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* ''Film/FortyTwo'': While mostly true to the sport, some license was used with the game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
* ''Film/GreenStreet'': Occurs when Pete takes Matt to see West Ham play against Birmingham City at Upton Park. The team shown in the film was not Birmingham City (which would have been wearing blue-and-white kits) but rather Gillingham, a team which wore the blue and black hoops during the 2003-2004 season. Moreover, since Birmingham City and West Ham were in different divisions during the 2003-2004 season (Birmingham in the Premier League, West Ham in the Championship), it would have been impossible for the two clubs to play league games against each other during that season.
* ''Film/GreenStreet'': Occurs when Pete takes Matt to see West Ham play against Birmingham City at Upton Park. The team shown in the film was not Birmingham City (which would have been wearing blue-and-white kits) but rather Gillingham, a team which wore the blue and black hoops during the 2003-2004 season. Moreover, since Birmingham City and West Ham were in different divisions during the 2003-2004 season (Birmingham in the Premier League, West Ham in the Championship), it would have been impossible for the two clubs to play league games against each other during that season.
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* ''Film/BullDurham'': Early in the film Nuke is said to have compiled 18 strikeouts and 18 walks in his first start. This would require a mathematical minimum of 126 pitches (already a high count for a rookie in the minors) and in reality probably more than 200 pitches (an absurdly high number).
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* ''Film/AceVentura'': Super Bowl [=XVII=] wasn't between the Miami Dolphins and the San Francisco 49ers; that would be Super Bowl [=XIX=]. The Dolphins were in Super Bowl [=XVII=], but it was against the Washington Redskins. Also, Miami never lost by a last second field goal in either game; that was based on the last-second kick missed by Scott Norwood of the Buffalo Bills is Super Bowl [=XXV=]. (Granted, Norwood [[NeverLiveItDown never lived down]] missing that kick, but thankfully, he didn't take things nearly as far as Ray Finkle does in this movie.)
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* The {{Twilight}} HighSchoolAU fanfic "30 Love" seems to correctly portray tennis...if it were men's. Women's tennis plays 3 sets instead of 5.
* The ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' fanfic "[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/493276 A Hooligans' Game Played By Gentlemen]]" seems to confuse the two codes (RugbyUnion and RugbyLeague) of rugby. Blackheath Football Club, a union club, is mentioned, but the game he plays with Lestrade and others seems to be a league game, with a turnover resulting after six tackles. In addition, his position (scrum half) is treated as a forward, when it actually makes him a back, and he implies being a back is harder on the body - this may or may not be the case, but it's something a forward wouldn't be caught dead admitting.
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* The {{Twilight}} HighSchoolAU fanfic "30 Love" seems to correctly portray tennis...if it were men's. Women's tennis plays 3 sets instead of 5.
* The ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' fanfic "[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/493276 A Hooligans' Game Played By Gentlemen]]" seems to confuse the two codes (RugbyUnion and RugbyLeague) of rugby. Blackheath Football Club, a union club, is mentioned, but the game he plays with Lestrade and others seems to be a league game, with a turnover resulting after six tackles. In addition, his position (scrum half) is treated as a forward, when it actually makes him a back, and he implies being a back is harder on the body - this may or may not be the case, but it's something a forward wouldn't be caught dead admitting.
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* Similarly, in its predecessor ''The Absent-Minded Professor'', the same flubber gives basketball players shoes that allows them to take gigantic leaps. Unfortunately, by making several leaps in a row (as they do), without passing or dribbling the ball, they would be immediately called for travelling. Unlike a lot of the examples on this page, the opposing coach ''does'' realize that Medfield's game techniques are far from kosher, and complains about it loudly to the referee... whose only response is "[[LoopholeAbuse Ain't no rule says one team can't jump higher than the other!]]" But using ''artificial aids'' to jump higher can be called, certainly under "any equipment that is designed to increase a player's height or reach or in any other way give an unfair advantage is not permitted." Possibly as a technical foul under "sportsmanship and fair play", or because referees "have the power to make decisions on any point not specifically covered by these rules."
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* Similarly, in its predecessor ''The Absent-Minded Professor'', ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', the same flubber gives basketball players shoes that allows them to take gigantic leaps. Unfortunately, by making several leaps in a row (as they do), without passing or dribbling the ball, they would be immediately called for travelling. Unlike a lot of the examples on this page, the opposing coach ''does'' realize that Medfield's game techniques are far from kosher, and complains about it loudly to the referee... whose only response is "[[LoopholeAbuse Ain't no rule says one team can't jump higher than the other!]]" But using ''artificial aids'' to jump higher can be called, certainly under "any equipment that is designed to increase a player's height or reach or in any other way give an unfair advantage is not permitted." Possibly as a technical foul under "sportsmanship and fair play", or because referees "have the power to make decisions on any point not specifically covered by these rules.""
