Naming the NFL Teams | Sporcle Quiz 

Unbeknownst to me at the time, this quiz was created before the Rams and the Chargers changed location. Don't shoot the messenger. :-)

the funny thing is that buffalo is the only nfl team actually located in new york state. both the giants and jets play in new jersey.

You might appreciate the origin of the Baltimore Ravens namesake. It’s simply the birthplace of Edgar Allen Poe who is of course most notable for having written “The Raven”.

For someone who wasn't born and raised in this country, with no vested interest in the NFL, you did very well.

Here's some trivia to confuse you: Many years ago was a team called the Dallas Texans. They moved to KC and became the Chiefs. Then Dallas got the Cowboys. Houston then got the Oilers but they later moved to Tennessee and became the Titans. Then Houston came back into the league several years later with the Texans. The lesson? The time frame of the quiz matters (as you know). Oh. And the Patriots were originally the Boston Patriots.

The banjo music during these quizzes adds so much. 😂

This quiz is SO old that two teams have moved to LA, one team is scheduled to move to Los Vegas (and might be kicked out of Oakland), and the quiz maker couldn’t figure out how to put both New York teams in.

You had Baltimore right away but didnt trust your instincts.

The current Cleveland Browns are actually a pretty new franchise -- 1999. The Baltimore Ravens were the Cleveland Browns until they moved in 1996. And they are named the Ravens for "The Raven" author Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Baltimore.

There is a New York Giants but for some reason this quiz doesn't seem to include them.

The Rams moved from LA to St. Louis and now back! Go St. Louis Cardinals! You should do MLB teams next?!!

Seeing St. Louis Rams kills my soul. :(

Also, the Arizona Cardinals used to be based in St Louis back when you had your sticker album. That might have been why it sounded familiar too

Ahaha I love your videos. I love an outside perspective. I know my EPL teams, but I don't think I'd know much detail. The NBA teams are random too. For instance the Lakers are named after Minneapolis but are in LA. The Hawks were based in St. Louis and are in Atlanta. None of it makes sense!

This is so hard to watch as an American, but entertaining

Wayne Brady may not play professional football, but I bet if he had to he could improvise.

I don't know if this is just me but at times Lawrence reminds me of Paul McCartney and at times he reminds me of Michael CaineI've noticed he's somewhere firmly in the middle between these two extremes delightfully so

I actually was laughing when you first struggled with Philadelphia

Ironically, both the Rams & the Chargers previously played in Los Angeles - though the Chargers just played 1 season there before moving to SD and the Rams originally played in Cleveland. So, in a sense, they've basically just 'come home'. To recap Chargers: LA >> SD >> LA, Rams: Cle >> LA >> StL >> LA.

You can't imagine my joy when you got the Philadelphia Eagles correct. We were still the reigning champions when you took the quiz.

Great job! Sporcle needs to update their quiz. I loved this vlog. Thank you for posting.

I think you did a great job not being an NFL fan. And of course with the quiz being out of date. Funny enough I tell people that the NFL is the way that I learned geography growing up and in one particular case it messed me up. I remember being around ten years old arguing that New England is a state oh, because it has a football team. When I tell this story now, especially since I live in Illinois west of Chicago, people generally laugh and sometimes think it is silly. But here's my argument. I grew up in the state of New Mexico. At one time that's territory was part of Mexico. so it seemed very logical to me that somewhere on the East coast, which once was part of England, became a state and named its state New England. Of course it didn't, and eventually I got the pleasure of living in England for 2 years.

Great Job, Laurence! My memory wouldn't have done as well as yours did! Love Your Videos!

Being a Saints fan we call Atlanta Falcons the "Dirty Birds" :D

The way I would remember Baltimore Ravens (and still kid of do, though it's just kind of in my memory now) is that Edgar Allan Poe was found in Baltimore and he wrote The Raven.

Well done!! Your instinct also had the Ravens correct so theoretically you got 29 answers right! Nicely done!

Off topic, I saw you this morning on a Good Mythical Morning video from a couple of years ago. Very cool.

Arizona Cardinals was in St. Louis , so at one point there was two St.Louis Cardinals teams

It’s nice of you to humble yourself and allow us to feel smart.

Near the very end of the quiz when you hit about 1 minute left, when you went "OH WAIT, it's the Eagles! It's the Philadelphia Eagles, isn't it? They played the New England Patriots at one point didn't they?" I burst out laughing because yes indeed, they played the Patriots, in the Superbowl. This was fantastic, I loved it. There's no way I could remember 32 sports teams just from overhearing them over the course of 10 years. I'm 19 and sure as heck couldn't do a quiz like this for US basketball and I've lived here my whole life.

It's the NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS!

