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TIL that on June 24, 1922, the American Professional Football Association changes its name to the National Football League. One of the NFL teams was the Oorang Indians of LaRue, Ohio, an all-Indian team to be coached by Jim Thorpe

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 3:26 pm

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TIL that NFL quarterback Gale Gilbert was on five consecutive losing Super Bowl teams – Buffalo 1991-1994, San Diego 1995 – the most consecutive major championship losses in pro team sports.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 9:04 pm

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Yo, all my coworkers call my wife Kirby because of how much she’s suckin’ my big fat penis during our Microsoft Teams meetings.

by CopyPastaArchive June 2, 2022, 4:29 am

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TIL at the 1908 Olympics, Great Britain won 4 medals in a single event of Hockey. Great Britain defeated Great Britain to win the gold medal, leaving the later with a silver medal. The Bronze was won by two teams, Great Britain and Great Britain.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 6:40 pm

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TIL Jason White, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2003, was passed up by every NFL team in the 2005 draft and never played professional football. Teams were apparently reluctant to sign him due to a history of knee injuries, and he’s the only Heisman winner ever to go undrafted.

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 11:15 am

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A Finnish and a Japanese company decided to organize an annual rowing competition with 8-man teams.

by cringeyjokesman April 25, 2022, 12:03 pm

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TIL the bitter rivalry between Scottish football clubs Celtic and Rangers was so bad that one advertiser would sponsor both teams to avoid the risk of alienating the other set of fans

by whatilearned March 15, 2022, 11:51 pm

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TIL the 1904 Olympic lacrosse competition consisted of only three teams. The bronze medallists were a Mohawk team whose members had such names as Almighty Voice, Flat Iron, Rain in Face, and Man Afraid Soap.

by whatilearned February 12, 2022, 1:58 pm

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TIL of the TV Listing for the Wizard of Oz: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”

by whatilearned February 11, 2022, 7:11 am

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TIL Two teams competed to design the iPhone. Dial based hardware vs. touch screen. It wasn’t until the iPhone reveal event, that on stage, Jobs ruthlessly made it clear which team won. He showed the world the power of touch, by deleting the contact of loosing designer Tony Faddell with a single tap

by whatilearned February 2, 2022, 4:33 am

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Two bowling teams, one made up of all blondes and one of all brunettes,

by cringeyjokesman January 31, 2022, 8:04 pm

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TIL about Carlos Kaiser, a Brazilian con man who couldn’t play football very well, yet managed to get signed by some of the biggest teams in Brazil. He was always out with an “injury” and never played a game. The closest he came to playing was when he got a red card during the warm up.

by whatilearned January 29, 2022, 2:07 pm

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