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...that, having made five interceptions–one more than free safety Sean Taylor–and having recorded six quarterback sacks–as many as defensive tackle Cornelius Griffin and one-and-one-half more than outside linebacker Marcus Washington–Washington Redskins cornerback Shawn Springs completed the 2004 season, his first after having left the Seattle Seahawks in free agency, as the first player in National Football League history to have led his team across a single regular season in each of the two statistical categories?
...that, between 1995, the fourth season of the franchise's existence, and 2005, the Hamburg Blue Devils of the German Football League, the bundesliga of American football in the eponymous nation, reached the German Bowl eight times and the Eurobowl five times, becoming Deutscher meister on four occasions and continental champion three times, but won only one two of six championship games contested at AOL Arena, then the home field of the Blue Devils and the NFL Europe team—the Hamburg Sea Devils—for which the Blue Devils are an amateur side, earning the 1996 German Bowl title over the Düsseldorf Panther, 31-12, and the 1998 Eurobowl championship over the Flash de La Courneuve, 21-14, but falling thrice to the fellow North division side Braunschweig Lions and once to the Bergamo Lions?
...that the Mount Union College Purple Raiders, having won the 1996, 1997, and 1998 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III national championships—the first and third over the Rowan University Owls, during the 1990s five times a national championship runner-up and twice a national semifinalist but never a titlist—by a combined score of 161-60, won the 2000, 2001, and 2002 Stagg Bowls and completed each championship season without having conceded a loss, ultimately winning 55 consecutive games, a record across collegiate divisions, before falling in the 2003 national championship to Saint John's University and thereafter compiled a 28-game winning streak and, having won 111 consecutive regular season games, finally lost a non-playoff game for the first time since 1994 in 2005, 21-14, to the Ohio Northern University Polar Bears?

...that, whilst the Everett Hawks and Stockton Lightning, each also a 2006 arenafootball2 expansion team situated in the Western Division of the league's National Conference combined to finish the 2006 season having won just nine games and having lost twenty-three, the Spokane Shock compiled twelve wins across the fourteen-game regular season and, led by Coach of the Year Chris Siegfried and all-pro defensive specialist Rob Keefe, earned playoff victories over the Bakersfield Blitz and Midwest Division champion Arkansas Twisters to reach ArenaCup VII, in which the Shock defeated American Conference titlist Green Bay Blizzard, 57-34, in San Juan, Puerto Rico?
...that Charles Woodson, who in 1997, having principally played for the University of Michigan Wolverines as a cornerback and as a kick returner and only infrequently as wide receiver, became the first National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I defensive player to win the Heisman Memorial Trophy as the most outstanding player in collegiate football, won in the same year the Chuck Bednarik Award and Bronko Nagurski Trophy as the top Division I defensive player, the Jim Thorpe Award as the top Division I defensive back, and the Walter Camp Award as, in the estimation of selected head coaches and sports information directors, the best player in college football, and that, together, University of Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Peyton Manning, the Heisman runner-up and Davey O'Brien Award (as best quarterback), Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award (as best senior quarterback), and Maxwell Award (as best player) winner, and Woodson combined to win eight of the fifteen awards for which Division I players were eligible?
...that, represented in 1960 and 1961 by the Houston Oilers and in 1964 and 1965 by the Buffalo Bills, each twice a winner over the San Diego Chargers (styled in 1960 as the Los Angeles Chargers), the ultimate 1963 league champions, the Eastern Division of the American Football League (AFL) claimed four of the first six titles contested by the league and fielded nine of the seventeen players to have won most valuable player awards conferred by the Associated Press, United Press International, and The Sporting News over that six-season period—including Oilers quarterback George Blanda, AFL Hall of Fame bust pictured, and Boston Patriots flanker and placekicker Gino Cappelletti, selected by each outlet respectively in 1961 and 1964—but nevertheless lost each of the four All-Star games played against the Western Division betwixt 1960 and 1965, by a combined score of 133-79?

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