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1. Where was the first Super Bowl Played between the Packers and Chiefs?

2. Who scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?

3. Who is the leading lifetime rusher in Super Bowl history?

4. What team has won the most Super Bowls with 6?

5. Who is the youngest head coach to have ever won a Super Bowl?

6. What wide out caught the game winning TD with less than a minute to go in Super Bowl XXIII?

7. What kicker missed the game-winning field goal in the final seconds of Super Bowl XXV?

8. Where was Super Bowl XX held?

9. Name the four current Franchises that have never been to a Super Bowl

10. Who was the MVP of Super Bowl XVI?

11. What was odd about the first points scored in Super Bowl IX?

12. Where was last years Super Bowl (XLIII) held?

13. Name the four coaches to have lost four Super Bowls

14. What Falcon took back a kickoff for a touchdown in Super Bowl XXXIII?

15. What Colt kicker hit the game-winning kick in Super Bowl V vs Dallas?

16. Who was the MVP of Super Bowl XIV?

17. How many touchdowns did Steve Young throw in Super Bowl XXIX?

18. Who was the coach of the Colts when they lost to the Jets in SB III?

19. Who sang the National Anthem at last years Super Bowl (XLIII)?

20. What WR came up a yard short of the game-tying TD on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV?

Despite not getting the Texans to the playoffs under his watch, the Texans have extended the contract of coach Gary Kubiak. Reports say that the deal will keep him wiith the Texans through the 2012 season.

The new deal voids the last year of the five-year contract he signed when he joined the team in 2006 and is for the next three seasons according to the Houston Chronicle and Houston television station KRIV. He told the two outlets he wanted this so his contract would end the same year as his assistant coaches.

The Texans went 9-7 for their first winning record this season, but came just short of reaching the playoffs for the first time. Kubiak, who spent 11 years as Denver’s offensive coordinator before coming to Houston, took over the team after it posted a franchise-worst 2-14 record.

The Houston Chronicle reports that owner Bob McNair is talking about an extension for coach Gary Kubiak:

Texans owner Bob McNair is working on a multi-year contract extension for coach Gary Kubiak that could be completed as early as next week. Kubiak has one year left on the five-year, $10-million contract he signed to become the Texans coach in 2006. Kubiak’s new deal is expected to extend through the 2013 season and perhaps longer, according to McNair.

Texans linebacker Brian Cushing will not play in the 2010 Pro Bowl. The 2009 AP NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year withdrew from from the game on Friday due to lingering injuries. Cushing played through foot, knee and rib injuries along with a broken finger in the final games of his rookie season.

The Houston Chronicle reports that Matt Schaub is taking Tom Brady’s spot on the AFC Pro Bowl roster:

Texans quarterback Matt Schaub has been added to the AFC Pro Bowl roster after New England’s Tom Brady was forced to pull out due to an injury, the NFL released on its Web site late Tuesday night. Schaub, who will be making his first Pro Bowl appearance, led the NFL in passing with 4,770 yards this season. Schaub joins wide receiver Andre Johnson, defensive end Mario Williams and linebackers Brian Cushing and DeMeco Ryans as Texans representatives on the AFC roster.

The Texans are coming off another non-playoff season, and today they made a move to upgrade the offense, and it came in the form of hiring Rick Dennison as the teams new offensive coordinator.

After spending 24 years in Denver as a player and assistant coach, Broncos offensive line coach Rick Dennison is leaving to become the Texans’ new offensive coordinator. Dennison, 51, will be reunited with coach Gary Kubiak. They played together for eight years (1983-90) and coached together for 11 (1995-05). “I’m really excited about this opportunity Gary’s giving me,” Dennison said Tuesday night. “It’s something that doesn’t come along very often. I know Gary very well, and this is another chance to work with him.”

Just in case you were wondering, the Texans have the toughest schedule in the league for 2010.

Broncos offensive line coach Rick Dennison is a strong candidate for the Texans’ offensive coordinator job, according to league sources. Dennison has strong ties to Texans coach Gary Kubiak from their time together in Denver and is a front-runner to replace Kyle Shanahan, who is leaving Houston to join his father, Mike, in Washington. The Titans have blocked their offensive line coach, Mike Munchak, from interviewing with the Texans for the offensive coordinator job.

From the first practice in training camp until the last game, Brian Cushing was a tackling machine for the Texans.

That’s exactly what the team sought when it chose the linebacker from Southern Cal 15th overall in the draft last April. What the Texans also got is The Associated Press 2009 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.

Cushing was a runaway winner in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the league. Cushing received 39 votes Tuesday, easily beating Buffalo safety Jairus Byrd, who had six, and became the second Texans linebacker in four seasons to win the award. DeMeco Ryans took it in 2006.

“I’m just a much smarter football player,” Cushing said. “I’m much more advanced than I was this time last year and it was just a good way to start out a career. I’m happy about how everything turned out this year. Of course the playoffs would have been nice, but now we know what we have to do for next season.”

This season, Cushing had 133 tackles, 86 of them primary, according to the Texans, who went 9-7, their first winning record. Cushing’s best game might have been his nine solo tackles, one sack and an interception in a victory over Miami on Dec. 27.