SIMPSONS CREATOR MATT GROENING turns 59 today, so we took the opportunity to put together a mish-mash of our favourite sporting moments, cameos and M**e T***n impersonations from the seminal animated series…
Drederick Tatum
This is possibly our favourite clip of The Champ, who is absolutely, in no way based on… You know yourselves…
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Darryl Strawberry
The episode, ‘Homer At The Bat,’ featured a host of baseball cameos but we’ve Darr…yl, Darr…yl wins it for us.
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Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo doesn’t actually appear in a single episode, only in ‘Nike: Write the Future’ and is on screen for less than 5 seconds.
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Lionel Messi
Well, anything HE can do…* (*may not be real*) (*is not real)
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Simpsons visit the NFL on FOX
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Simpsons on soccer
“Fast kickin’, low scorin’, and ties? You bet!”
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The Manning Brothers
We feel sorry for Cooper, we really do.
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The Denver Broncos
The tail end of the best ever episode of The Simpsons, featuring the fiendish and brilliant Hank Scorpio. He likes German beer.
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LeBron James
He doesn’t make friends with salad.
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Mark McGwire
Major League Baseball is always watching.
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