From QB Questions to Hall of Fame Friends ❓➡️🏆

Sep 09, 2025

NFL Week 1 is done. The college football rankings are all scrambled. And two friends-turned-legends hit milestones in the same summer.

Let’s dive in. ⬇️

1️⃣ Quarterback Question ❓

Yesterday, we asked: Which young QB makes a big jump on Monday Night Football?

🎥 Hit play and decide for yourself! (Jump ahead to the start of the second half at 8:38 in the video.)

Final score: Vikings 27, Bears 24. Another comeback… just like Josh Allen and the Bills on Sunday night.

So how’d the QBs do?

For the Bears, Caleb Williams came out firing: 10 straight completions plus a rushing touchdown. But the Bears’ offense cooled off in the second half as they blew a 17–6 lead.
J.J. McCarthy messed up on that pick-six in the third quarter… but then bounced back. He became the first QB in NFL history to havee three TDs in the fourth quarter of his first game.

Talk about a tale of two halves.

And that’s a wrap on Week 1. Before we move on, click here to watch the plays that defined it.

2️⃣ Poll Puzzle 🧩

Let’s go college football!

We’ve already seen giant upsets and scoreboards that looked like video games.

Oregon crushed Oklahoma State; image courtesy MSN

The big picture? It’s still too early to know what’s going to happen.

Just ask the AP Poll voters… trying to rank the top 25 right now is like juggling water balloons. 🎈💦

Check out the picture below. Last week’s rankings on the left, this week’s on the right. Some teams climbed in. Some dropped out. Most shuffled spots.

👀 Here’s your challenge: how many teams stayed totally frozen? Didn’t move at all. 🥶

🕵️ Did you and your grown-up get the same answer?

3️⃣ Hall of Fame Friends 🏆

Yesterday, we read about Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford. 60,000 career passing yards, just the 10th QB in NFL history to get there.

You might also remember a different milestone from July. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw. 3,000 strikeouts, just the 20th pitcher ever with that many.

Clayton Kershaw joins 200-win club as Dodgers blank Mets - Los Angeles Times — Kershaw; image courtesy Los Angeles Times

That’s already pretty cool: two great athletes, two giant milestones, in the same summer.

But here’s where it gets really special.

Los Angeles Dodgers on X: "Did you know that Clayton Kershaw and Matthew Stafford were teammates and grew up together? https://t.co/5R0gRLcP0v" / X — Stafford and Kershaw as pros; image courtesy @Dodgers via X

Stafford and Kershaw actually grew up together. They went to the same high school: Highland Park in Dallas. And they even graduated in the same year: 2006!

Stafford and Kershaw as kids; image courtesy Bleacher Report

And back then? They weren’t just classmates… they were teammates. In baseball, Stafford played shortstop and sometimes catcher. Kershaw was the left-handed ace (pitcher).