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Some odd facts from different sports...
Major League Baseball umpires are required to wear black underwear while on the job in case they split their pants.
In the NFL, the home team must provide 36 footballs for outdoor games and 24 for indoor games.
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
It's been said that players with brown eyes are better hitters than those with blue eyes.
Those with darker eyes can spot the white ball easier.
Wrestler Kevin Nash was once the second most recruited player out of Michigan, behind none other than Magic Johnson.
Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
The NFL estimates that more than 100 children are conceived every year at tailgate parties in the Super Bowl parking lot.
Despite not playing baskeball since high school, Bruce Jenner was drafted No. 139 by the NBA’s Kansas City Kings after winning the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Olympics.
Starting in 1990, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls never had a three-game losing streak for eight years.
Joe Gibbs is the only coach to win the Super Bowl with three different quarterbacks.
Michael Jordan’s nickname is high school was Magic, after Magic Johnson.
James Fixx, the creator of the word “jogging” died from a heart attack while jogging.
**** Hoyt and his son Rick, who is fully paralyzed, have participated in countless sporting events under the name “Team Hoyt”. The two even completed six Iron Man events together. **** first swam 2.5 miles, pulling his son in a boat behind him, then rode a bicycle over the roads for 112 miles, before pushing him in a wheelchair for another 26.2 miles.
Finland has hosted the official “Wife Carrying World Championship” since 1992. In this competition, men carry their wives as fast as possible over a long obstacle course. In the end, the winner receives his wife’s weight in beer.
In 1957 a senior woman had to be brought out of a baseball stadium after being hit in her face by a baseball. When the paramedics were carrying her out, a second ball hit her.
In 1923, a dead rider finished first in a horse race in New York. The rider suffered a heart attack during the race and the horse carried the dead body to the finishing line
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Major League Baseball umpires are required to wear black underwear while on the job in case they split their pants.
In the NFL, the home team must provide 36 footballs for outdoor games and 24 for indoor games.
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
It's been said that players with brown eyes are better hitters than those with blue eyes.
Those with darker eyes can spot the white ball easier.
Wrestler Kevin Nash was once the second most recruited player out of Michigan, behind none other than Magic Johnson.
Basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
The NFL estimates that more than 100 children are conceived every year at tailgate parties in the Super Bowl parking lot.
Despite not playing baskeball since high school, Bruce Jenner was drafted No. 139 by the NBA’s Kansas City Kings after winning the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Olympics.
Starting in 1990, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls never had a three-game losing streak for eight years.
Joe Gibbs is the only coach to win the Super Bowl with three different quarterbacks.
Michael Jordan’s nickname is high school was Magic, after Magic Johnson.
James Fixx, the creator of the word “jogging” died from a heart attack while jogging.
**** Hoyt and his son Rick, who is fully paralyzed, have participated in countless sporting events under the name “Team Hoyt”. The two even completed six Iron Man events together. **** first swam 2.5 miles, pulling his son in a boat behind him, then rode a bicycle over the roads for 112 miles, before pushing him in a wheelchair for another 26.2 miles.
Finland has hosted the official “Wife Carrying World Championship” since 1992. In this competition, men carry their wives as fast as possible over a long obstacle course. In the end, the winner receives his wife’s weight in beer.
In 1957 a senior woman had to be brought out of a baseball stadium after being hit in her face by a baseball. When the paramedics were carrying her out, a second ball hit her.
In 1923, a dead rider finished first in a horse race in New York. The rider suffered a heart attack during the race and the horse carried the dead body to the finishing line
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