Surprising Athletes

[notin]

Who are some famous folks or celebrities you were surprised to find out were Division 1 college athletes or maybe even professional athletes?

 

I think my two most surprising ones were Joel McHale, who played football for University of Washington, and Jim Gaffigan, who played football at Purdue.

 

Any other names?

[notin]

Man. No activity on this thread?

[Kimmi]

Man. No activity on this thread?

 

Two problems for me:

 

1. I'm not really sure what you're looking for. This kind of sounds like the same thing as your other thread.

 

2. I don't watch enough movies or tv to know that many celebrities, so it's hard for me to contribute.

 

Now if you wanted to start a "Let's Learn Math" thread, I'd be all over that.

[notin]

Two problems for me:

 

1. I'm not really sure what you're looking for. This kind of sounds like the same thing as your other thread.

 

2. I don't watch enough movies or tv to know that many celebrities, so it's hard for me to contribute.

 

Now if you wanted to start a "Let's Learn Math" thread, I'd be all over that.

 

I'm trying to create some new, senseless trivia-based stuff to keep some dialogues interesting but without any real emotion.

 

The difference on the other one was lookng for succes stories. Here, just maybe some minor league ball players of college football players more successful that so few realized even played...

[Thunder]

A large chunk of male country music artists played D1 football. Don't have time to list them right now, but I will

[Kimmi]

I'm trying to create some new, senseless trivia-based stuff to keep some dialogues interesting but without any real emotion.

 

The difference on the other one was lookng for succes stories. Here, just maybe some minor league ball players of college football players more successful that so few realized even played...

 

Ah. Well I had a hard time naming any who were success stories, so my chances of naming someone a little more obscure are almost nil. LOL

[notin]

Ah. Well I had a hard time naming any who were success stories, so my chances of naming someone a little more obscure are almost nil. LOL

 

For some I guess. I mean I watched plenty of college football and I was surprised to find out Jim Gaffigan played at Purdue...

[notin]

Maybe someone like this guy...

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=cuomo-001mar

 

Who knew?

[Kimmi]

For some I guess. I mean I watched plenty of college football and I was surprised to find out Jim Gaffigan played at Purdue...

 

Again, there are two problems for me.

 

1. I don't watch college football.

 

2. I have no idea who Jim Gaffigan is. LOL

 

Also, I just either don't know or can't remember the names of most celebrities, especially the newer ones. I might recognize them if I saw a picture of them, but I don't know their names.

[Kimmi]

Maybe someone like this guy...

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=cuomo-001mar

 

Who knew?

 

Now that's a good one.

 

I would never come up with something like that unless I Googled it.

[notin]

Now that's a good one.

 

I would never come up with something like that unless I Googled it.

 

Yeah that's how I came up with it. That's why I was wondering who else everyone knows about that I don't...

[notin]

 

2. I have no idea who Jim Gaffigan is. LOL

 

 

 

He is an extremely clean, and extremely funny stand up comedian. If you have Netflix, he has about 5 or 6 specials streaming there. He is also a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning. And recently, during the quarantine, he has been streaming "Dinner with the Gaffigans" on Youtube where you can watch weirdness of him having dinner with his wife and 5 young children...

[notin]

I think most people knew about this guy

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=russel001kur

[Kimmi]

He is an extremely clean, and extremely funny stand up comedian. If you have Netflix, he has about 5 or 6 specials streaming there. He is also a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning. And recently, during the quarantine, he has been streaming "Dinner with the Gaffigans" on Youtube where you can watch weirdness of him having dinner with his wife and 5 young children...

 

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I don't have Netflix.

 

I do like comedians who can be funny without being crude.

[Kimmi]

I think most people knew about this guy

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=russel001kur

 

I actually did not know that he played baseball.

[notin]

If you went to Vegas in the early 2000's, you know who this guy is.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=gans--001dan

 

Again, no idea he played minor league baseball...

[Jasonbay44]

Singer Daddy Yankee was supposed to be on track to be a baseball player, but was shot in the leg and destroyed his Baseball career

[illinoisredsox]

Tommy Lee Jones was an offensive lineman at Harvard; I think he played in the famous 1968 Yale-Harvard tie.

 

Tom Selleck played basketball at USC.

 

Most people know Mark Harmon was the starting QB at UCLA and that Burt Reynolds was a RB at Florida State.