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** In another baseball strip, Lucy thinks she should be able to score a field goal since she's standing in a field. A few strips :''' she thinks the opposing team scored forty goals.

-->'''Kirk Herbstreit:''': We're playing spades!\\

'''Corso''': ''King me!''[[note]]That's a checkers term[[/note]] (The others throw their cards down in disgust)

-->'''Sir Patrick''': It's the fifth quarter... we need a hole in one before the seventh inning stretch!

--> "If you don't want to play with old geezers, you have to make golf a ''contact'' sport!"

** In another baseball strip, Lucy thinks she should be able to score a field goal since she's standing in a field. A few strips later she thinks the opposing team scored forty goals.

'''Lucy''': How could they win if they didn't get any goals?

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--> '''Martha:''' I don't see the fascination with throwing a ball in a hoop. Yay, touchdown, five points!\\
'''Gym teacher''' Okay, there's...a lot wrong with that...

-->'''Paco:''' [Bobby Boucher's] the best tackler I've seen since Joe Montana!
-->'''Walter:''' Joe Montana was a quarterback, you idiot.
-->'''Paco:''' [[BlatantLies I said]] Creator/JoeMantegna.

-->'''Dick''': 'I'm the final batter. Juror number four. It's the bottom of the ninth inning and the count is eleven and one. Foster is in the penalty box waiting for the two-minute warning, but who's going to blow the whistle on him? Not the umpire. Me!\\
'''Don''': Don't watch a lot of baseball, do you Dick?

-->"Now, football's the one with the sticks, isn't it?" [[note]]Mind you, the Doctor then proceeds to completely dominate the match, showing up pretty much everyone on the pitch. Which is a case of making use of TheCastShowoff, as Matt Smith had been a footballer (with several prominant football clubs' youth teams) before a back injury forced him to give it up, and resulted in him going into acting instead. [[/note]]

--->'''Tom''': "Hey! It's [[UsefulNotes/HistoricalPeopleToKnowInMLB Tommy Lasorda]]!" (as Rod): "Gee, thanks, Mr. Lasorda!".\\
'''Joel''' (as Lasorda): "Now, remember...Just a shake for breakfast...a shake for lunch...then a sensible..."[[note]]Lasorda was a spokesman for Slim Fast diet shakes[[/note]].\\
'''Tom''': "Yeah, whatever! Thanks for the ride! Good luck with the ''football'' team or whatever it is you do!".

---> "As they say in hockey...' Let's do that hockey!'"

-->'''JD:''' Unlikely, because what's waiting for me in my room is what's known in football terms as a slam dunk. (''swings imaginary tennis racket'')

--->'''JD''': Incidentally, has anyone ever done ''less'' to become famous? I mean, "Yay for me, I mixed two drinks together!"\\
'''Dr. Cox''': Arnold Palmer is a golfer.\\
'''JD''': I'm sure he has lots of hobbies, Perry, the man's a drink mogul.

--->'''Daisy:''' (''as one of the patrons'') Touchdown!...are the Milwaukee Bucks a football team?

-->'''David''': The goalkeeper's the one that owns the club, right?

-->'''Cameron''': I support Aston Villa. Come on you Hammers. What is the footballs?

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' has Wheatley, the local, sentient IdiotBall:
--> "Well, no matter, because I'm still holding all the cards. And guess what? They're all full houses."\\

--> Moose: "Alright, squirt! Third down, bases are loaded, and we're pullin' the goalie!"\\
LetsPlay/ObscureGameTheatre: "That... didn't make any ''sense!''"

--> '''Player''': "Sports."

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': One guy you can meet in Diamond City sells scavenged baseball paraphernalia and talks about the sport. Since the game is set centuries AfterTheEnd, he doesn’t actually know much of anything about it, thinking it was a gladiatorial bloodsport where the players beat each other to death with bats. You can correct him or [[DeadpanSnarker jokingly claim it was actually even more violent]] (like saying that the audience would get attacked as well, hence the term “spectator sport”). Either way he decides he liked his version better.

