29 Facts About Sports and Athletes to Make the Jocks Feel Like the Brains of the Operation for Once

We don’t exactly know when the transition of power between the nerds and the jocks occurred, but it was somewhere around the release of the term “nerding out.” 

The jocks were getting sick of being seen as the bad guys in movies, and they chilled out enough to let the nerds run free. Nerds could now openly state their love for Dungeons & Dragons and all kinds of other geekery without fear of locker-stuffings. Then, to make matters even stranger, the jocks wanted to get in on the action! They began claiming that they “nerd out” on stuff too, and that shifted the balance way too far! You can’t say that you “nerd out” over football, Travis! It’s just weird. 

What’s our point, you ask? Well, these nerding-out jocks drummed up these geeky facts about sports, and although we love facts, we don’t exactly know how to feel about it.