Try not to lose your buffalo chicken dip! Absorb these nasty ass sports facts so you can unleash them on your buddies while they are mid-wing bite.
-The original baseballs were wrapped with horse foreskins.
-Cat guts previously used to make tennis racket strings are not actually the guts of cats, they’re sheep and cow guts.
-The first golf balls were made of dried cows eyeballs.
-Poor cows also had their testicles used to give ancient Olympians an edge. Some of them would eat them raw thinking it would give them extra testosterone to best their opponents. They also thought it made them more of a man
-Some historians believe the origins of tether ball might have come from a ninth-century Tartar ritual where after killing your enemy you would cut off his head, attach it to a rope on a pole, and then swing that bad boy around.
-The amount of sweat shed by an NFL lineman equals out to about 9lbs a game. Imagine the amount of Gatorade needed to keep those boys from getting dehydrated!
-Speaking of body fluids; there are some big fighters who believe that drinking urine is good for your and cleansed the body. So, UFC fighter Lyoto Machida and Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Marquez drank their own urine believing it would give them an edge for their fights. (It doesn’t btw- it’s 95% water and the rest is toxic waste… you don’t need to drink your urine to get ahead, Bear Grylls.)
-MLB players have also been known to pee on their hands believing it toughens them up. Nah bro… just makes you the smelly kid. Let’s just all leave our pee alone.
Bon Appetit