Hogevoll

Siletz, OR
2019-01-29T18:07:54Z
Nope,I guess not.It is what it is.Basically Andy is saying,they don't want to hire a bunch of new so called experts on their already short handed staff to deal with Trivia which would take hours and hours just to get the questions and answers correct.How stupid would that be?I agree.

Andy Richardson

Port Chester, NY
2019-01-29T18:55:16Z
Yeah, that's really not what Andy is saying at all. What I said is that going in a second time to add the answer for each and every trivia question would create twice as much work each day for existing staff for what's merely a fun little feature. And since we'd be doing it to potentially avoid posting the wrong answer on a small fraction of the trivia questions, and to address a concern felt by a small fraction of the readers (apparently, just one), AND since it still wouldn't ensure we never posted a flawed question (as this very one proves), it's not worth it.

John Macho

Elko New Mrkt, MN
2019-02-02T21:07:05Z
It is all in fun, and the community contribution is part of it. Love the trivia questions. No need for a Congressional hearing.
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