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re: Best April's Fools Sports story ever?

Posted on 4/1/16 at 12:08 pm to
Posted by slackster
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Posted on 4/1/16 at 12:08 pm to
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The stories about Sidd are tGOATs.


Even though Sports Illustrated was a no-nonsense publication lending the story a significant amount of credit, the claims are so ridiculous that I have a hard time imagining someone truly falling for it.

Didn't he throw like 150+ mph? I mean, c'mon.
Posted by sms151t
Polos, Porsches, Ponies..PROBATION
Member since Aug 2009
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Posted on 4/1/16 at 12:11 pm to
The best were the photos of Dykstra and Hernandez in the magazine.

That is what gave it even more credibility. SI at the time was the leader in Sports news and where you got your sports news weekly. The Sporting News had began to falter and Sport was a monthly.
Posted by FootballNostradamus
Member since Nov 2009
20509 posts
Posted on 4/1/16 at 2:58 pm to
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Even though Sports Illustrated was a no-nonsense publication lending the story a significant amount of credit, the claims are so ridiculous that I have a hard time imagining someone truly falling for it.

Didn't he throw like 150+ mph? I mean, c'mon.


I think I was like 7 at the time or something. I didn't know what was an wasn't believable. I believed anything an adult told me or that I read in print (god help kids these days who grow up reading the interwebs ).

My favorite was something about them having to move the javelin for the Olympics because he was going to throw it out of the stadium or something like that .
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