Could This 20-Year-Old Woman Become the First Female NFL Player?

She Has What it Takes

Becca aced the tryouts, sinking 23 of the 25 attempted field goals. Blankenship was impressed; he offered her a scholarship to kick for Adams State. Becca was in shock. She told CNN, “Everybody who has it on video said my jaw dropped to the floor.”

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The More You Know

  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine.
  • The first TV commercial didn't air until the 1940s.
  • Pizza only became popular in the United States after American troops occupying Italy during World War 2 became hooked on it and then popularized it back home.
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