I would go with the first one, that was the one that got the gigantic monkey off their back. '98 was just a victory lap to show everyone how good they really were, but they'd already exorcised all those playoff demons.
Technically, Payton wasn't responsible for Bountygate, DC Gregg Williams was. A better analogy would be to find a coordinator or assistant that helped with Spygate or maybe Deflategate.
If you're going to be editing the quiz anyway to take out the Georgia Dome, you should probably take out Ragnar as well. He and the Vikings parted ways a couple years ago over a contract dispute.
Kinda dated....Knowshon, Plaxico, Maurice Jones-Drew, Victor Cruz are all on this page and didn't turn out to be hall of famers like Joe Namath and John Elway.
1985/1997 question threw me for a loop but figured it out. Also got stuck on the Wentz question (only one I missed), since I was only thinking about current and not in terms of who started in their place in the SB due to injury.
Shouldn't Halas also be an answer to the Packers/Lambeau? Founder of the NFL, played, coached and ran the team from inception, both members of the the original Hall Of Fame Class?
If you habitually let them head coaches off the hook for assistants' indiscretions by claiming ignorance...you end up with college basketball.