facts-about-sports

Sports

• Starting in 1990, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls never had a three-game losing streak for eight years.
• Jerry West is the silhouette on the NBA logo.
• Dimples on a golf ball help reduce drag, allowing the ball to fly further than a ball without dimples.
• Cal Ripken, Jr. holds a record for not missing a single game in a whopping 16 years of span.
• The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.
• Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.
• Lou Gehrig is considered as the King of grand slam homers for hitting 23 in the entire span of his career.
• Babe Ruth once said he knew he didn't swing hard enough if "a little poop didn't come out."
• The first American football ball was round.
• When Michael Jordan averaged 37.1 points per game in 1986-87, his Chicago bulls were a sub.500, eighth-seeded playoff team that got swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round.
• The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches.
• Originally, the team from Oakland was named "Oakland Senors" – in honor of the first settlers. But after the local media mocked this name for several days, it was changed to the current "Oakland Raiders".
• Because they both lost so many players to WWII military service, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become the Steagles during the 1943 season.
• Regulation Major League baseball feature exactly 108 stitches.
• The last NFL team, where all the players were white, paradoxically, was the Washington Redskins. The first black football player appeared in this team in 1961, by order of John F. Kennedy.
• In golf, a "Bo Derek" is a score of 10.
• Pittsburgh is the only American city with three sports teams that wear the same colors.
• A record-breaking 92 countries competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.
• There are more than 350 dimples on a golf ball.