Trivia
Trivia for December 6, 2019
Question
Week 14 features a pair of high-scoring series. In both Seahawks-Rams games last year, both teams scored 30-plus points, and only a missed field goal at the end prevented it happening again in Week 5. And Kansas City and New England both scored over 30 points in both of their games last year. In the Super Bowl era, what are the only two teams that have scored 30-plus points in three straight games against each other. Both teams featured quarterbacks who were selected in the second half of the first round in the same year.
Answer
Jets and Dolphins in the late ‘80s. Jets had Ken O’Brien, the 24th pick of the 1983 draft; Miami selected Dan Marino three picks later. In the late ‘80s, they had a five-game stretch with a bunch of points.
1987 Jets 37-31 (NY)
1987 Dolphins 37-28 (Mia)
1988 Jets 44-30 (Mia)
1988 Jets 38-34 (NY)
1989 Jets 40-33 (Mia)
1989 Dolphins 31-23 (NY)

