Sports jokes and humor

[sox83cubs84]

Things seem to get more depressing for many of us every day. This thread is designed for Forum members to share jokes and other forms of humor with a sports theme, and hopefully elicit a few LMAOs and +1s.

First off (I believe this originated with Jay Leno):

When Mitt Romney was talking about the "47%", it had nothing to do with voters or people collecting checks from the government. Instead, he was commenting on Dwight Howard's free throw percentage.

Dave Miedema

[Jags Fan Dan]

I always enjoyed Letterman's take on his son's tee ball games. It was something along the lines of "One inning of tee ball is maybe the most exciting four hours in sports."

[xpress34]

Former player and part time spy for the US Government Moe Berg was very well educated and his education was often used against him in jokes.

Moe Berg - he can speak 7 languages fluently, but he can't hit in any of them!

[otismalibu]

Should probably just merge the "Sanchez $20K Jersey" thread with this one.

[coxfan]

Here's a true story from ESPN's early days, though I don't recall the player or teams. A RF caught a pop fly near the stands with one out and a runner on first. Thinking it was the third out, he politely gave the ball to a boy, aged about four, in his father's lap in the front row.

As he trotted away, he saw the runner running wild around the bases. So he went back to the little boy, politely asked for and received the ball, and threw it back to the infield. When the umpires stopped laughing, they ruled it fan interference! Hopefully the little guy got his ball back.

[jppopma]

Detroit Lions....'nuff said!

[flota89]

Here's a true story from ESPN's early days, though I don't recall the player or teams. A RF caught a pop fly near the stands with one out and a runner on first. Thinking it was the third out, he politely gave the ball to a boy, aged about four, in his father's lap in the front row.

As he trotted away, he saw the runner running wild around the bases. So he went back to the little boy, politely asked for and received the ball, and threw it back to the infield. When the umpires stopped laughing, they ruled it fan interference! Hopefully the little guy got his ball back.

I think that might have been Larry Walker. He did it once that I can remember in the 90s.

[coxfan]

When the Washington Redskins around the early 1960's went 1-12-1, a writer said: " They overwhelmed one opponent, underwhelmed twelve, and whelmed one."

[sox83cubs84]

From Jay Leno:
More bad news for A-Rod. It looks like another link has been established between him and a Miami doctor who supplies athletes with steroids and PEDs. You know what this means? A-Rod is now the favorite to win the next Tour De France!


Dave Miedema

[Mark17]

I was a big Raiders fan back in the 1970's (it's been painful lately) and a lot of hilarious stories came out of that bunch. My favorite is Marv Hubbard, drunk of course, attempting to dive off the bar into a shot glass...