Sports

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The folks in Free Country, USA seem to enjoy playing, watching, and discussing Sports.

Contents 1 Badminton 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Competitive Swimming 5 Football 5.1 Soccer referred to as Football 6 Golf 7 Hockey 8 Martial Arts 9 Soccer 10 Tennis 11 Track and Field 12 Racquetball 13 See Also

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.

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.

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.

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).

Football

• Coach Z's old timey counterpart is a football player named "The Fort Wayne Locomotive."
• The House That Gave Sucky Treats— Strong Mad's costume is William "Refridgerator" Perry, a famous football player from the 1980s.
• Email caffeine— Strong Sad claims while hyper, "I don't even watch football! I don't even watch football!"
• Superbowl Dealie — The entire toon is about annual professional football championship.
• 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.
• 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."
• Toikey TV — Strong Mad, Strong Bad and The Cheat wind up watching the 2007 Falling Asleep On The Couch Watching Football Bowl.

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.

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 — Enitre email concerned with the miniature version

Hockey

• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 9.2— Coach Z coaches field hockey, with Marzipan one of the players.
• Superbowl Dealie — Homestar shows up in a Boston Bruins jersey.

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 with a bo and performing impressive acrobatics in one of the segments.

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.

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".

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" manages to beat Homestar in a race with his new jets.

Racquetball

• Email dangeresque 3— Homestar and Strong Bad are seen playing racquetball in The Brother Strongs' basement.
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2— Strong Sad mentions slow-pitch racquetball.

See Also

• Professional Athlete References