50 Interesting Fun Cool Facts about Sports You Probably Didn't Know

 

What are some of the interesting facts about sports? Golf is the only sport that has ever been played on the moon. Or that an MLB baseball has a lifespan of five to seven pitches? And did you know that there are only two days a year when no professional MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL game is played? We will discuss about some interesting facts about sports. Keep reading.

These statistics are entertaining even if they won't affect your betting approach. Who knows, maybe the next time you place a wager, a new record will be broken and a new piece of sports trivia will be established. Alternatively, perhaps these sports facts can help you win the next game of trivia night. Continue reading to learn these 50 remarkable, unique, and highly interesting facts about sports.

Interesting facts about sports

Lets enjoy these interesting facts about sports!

Olympics

• Corubus of Elis, a cook, won the first known Ancient Olympic race in 776 BC. He took first place in the stadium event, a 200-yard sprint.
• The Olympic gold medals are silver-plated, although they were once genuine gold. They were pure gold for the final time in 1912.
• The five colors yellow, green, red, black, and blue may be seen on every flag in the globe. This is why they were picked to represent the Olympic rings with their colors.
  

Sports Rule

• President Teddy Roosevelt wanted to make sure that players were safe, so he threatened to outlaw football unless they improved player safety. As a result, the rules were changed and the forward pass was introduced. An incomplete forward pass now results in a 15-yard penalty, according to the new rule.
• The host team must furnish 36 balls for outdoor games and 24 balls for indoor games, according to NFL regulations. They must be ready for the referee's inspection two hours before the game.
• In baseball, a forfeited game is recorded as a 9-0 score. This is the amount of innings that are scheduled to be played in each game.
• Rugby was the forerunner of football. In 1882, new regulations were implemented to Rugby, allowing each side to score three tries in order to move the ball five yards. Originally, touchdowns were awarded four points apiece.
  

NBA

• In the NBA, no player has ever had a quintuple-double, and only four players have ever had legitimate quadruple-doubles with all positive stats. Alvin Robertson had 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists, and 10 steals, Hakeem Olajuwon had 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists, and 11 blocks, and David Robinson had 34 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, and 10 blocks.
• Muggsy Bogues (5′ 3′′) is the NBA's smallest player, while Manute Bol (7′ 7′′) is the league's tallest player. They used to be on the same squad (Washington Bullets).
• Shaq has tried 22 three-pointers in his career, but just one has been made through the bank shot.
  

Athletics

• Barry Bonds, the all-time MLB home run leader, is the sole member of the 500/500 home run and steals club, as well as the 400/400 home run and steals club.
• Steve Young, the Hall of Fame quarterback for the NFL, attended Brigham Young University. This college is named after Brigham Young, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Steve Young's great-great-great-grandfather.
• Kevin Nash, the legendary wrestler, was a top basketball recruit out of Michigan. After Magic Johnson, he was the second most sought after.
• "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run," said Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry. It was 1963 at the time. Perry blasted his first and only home run six years later, just hours after Neil Armstrong landed onto the lunar surface.
• Babe Ruth got his 700th home run baseball by giving a $20 reward to the fan who caught it.
• Cal Hubbard is the only individual to be inducted into the Halls of Fame in both football and baseball.
• Pelé is the only player in history to have been a member of three World Cup winning teams.
• At the age of eight, Tiger Woods hit his first hole in one.
• Only Brett Favre, Tom Brady, and Jerry Rice have played in more than 300 games without kicking a field goal.
• During the game, the referee enforces the sports rules.
• In 45 minutes, Jesse Owens broke three world records and matched another. Owens matched the world record for the 100-yard sprint and broke the world marks for the 220-yard dash, 220-yard low hurdles, and running broad jump.
• Wilt Chamberlain has never been fouled out of an NBA game.
  

Soccer

• The host country has only won six World Cups in its history.
• Over the course of a single game, soccer players run an average of seven miles apiece. This is a player-by-player metric.
  

NFL

• Here's another fun tidbit about Pittsburgh sports. In 1943, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles both lost so many players to WWII that they merged to form the Steagles for the season.
• In a game between the Denver Broncos and the Jacksonville Jaguars, the NFL's greatest point spread was set. In the second week of 2013, Denver was favored by 26.5 points.
• From 1991 through 1994, the Buffalo Bills appeared in four Super Bowls in a row, all of which they lost.
• Paul Hubbard, a deaf quarterback, was the first in football to employ the "round formation huddle" to ensure that his teammates could understand his hand movements.
• The Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Pittsburgh Penguins all wear the same color scheme. It's the only city where all of the main sports teams wear the identical black and gold uniforms.
  

Surprising Sports Facts

• In the 16th century, the popular yo-yo toy was used as a weapon in the Philippines before being disseminated as a toy in the United States in 1929. At the time, it weighed four pounds and had a 20-foot chord.
• Curb Your Enthusiasm, an HBO comedy, reportedly saved a guy from being wrongfully convicted of murder. On the night of the murder, Larry David's critically regarded series was filming at Dodger Stadium. Juan Catalan was miraculously recorded by their cameras, demonstrating both his alibi and his innocence.
• Harry Chiti, a former MLB catcher, was transferred from the Cleveland Indians to the New York Mets in 1962 for an unnamed player. Chiti became that "player to be named later" after a terrible performance, making him the first player ever to be traded for himself.
  

Golf

• The balls were initially constructed of feathers and leather in the early versions of golf. Feathers were wet and firmly wrapped around the leather to aid in drying. It took a long time to make them, and they were notoriously unreliable.
• Alan Shepard, the commander of Apollo 14 and the first Mercury astronaut, became the first American to tee off on the lunar surface in 1971. The ball traveled "miles and miles," according to Shepard.
• Professionals have a 12,500 to 1 probability of hitting a hole in one, while amateurs have a 2,500 to 1 chance.
  

Showcase Endurance

• The longest tennis match was played at Wimbledon in 2010, when John Isner of the United States defeated Nicolas Mahut of France in an 11-hour and 5-minute encounter. It took three days to complete.
• Brandon Belt of the San Francisco Giants faced Jaime Barria of the Los Angeles Angels in 2018 for the longest MLB at-bat since 1988. A fly ball out finished this at-bat.
• In his career, Barry Bonds received 1,870 inadvertent walks and 688 deliberate walks. As a major league baseball player, he walked a total of 43.6 miles.
• Despite most games lasting over two and a half hours, the average real playing time in an MLB game is nine minutes and 55 seconds.
• Larry Lewis holds the world record for the fastest 100-yard sprint time of 17.8 seconds. For runners over 100, he set a new world record of 101.
  

MLB

• Mickey Mantle has the most home runs and RBIs in World Series games, with 18 and 40 respectively.
• Major League Baseball umpires are required to wear black underwear while on the job in order to avoid disaster if their pants rip.
• While playing outfield, Babe Ruth utilized a cabbage leaf that had been refrigerated in the icebox to keep him cool. While he was playing, he wore it beneath his cap.
• The Pittsburgh Pirates became the first professional club to deploy nine black or Latino players in August 1971. They won the World Series the next season.
• Major League Baseball clubs are estimated to consume over 850,000 balls every season.
• In 1998, Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs, which soared over 30 thousand feet higher than Mount Everest.
  

NASCAR and horse racing

• Instead of air, most NASCAR teams employ nitrogen in their tires. This is due to the fact that nitrogen expands and contracts at a considerably more steady pace than air.
• Every year, between two and three jockeys are slain. Who's to argue that horse racing isn't a risky sport?
• At horse races, the favored horse usually wins approximately 30% of the time.