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Todd Pence wrote:Also from 1980. The Browns' 34-27 win over the Bucs. Calvin Hill was the former ROTY with the two TD catches.

Beat me to it yet again, Todd! Well done.

Okay, here's another...late season game. Back-to-back TDs are scored on special teams, the latter of these two being the only TD this player (a rookie, and a Pro Bowler) would ever score in his career. Later on in this game, a player who was a National Champion in college would score back-to-back TDs - one in the the 3rd Q and the other in the 4th. The winner of this game would even their record to .500 and, from there, win-out the rest of the season; the loser would clinch a losing season due to this very defeat. The following week, each of these teams would play another team from their opponent's division, both on the road, each winning that contest.

The 1986 Seahawks-Eagles game. The pro-bowler rookie is Bobby Joe Edmonds, his KO return follows a blocked punt return from Eric Lane (one of my favorite Seahawk players of the era). The former national champion from the Eagles is former Penn State receiver Kenny Jackson.

Todd Pence wrote:The 1986 Seahawks-Eagles game. The pro-bowler rookie is Bobby Joe Edmonds, his KO return follows a blocked punt return from Eric Lane (one of my favorite Seahawk players of the era). The former national champion from the Eagles is former Penn State receiver Kenny Jackson.

Correct (again)! The following week, 'Hawks bury a faltering Cowboys at Big D while the Eagles throw a wrench in 8-4 Raiders' playoff run at the Coliseum in an OT thriller (Marcus Allen the scapegoat). Raiders would also lose their last three from there getting trounced, actually, at the Kingdome the week after that, 37-0. An end of two long, great eras simultaneously as '86 wound down.

I'll try one. This is a regular season game featuring a quarterback for the winning team who had previously won a Super Bowl (albeit was not a Hall-of-Famer). The losing team not only had a Hall of Fame quarterback but a Hall of Fame receiver (who would combine for two TDs during this game); and this would be the first of three consecutive games in which the winning team would face a HOF quarterback and a HOF receiver. However, the winning team had a HOF receiver of their own, who would score two touchdowns of his own during this game.

Todd Pence wrote:I'll try one. This is a regular season game featuring a quarterback for the winning team who had previously won a Super Bowl (albeit was not a Hall-of-Famer). The losing team not only had a Hall of Fame quarterback but a Hall of Fame receiver (who would combine for two TDs during this game); and this would be the first of three consecutive games in which the winning team would face a HOF quarterback and a HOF receiver. However, the winning team had a HOF receiver of their own, who would score two touchdowns of his own during this game.

Was this game the year after this winning QB won the SB and, also, did this QB start in that SB?

No, and yes.

Jeff Hostetler (to Tim Brown) '93 finale vs Den (to Shannon Sharpe) and the two playoff games following that one (Den again and then Buf/Kelly/Reed)? If so, he played against Favre week prior in a 0-28 loss.

That is correct!

This game was only the second-ever meeting between these two franchises.

One of the franchises had shifted cities since the first meeting, and by the time these two teams met again, the other one would have moved as well.

The game featured two future Super Bowl MVPs, one for each team, who each scored a touchdown in this game.

This game was only the second-ever meeting between these two franchises.

One of the franchises had shifted cities since the first meeting, and by the time these two teams met again, the other one would have moved as well.

The game featured two future Super Bowl MVPs, one for each team, who each scored a touchdown in this game.

12/11/83
St. Louis Cardinals 34, L.A. Raiders 24
Marcus Allen and Ottis Anderson scored the TDs.