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.
10 Events that Led to World War I. World War I was caused by a combination of several factors but above all, it was caused by the tensions between the European powers and crisis of the balance-of-power system that divided Europe into two camps. While one camp, joining Great Britain, France and Russia (Triple Entente) strove to preserve the fragile balance between the European great powers, the second camp that formed around German Empire, Austria-Hungary and Italy (Central Powers) was challenging it.