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re: 10 Insane Sports Facts
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:12 pm to WITNESS23
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:12 pm to WITNESS23
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It's not. They have pregnant women and children who can bust out 80 mile runs...
The being drunk part is what makes it unbelievable.
Also this
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But what it does not say is anything about doing it without any breaks. That's what I found to be bullshite. No way any living creature can run nonstop for 200 miles in 48 hours without falling over dead.
There is no way they don't stop (even if it's just 15-30 minutes), rest and eat.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 12:16 pm
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Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:15 pm to ilushkin
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If you play a professional sport, you need to pay an income tax. That is, to each state you play against. For a Red Sox player, this means 17 different tax bills.
Really??
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:15 pm to PhiTiger1764
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There is no way they don't stop, rest and eat.
Exactly. I don't doubt they are great long distance runners and all. but there's no way they run 200 miles without stopping.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:15 pm to Darth_Vader
Yea, it was exaggerated. But they are freaks of nature.
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But it isn’t all just legend. Scientists, Balke and Snow (1965), and Groom (1971) recorded observations on Tarahumara physical performance capacity. Sparing you all the scientific details, what they found was that the total energy cost to a Tarahumara runner for a 100-mile race far surpassed the recorded energy expenditure of athletes measured in the most strenuous feats of physical endurance in modern western competitions, and went well beyond the 10,000 kcal that was believed at the time to be the limit of human capability within a 24 hour period. In short, the Tarahumara were doing the impossible.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:16 pm to Ace Midnight
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Delaney is also a cautionary tale for any adult who expects to ever be around children in the water - learn to, at a minimum, survival swim and perform basic rescue techniques.
This happened at Chenault park in Monroe, right?
IIRC, I don't think he expected to be around kids who were swimming, he just happened upon it and did the heroic thing.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:23 pm to SuperSoakher
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f you play a professional sport, you need to pay an income tax. That is, to each state you play against. For a Red Sox player, this means 17 different tax bills.
i think you do for away games. ex. if atlanta plays in n.o., they pay LA tax on their game check. i'm sure none of them does their own taxes
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:24 pm to ilushkin
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If you play a professional sport, you need to pay an income tax. That is, to each state you play against. For a Red Sox player, this means 17 different tax bills.
How is this a sports fact? I work in multiple states a year and typically have 5-7 state income tax forms to fill out, and I live in a state that has no state income tax.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:27 pm to Badman
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Didn't this happen in Monroe?
Critter's Creek at Chennault Park.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:28 pm to GRTiger
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How is this a sports fact? I work in multiple states a year and typically have 5-7 state income tax forms to fill out, and I live in a state that has no state income tax.
It says to each state you play against. So if Miami comes to play the Saints in New Orleans, it claims Saints players have to pay taxes to Florida.
This post was edited on 4/2/14 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:33 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
quote:Wasn't he a "tight end" in college :rimshot:
Michael Jackson also played WR
Posted on 4/2/14 at 12:34 pm to ilushkin
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The International Olympic Committee orders 100,000 condoms every Games to stock Athlete’s Olympic Village. During the Sydney Olympics in 2000, 70,000 were not enough.
Olympians
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:08 pm to Ace Midnight
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Critter's Creek at Chennault Park.
Yes but it wasn't inside the park. Outside of it there was a pond the kids decided to swim in even though they couldn't swim. He went in after them.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:18 pm to ilushkin
quote:What am I missing here? Those 2 can't both be correct, right?
The Green Bay Packers have sold out every game since 1960 and there are 86000 people on the waiting list.
If you joined the waiting list for Green Bay Packers season tickets today, you would have to wait until 2966
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:25 pm to GRTiger
Well you're the exception to the rule dickface. Most of us don't work in different states during the year.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:27 pm to shel311
I assume they're estimating the life span of current season ticket holders plus future season ticket holders to arrive at 2966.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:31 pm to crimsonsaint
quote:But the waiting list is only 86,000, so current ticket holders+1-2 generations of future ticket holders, depending on what capacity is at the stadium.
I assume they're estimating the life span of current season ticket holders plus future season ticket holders to arrive at 2966
900 years makes no sense at all, can't be correct.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:36 pm to shel311
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But the waiting list is only 86,000, so current ticket holders+1-2 generations of future ticket holders, depending on what capacity is at the stadium.
900 years makes no sense at all, can't be correct.
I'm guessing season tickets can be passed down. I'm assuming that only 90-ish season ticket holders don't renew every year. Hence, it'll take 900 years.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:43 pm to O
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109 degrees? How did people not have heat strokes?
Zombie Tom Landry wouldn't let them.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:47 pm to ilushkin
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The Green Bay Packers have sold out every game since 1960 and there are 86000 people on the waiting list.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 1:49 pm to CaptainsWafer
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Well you're the exception to the rule dickface. Most of us don't work in different states during the year.
You better use your inside voice, before I put you outside.
I'm not an exception. I follow the normal (tax) rule, as does anyone who works in multiple states. The exception would be if they didn't have to pay state taxes in all the states they played in. If the part that is "insane" to you is that you have to pay taxes in each state, then that would be an "insane tax fact", not a sports fact.
The only thing insane about that fact is the CPA doing their taxes each year.
Bitch
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