Examples of Sport ironies

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Ironic Questions: Sport

Is It Ironic That...?

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  • 70% NOT IRONIC
  • 30% IRONIC
1) ... the #1 on my list for equipment failures for a bike trip happened
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  • 83% NOT IRONIC
  • 17% IRONIC
2) ... A shirt reading 'Don't let cancer steal second base"
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  • 83% NOT IRONIC
  • 17% IRONIC
3) ... I think the name of the Washington Redskins should be changed but I am a Florida State Seminole fan?...
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  • 75% IRONIC
  • 25% NOT IRONIC
4) ... Our dry ski slope is closed today .... Because of snow !
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  • 75% IRONIC
  • 25% NOT IRONIC
5) ... A hockey game was canceled because of snow.
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  • 50% IRONIC
  • 50% NOT IRONIC
6) ... ...Andre Agassi, considered by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time, actually despised the game of tennis....
READERS' VERDICT
  • 65% IRONIC
  • 35% NOT IRONIC
7) ... Hey! We're Syracuse. We like the snow. And yet we play in a dome. #PinstripeBowl...
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  • 80% IRONIC
  • 20% NOT IRONIC
8) ... American football is played with your hands?
READERS' VERDICT
  • 75% IRONIC
  • 25% NOT IRONIC
9) ... someone knows nothing about basketball, yet coaches an undefeated team?...
READERS' VERDICT
  • 57% IRONIC
  • 43% NOT IRONIC
10) ... Stuggle to get selected for a team untill the point you want to retire and then everyone wants you?...
READERS' VERDICT
  • 74% IRONIC
  • 26% NOT IRONIC
11) ... an Olympic swimmer has a fear or drowning.
READERS' VERDICT
  • 60% IRONIC
  • 40% NOT IRONIC
12) ... A Judo player would challenge a Boxer to a Judo match to demonstrate the "obvious superiority" of Judo over Boxing?...
READERS' VERDICT
  • 94% IRONIC
  • 6% NOT IRONIC
13) ... if Micheal Phelps Drowned?
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  • 80% IRONIC
  • 20% NOT IRONIC
14) ... My Gym teacher is Morbidly Obese...?
READERS' VERDICT
  • 88% NOT IRONIC
  • 12% IRONIC
15) ... British Tennis player Andy Murray might win a gold medal at the London 2012 Games, having missed out on winning the Wimbledon final a couple of months previously?...
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  • 75% NOT IRONIC
  • 25% IRONIC
16) ... the good ole U.S. of gun-toting/rights-debating A. is killing the competition in skeet-shooting at the Olympics right now? (if not, what's the more appropriate term?)...
READERS' VERDICT
  • 54% NOT IRONIC
  • 46% IRONIC
17) ... Someone in the Collingwood cheer squad had teeth..
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  • 83% IRONIC
  • 17% NOT IRONIC
18) ... someone with the last name "World Peace" gave someone a concussion after a basketball play?...
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  • 63% IRONIC
  • 38% NOT IRONIC
19) ... I was bowling a perfect game up to the eighth frame on my birthday. In that frame, I threw a good ball, but was left with both corner pins standing, ruining my chance at perfection, or even a top-three score in the league. A common slang term for this split is "Happy Birthday."...
READERS' VERDICT
  • 60% IRONIC
  • 40% NOT IRONIC
20) ... While sitting at a poker table in a casino the dealer advised me I was not allowed to wear my hoodie the way i was. After putting the hood down I then texted a friend about this rule that i was not aware of. The dealer then asked me to put my phone away at the table as I was not allowed to use it while sitting at the table. Is it ironic that I was advising someone about a rule only to find I was breaking another rule?...
READERS' VERDICT
  • 82% IRONIC
  • 18% NOT IRONIC
21) ... that there is an escalator to the front door of a fitness center?
READERS' VERDICT
  • 81% NOT IRONIC
  • 19% IRONIC
22) ... Babe Ruth wasn't exactly a babe?
READERS' VERDICT
  • 75% NOT IRONIC
  • 25% IRONIC
23) ... I break my kneecap doing parkour (jumping over a wall). After eight months of physiotherapy and rehabillitation, I develop what I beleive to be patella tendinopathy, an overuse injury more commonly known as jumpers knee....
READERS' VERDICT
  • 65% IRONIC
  • 35% NOT IRONIC
24) ... I cycled to a friends (exercise), wearing a polo shirt against exercise?...
READERS' VERDICT
  • 56% NOT IRONIC
  • 44% IRONIC
25) ... The Michael Jordan example is shown twice, yet the number of votes that it is ironic differs?...