Winning football facts 3

A cow has only a 1 in 17,420,000 chance of becoming an NFL football that is used in the Super Bowl.

Only two players have caught, rushed, and thrown a touchdown against the same team in the same game: Walter Payton in 1979 and David Patton in 2001.

While football originally was popular in Midwestern industrial towns, its growth in popularity around the U.S. is typically traced to the 1958 NFL Championship game, which has been called the “Greatest Game Ever Played.”

Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett is the only player to rush for a 99-yard touchdown, in 1983.

Just two years after finishing their careers, approximately 78% of NFL players go bankrupt.