This is one quiz where I was shouting at you :-) I had a Dad, two brothers, a husband, & two sons who are fanatic American football fans so I know all of those.

The Indianapolis team is called The Baltimore Colts. The Rams moved from LA to St. Louis and then back again. The Chargers moved from San Diego to LA. The Raiders moved from Oakland to LA, back to Oakland, and now to Las Vegas.

Maybe thinking Detroit Bengals because of the Baseball team the Detroit Tigers

Fun video. I have to admit that I was yelling at you the whole time (as if you could hear me) especially when you had the right answer but wouldn't commit to it. Ultimately, you did a great job, especially for someone who is not into American football. I think it would be fun if you turned the tables and did a Sporcle quiz on British or English history. I know there is one on there about the Tudors and another about putting royals into their proper houses (such as York or Lancaster). It would be fun to see how well we Americans do as you take the quiz. I'm sure you could ace the Tudor quiz (I did) but the other quiz was a good deal more challenging.

The Arizona cardinals used to be in saint louis.

I'm not into football but I got 100%. Mostly by going by what I have heard/seen on the internet.

New York Giants are an NFL team as well. They did not put it in this test.

hey that's pretty good, and much better than i expected

I could see a couple more NFL+geography quizzes being fun. For one, you could try to guess what city each team plays in. Example: only one New York (state) team actually plays in New York (state). You could also get some fun out of teams that have moved, which adds some fun with teams that changed names when they moved, and one team that had to change its name and drop their historical record.

You did awesome!

Baltimore used to be the home of the Colts before they moved to Indianapolis. You have the phenomenon of sports teams in the US which have names which reflect their original environs. Baltimore is where a lot of people raise/ race horses. In basketball there are the LA Lakers (originally Minnesota as there are few lakes in California). Likewise the Utah Jazz (originally New Orleans) as one couldn't find a place less associated with jazz than Utah.

I admire your taste in English Premier League clubs!!! Firing Jose Morihno was the best thing that happened!!!

Originally the Rams were in LA until 1996 before moving to St. Louis, they were the original LA NFL team until the Raiders moved to Los Angeles from Oakland in the early 80s, LA had two NFL teams until the mid 90s when the Raiders moved back up to Oakland in 1995.

Funny enough it was the St. Louis Cardinals way back then they moved to Arizona.

Good going Lawrence, but can't believe you forgot Baltimore Ravens. LOL!

Also congrats to your Reds on the win against Spur's today!!!

Lol talking to much ! So funny 😂😂 i laughed so hard! I enjoyed this completely😂😂 Awesome job

Man U actually won well done to you guys. I’m a Chelsea fan btw

There used to be a St. Louis football team as well. But they moved to Arizona. Also, the Rams moved from LA and back to LA. They played in LA until 95, then moved to St. Louis.

This hurts to watch! Love your videos.

You did great!

Outstanding job! Yes, originally St Louis had both the MLB and NFL Cardinals. The cardinals moved to Arizona and sadly the L.A. Rams moved to St. Louis and now are back in L.A. NFL has both the NY Jets and Giants yet both teams play in New Jersey!

Nice job!

So, the Cardinals... Originally were a team from Chicago (the Steamrollers, if memory serves.) They later moved to St. Louis, so for many years, both the baseball and football teams in St. Louis were named the Cardinals. The Cardinals then moved on to Arizona. At this time, LA had two teams, the Rams and the Raiders (who had moved from Oakland to LA). Both teams moved out of LA some time later (both at the same time, IIRC,) with the Raiders going BACK to Oakland and the Rams going to St. Louis. In 2017, the Rams moved back to LA and there was a tentative plan for the Raiders to come back as well, but it fell through when the Chargers muscled in, and the Raiders decided to move to Las Vegas. The Indianapolis Colts were originally the Baltimore Colts and were very successful there until, with no word to anyone, the team loaded up everything from their facility into semi-trucks in the middle of the night and left for Indiana. Baltimore literally went to bed with a team and woke up without one. They were then without a team until the Cleveland Browns pulled up stakes and not only moved to Baltimore, but changed the team name to the Ravens. The city of Cleveland managed to get the rights to the old name, Browns, and after a few years were granted an expansion team to bring the league up to 32 teams, and thus the Cleveland Browns were reborn, and have been mostly AWFUL ever since. The original Houston Texans moved out of Houston and became the Kansas City Chiefs- who to this day still use the original color scheme. Houston then got another team later on named the Oilers, who then once again moved on to become the Tennesee Titans, and they too kept the original Oilers color scheme until very recently, though it remains similar, just different shades. The current Houston Texans were an expansion team and the second to bear the name.

