Tackling Those NFL Riddles
Alright, so I spent some time yesterday messing around with some NFL riddles I bumped into online. Not sure why, just felt like a fun little challenge to see if my brain still works when it comes to football stuff outside of just watching the games.
First, I just read through a couple of them. Seemed straightforward enough, you know? Like those trivia questions you hear sometimes. I grabbed a piece of scratch paper, thinking I might need to jot down ideas, but mostly I just tried to work them out in my head.
The first one I tackled was something like, “I fly high in the sky, but my home is near the sea.” Okay, easy start, figured that had to be the Seahawks, right? Felt pretty good about that one. Then another, maybe about a team that’s royalty in the Midwest… Chiefs, yeah, got that one too.
Getting Stuck and Thinking Differently
But then I hit one that really made me pause. It was worded tricky, something about being frozen but famous for heat. My first thought went to teams in cold places, like Green Bay or Buffalo. But the “heat” part threw me off. I thought about players known for “heating up,” but that didn’t quite fit the “frozen” clue. I actually put that one aside for a bit.
I realized I couldn’t just think literally about team names or locations. Some of these needed a bit more sideways thinking. I started breaking down the clues:
- What are the key words?
- Is it about a player, a team, a city, or maybe even equipment or a rule?
- Could it be a pun or some kind of wordplay?
So I went back to that “frozen heat” one. What’s frozen? Lambeau Field, maybe? But the heat… wait, Miami? Dolphins? No, that didn’t fit frozen. Then it clicked – maybe it wasn’t about weather heat, but game heat? Like pressure? Still wasn’t quite getting it solid.
The Breakthrough Moment
I decided to just list things associated with different teams. Players, history, famous plays. For that tricky one, I eventually landed on thinking about nicknames or historical moments. It took a while, maybe 10-15 minutes of just staring at the riddle, before I considered the Miami Dolphins again and the idea of heat vs. the cold sometimes associated with tough defenses or moments. It wasn’t a perfect riddle, perhaps, or maybe I was overthinking it. Some riddles are just like that.
Another one mentioned stripes and making calls but having no phone. Obvious once you stop thinking about players – it’s the referee!
Finishing Up
Spent probably a good 45 minutes to an hour going through about ten or fifteen of these things. Solved most, got stuck on one or two that felt a bit too vague or maybe I just didn’t have the specific piece of trivia needed. Didn’t bother looking up answers, felt that would defeat the purpose. It was just a fun exercise, really.
It’s kind of neat, makes you dredge up old facts and think about the league from different angles than just wins and losses. A decent way to kill some time and exercise the old grey matter with some football flavour. Definitely different from just watching highlights.
