Incorrect Sports Facts

A collection of rules, statistics, and facts about sports, all of which are completely untrue

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In response to a wave of illegal street races inspired by his debut single, Old Town Road, Lil Nas X built the first NASCAR track in 2019

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The object of fencing is to build your fence as quickly as possible without letting the house escape

[felren13]

this will help when i capture that baba yaga house. thank you.

[agooddaytowhy]

Keep a barrel of grain feed on hand. The Baba Yaga house has a big appetite…and legs.

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This, of course, is where the sport of fencing originated

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fencing academy best student

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A skilled fencer indeed

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Because football (or soccer, in the US) players may only touch the ball with their feet, they must become skilled at walking handstands. Reportedly, some German teams are researching human flight to keep their players' feet from touching anything but the ball, but such research has been fruitless thus far

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The object of fencing is to build your fence as quickly as possible without letting the house escape

[thatfencerdude]

You have no clue how often people call my club asking us to build them a fence

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It’s good practice for your team you should take them up on the offer

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Major League Baseball officially banned celestial assistance in 1995 after public outcry forced them to reevaluate this loophole. The outcry sprang from the scathing Netflix documentary, Angels in the Outfield, which outlined the unfairness of such divine tampering

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Aside from his career in auto racing, Dale Earnhardt Jr also served as the 18th president of the United States

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Competitive sailing was forced to undergo a massive rule change in 1986 when Mike Plant attempted to “sail around the world” in record time by melting a circular trench around the north pole with a flamethrower and traversing the ring in a kayak with an improvised potato sack sail attached. While not strictly against the rules at the time, the judges felt this was not in keeping with the spirit of the sport

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Babe Ruth was a child prodigy in the sport of competitive eating. His signature dish was milk chocolate

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In basketball a shot from half-court can be worth as much as 7 points depending on how impressed the judges were

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It should be

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it is

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Michael Jordan permanently retired from basketball in 1993 to pursue a career in robotics. He subsequently created many lifelike androids of himself, sending them out to attempt their own interests such as baseball, basketball, and acting

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American Football got it’s name because it was invented by the Foot Clan as a training regimen to defeat mutated turtles

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Usain Bolt was known as “the fastest man alive” until a recent Olympic investigation committee uncovered that he is not in fact a man but rather a wild cheetah that wandered onto the track. Usain was allowed to keep his gold medal however, as the same committee found that the U.S.A. had been sending a trained American Antelope to run in the event for the last 20 years

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The current record batting average in the MLB is held by Ty Cobb who was able to catch an astonishing average of 366 bats each game during the opening release

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Seattle Seahawks players are contractually obligated to molt once a season

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The object of fencing is to build your fence as quickly as possible without letting the house escape

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Originally, rugby was played with an ostrich egg. However the eggs were switched to balls after the great emu war of 1932, out of the fear that the ostriches would rise in outrage as their emu cousins did