or are we supposed to answer here?

Good luck.

1) Da Bears
2) an end
3) safety rushing the QB
4)tight ends
5) da Bears
6)don't know
7) Slinging Sammy Baugh
8) Bobby Lane
9) Detroit
10) slinging Sammy Baugh
11) Ken Stabler
12) tuck

You did well.

What is a flanker called now? Wide receiver?

Right end and left end are now called "tight ends?"

Sammy Baugh was the slinging QB number 9 for the team formerly called the Redskins. I think he may have been the QB who lead the league in passing and punting, but I am not sure.

The Detroit Lions started the Thanksgiving tradition.

The Bears were the Monsters of the Midway.

The snake was Kennie Stabler I think. (resisting the urge to Google)

I don't know the rest without Googling.

I'll don't want to put up the answers until DUers have had a chance to respond.

Left end/right end = tight ends?
Flanker = wide receiver?
Red dog = safety? or defensive back?

You'll have to give me the answers on the rest. I haven't watched football since Fran Tarkenton and I'm old so I have excuses. I didn't Google.

1. Detroit Lions
2. Wide receiver
3. Blitz
4. Edge
5. Chicago Bears
6. ?
7. Sonny Jurgensen
8. Darryl Lamonica
9. Detroit Lions
10. Sammy Baugh
11. Ken Stabler
12. Tuck?

I'll mail you the answers so to give others a chance without giving the questions away.

2. wide receiver
3. no clue
4. Tight end
5. 1985 Chicago Bears
6. I think Chuck Bednarik
7. Sammy Baugh
8. Darryl Lamonica
9. Bears (?) again
10. Sammy Baugh (again)
11. Ken Stabler, Oakland Raiders
12. Tuck

Good job.

1. Dunno. Georgia Bulldogs? Nope, not a NFL team. Wild stab- Atlanta Falcons?
2. Wide receiver, in today’s parlance
3. Linebacker blitz against opposing QB
4. Tight end and/or split receiver?
5. Da Bears defense, back in the Jim McMahon days I think
6. No idea, never heard that nickname
7. Sonny Jurgenson?
8. This is a WAG… Fran Tarkenton?
9. Detroit Lions
10, Another WAG… George Blanda?
11. Kenny Stabler
12. Rule to determine if a caught ball was secured (or not) before an apparent fumble.

Bonus question: What was the nickname of the Detroit Lions QB who won their last league championship, about 9 years before the first Super Bowl?

I like you bonus question. And you're one of the few who got Sonny Jurgenson, one of my old-time favorite passing QBs.

Thiesman wasn't a punter.

Worked concrete in the off season when players couldn’t live off their football salary. Charlie was a two way player. Center AND HE WAS ONE BADASS LINEBACKER.

1. The Decatur Staleys are now known as
The Chicago Bears

2. What is a flanker?
An outside wide receiver.

3. What is a red dog?
A blitz.

4. Right end and left end are now called?
This is a tough one because some players are still called "ends": defensive ends; tight ends; split ends. I'll say "Tackles" used to be what you're talking about.

5. Who were the Monsters of the Midway?
The Chicago Bears.

6: Who was Concrete Charlie?
Charlie Benardik, a two-way player (Center and Middle Linebacker) for the Philadelphia Eagles.

7. Who was slinging QB number 9 for the team formerly called the Redskins?
Sammy Baugh.

8. Who was the "Mad Bomber"?
Daryl Lamonica of the Oakland Raiders.

9. What franchise started the Thanksgiving Day game:
The Detroit Lions

10. What Redskins QB lead the league in passing and punting?
Sammy Baugh.

11. Who was nicknamed "Snake"?
Ken Stabler.

12: Was the "tuck rule" play a fumble or a tuck?
It was a tuck, not a fumble, and that call kicked off a dynasty and a career of championships that might never be equaled.

One small quibble though. The term split end has gone by the wayside. Probably it started in the late '70s or so with the Charger coarh Don Coryell introducing his great aerial offense now call "Air Coryell." The two receivers began to be called wide receivers then instead of split end and flanker, with the flanker a yard back of line, as per NFL rules.

Thanks for playing.

Are called edge rushers.

If the QB tucked the ball and the was hit it’s a fumble, not a forward pass.

Was working in Tracy, Raider bar, over Christmas.

I blew up the Immaculate Reception, wrapped it up with a bow framed it, and gave it to the bartender.

Wow, he exploded, something about a cheat play?

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closely and you'll see a Raider with an angle on Harris get clipped obviously and it wasn't called. Also Harris was the second to touch the ball, against the rules tnen , it also wasn't called.

But that's all water under the bridge. We beat you guys in '76 then won the Super Bowl.

The NFL and Pete Roselle hated the Raiders way back then even...way before they cheated us out of the Tuck rule BS.

2. A wide receiver who sets up behind the line of scrimmage wide of the tight end.

3. A blitz

4. Y and X

5. Chicago Bears (1940s ish)

6. LB/C Chuck Bednarik of the Eagles

7. Sonny Jurgensen

8. Daryl Lamonica

9. Detroit Lions 1934

10. Slingin’ Sammy Baugh

11. Ken Stabler

12. A tuck

I'll mail you the answers, as if you need them.

The wide receiver (left end in a strong right formation) was the X receiver. The tight end (or closed end in the Lombardi parlance) was the Y receiver, and the flanker was the Z receiver. I look forward to your mail.

he refers to the tight end as the Y end

He stopped by St. Anthony's in Fresno. I remember a big crowd of classmates around him and I got his autograph. I must have been 8 or 9.

...Concrete Charlie. My only guesses are Chuck Bednarik or Charlie Connerly.
The rest I'm pretty sure of.

One mean ole Linebacker. He also played Center.