40 Competitive Bits of Sports Trivia That Were All Vying for the Number One Spot on This List

We didn’t intend for this list to be a ranking, but these sports facts won’t see it that way
40 Competitive Bits of Sports Trivia That Were All Vying for the Number One Spot on This List

Sports facts like to know how they stack up against other sports facts. Heck, even beer-league fact leagues have levels from A to D. So we can reassure them that this is a completely random list, but whichever one ends up in the #1 spot is about to get a huge ego boost. 

Either way, they’re all #1 in our eyes. Go team!

Slamball

Sports Reinvented CLASHERS 12 LATIMORE 33 IT'S SLAMBALL! Invented in 1999 by Mason Gordon, body- checking basketball on trampolines known as SlamBall aired on Spike TV in 2002. It has had sporadic TV stints over the years, including Cartoon Network in 2008, and returns to CBS Sports summer 2023. CRACKED

The Super Fight

Sports Reinvented THE SUPER FIGHT In 1970, Murray Woroner entered Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano's career stats into a computer, pitting them against each other virtually. The boxers filmed a reenactment, where a 13-year retired, toupee-donning Marciano beat Ali. CRACKED

Swimming

Sports Reinvented SWIMMING: VEGAS STYLE In 2019, some of swimming's biggest names competed in the International Swimming League. At Mandalay Bay Events Center, under flashing lights, pulsating music spun by an on-deck DJ, the winning team split $100,000. CRACKED

Lingerie Football

Sports Reinvented ALFLA N THE LINGERIE FOOTBALL LEAGUE The concept of scantily clad girls playing football premiered as the Lingerie Bowl at the 2004 Super Bowl. It began its inaugural season in September 2009, and in 2013 rebranded to the Legends Football League (based in Vegas, of course.) CRACKED

The Super Bowl Shuffle

Sports Reinvented ОГ 7 5 3 83 O 5 THE SUPER BOWL SHUFFLE The historically dominant 1985 Chicago Bears showed their sillier side with the song (and video) The Super Bowl Shuffle. It reached #41 on Billboard, received a Grammy nom, and sold half a million copies (with the proceeds going to charity). CRACKED

Gritty

Sports Reinvented GRITTY: THE PHILADELPHIA FLYERS MASCOT With Philly's Broad Street Bullies era in the '70s, it's clear that the Flyers' identity is things everyone else hates. The newest offense is Gritty, the ugliest, meanest mascot, who terrorizes fans and opposing players. CRACKED

Cy Young

Biggest Loser MLB CRACKED.COM He's better known as the namesake of the yearly award for best pitcher, but Cy Young's prolific career also produced a fair amount of duds. In 22 years, he had a league-record 316 losses.

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls BULLS ه2 CRACKED COM Most pros are contractually barred from playing pickup games, but the best of best have enough leverage to include a love of the game clause. MJ put his to good use, putting in iconic extracurricular performances at a couple UNC alumni games (and also the Olympics).

Charlie Kerfeld

Charlie Kerfeld Houston Astros CRACKED.COM Kerfeld wore number 37, and wanted everyone to know it: he requested a one-year salary of $110,037.37, and 37 boxes of orange Jell-O.

Manny Ramirez

Manny Ramirez Shikoku Island League Plus BOS TON 71 CRACKED.COM When Ramirez went to play ball in Japan in 2017, he had two particularly odd demands: that he could skip practice whenever he wanted, and that he'd be given unlimited sushi.

Rollie Fingers

Rollie Fingers Oakland Athletics CRACKED.COM Fingers had recently won a team mustache-growing contest, so in his contract extension, he stipulated that he'd be provided the finest mustache wax money could buy.

Roger Clemens

Roger Clemens Toronto Blue Jays ovston 22 CRACKED.COM In 1996, the Blue Jays agreed to let Clemens' kids practice in the Skydome, and gave them lockers in the clubhouse right next to their dad's.

10-Year-Old Gold Medalist

The youngest athlete to ever win a medal was 10 years old. Dimitrios Loundras was the youngest athlete to ever medal in the modern Olympics. Не won bronze in gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. CRACKED.COM

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Longest Field Goals Ever

The longest recorded field goal in the NFL is shorter than those in college and high school games. CRACKED.COM The 66 yard kick by Balti- more Ravens' Justin Tucker was under a Nevada high school student's 68 yard goal in 1985. The longest ever recorded was 69 yards, by Ove Johansson at Abilene Christian University.

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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones CRACKED.COM Jones was named first-team All-lvy League after his undefeated 1968 season with the Harvard football team.

Dean Cain

Dean Cain CRACKED.COM Superman was a star on Princeton's football team in the late 80's (when that was extremely impressive), and snagged a league-record 12 interceptions. He was signed to the Buffalo Bills, but dropped out due to injury.

Mark Harmon

Mark Harmon CRACKED.COM The NCIS star and silver fox was once a young gun starting QB for UCLA's football team. He went 17-5 in two years, including a areer-defining upset win over national champs Nebraska.

Most Fruitless Free Throw Shooting

Most Fruitless Freethrow Shooting St.Louis BOMBERS CRACKED.COM Before the NBA, the Basketball Association of America was the premier league for US ballers. At one point in the 1940's, Griff Roux set a record that stands to this day: he took 20 free throws in a single game, and missed every last one.

Shortest Soccer Career

Shortest Career PREMIERE LEAGUE FOOTBALL CRACKED.COM Joe Sheerin was called up from Chelsea's bench at the literal last minute. He was subbed in with less than 60 seconds remaining in their 1997 win over Wimbledon (and never played in another game).

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