Sports
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The folks in Free Country, USA seem to enjoy playing, watching, and discussing Sports.
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[edit] Badminton
- Where's The Cheat? — Strong Bad mentions the sport.
- Email labor day — Strong Mad and The Cheat are shown with badminton racquets.
- Email army — Strong Bad and Strong Mad discuss the sport and wonder what the official rules are.
[edit] Baseball
- Mark Lemke is a commonly referenced baseball player.
- Coach Z is usually seen wearing an unbranded baseball cap.
- Where My Hat Is At? — Homestar Runner looks for his hat so he can play baseball.
- Email keep cool — Strong Sad mentions that baseball games are at two, eleven, and three.
- Strongest Man in the World — The Grape Fairie claims he got the golbol in 1974 from Mookie Wilson. Mookie Wilson was a professional baseball player durring the 1980s and early 1990s best known for playing for the New York Mets, the team referenced in the golbol Easter egg.
[edit] Basketball
- Pom Pom, Too — one of the Poms is colored like an ABA basketball, and two of them look like NBA basketballs.
- A Decemberween Pageant — Pom Pom is cast as Kobe #1 and Strong Mad is cast as Kobe #2.
- Strong Bad Character Video — one of his accepted forms of payments is "Denver Nuggets."
- Email new hands — one of the options for Strong Bad's hands is an ABA basketball.
- New Boots — The Cheat draws Strong Bad dribbling and spinning basketballs.
- Email autobiography — Strong Bad supposedly played on a basketball team with "The Deke."
- Email different town — Strong Bad says "Pom Pom wouldn't change at all / 'cept he'd look like an ABA basketball."
- Email secret recipes — Coach Z doesn't appear to know what a basketball is, referring to one as "a bounce thing".
- Halloween Fairstival — Strong Mad dresses as Ben Wallace.
- Email bedtime story — Moses Malone is supposedly a buddy of The Cheat.
- Email candy product — Coach Z gets a basketball stuck on his head.
- Email specially marked — The cereal Fundament-O's features a fundamentally-sound college basketball player on the front of the box.
[edit] Competitive Swimming
- Email other days — Strong Sad mentions that they will be late for swim practice (although earlier in the e-mail Strong Bad denies that he goes to swim practice).
[edit] Football
- Coach Z's old timey counterpart is a football player named "Fort Wayne Locomotive."
- The House That Gave Sucky Treats — Strong Mad's costume is William "Refrigerator" Perry, a famous football player from the 1980s.
- Superbowl Dealie — The entire toon is about annual professional football championship.
- Email caffeine — Strong Sad claims while hyper, "I don't even watch football! I don't even watch football!"
- Email crying — Strong Bad "quotes" Li'l Brudder as saying "I'm gonna be a quarterback when I grow up. I'm gonna throw for 2,000 yards."
- Senorial Day — Senor Cardgage and Strong Bad "play catch" with a football.
- Email high school — "Middle School" Coach Z dreams of being "craptain of the foortball torm".
- KOT's VOQPCS! — The King of Town's scheme to get the Poopsmith to smell better somehow involves a game of football.
- Everything Else, Volume 3 — On the Holidays menu, one of the powerups The Cheat collects is a football.
- Toikey TV — Strong Mad, Strong Bad, and The Cheat wind up watching the 2007 Falling Asleep On The Couch Watching Football Bowl.
- Sloshybowl — Strong Sad watches sloshy on the Superbowl half-time show.
[edit] Soccer referred to as Football
- Email little questions — The sender asks "Has you some time play football?" and Strong Bad answers by saying that he loves football.
- The System Is Down — Strong Bad shouts "football!", a reference to a soccer song.
[edit] Golf
- Email mascot — The Cheat uses a golf club to hit things on the CGNU Golf Club Team.
- Email the paper — The Paper has the word "golf" visible under its sweatshirt during its preppy phase.
- Email mini-golf — The entire email is concerned with the miniature version.
[edit] Hockey
- Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 9.2 — Homestar, pretending to be Coach Z, asks Marzipan why she missed field hockey practice.
- Superbowl Dealie — Homestar shows up in a Boston Bruins jersey.
[edit] Martial Arts
- Theme Song Video — Pom Pom is seen practice martial arts.
- Email pom pom — Pom Pom manages to "beat the everloving snot" out of Strong Bad.
- Email montage — Homestar participates in the "Champeenship," which seems to be a judo/karate type tournament.
- Summer Short Shorts — Pom Pom is seen wielding a bo and performing impressive acrobatics in one of the segments.
[edit] Soccer
- Email little questions — Strong Bad mentions that he hates soccer.
- Email ghosts — Strong Bad tells the ghost of the Tandy "The Cheat has soccer practice."
- Email caffeine — Hyperactive Strong Sad asks Coach Z if he wants to play some soccer.
- Happy Hallow-day — Bubs is dressed as Coach McGuirk, the soccer coach in the television series Home Movies.
- Sloshybowl — sloshy say they played soccer in high school and Strong Sad is hit by a soccer ball at the end.
[edit] Tennis
- John McEnroe is a commonly referenced tennis player.
- Email flashback — Strong Bad and Coach Z play tennis on the moon.
- Senorial Day — Bubs holds a tennis racquet and has a John McEnroe wig on.
- Decemberween Short Shorts — Strong Bad admits he likes tennis player Martina Navratilova.
- Email the paper — During The Paper's preppy phase, it is seen wearing a sweater with the word "tennis".
[edit] Track and Field
- See Racing for more examples.
- Homestar is seen running several times, most notably at the beginning of Bug In Mouth Disease.
- Email autobiography — The King of Town is seen "running".
- Email disconnected — "Head Bad" attempts to beat Homestar in a race, only to find that Homestar didn't enter.
[edit] Racquetball
- Email dangeresque 3 — Homestar and Strong Bad are seen playing racquetball in the Basement.
- Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2 — Strong Sad mentions slow-pitch racquetball.
