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  1. 4. The offensive lineman , currently playing for the Carolina Panthers, featured in the book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
  2. 8. NFL Hispanic coach for Super Bowl 50 team, the Carolina Panthers
  3. 9. Movie, starring Cuba Gooding Jr, based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones and a mentally challenged young man James Robert Kennedy
  4. 12. Number of minutes the ball is typically in play for during a game
  5. 14. Remember the Titans actor who portrayed Herman Boone, the African American high school coach trying to introduce a racially diverse team at the T. C. Williams High School in the city of Alexandria, a suburb of Washington, D.C. in 1971.
  6. 16. Sporting Goods Company that has been the official football supplier for the NFL since 1941
  7. 17. Team that hired Kathryn Smith, the NFL's first female full-time assistant coach
  8. 18. 158 million of these will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday
  9. 19. Halftime show performers for Super Bowl 50
  10. 21. 1927 team that held opponents to just three touchdowns all season
  11. 22. Super Bowl XXX was broadcasted for the first time in this Native American language
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  1. 1. 1948 team that became the first to have a helmet insignia
  2. 2. The “G” on the Green Bay Packers helmet
  3. 3. Oldest quarterback to play in a super bowl
  4. 5. Safety gear that was not mandatory for NFL football players until 1943
  5. 6. Receiver who wrote a children’s book in 2006 entitled “Little T Learns to Share”, which teaches children the benefits of sharing
  6. 7. 1953 team where Willie Thrower was the first African-American quarterback in the NFL
  7. 10. First African-American coach to win a Super Bowl.
  8. 11. Film that depicts rebuilding of the collegiac Thundering Herd Football team after 1970 plane crash that killed 37 football players, along with five coaches, two athletic trainers, the athletic direct
  9. 13. Actor who portrayed Dr. Bennet Omalu, in the 2015 movie Concussion. Omalu is a Nigerian forensic pathologist’s research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain damage suffered by professional football players.
  10. 15. Instrument that Patriots defensive lineman Richard Seymour plays
  11. 20. Former Vikings player who became an Associate Justice for the Minnesota Supreme Court