{"id":654,"date":"2010-02-08T15:27:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2013-11-19T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:28:29","slug":"the-most-fantastic-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2010\/02\/the-most-fantastic-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Fantastic Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/napoleon-tetherball1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/napoleon-tetherball1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"napoleon-tetherball\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" style=\"margin-right:5px;\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-656\" \/><\/a>In honor of the Super Bowl, let&#8217;s take a look at the sports that actually deserve all the hype.  In other words, people don&#8217;t tune in just to watch the commercials.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, allow me to remind everyone that we are just 115 days until the <strong>Marmaduke<\/strong> movie premieres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#11 Ping Pong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: A deceptively difficult sport.  Until you have played with a person that actually knows what they are doing, you have no idea how much spin they put on the ball.  <\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Forrest Gump<\/p>\n<p><strong>#10 Big Phi Gam Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: You take a giant kick ball, two trash cans, and start tackling the tar out of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Brad Pendleton<\/p>\n<p><strong>#9 Tether Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: We&#8217;ve all played, yet none of us have actually mastered it.<\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Napoleon Dynamite<\/p>\n<p><strong>#8 Hockey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: Hockey was made famous thanks to Sega NHL &#8217;94, still the greatest sports video game ever.  It is well known that playoff overtime hockey is the most exciting moment in sports*.  <\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: The Great One<\/p>\n<p><strong>#7 Okie Noodling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why:  It&#8217;s fishing, with your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ONDIQwQeFEk\">hands<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Skipper Bivins<\/p>\n<p><strong>#6 Cricket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: I would explain how to play, but you are obviously too stupid.  <\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Muttiah Muralitharan<\/p>\n<p><strong>#5 Ultimate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: Dogs! Frisbees!  What&#8217;s not to love?<\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Alex Nord<\/p>\n<p><strong>#4 Basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: Because it was invented in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Larry Bird<\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Knife Fighting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: Because sports are at their best when death is just a flick of the wrist away.<\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Michael Jackson<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2 Soccer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: Because it&#8217;s like football, except you can&#8217;t use your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Pele<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 Quidditch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why: May not be well known by muggles, but the wizarding world swears by it.<\/p>\n<p>Top Athlete: Victor Krum<\/p>\n<p>*Was.  Hockey ceased to exist around the turn of the century and lives on only in the memory of Canadians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the Super Bowl, let&#8217;s take a look at the sports that actually deserve all the hype. In other words, people don&#8217;t tune in just to watch the commercials. BTW, allow me to remind everyone that we are just 115 days until the Marmaduke movie premieres. #11 Ping Pong Why: A deceptively difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2541],"tags":[769,762,763,766,756,768,759,771,770,695,298,772,753,761,773,755,758,754,757,760,765,767,764],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-basketball","tag-big-phi-game-ball","tag-brad-pendleton","tag-cricket","tag-forrest-gump","tag-frisbee","tag-hockey","tag-knife-fighting","tag-larry-bird","tag-list","tag-marmaduke","tag-michael-jackson","tag-napoleon-dynamite","tag-okie-noodling","tag-pele","tag-ping-pong","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-superbowl","tag-tetherball","tag-the-great-one","tag-ultimate","tag-wayne-gretsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}