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Jon Gruden Trivia : Craig Shemon’s Home Version Wiki-Pete-ia 19

By Craig Shemon
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - AUGUST 29: Head coach Jon Gruden of the Oakland Raiders looks down the field in the third quarter against the Seattle Seahawks during their NFL preseason game at CenturyLink Field on August 29, 2019 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)

Today is Jon Gruden ‘s birthday.  Craig Shemon here, with the Shemon and Sheppard Show, playing Wiki-Pete-ia every weekday at 4:45-ish on ESPN Southwest Florida!     We will remember the embattled former football coach who won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In case you are not fortunate enough to be lucky caller number nine at 239-337-ESPN, then you are in luck!  Play at home and dazzle your family!  Stump your co-workers with useless knowledge!  Amaze your friends with your newfound intelligence!  Below are the actual questions AND ANSWERS heard during Wiki-Pete-ia on our show.

Jon Gruden was a fiery coach who came up through the college and pro football ranks before rising to fame in the National Football League.  In an ironic twist during his career, he once left the Raiders only to coach against them in the Super Bowl the next year as the coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  After which he left coaching for a long and successful stint as a color analyst for ESPN’s Monday Night Football.  But another return to coaching proved to be a short stint after controversial emails were discovered from his past.  But a lot of people here in the state of Florida still recall his glory years with Tampa.  So, let’s play Wiki-Pete-ia!   Good luck!

Craig Shemon

  • 1. NAME THE 3 NFL CITIES GRUDEN HAS BEEN A HEAD COACH IN?

  • A: OAKLAND, TB, LV

  • 2. WHERE DID GRUDEN GO TO COLLEGE?

  • A: DAYTON

  • 3. IN 1986 GRUDEN GOT HIS FIRST G.A. COACHING JOB WITH WHAT SEC SCHOOL?

  • A: TENNESSEE

  • 4. WHERE WAS GRUDEN THE O.C. JUST BEFORE LANDING THE RAIDERS H.C. JOB THE FIRST TIME?

  • A: PHILLY

  • 5. AS AN ASSISTANT FOR THE PACKERS FROM 1992-94, WHO WAS GRUDEN'S HEAD COACH?

  • A: MIKE HOLMGREN

  • 6. GRUDEN'S DAD WAS AN ASSISTANT AT NOTRE DAME UNDER WHAT HEAD COACH?

  • A: DAN DEVINE

  • 7. WHEN GRUDEN RESIGNED FROM THE RAIDERS IN 2021, WHO REPLACED HIM AS INTERIM HEAD COACH?

  • A: RICH BISACCIA

  • 8. WHEN GRUDEN LEFT MNF, WHO WAS HIS ON-AIR PARTNER?

  • A: SEAN MCDONOUGH

  • 9. WHO WAS HIS PARTNER BEFORE MCDONOUGH?

  • A: MIKE TIRICO

  • 10: IN GRUDEN'S SUPER BOWL VICTORY OVER THE RAIDERS, WHO WAS THE MVP FOR THE BUCS?

  • A: DEXTER JACKSON

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