Hey @Lost in the Pond, I saw in another video of yours that you lived in Fort Wayne for a period of time and I was wondering if you attended any sporting events while there? (tincaps, mad ants, etc) would love to hear your experiences of local sporting events as a former brit if you have any. Thanks

St. Louis did have the Cardinals in both baseball and football. The football one started in Chicago, moved to St. Louis, and now is in Arizona.

As someone who's a Cardinals fan and also from Arizona, it's interesting to know they were originally the Chicago Cardinals. They were then the St. Louis Cardinals (which is the name of the current St. Louis baseball team) and then became the Arizona Cardinals. Also, the NY Giants was also the name of the baseball team in the city until they moved to San Francisco. The NY Giants football team was originally called the NY Football Giants to differentiate the two.

Well done

Good job!

The Baltimore Ravens are named for the Edgar Allan Poe poem "The Raven" because Poe started his literary career in Baltimore. They are also formerly the original Cleveland Browns. The owner of the Browns decided to move his team to Baltimore (to become the Ravens), and the NFL awarded a replacement franchise to Cleveland 2 years later (who were again named the Browns). But coincidentally, your former home team, the Indianapolis Colts, also started life in Baltimore as the Baltimore Colts (Maryland has a long history of horse racing, and the Preakness Stakes, the second race in the Triple Crown after the Kentucky Derby, is hosted just outside of Baltimore). They moved to Indianapolis in the early 80's in a rather shady situation where the owner literally packed the team up in the middle of the night and moved them to Indianapolis. ESPN's 30 for 30 sports documentary series has a film about the Colts move and eventual arrival of the Ravens.

You did a great jorb.

You did a wonderful job. The Rams were in California and they moved to Saint Louis and after a number of years they moved back to California. In fact one of their quarterbacks a year or so before the went to St. Louis had a son which they named Ram ( poor kid).

Very well done haha

Well Done!

The Arizona Cardinals used to be the St. Louis Cardinals, but prior to being in St. Louis they were the Chicago Cardinals.

The Cardinals were in St Louis (and had the same name as the baseball team) prior to 1987. Also New York Giants are a football team (that wasn’t included in the quiz.) There was also a baseball team called the New York Giants, but it relocated to San Francisco in 1958.

A United fan doesn't know the name of the Tampa Bay team without guessing? They have the same owner!!!!! At least you got the Raiders right. YNWA!

Who Dat!!!! as a Saints fan i loved that fact that Payton manning lost that game.

Geesh you did better than me!! Go Pats!!!

The Dallas Texans did exist for for one year in 1952 went 1-11, they only played 7 games as Dallas before moving to Hershey, Pennsylvania for the last 4 games. There were also the last NFL Team to close up. There is also an AFL team Dallas Texans from 1960-62 then they moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs that we know today. This was all before the AFL-NFL merger in the late '60s

Just for fun, several of the teams did move, as you said. The oldest teams began in the Great Lakes and Northeast, which would have been the largest population centers in the early 1900s and before. If you look up the first few seasons in the 1920s and 30s, you will find many teams from smaller cities that are no longer around (the cities are still around, just not the teams!). The oldest existing teams are the NY Giants (who technically now play in NJ, along with the Jets), Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Pittsburgh Steelers (all of which have never moved, at least since the 20s or 30s - there was a LOT of instability, movements and coming and going of teams in those years!), along with the Washington Football Team (formerly Boston then Washington Redskins), the Chicago -> St. Louis -> Arizona Cardinals (so for roughly 40 years, both baseball and football teams in St. Louis were called the Cardinals) and the Cleveland -> Los Angeles -> St. Louis -> Los Angeles Rams. Next a rival football conference called the AAFC came and went and three of their teams were added: Cleveland Browns (team moved to Baltimore in the 1990s, changed to the Ravens, and later a new expansion Cleveland Browns were added in early 2000s), San Fransisco 49ers (never moved) and the Baltimore -> Indianapolis Colts (left Baltimore in secret under cover of night in Mayflower moving vans, fans in Baltimore were taken completely by surprise, very bizarre!). The next expansion was a result of another rival league, the (very interesting and trendsetting) AFL, which later merged all of its teams into the NFL. The original AFL in the early 1960s included the Buffalo Bills, Boston (New England) Patriots, NY Jets (originally Titans) and Denver Broncos in their original locations; the Dallas Texans -> Kansas City Chiefs, Houston Oilers -> Tennessee Titans, Los Angeles -> San Diego -> Los Angeles Chargers, and the Oakland -> Los Angeles -> Oakland -> Las Vegas Raiders; and by the late 1960s, the AFL added the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins (neither has ever moved) before merging with the NFL. During the competition with the AFL, the NFL added the Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings in the early 1960s and the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons in the late 60s, none of which have ever moved. From the 1970s onward, the NFL added five more expansion teams, none of which has ever moved: Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans. Generally, the movement of teams and expansion of the league has been away from the Great Lakes and Northeast toward the West and SunBelt, reflecting the changing population of the US.

