Random trivia "dumb team"

[Bryan]

This eventual Super Bowl champion team lost a game by giving up 36 more points than net passing yards. Name the team (and season).

[74_75_78_79_]

'83 Raiders

[conace21]

I looked this 1983 Seahawks-Raiders game up and noticed something. Jim Plunkett, Marc Wilson, and Marcus Allen all threw TD passes for Los Angeles. I wonder now how many times has that happened since 1950 - three different teammates throw a TD pass in one game.

[RichardBak]

I looked this 1983 Seahawks-Raiders game up and noticed something. Jim Plunkett, Marc Wilson, and Marcus Allen all threw TD passes for Los Angeles. I wonder now how many times has that happened since 1950 - three different teammates throw a TD pass in one game.

I found a couple, both involving Detroit, but I'm sure there are several more, esp. during the era of the option pass (Tom Tracy, Gifford, John David Crow, etc.). I would think a halfback pass would almost always account for the third TD throw, as was the case with the Lions:

Nov. 27, 1952: Layne, Jim Hardy, and Hunchy Hoernschemeyer in Detroit's 48-24 win over Green Bay

Nov. 14, 1954: Layne, Hunchy, and Tom Dublinski in Lions' 48-7 win over San Francisco

[conace21]

I looked this 1983 Seahawks-Raiders game up and noticed something. Jim Plunkett, Marc Wilson, and Marcus Allen all threw TD passes for Los Angeles. I wonder now how many times has that happened since 1950 - three different teammates throw a TD pass in one game.

I found a couple, both involving Detroit, but I'm sure there are several more, esp. during the era of the option pass (Tom Tracy, Gifford, John David Crow, etc.). I would think a halfback pass would almost always account for the third TD throw, as was the case with the Lions:

Nov. 27, 1952: Layne, Jim Hardy, and Hunchy Hoernschemeyer in Detroit's 48-24 win over Green Bay

Nov. 14, 1954: Layne, Hunchy, and Tom Dublinski in Lions' 48-7 win over San Francisco

Neither Tracy nor Crow was involved in such a game. I thought I might have better luck with Gifford and there might be a Don Heinrich/Conerly/Gifford combi. Gifford was involved in two separate games where three teammates had a TD pass, but Heinrich wasn't involved in either game.

Besides Conerly, Gifford and Kyle Rote each throw halfback TD passes. (Gifford actually gets two.)

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... 170nyg.htm

Conerly, Gifford, and someone named Bob Clatterbuck.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... 200nyg.htm