ANSWER TO QUESTION 6
WITH EXPLANATION
But first,
My Pre-ramble:
I love it when a Question proves to be difficult. Alternately, I hate it when the question ends up being too difficult.
I like the frenzy, anxiety, the excitement of people working, for a while, to find the answer.
But I don't like the feeling, the perception, of people thinking they have the answer, but ending up only hitting a brick wall. I start feeling like the connection has been lost. And I wonder if the hunger is still there, from person to person, not anyone in particular.
The first question was pretty riveting, I felt. A lot of people joined in. But it was new, somewhat mysterious. However, I don't think the intended complexity of this game was thoroughly established and understood.
I'm writing all this because, well, I just want to write all this. This wasn't part of my Trivia Question plan. But today I just feel moved.
During my preparation for new questions, new names, and as I read about former players, I find that some have died, early, as we call it these days. Some tragically. And for the vast majority of ex-players still with us, they, or their names, have been virtually forgotten. But not all.
So I feel just a little bit of pride that in this small space, on this forum that's just one of maybe millions of forums, these players may be remembered and lifted up – not that any of them need it – but remembered and lifted up, however long, for their great achievement of having once been a San Francisco 49er.
The Thought Process into Question 6
As I mentioned earlier, I used a single grammatical manipulation which established the difficulty of the question. That manipulation was the use, or misuse, of a capital letter in one of the words.
I had thought that a casual narrowing down of players that were on four 49er Super Bowl winning teams would in fairly short time figure out this star player.
I also figured that all of the five 49ers last-named Young would quickly be eliminated, as none of them earned 4 Super Bowl rings.
SmokeyJoe started on the right track. His guess of a player from Brigham Young University was most definitely headed in the right direction. In so doing, SmokeyJoe correctly figured out that "Young" carried a far DIFFERENT meaning than somebody's name, or his last name.
Young was unnecessarily capitalized.
The first line should instead read: The 49ers most successful young. In my Webster's New World Dictionary, the fourth definition for the word 'young' is: inexperienced.
So, for this trivia question,
young = inexperienced = rookie
He was the 49ers' most accomplished Rookie player.
Ronnie Lott – DB – 1981-1990, Southern California
[Finished 2nd in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting, to Lawrence Taylor]
I look forward to Question 7, next week.
Right now, there will be no more Tuesday nights, when I would have to cut the session short, until further notice.
I sincerely believe that the questions to come will be thoroughly enjoyable.
Thanks again for all your time, and attention. Good job krizay!
Isosceles
