Question 6 is kinda misleading. It asks for baseball stadiums, but Shea was designed to be multi-purpose and was home to The Jets and the Mets from its opening in 1964 till the Jets moved to the Meadowlands in 1984. However if your counting muti-purpose than you would have to include the LA Coliseum, which was home of the LA Dodgers from 1958 to 1961 and held the 1959 World Series.
The Butobi Brothers | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 12:50 am | #

pretty sure the irish played a game in old cleveland muni as well.
foley | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 1:59 am | #

Butobi Brothers - I did leave out an important qualifier from the email that William Tunnel sent us, and I should have included it as part of the question. My mistake.

This list excludes dual-use stadia such as Municipal in Baltimore and Cleveland (where ND traditionally played away games against Navy).

Of course, Shea, as you say, was multi-purpose for a number of years, so I guess that the qualifier would have made the question incorrect in that regards too.
Pat | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 8:23 am | #

Paul Hornung was from Louisville, not Lexington, KY.
Dan | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 8:35 am | #

There is probably a World Series game scheduled for Saturday October 25. The Series generally goes to the last weekend in October. Maybe Navy could be moved or we could buy out BC.

The football Giants played at the Polo Grounds for 25 years and at Yankee Stadium for 19 years. Not sure if that qualifies them as "dual use" stadiums.
Flann | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 10:03 am | #

The Phantom would have written his letter in 1966, not 1996. A minor typo on an otherwise really interesting quiz.
Erik '04 | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 10:03 am | #

Flann - I figured the World Series would still be going on, but in my perfect plan, the Yankees have already been eliminated thus avoiding the need to juggle the schedule further. In reality, it would probably make more sense to move the Navy game to October and play Army at Yankee Stadium in November.

Everyone else - thanks for the corrections. Obviously it seems the baseball question is going to have plenty of caveats and minor inaccuracies. Full credit to everyone on question #6.
Pat | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 10:18 am | #

For shame....Hornung only played three years and they were for Terry Brennan.
jack barthel | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 10:28 am | #

I would have written a better post if my fact checkers would have done a better job executing.
Pat | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 10:56 am | #

Hornung just LOOKS like he played for Layden :>)
Mike | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 11:06 am | #

I clicked on the Brady Quinn SI cover and almost shit myself when Polamalu's pic came up.

Thought I was going to have to beat the person's ass that introduced Brady to Ricky Williams.
Rome | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 11:18 am | #

I have a feeling Brady will have a cover all to his own very soon.
Pat | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 11:21 am | #

Man, oh man. I just looked at the fourth cover Tony Rice was on, with the "Five for the Heisman" title, and noticed Indiana's Anthony Thompson on there. As an IU grad, I can't even begin to explain how funny I find that.
Brad | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 11:33 am | #

The Mirage Bowl was played in late November 1979, not August.
Miller81 | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 11:34 am | #

Man, I should have just written this post first and made finding all of my mistakes the quiz.
Pat | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 12:04 pm | #

The line between a baseball park and a dual use stadium is pretty blurry. Every baseball park on your list except BOB hosted an NFL team at one time, many of them for substantial periods. The Polo Grounds (Giants), Comiskey (Cardinals), and Tiger Stadium (Lions, obviously) were NFL home fields for decades.
John @ Indy | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 2:45 pm | #

Dave Huffman was a great classmate, outstanding football player and a loving husband and father. God rest his soul. I still get tears in my eyes when I think of his untimely death in a car accident on his way to ND from Chicago. Oh, and as you can tell from the answer to the question, he loved his mother!
PasadenaDomer | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 2:57 pm | #

ND played at Baltimore Memorial Stadium in the 1989 season vs. Navy.
Kevin O'Rourke | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 4:06 pm | #

The "Phantom" is, in fact, Tom Pagna.
He will be signing copies of "The Phantom Letters" at the Bookstore every Thursday, before every home game this year.
l.g. schirano | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 5:09 pm | #

Does anyone else remember Dave Huffman's brother playing along side him , I think it was a Miami game? My vague memory was his brother Tim got hurt and Dave put him arm around him and carrying to the sideline and then ran out back to the huddle. I think ND ran up the middle the next seven plays and stuck it in the endzone.
Yago | Email | Homepage | 07.27.06 - 9:50 pm | #