Can anybody give me some neat/cool facts about any sports????
give me as many as u can think of
2007-11-17 14:30:27 · 7 answers · asked by |2yan 3 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
My favorite cool fact is that when you run a marathon as just a regular average runner (like at the Chicago Marathon, for example) you are running the same course on the same day during the same event as athletes who are setting world records. Marathon running is the only sport I can think of that average athletes can particiate with world-record holders in the exact same event. Way cool!
2007-11-17 14:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by DrM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In early Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled:
Gentlemen Only - Ladies Forbidden....
And thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WW II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Dueling (oakay, not really a sport) is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The "huddle" in football was formed due to a deaf football player who used sign language. To communicate with his team, but not wanting the opposition to see the signals he used, he had the team surround him, and in turn, invented the huddled.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during
wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. NOT Yankee great, Babe Ruth.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after, the
Major League all-stars Game.
2007-11-17 14:45:01 · answer #2 · answered by SARswimmer95 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try This
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/868-freaky-sports-facts
Thanks For Your Time
2007-11-17 14:33:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The above stated Alexei Ramirez wins palms down if that replaced into the image Yahoo used. I dont think of they do in spite of the undeniable fact that. My buddy and that i couldnt end giggling everytime he have been given as much as bat on the Sox game final week.
2016-12-16 11:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.llwsc.org/historyofskiing.doc
Water skiing originated in Lake City, Minnesota.
2007-11-18 02:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by cowgirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A-Rod just became the highest payed baseball player of all time.
2007-11-17 14:35:09 · answer #6 · answered by Bulldog 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In other countries they call soccer football. We call it football but it doesn't have anything to do with the foot.
2007-11-17 14:33:15 · answer #7 · answered by dormi22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