Before there was Drew Brees and Johnny Manziel, there was Fran Tarkenton. Tarkenton earned plenty of personal honors during his professional career. He was named to nine Pro Bowl teams. Tarkenton was the AP Offensive Player of the Year for 1975. He led the NFL in completions and in passing yards in 1978.
The explosive that was World War One had been long in the stockpiling; the spark was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.uch were the mechanics that brought the world's major nations into the war at one time or another. It's clear from the summary above that the alliance system was as much at fault as anything in bringing about the scale of the conflict.
Causes of the war. There was no single event that caused World War One (WWI). War happened because of several different events that took place in the years building up to 1914. Firstly, there was the role of empire.Great Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia all had empires. This meant that they ruled many countries all over the world.owever, the trigger for the beginning of WWI occurred on 28 June 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was shot while he was visiting Sarajevo in Bosnia. He was killed by a Serbian person, who thought that Serbia should control Bosnia instead of Austria.