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Is It Ironic That...?

1 When Negro League records were added to official baseball records, the notorious racist Ty Cobb was supplanted as the all-time batting average leader by a Black man, Josh Gibson....

2 Is it ironic that the highest scoring team in the NFL got shutout?

3 Is it ironic that when a football team wins, that this also helps out their rivals?...

4 Kyle Clifford accidentally injured his teammate Oskar Sundqvist. Oskar Sundqvist was placed on injury reserve (LTIR). Oskar Sundqvist recovers from his injury and in order to activate him, the St Louis Blues waived Kyle Clifford in order to be below the salary cap. Would you consider this ironic?...

5 Jorge Masvidal was knocked out by Kamaru Usman after repeatedly mocking Usman's punching power?...

6 Ice hockey in the summer

7 the best swimmer in the world lost a race against an unprofessional swimmer?...

8 a soccer player forgets of how to kick a ball

9 is it ironic that i am the only one in my family that loves sports?

10 is it ironic that i am the only one in the family who loves sports?

11 you win the football world cup and you destroy the trophy.

12 The Cowboys played the Redskins on Thanksgiving?

13 the Cubs played the Boston Red Sox in the World Series with Theo Epstein as their GM...

14 My friend is going to a Cardinal game with his gf during the World Cup when the last time he went to a Cardinal game with a gf it was also during the World Cup...

15 I broke my finger, and in my return to basketball, someone broke their finger when it wacked into my arm?...

16 Taken down by a woman.. oh the irony.

17 A coach delivers a post-game interview after a bad loss and simultaneously an emergency / fire alarm system goes off imploring folks to evacuate the building. Note: there are already rumors swirling about his firing....

18 the cricket club replaced the boundary rope with cones for the purpose of avoiding injuries, and then someone slipped on a cone and got injured?...

19 someone watching a basketball game says "If you don't want to pass the ball, don't play point guard. Play center." And the center has the most assists on their team that game....

20 A professional baseball player is traded earlier this week and today made his debut with his new team. During the broadcast, hundreds of camera clicks could be heard on-air during every pitch, to the point where the broadcasters mentioned the camera distraction on-air. But post-game, a local sports station used a photo of him with his previous team....

21 A soccer team played American football?

22 The objectively worst player on a basketball team makes fun of his teammates for playing poorly?...

23 You refuse to lend someone your football pump to pump up their ball, then they secretly use your pump without you knowing and then you play with that same football that has been pumped up by your pump....

24 A commentator during a field goal attempt in an NFL game mentions that the kicker has not missed a field goal all year. The field goal then gets blocked, thus ruining the kickers perfect record....

25 There is a power outage at the stadium of light. (November 19 2016) (Sunderland v Hull)...