Volume 25 Issue 6
Top Ten Ways Science Ruined Sports
1. Now that you know the exact size of a football field, it’s kind of lost its magic as a unit of measurement
2. In order to get statistically significant results, baseball players have to play 90 innings
3. Global warming means that eventually the only sport left will be water polo
4. It stopped being fun when a zoologist gave you a literal pigskin to play football with
5. Scientists invented concussions
6. Drug testing
7. You can never figure out how much acidball to balance out your baseball
8. They made you use the metric system, so now you have to play 0.3 meterball
9. They forced you to wear that stupid helmet
10. Someone came up with an unethical psychological experiment called golf
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