Sports
The Jump-Roping Rabbi
Rabbi Barry Silberg set a world record in 1975 for jumping rope for five hours. According to Guinness, the current record, set in 2009, is 33 hours 20 minutes. That's not even close. So why such a huge difference? Did shoes get better, or something?
Moline Dispatch - June 25, 1975
Green Bay Press Gazette - Mar 31, 1975
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Category: Sports, World Records
Fan Man
Arguably the most bizarre moment in boxing history: Nov 6, 1993. When a guy (James Miller, aka 'Fan Man') wearing a motorized paraglider crashed into the side of the ring during a match between Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield.The Las Vegas Review Journal looks back on it 25 years later.
The event was so famous that it was memorialized on an episode of The Simpsons:
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 15, 2018 -
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Category: Sports, 1990s
Johnson Smith Catalog Item #38
From the 1930s catalog.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 10, 2018 -
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Category: Johnson Smith Catalog, Sports, 1930s, Brain Damage
Buster, the Roller-Skating Rooster
He ice-skated also!
Davenport Daily Times - Aug 20, 1952
Baltimore Sun - Oct 12, 1952
Newark Advocate - Aug 21, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 17, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, 1950s
Indoor Fishing
Not a new idea.Source of 1931 article.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 01, 2018 -
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Category: Sports, Fish
Iver Johnson, the human cork
For 12 years, Johnson said, he practiced, risking his life time and again trying to “force my body into harmony with the water.”
Johnson had a dream... to achieve something entirely useless.
A couple of years back, I posted about another guy, Norris Kellam, who called himself the 'human cork'. Though Kellam simply floated. He didn't float vertically.
Nephi Times-News - Mar 21, 1957
Chicago Tribune - Apr 7, 1957
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 03, 2018 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Sports, 1950s
George Barris’s Bob Hope Golf Cart
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 23, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Motor Vehicles, Sports, Golf, Outsider Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Head
Unfair Falsies
From June 1970:
Baltimore Evening Sun - Jun 19, 1970
See Valerie Peat in competition:
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 21, 2018 -
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Category: Sports, 1970s
Where’s Huddles?
Sure, why not transplant THE FLINTSTONES into a contemporary NFL setting? That'll be a hit, for sure!
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 04, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Sports, Television, Cartoons, 1970s
Skiing Mt. Everest
May 6, 1970: Japanese extreme skier Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Mt. Everest. And amazingly, he didn't die. The stunt was filmed and was the subject of a 1975 documentary, The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Check out the clip below.Miura later became the oldest person to reach the summit of Everest, climbing it at the age of 70 and again when he was 80.
Burlington Free Press - May 12, 1970
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 21, 2017 -
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Category: Sports, 1970s
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