--> '''Pete''': (Playing baseball) "I'm gonna score a touchdown!"

--> The ball is in your court. Er, no I mean, the ball is in your half of the court. Shouldn't that be the expression? I don't think there are any sports that use more than one court.

-->'''Professor Rivera:''' I gotta take the puck, run with it and score a bogie.
-->'''Tagel:''' I don't think we're really qualified to make sports analogies.

--> Benjils is a player and a coach and makes the worst calls! If he gets through the series he'll be a Hall-of-Famer but he isn't even up for 80 yet!

--> '''[[LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany VanossGaming]]''': There are so many things wrong with what you just said.

** Done by the legendary Zapp Brannigan, only with board and parlor games:

'''Dexter''': Looked like a popfly into the endzone.

-->''*while sinking his golf cart in a water hazard* "This lake will be used for the swimming portion of the program!"''

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' has Lilo and friends playing baseball against Mertle's team, and Pleakley embarrasses her with his total lack of knowledge of the game. He believes that three strikes score him a turkey (which is a score bowling) and he digs up the field in search of "the legendary baseball diamond".

* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mSGikBezc promo]] for ''Creator/{{ESPN}} College [=GameDay'=]', the main cast are shown playing cards. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lee Corso]] lays down his cards with a triumphant "Straight flush!"[[note]]That's a poker hand[[/note]]

* In a Super Bowl spot for Creator/ParamountPlus, Creator/PatrickStewart tries to throw [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold's head]] like a football to get them off a mountain. It's clear from how he preps himself, despite dressing for the occasion, he knows nothing about football, eliciting odd looks from Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

** One strip has Lucy happily declaring, "I love playing hockey ball!" [[note]]There is a version of hockey called ball hockey. It looks like ice hockey and is played on a non-ice surface without skates. It uses a ball, not a puck. But this is still an example. [[/note]]

* ''Series/AgentCarter'': The male agents are poring over some photographs from a nightclub and ask Carter if a man in the background of one of them is legendary baseball player Joe [=DiMaggio=]. Carter says she can't tell - she doesn't follow boxing. This ends up settling a wager over whether or not she knows anything about sports (though she may well have just been trolling them).
* An episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' revolves around Leonard nervously preparing for a football-watching party with Penny's friends and relatives; they're all rabid Nebraska Cornhusker fans, while he doesn't know the first thing about the game. Sheldon, of all people, gives him a crash course on the sport -- he grew up in Texas, and knows everything about the game in spite of the fact that he hates it (and sports in general). While Leonard acquires a functional academic knowledge of the game he knows little about the actual sports ''fan'' experience, where the rules and strategy matter less than the right team winning, and gets burned out by halftime.

** Mike does subvert this later, when in order to cause a distraction, he goes on a rant about how “Dwayne Wade sucks!” This starts a bar brawl, which he uses as a pretext to attack the assassin.

** This happens in another episode when he tries to play basketball to impress his children. When Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar shows up at the court, it takes the NBA legend a few minutes to realize Jesse honestly has no idea who he is. Jabbar gives Jesse a crash course in playing, but when the actual game starts, Jesse still makes mistakes like trying to run with the ball. Jabbar, who is the referee, calls him out for traveling and he doesn't know what that means.

--->'''Tom''': "Hey! It's [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Tommy Lasorda]]!"(as Rod): "Gee, thanks, Mr. Lasorda!".\\

** In "Game At Clay City", Miss Brooks' football knowledge isn't lacking, but Mr. Boynton admits to being clueless as to most if not all sports. He even asks who's pitching for the football team.

---> "As they say in hockey...'Let's do that hockey!'"

-->'''JD:''' Unlikely, because what's waiting for me in my room is what's known in football terms as a slam-dunk. (''swings imaginary tennis racket'')

* In an AT&T commercial, a prospective customer uses the term "slam dunk" in response to the service being offered, prompting Creator/MilanaVayntrub's supervisor character "Lily" to brag about how great she was at basketball in high school. The joke is that she doesn't recognize that the customer is Grant Hill, an NBA superstar and college Hall of Famer.

