{"id":111919,"date":"2025-08-02T03:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111919\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:12:12","slug":"super-bowl-winning-quarterback-chasing-another-title-by-competing-in-pop-a-shot-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111919\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl-winning quarterback chasing another title by competing in Pop-A-Shot National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Johnson played 15 NFL<\/a> seasons from 1992 to 2008, but he’s still finding ways to compete to this day. The 56-year-old Super Bowl-winning quarterback is set to participate in the Pop-A-Shot National Championship on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Johnson will be one of eight competitors in the event<\/a>, which takes place in Orlando. Johnson competed in a regional qualifier back in May in St. Louis and turned in the third-highest score (137 points) to receive a wild card invitation to the national championship.<\/p>\n

Johnson and the rest of the field will be looking to defeat Josh Caputo of Montgomery, Illinois, the reigning champion.<\/p>\n

“I’m an ’80s kind of guy — all the music and video games, and especially the arcade,” Johnson told The Athletic<\/a>. “At every bowling alley, at every arcade, there was a Pop-A-Shot, and I’ve just always enjoyed it. Every sports bar, I found a challenge and tried to play somebody or tried to put up the high score.”<\/p>\n

According to The Athletic, Johnson has been practicing heavily, attempting up to 1,700 shots per day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnson — who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, and Dallas Cowboys<\/a> — does have a basketball background. After all, he was an all-state player at Owen High School in Black Mountain, North Carolina, in the late 1980s. He ended up playing both basketball and football at Florida State and shot 51.8% from the field over the course of his collegiate career.<\/p>\n

The popular arcade game was originally created by a college coach named Ken Cochran at Kansas Wesleyan University. In Pop-A-Shot, the mini basketballs roll back to the shooter as they attempt their shots. Those who excel at Pop-A-Shot do so because of their ability to get off a ton of shots in the allotted time period.<\/p>\n

The player with the most made shots doesn’t necessarily win when it comes to Pop-A-Shot. In fact, it’s the player with the highest overall score that actually wins the arcade game. The shots have different value based on timing with values of two or three points. Each Pop-A-Shot round lasts a total of 55 seconds.<\/p>\n

Even for a Super Bowl-winning signal caller like Johnson, the competition is fierce.<\/p>\n

“They’re there to win, and they want to beat me,” Johnson told The Athletic. “There’s no, ‘Hey, good to meet you. I kept up with your career.’ They want to beat you, and they want to beat you bad.”<\/p>\n

Johnson will be the oldest participant in Friday’s event, which features a field of mostly players in their early 40s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Johnson played 15 NFL seasons from 1992 to 2008, but he’s still finding ways to compete to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[8998,1318,8812,1317,1315,1316,1232,62,3528,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-111919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114956989039219842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}