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Name the first quarterback in NFL history to have started and lost a Super Bowl for multiple franchises. As a collegian at Berkeley, he never managed a winning record across three varsity seasons, despite being coached by future Super Bowl mainstays Bill Walsh and Marv Levy.

Craig Morton

Racing & Combat

Rush

A central plot point of Ron Howard’s 2013 account of the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda is Lauda’s horrifying crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix, in which he suffered severe burns and permanent injuries. Ironically, while Lauda was able to recover and resume racing within weeks, two other drivers in that race would later lose their lives in accidents during Formula 1 Grand Prix races. Name ONE of those drivers: either the one who died in a crash at the 1977 South African Grand Prix, or the one who died in a crash during the 1978 Italian Grand Prix.

Tom Pryce (1977), Ronnie Peterson (1978)

Football

Elroy Hirsch, a three-time Pro Bowler who made the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a career mostly spent with the Los Angeles Rams, had a unique running style in which his lower limbs seemed to “gyrate in six different directions,” per the description of one journalist. This earned him what nickname, made up of two words but often styled as just one compound word?

Crazy Legs