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Yes.  (In response to someone else's question, yes, people do read these posts.)

OK the game wasn't competitive (the scoreline of 8-13 to 4-10 says it all) but it was entertaining enough all the same.  I suppose it depends on what you were expecting from a challenge game on an end-of-year trip.  I was very pleasantly surprised they tried as hard as they did. 

And a star-studded turnout in the middle of San Francisco bay, it would be very churlish to complain.  I brought my 7-year-old and he was riveted by it.  The players were all great with signing autographs.  Conor Gormley even took the trouble to find Justin McNulty & point him out to me when I didn't recognize him (can't recognize any Tyrone players without the beards!).

Already fully answered:
1.   Which county has lost the most AIFs?
- Kerry (18)

2.   Name all counties with a 100% record in AIFs.
- Down, Donegal, Limerick.

3.   Name all counties with a 0% record in AIFs (not counting those who've never appeared).
-  Laois, Monaghan, Antrim, London, Waterford, Clare
(Moysider correct)

5.   Which county has waited the longest since its last All-Ireland win?
- Limerick (since 1896)

6.   What's the highest winning score in an AIF?
- Dublin 1977 (5-12) and Kerry 2006 (4-15)

7.   What's the highest losing score in an AIF?
- 2-13 Galway 1973

8.   What's the highest number of goals scored in an AIF?
(I meant total goals)
- 8 in 1977 and another year not answered

Remaining unanswered:
4.   How many AIF's have been drawn?

Has anyone else any questions? The place is infested with questions about soccer and songs and gayness and more soccer, which is just a form of gayness anyway.

For number 3 above, only two of those answers are true if you count hurling AIFs as well.  (Which two?)

Another question: what is the only county with a 100% record in hurling AIFs?

Joe Barrett, Kerry and JJ Reilly, Cavan.

Spot on bosco.

Easy enough one to finish (gotta do some work)....

Name the players who won AI medals as well as an FA cup medal and AI medal as well as an FAI cup medal.

John Kirwan (Dublin 1894, Spurs 1901) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirwan), plus Kevin Moran, for the first.

Definitely not a penalty in my view.  It's interesting to see the multiple variations on justifications for why it would be.  E.g., "O'Mahony moves across his path - with his BACK TO THE BALL - therefore, he is in no position to play the ball or tackle the man".  Er - so what?  If O'Mahony is there first, it's up to Canty to avoid him, not the other way around.  

Similarly, "Canty was already powering through before O'Mahoney moved into his path to body check him" - actually O'Mahony was there first and overshot the target.  It may have been Canty's intended path, doesn't mean it's his by right.  Anyway there was no contact at that point so that part can't have been a foul.

Or "Canty side stepped him and he left his leg out to trip over" - if you're there first you can leave yourself or your leg in his path and it's up to him to avoid you.

The one thing O'Mahony did wrong was to flick with his foot at Canty after O'Mahony had already gone past, maybe making it look like a trip.  But since Canty was already launched in the air, his fall wasn't caused by a trip.

"Elbow and all sorts were going into Canty" -- this one baffles me.  Did this happen in the penalty area?  

A very poor decision and (it seems to me) was very clearly so even at the time.  That's not to say the ref should never get another game, to be honest I've seen much, much worse.  He made some other mistakes but not an above-average number.

Some great comebacks mentioned here, but leaving aside the circumstances, how much time left, etc. etc., what is the greatest comeback in a championship match in terms of points down, and the team coming back to win or draw?

For a football final, I think it's 7: Kerry down 0-4 to 1-8 (after the penalty) in '86.  Also Galway down 0-7 to 0-0 in the first game in 2000.  I don't think any team has ever come back from 8 down in a football final to win or draw.

(If that's correct, then when Star's goal went in after 8 minutes in '06, Mayo were already requiring a record comeback.)

For other football championship games, I don't know.  Is there anything more than Armagh-Fermanagh mentioned here earlier?