Comments on: From Manti Te’o and His Dead Girlfriend to Muhammad Ali on MNF to Chinese Running Backs: The Best Sports Hoaxes Ever

By: motnivrag

motnivrag — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:58:05 +0000

Richard Jewell was the security guard ACCUSED of planting the bomb at the Olympics, and dragged through the mud in the media. For seven years! Eric Rudolph was arrested and confessed in 2003.
Jason Lisk commits his own fact checking sports hoax on this one.

By: A.P.

A.P. — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:48:30 +0000

/still reading the New Yorker piece
//slow reader

that’s why you skim everything

/grad school

By: Wide Word of Sport (?)

Wide Word of Sport (?) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:25:16 +0000

/still reading the New Yorker piece
//slow reader

By: Mantis Toboggan

Mantis Toboggan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:21:00 +0000

Your fancy-shmancy Julian calender confuses and fightens me.
/ Unfrozen Caveman Nada

Reminds of a REALLY old South Park episode where they find a guy frozen for 3 years, and freaks out when he learns the Falcons actually made a Super Bowl.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:18:17 +0000

Indeed that is not true. However, they did win the Super Bowl during the 2005 season.

Your fancy-shmancy Julian calender confuses and fightens me.

/ Unfrozen Caveman Nada

By: Mantis Toboggan

Mantis Toboggan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:16:23 +0000

Pittsburgh’s 2006 Super Bowl title

Indeed that is not true. However, they did win the Super Bowl during the 2005 season.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:12:33 +0000

Nada that’s actually what the account said

I love it.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:11:19 +0000

Other great sports hoaxes:

Russell Erxleben
Bob Horner
Nebraska’s 1997 national championship
JaCarcass Russell
Pittsburgh’s 2006 Super Bowl title

By: Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:10:32 +0000

Nada that's actually what the account said.Also that isn't really the person behind the account.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:08:42 +0000

Chelsea Chris wins the thread.

By: Chelsea Chris

Chelsea Chris — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:08:05 +0000

The fake-dead-girlfriend’s tweet/announcement from a few minutes ago:

@LennayKay
My statement: This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but I have been told by Alabama’s offense that Manti Te’o is not real.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:07:39 +0000

There was a great one a few years ago of several soccer publications falling for a wonderkid that simply didn’t exist. They linked him with moves to clubs, but he never existed, was all a hoax

Freddy Adu?

By: RexKramerDangerSeeker

RexKramerDangerSeeker — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:06:49 +0000

New Yorker cartoons are to humor and cartooning what this site is to journalism

It’s a Ziggy!

/hernia

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:05:32 +0000

The cartoon reloads each time you refresh the page

Leaving millions of readers scratching their heads and wondering, what the fuck was that about?

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:04:24 +0000

Paul Ryan is jealous
Who?

He was a fictional VP character invented by the Romney campaign. After he went rogue, they had a car crash into him and give him leukemia.

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:02:21 +0000

The cartoon reloads each time you refresh the page. New Yorker cartoons are to humor and cartooning what this site is to journalism.

Pretentious and inane?

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:01:31 +0000

New Yorker cartoons are to humor and cartooning what this site is to journalism

The pig says, "My wife is a slut"?!

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:01:21 +0000

/Paul Ryan is jealous

Who?

By: Wide Word of Sport (?)

Wide Word of Sport (?) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:00:19 +0000

I really enjoyed the long read in last year’s New Yorker on the Michigan (shocker) dentist’s marathon fraud. That dude is in to it to a depth Manti would applaud.

I ran a half last year and got no pictures from the course till the finish. I’m doubting whether I really ran it, or if I cheated for that 1:55 (not a fast time at all).

By: otis sistrunk

otis sistrunk — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:59:24 +0000

Only one new yorker issue in 2012? $400 cover price