* In an AT&T commercial, a prospective customer uses the term "slam dunk" in response to the service being offered, prompting Milana Vayntrub's supervisor character "Lily" to brag about how great she was at basketball in high school. The joke is that she doesn't recognize that the customer is Grant Hill, an NBA superstar and college Hall of Famer.

* Creator/{{NBC}} Sports Network had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KeG_i8CWE8 this ad]] for their coverage of the English Premier League, in which an American coach (who evidently has a background coaching basketball or American football) cluelessly mentions plans to get into the playoffs by playing hard for all four quarters. The English press corps is nice enough to correct him, at least. In a rather surprising postscript, Apple+ later turned this ad into an actual TV show: ''Series/TedLasso.''

* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mSGikBezc promo]] for ''Creator/{{ESPN}} College Gameday'', the main cast are shown playing cards. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lee Corso]] lays down his cards with a triumphant "Straight flush!"[[note]]That's a poker hand[[/note]]

--> '''Bethany:''' I don't see the fascination with throwing a ball in a hoop. Yay, touchdown, five points!\\

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E26BubbleBassReviewsPatricksPrisonPals Bubble Bass Reviews]]", Bubble Bass says "[[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball touchdown!]]" before throwing a basketball during one of the random clips that play in between his show's segments.

'''Peter:''' Wrong team. [[note]]Rice and Montana played together for the San Francisco 49ers for a number of years, but Montana was playing for the Kanasas City Chiefs at the time the strip was written.[[/note]]\\

* The infamous maneuver popularized by Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger outside of Japan as "The rolling koppu kick" (Wrestling/AkiraMaeda's abisegiri). Koppu is yet another largely non striking martial art. However, if they meant "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS koppo]]", it makes a little more sense, as the art's founder has been in Liger's corner, and as one of the Bujinkan martial arts jumping and rolling are important parts of its taijutsu.

'''Peter:''' Wrong team. [[note]]Rice and Montana played together for the 49ers for a number of years, but Montana was playing for the Chiefs at the time the strip was written.[[/note]]\\

'''Peter:''' Wrong sport. Moron. [[note]]Wayne Gretzky played hockey; the rest of this conversation is about American football.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague Come on you]] [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Habs!]] [[UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences Roll]] [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Dodgers!]] [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Skol]] [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Knicks!]]]]

* The English dub for the first ''Anime/ProjectAKo'' has one of these. B-Ko is issuing her first challenge, and at the end acts out the sport she uses for the metaphor by appearing in a baseball cap and miming swinging a bat. Understandably, one would think this would be dubbed as 'World Series' for an American viewer. What do they end up using? 'It'll be our own Super Bowl'.

* The infamous maneuver popularized by Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger outside of Japan as "The rolling koppu kick"(Wrestling/AkiraMaeda's abisegiri). Koppu is yet another largely non striking martial art. However, if they meant "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS koppo]]", it makes a little more sense, as the art's founder has been in Liger's corner, and as one of the Bujinkan martial arts jumping and rolling are important parts of its taijutsu.

** One strip has Lucy happily declaring, "I love playing hockey ball!"

The best way to show someone's incredible lack of sports knowledge is to have them describe a sporting event by jumbling together terms and people from a bunch of different sports. Many {{Sitcom}}s use this, usually setting the man up to be [[BestedAtBowling humiliated by a woman]], use his incorrect boasting to show that he's a KnowNothingKnowItAll, or to make clear who the show's "[[TradeSnark manly men ™]]" are in comparison to other men and to the women. Sometimes it is a companion of the sports fan that, when having to watch a game, attempts to understand the rules and gets it totally wrong. Regardless of the scenario, it is always PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'': Marco thinks the Washington Redskins are a hockey team.

* In ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'''s parody of ''The White Shadow'', the coach goes on a date with a woman who tells him, "Oh, I love basketball! I just love it when the batter kicks a touchdown basket."