Author Biography: Clevelandfan

The National Football League (NFL) has been around since 1920. Over the years, it has absorbed clubs from rival leagues,and replaced "small markets" with larger ones, and thru TV become global. Test your knowledge of its interesting past.

Many famous baseball players are identified with one franchise--usually the one they spent the longest part of their career with. But in some cases, a player had a brief tenure with a previous club, frequently forgotten.

Since it began in post-WW2 America, the National Basketball Association has evolved from a regional "bush league"(in the words of W. Chamberlain) to a global multinational corp. See how much you know about its early days.

Many baseball players have nicknames so colorful, and so well known, that their given (birth) names are often a mystery (or a surprise) even to informed fans. This quiz asks you to provide the famous player's real first name.