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Paywall, but essentially, NFL is divvying up international markets to the 32 franchises. They all will have a specific region theyll promote the game and bring along international players.

 

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This is pretty epic on face value, obviously camera trickery, still....

 

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He just wanted them to stop playing ps4 and bake some cookies for him.

 

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Fart prank compilations....

 

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He just wanted them to stop playing ps4 and bake some cookies for him.

fake as ****

 

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Wayne Gretzky dominated his sport unlike anyone. Don Bradman too.

Some others...?

Alan Francis is the greatest horseshoe pitcher in history.

He began competing when he was 9, and before he turned 18 he won a record 4 Junior Boys World Championships, the first of which he won at the age of 12 in 1982. He competed in his first world championship in 1978, held in Des Moines. He is the youngest world champion in history. He has the highest ringer percentage in history, and the most consecutive wins in history.

He has won the World Horseshoe Championship 25 times, in 1989, 1993, 1995–1999, 2001, 2003–2010, 2012–2019 and 2021.
From 1993 to 2021 Someone else won the title 4 times and 2020 was canceled. That’s unparalleled consistency winning the biggest title of your sport. It might not be glamorous, it is probably not considered a sport in most places. But that kind of dominance is something else.

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Aleksandr Karelin would do it for Greco-Roman wrestling. 887 wins and 2 losses and nobody scored a single point against him for 10 consecutive years.

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Buakaw Banchamek, 239 wins and 24 losses in Thai kickboxing is more impressive than anyone in team sports.

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Michael Phelps??

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Statistical analysis of top performers in sport with emphasis on the relevance of outliers - Sports Engineering

This paper presents the findings of statistical analysis of the top career performances by men in a range of well-known sports. The analytical techniques applied are commonly used in engineering hydrology for the analysis of extreme rainfalls, floods and droughts. Initially, the raw data sets...

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This paper presents the findings of statistical analysis of the top career performances by men in a range of well-known sports. The analytical techniques applied are commonly used in engineering hydrology for the analysis of extreme rainfalls, floods and droughts. Initially, the raw data sets were assumed to be normally distributed but because the data sets were often highly skewed, the results from logarithmically transformed data sets were preferred in most instances. For each activity analyzed in each sport studied the main results were the Z-score and performance ratio of the rank 1 performer. These parameters are both dimensionless, and hence it was possible to use these parameters to directly compare the rank 1 performers in each of the sports studied. While for most data sets the very top performances were of similar standing from a statistical viewpoint there were several notable exceptions, which appeared to be classical statistical outliers.

These suspected outliers were the performances of Don Bradman, an Australian cricketer; Jack Nicklaus, an American golfer; David Campese, an Australian rugby union player; and Wayne Gretzky, a Canadian and American ice hockey player.

Longevity, as a top sportsman, was an important factor in the great performances of Nicklaus and Campese and, to a lesser degree, Gretzky. However, longevity was not an important factor in Bradman's career. Hence it was concluded that Bradman's performances were more extraordinary than any other sportsman and that it can be strongly argued that he, was the greatest ever sportsman.

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Hockey is a 6 v 6 sport. Football is a 11 v 11 or 22 v 22 sport depending on how you look at it.

So Gretzky was 16.7% of his team. A football player is 4.5% or 9.1% of thier team. So a player would have to be twice as good as Gretzky to have a similar impact, and even then he would only play one side of the ball.

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Hockey rotates out lines, you play maybe 15-20 mins max even as first line. So Gretzky was actually even less of a percentage of total team time/play. Unlike the NFL where the QB touches every offensive snap, even the best hockey player is maybe getting 1/20 touches. It really gets spread around.

Gretzky's dominance is just so much it makes you think starters play all game or something. It is really hard to state to non-hockey fans how utterly absurd his production was. The nickname The Great One isn't given lightly. To my knowledge no other athlete has ever been dubbed that, even the great Michael Jordan. You can only shake your head at it.

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Mario Lemieux was pretty close to Gretzky. A rival points scorer.

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Wilt Chamberlain ??

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An AFL team in the Top End? It’s not as out there as you might think

The Northern Territory’s bid for an AFL team is unlike anything seen in Australian sport.

www.theage.com.au

 

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I am sure there are some famous people in there, maybe picture one or two of them. But also, everyone probably still can sing along to the lyrics.

 

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The 90s were so tacky

 

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The original "full of life" song that turned into the Mentos jingle

 

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According to my research, “Fresh Goes Better” was written by Deutsch composer John A. Groves sometime during the 90s. This song (often addressed to as a jingle) was also included in the soundtrack of the famous movie ‘Clueless’ (1995).

He is considered one of the pioneers of what’s called ‘sound branding’, which he’s been working in since the 80s. He worked for several brands including Bacardi: search for ”Sippin’ on Bacardi rum” in his official channel.

 

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Future NFL wide receiver

 

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First time Ive heard of the fella. But wow, what an amazing story, meteoric rise and fall, with everything in between for a drama.

 

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First time Ive heard of the fella. But wow, what an amazing story, meteoric rise and fall, with everything in between for a drama.

Without watching the clip I'm pretty sure he played a few games in Australia at some stage as a guest player

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what a amazing cover of one of my favs, not often a cover does the original justice but this is beautiful

 

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someone mixed the cover and original also, gods work