29 Vigorous Facts About Sports and Athletes to Pump Up Your Brain

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29 Vigorous Facts About Sports and Athletes to Pump Up Your Brain
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Alright, you guys! We’re down, but we’re not out! There’s still plenty of time to get back in this thing. We just need to dig deep and show those clowns what we’re made of! 

How was that? We’re not the sportiest of fellas, but we’ve seen plenty of sports movies and were hoping to emulate a fired-up coach. Here, you read these sweet sports facts while we go get some real-world experience by joining a Sunday night softball league or something.

Pablo Escobar

FANTASY FOOTBALL CRACKED.COM Drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Mexicano hand-picked a dream team of pro soccer players and flew them to Escobar's private field. Today, fans of every sport play in virtual fantasy leagues, and many believe this was the very first Fantasy game ever played.

Billy Coutu

Billy Coutu LIFETIME BAN CRACKED.COM In the middle of the 1927 Stanley Cup Finals, Coutu's coach allegedly told him to go start a fight. The Wild Beaver artfully orchestrated the brawl by... beating the sh* out of two referees. He's still the only NHL player ever banned from the league for life.

Tennis

The longest point in tennis history took 29 minutes. GRACKED.COM There is no time limit in tennis. In a match between Vicki Nelson and Jean Hepner in 1984, the ball was hit back and forth 643 times before a single point was awarded.

The Great Soccer Con

A former soccer player conned his way into a 20 year career without playing a single game. CRACKED.COM Carlos Kaiser Raposo used every trick to dupe his clubs' coaches, team-mates and fans to live the dream as a globe- trotting pro for two de- cades while barely being able to kick a ball.

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Canada’s Hockey Chant

Public votes that backfired big time PEPSI CANADA'S HOCKEY CHANT Pepsi asked fans to create a cheer for Hockey Canada at a 2010 Men's Hockey Championship. Eh! Oh! Canada! Go! won, but fans hated it. At its height, The Chant is a national embarrassment Facebook page had over 64,000 fans. CRACKED

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Immaculate Innings

There were more 'immaculate innings' in 2017 than from 1929-1952. NEW YORK 34 CRACKED.COM An immaculate inning is when a baseball pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches. 1929 to 1952 saw zero such innings, while there were 8 in 2017 alone.

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College Football

A college student was arrested after she threatened to detonate a nuclear reactor if their football team didn't win. CRACKED.COM The woman posted threats of violence on the Yik Yak app before the game, stat- ing that they would deto- nate the nuclear reactor that is located in the University of Utah causing a mass de- struction.

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Jon Stewart

Sport Celebrities Jon Stewart was a collegiate soccer player for William & Mary. CRACKED.COM

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Olympic Swimmers

An Olympic swimmer had never seen an olympic sized pool before competing. MON SU IDMANI SARAYI Eric Moussambani record- ed the slowest time in 100m freestyle history, but won his heat as all other competitors false started. Не is now the head swim- ming coach of Equatorial Guinea. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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The Earliest Days of The Olympics

CANCELLED GRACKED OLYMPIC EVENTS Baron Coubertin Founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, won the first Gold Medal for Literature in 1912 with his poem Ode to Sport. He used a pseudonym; no-one knew he won until 1919.

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Pistol Pete Maravich

NBA Hall-of-Famer Pistol Pete Maravich JANUARY 5, 1988 CRACKED.COM Pistol Pete died from heart failure while playing a pickup game of basketball at the age of 40. The last thing he said was I feel great!

Ryan Klesko

Major League Baseball player Ryan Klesko hurt his back lifting a lunch A tray. His upper back seized up in a restaurant when he tried to pick up his l

Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti's dad was the commissioner of Major League Baseball. Angelo Bartlett Giamatti gave up his academic profession as the president of Yale U

The USFL

Back in the days of the United States Football League, Donald Trump owned the New Jersey Generals. In a bid to revive the league that began to die aft

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