19 Random sports facts

Here’s a collection of random sports trivia (as always, not guaranteed):

Most dangerous non-extreme sport: Horse racing.

The fastest anyone has ever served a tennis ball was 154 mph.

Greece and Australia are the only two countries to have been in every modern Olympic game.

In order to play an NFL game, the home team must have at last 36 footballs.

In basketball, a team will get a technical foul if they don’t have 5 players on the court (4 or 6, doesn’t matter).

Pre-1900, prize fights lasted 100 rounds or more.

In 1990, the New York Yankees set a record for the lowest complete games by pitchers: 3.

In Pittsburgh, all major sports teams use gold and/or black, the only city to have this.

The golf ball business in the US grosses over $600 million per year.

The 1972 dolphins were the only team to go undefeated in the NFL.

The only team to lose every game in the NFL was the Detroit lions in 2009.

Jesse Owens, considered an “undesirable” by the Nazis, won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Boxing is supposed to be the easiest sport to fix.

Sweet Georgia Brown: the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Jamario Moon of the Toronto Raptors came into the NBA from the Globetrotters. That year he set the record for the most starts for a rookie in the NBA (71).

The average sumo wrestler is only 80 pounds overweight, with the heaviest sumo wrestler ever weighing 560 pounds.

$20 was paid for Babe Ruth’s 700th home run ball in 1934 (which was a month’s wages).

If you forfeit a football game the final score is ruled as 1-0, where in baseball it is 9-0.

Chris Ford’s claim to fame is that he scored the first three point shot in the NBA

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