Not bad Lawrence, but you come across as much more impressive in your other quiz videos. It’s fun to watch you fumble thru this none the less.

This was so stressful to watch lol

I don't know if you know or care, but I recommend you play quizzes on Jetpunk instead of Sporcle. Jetpunk quizzes (at least the featured ones) are always updated when necessary. It doesn't have quizzes that end if you make mistakes, but it also doesn't have nearly as many ads.

Giants aren't in the quiz lmao. Whoever made the quiz must be a jets, eagles, or cowboys fan.

Team names are more fun when tied to the location, like the 49ers named after the California Gold Rush, or the Ravens named after the Edgar Allan Poe poem.

There WAS a New York Giants baseball team. But they moved to San Francisco in 1957, becoming the San Francisco Giants. There is STILL a New York Giants football team. On Wikipedia: "To distinguish themselves from the professional baseball team of the same name, the football team was incorporated as the "New York National League Football Company, Inc." in 1929 and changed to "New York Football Giants, Inc." in 1937. While the baseball team moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, the football team continues to use "New York Football Giants, Inc." as its legal corporate name,[7] and is often referred to by fans and sportscasters as the "New York Football Giants".

My husband regularly watches British football. He doesn’t support a particular club but he gets quite engrossed The matches are broadcast on one of the NBC sports networks. John is a loyal US football fan of the struggling NY Jets and the equally suffering NY Mets.

Pretty good!

St. Louis used to have a Cardinal football team, they moved to Arizona in the 80’s.

I take back my earlier profanity. Good job sir

You did pretty good, if you asked me about soccer teams I know two Manchester United and Manchester City, I've heard of Arsenal but don't know where they're from.

This is the postseason playoffs right now, so the teams playing right now are in single elimination. After today, there will be 4 teams left, the 2 best in the NFC and 2 best in the AFC. Each conference has a championship, then the AFC champ plays the NFC champ plays in the Superbowl. In the AFC, Kansas City Chiefs will play the winner of New England Patriots v Los Angeles Chargers. In the NFC, Los Angeles Rams will play the winner of Philadelphia Eagles v New Orleans Saints. Helpful link here to explain: www.printyourbrackets.com/how-do-the-nfl-playoffs-work.html

For the record, the three teams you missed in this quiz were the Baltimore Ravens, (then-San Diego) Chargers, and Arizona Cardinals.

NY Jets and NY Giants are both NFL teams and they share the same stadium :)

St. Louis used to have Football Cardinals and baseball Cardinals. Then the football team moved to Arizona and kept their name. Then the Rams moved from Los Angeles to St. Louis for 20 years, and just moved back to LA two years ago. Similarly, New York had baseball Giants and football Giants. The baseball team moved to San Francisco over 50 years ago and the football team stayed put.

Detroit lions sometimes called the motor city kitties

I'm not good at this sportsball stuff. I love Sporcle, though. I play Sporcle all the time!

The Rams originally played in LA before moving to St. Louis and then back to LA a few years ago. The Arizona Cardinals also used to play in St. Louis and were the St. Louis Cardinals along with the baseball team. And the New York Giants are also called the New York football Giants because the San Francisco Giants of MLB used to play in New York but they moved shortly after the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to LA

Interesting fact about the Arizona Cardinals, they were in St Louis as the Cardinals. If you know American sports, you can see the confusion about the nicknames of the NFL & MLB teams.

Hardest part was just finding them on the list. Also the Teams who changed cities messed with me for a second. SCORE 31/31 TIMER 13:02

I can understand you associating Detroit with Bengals because a Bengal is a type of tiger and Detroit's baseball team is called the Tigers.

Los Angeles "greedy in a way, two teams"? What about Manchester? They have two rather good teams. And 33 Miles away is Liverpool? The stadiums there are only a 1/4 mile apart? That sounds a bit greedy too. :)

The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, as he was from Baltimore. Best name in the NFL if you ask me.

The St Louis Cardinals was the name of both the Baseball and NFL teams. but the Cardinals moved to Arizona and the LA Rams moved to St Louis, but LA got the franchise back recently Baltimore is the Ravens due to Edgar Alan Poe living in Baltimore for many years.

Most Texas teams are usually "cowboy" related. The Texas Rangers, San Antonio Spurs, Houston Astros(because of nasa) and Rockets. The Houston Texans used to be the Oilers. But they moved to Tennessee and stayed the Oilers until they changed it to the Titans. Just something to keep in mind.

This was far more entertaining than I anticipated it would be. And I don't follow football.

I'm voting on you doing hockey teams.

Can you try naming what restaurant fast food is from?