Some High, Hard Ones
Steve Rushin
September 19, 2005
We've all seen those lists of life's most vexing questions, such as: Why do drive-through ATMs have instructions in Braille? How does Teflon stick to the pan? If you choke a Smurf, what color will he turn? But with a single exception--Why is it called a foul pole when it's in fair territory?--the unanswerable sports questions never get asked. Until now.
If an honoree is someone who gets honored and an invitee is someone who gets invited, what exactly is a Yankee?
If you can play H-O-R-S-E in tennis shoes, why is it so difficult to play tennis in horseshoes?
And the single most mystifying question in sports: Where the hell did we park the car?
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