Fatter Than Babe Ruth: 14 Hall-of-Fame Athlete Cameos on The Simpsons
Game on with these 15 Simpsons cameos by America’s favorite athletes.
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Baseball, basketball, football, even figure skating and NASCAR -- the world’s most famous athletes know they’ve really made it when they cameo on The Simpsons. Here are 15 of the best jock appearances.
![TROY AIKMAN has his own Super Bowl caricature booth 67 SEVE 8 CRACKED.COM The Super Bowl champ-turned- broadcaster asks Ned if he likes dune buggies. Everyone likes dune buggies!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/784509.jpg)
![MLB ALL STARS made Homer a baseball immortal CITY CHAMPS 1992 CRACKED.COM SPRINGENED 25 years after Homer at the Bat, Homer was inducted into the Baseball HOF. His speech: It is with great humility that I enter the Hall of Fame. And it's about time! I'm fatter than Babe Ruth, balder than Ty Cobb and have one more finger than Mordecai Three Finger Brown.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/784514.jpg)
![TONY HAWK loses to Homer in a skateboarding duel CRACKEDO COM Do you live in this building? Bart asks the skateboarding legend. When I'm not on the road or in rehab for my shattered pelvis, replies Hawk. I hope you don't mind living below a bunch of pro skaters who love to party. (Bart doesn't mind.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/784511.jpg)
![THE MANNINGS live in a brother paradise P MANNING c MANNING E MANNING 18 18 10 GRAGKED.com When he realizes he'll never have a brother, Bart dreams of Bro-Town USA, a theme park populated by the smothers Brothers, the Mario Brothers, the Marx Brothers, the Blues Brothers, and Eli, Peyton, and Cooper -- the Super Bowl- winning Manning brothers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/784510.jpg)
![VENUS AND SERENA get into doubles trouble CRACKED.COM At a tennis tournament, Homer replaces his doubles partner Lisa with Venus. An angry Marge ditches Bart for Serena. The Williams sisters ditch both of them for Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. No Simpson wins the prize money, though Homer lifts a few bucks from Sampras's wallet.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/784518.jpg)
![MARK MCGWIRE admits MLB is spying on Springfield cardinals CRACKED.COM But the question is 'why?' Do you want to know the terrifying truth, McGwire asks Bart before turning to the crowd. Or do you want to see me sock a few dingers? Springfield gives the obvious answer and McGwire sends a baseball into the stratosphere.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/784517.jpg)
![MAGIC JOHNSON was the first pro athlete to guest as himself AKERS 105 ANGELES AV JL A CRACKED.COM The Springfield Nuclear Plant is going into meltdown mode and by sheer luck, Homer randomly pushes a button that saves the day. As a reward, he gets a call from Magic: I just used our last timeout to congratulate you on avoiding that nuclear holocaust.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/5/784515.jpg)
![LEBRON JAMES was animated before Space Jam 2 23 GRACKED.COM The fans love my dunks but they hate my dancing. So LeBron turns to Homer for showboating assistance. In your face, Steph Curry!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/7/784507.jpg)
![KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR teaches Homer what it's like to be Bart CRACKED.co Homer joins a fathering enrichment class, where he casually mentions choking Bart. To show Homer what it feels like, Dr. Zander enlists the 7' 2 Abdul-Jabba to do some choking of his own. Dr. Zander, you made me see my life through Bart's neck!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/784516.jpg)
![JOE NAMATH gives Bart some QB advice CRACKED.COM When Namath's car breaks down in front of the Simpson house, Bart asks the legend for pigskin secrets. There's only one thing you need to know to be a great quarterback, Joe says. But his car is quickly fixed, SO he leaves Bart with an unsatisfying remember what I said.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/784513.jpg)
![MICHELLE KWAN is Milhouse's athletic hero KWAN CRACKED.COM Despite three college degrees, nine U.S. National Championships, and two Olympic medals, it was Kwan's appearance on The Simpsons that caused her brother to say, Now you've made it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/784508.jpg)
![JOE FRAZIER gave Homer an award for excellence CRACKED.COM After the awards ceremony, the script called for Barney Gumble to knock out Frazier in a bar fight. Frazier's son vetoed the idea, arguing world champions do not get knocked out. Frazier ended up knocking bloody Barney into a garbage can. As world champs do.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/5/784505.jpg)
![JEFF GORDON drives for Team Kwik-E-Mart 6 -GRACKED.com In one of the quickest Simpsons cameos ever, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon crosses through frame with a casual Hey, Moe. The bartender accurately observes, I bet we never see him again.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/6/784506.jpg)
![SHAQUILLE ONEAL is wandering around in a snowstorm CRACKED.CO Homer and Grandpa find a lost Shaq snowshoeing through the woods. When Homer presses him for help, Shaq insists that he doesn't have any money and flees into the night. Like the best Simpsons cameos, it's brief and it's wierd.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/2/784512.jpg)