- These sports fun facts really are fun.
Have you read Sports Fun Facts Through The Years: Part One? Because this is part two.
As of the 2013 season, the average salary paid to an NFL player is two million dollars a year. That is definitely the most expensive of all the sports fun facts.
NFL cheerleaders only make about $70-$90 dollars per game.
The team mascots for the Baltimore Ravens are Edgar, Allan, and Poe. Edgar Allan Poe, the man, lived in Baltimore and is known for his famous painting, “The Raven.”
The biggest players on the field are the nose tackles and they weigh in at about 322 pounds.
Jack “Soapy” Shapiro was the smallest player in football back in 19299. Soapy was only five feet, one inch tall and a measly 119 pounds.
During halftime of the Super Bowl, 90 million toilets get flushed across America!
College football players didn’t wear helmets until 1939. What a wild sports fun fact!
Eight million pounds of guacamole are eaten on Super Bowl Sunday. We also consume four million pounds of pretzels and eleven million pounds of potato chips.
NFL players didn’t wear helmets until 1943.
17 million people watch each NFL football game on TV.
The first televised NFL game had only 500 viewers back in 1939.
In 1966, the trophy was stolen from a glass cabinet just before the World Cup began in Westminster, England. It was found a week later by a dog named Pickles that was out taking a walk with its owner. The trophy was later stolen again and was never recovered.
The most random of all the sport fun facts is before each game, Hall of Famer Darrell Green of the Washington Redskins stuffed his socks with tootsie rolls. Green said they made him run faster.
You cannot watch a full length video of the first Super Bowl. The videotapes that recorded the game were erased and legend has it that a soap opera was accidentally recorded over that very first game.
Byron “Whizzer” White was a member of the Supreme Court. He played on the Lions from 1940-1941. He served on the court from 1962 to 1993.
The Dallas Cowboys haven’t played in Dallas more than 40 years. AT&T Stadium is in Arlington, Texas. Not Dallas. Did you know this sports fun fact?
Shakespeare mentioned football in print in his 1608 play King Lear. “Nor trapped neither, you base football player.”
Everyone has their “own version” of soccer. Mayans played Pok-A-Tok, where
you touch the ball with your elbows, knees, and hips. The Romans played Harpastum and the for the Chinese it was Tsu Chu. Japanese played Kemari. The Greeks played Episkyros, naked!
A freak lightning strike during a soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and killed all eleven players on a village team.
Soccer players run six miles during a typical game and never even touch the ball.
Outfielders in soccer can stand in one place for an entire game and sometimes never touch the ball.
In 1994, the entire team of 11 players on the Bulgarian World Cup soccer team had last names that ended with the letter OV.
The World Cup trophy is made of solid gold. What a solid sports fun fact.
There’s 32 panels on a soccer ball, one panel for each country in Europe. 
Soccer was originally called “basket-ball” because wicker baskets were used for the goals. Basketball was originally known as “soccer: because it was usually played by people wearing socks.
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t allowed to play because she could get hurt. In her younger days, she would wear a disguise and play pick up games near Buckingham Palace.
India refused to participate in the 1950 World Cup because their team was not allowed to play barefoot.
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