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BIG FAT LIES: Sports and Games

Big Fat Lies: Sports and Games

Please answer the following questions.

  1. Which is the lie?

    • Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon was once arrested for hitting a man dressed as a giant Italian sausage.
    • Singer-songwriter James Taylor once served as Philadelphia’s baseball mascot, the Philly Phanatic.

  2. Which is the lie?

    • Lawn darts were banned in the United States in 1988 after causing more than 6,700 injuries and 3 deaths in just 10 years.
    • Croquet was banned by French king Louis XIV because it distracted nobles from the serious sport of fox hunting.

  3. Which is the lie?

    • In 1976, the Chicago White Sox were laughed off the field (at home!) when they played a game in new uniforms featuring Bermuda shorts.
    • Once during a match, tennis superstar Ivan Lendl borrowed a sombrero from a fan to shield his eyes from the glaring sun. He won the game.

  4. Which is the lie?

    • The man who invented disc golf requested that his ashes be distributed and molded into a limited series of Frisbees
    • The man who invented bumper pool also invented the air hockey table.

  5. Which is the lie?

    • The Olympic Games once included such oddities as croquet, motor boating, and tug-of-war.
    • Competitive video gaming will be introduced as a trial event at the 2012 Olympics.

  6. Which is the lie?

    • The video game Frogger originally featured a chicken, not a frog, trying to cross a road.
    • The video game Pac-Man was originally going to be called Puck-Man, but the name was changed to avoid the obvious potential for vandalism on game cabinets.

  7. Which is the lie?

    • To break the current world record for most push-ups in an hour, you’d have to per form them at a rate of about one per second.
    • To break the current hiccup record, you’d have to hiccup for 1,076 hours straight.

  8. Which is the lie?

    • Henry David Thoreau invented solitaire during his two-year experiment in simple living around the shores of Walden Pond.
    • Eleanor Abbott created Candy Land as a diversion for children recovering from polio.

  9. Which is the lie?

    • Terrell Owens wrote a children’s book called Little T Learns to Share.
    • Terrell Owens was voted NFL Man of the Year in 1999

  10. Which is the lie?

    • The game Chinese checkers was invented in America and given an “exotic” name.
    • American football is a misnomer. The game was invented in Toronto.

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