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* Granted, the Disney Channel movie ''H-E-Double Hockey Sticks'' already takes creative liberties by featuring two fictitious NHL teams in the Delaware Demons and Annapolis Angels. Still, assuming the movie refers to Annapolis, Maryland, those teams would not face each other for the Stanley Cup since they would both be placed in the NHL's Eastern Conference (and most likely the same division) due to their geographic proximity.
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* Granted, the Disney Channel movie ''H-E-Double Hockey Sticks'' ''Film/HEDoubleHockeySticks'' already takes creative liberties by featuring two fictitious NHL teams in the Delaware Demons and Annapolis Angels. Still, assuming the movie refers to Annapolis, Maryland, those teams would not face each other for the Stanley Cup since they would both be placed in the NHL's Eastern Conference (and most likely the same division) due to their geographic proximity.
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* The ''BringItOn'' films stand as an example here for the ubiquitous artistic licence used in just about any fictional work about high school cheerleading. Firstly, for the sake of {{Fanservice}}, the costumes are usually [[BareYourMidriff stomach-baring]] or even more {{Stripperiffic}}, which is not allowed in high school cheerleading.[[note]]Such costumes/uniforms would be perfectly acceptable for dance teams, which are distinct from cheer teams on the competition level.[[/note]]Secondly, for extra [[RuleOfCool spectacle]], the routines often feature elements like pyramids, throws and trampoline-assisted leaps which are banned in high-school cheerleading as excessively dangerous.
* Granted, the Disney Channel movie ''H-E-Double Hockey Sticks'' already takes creative liberties by featuring two fictitious NHL teams in the Delaware Demons and Annapolis Angels. Still, assuming the movie refers to Annapolis, Maryland, those teams would not face each other for the Stanley Cup since they would both be placed in the NHL's Eastern Conference (and most likely the same division) due to their geographic proximity.
* It would probably be faster to list everything about baseball the 1994 film ''The Scout'' got ''right'', than to break down its impressive list of factual errors. However some key points:
** First of all, a scout is just that: goes around scouting talent and reporting back to the team. This could be either an advance scout who watches opposing teams to help the manager establish his strategy against an upcoming opponent, and scouts analyzing prospects or free agents on whether the team should consider approaching them. He would ''not'' himself be the go-between for signing players, which would instead involve the team's owners and either the prospect or his agent.
** The young pitcher at the start of the film, Tommy Lacy, as a kid with no professional experience, would ''never'' have jumped right into the Major Leagues unless the team's ownership and management was utterly incompetent or dangerously impatient to see a return on the signing. He would have been started in the Minor Leagues ''first'', and played his way up through the farm system precisely because of his unknown quality (in RealLife, highly-touted prospects more often than not fizzle out before they even reach the Majors).
** After the bidding war on Steve Nebraska, the other teams are able to force an agreement that he can only pitch if the Yankees make the World Series, which Al later promises to Steve he doesn't have to pitch until the World Series. Not only do the other teams ''not'' have a say to begin with, but the rules of Major League Baseball would have made Nebraska ''ineligible'' to pitch in the postseason anyway, as he must be on (a) the active 25-man roster (b) the disabled list, (c) the bereavement list, or (d) the suspended list before September 1, and must appear in at least one regular season game in order to be eligible for postseason play.
** The game at the climax is played in Yankee Stadium, an American League ballpark. The American League has the Designated Hitter rule, in which the pitcher does not bat. The rule ''does'' allow teams to waive their DH and allow the pitcher to bat instead, but this almost never happens. No team has intentionally waived their right to start a DH in a regular season game since 1976[[note]]A May 17, 2009 game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians saw the Rays put their pitcher in the starting batting order, but only because Rays manager Joe Maddon screwed up the lineup card by listing both Ben Zobrist and Evan Longoria as the third baseman (Longoria was supposed to be the DH) and so pitcher Andy Sonnanstine had to bat in Longoria's #3 spot after Indians manager Eric Wedge brought it up. Sonnanstine went one for three with a double and an RBI, and won the game, so it didn't help the Indians.[[/note]], and it's never happened in a postseason game.
* In ''{{Film/Hoodlum}}'', a scene is introduced with the title card "December 1934" and then shows Dutch Schultz listening to a Yankees game in his office.
* Deliberately invoked in ''Film/{{Rudy}}''. In real life, it was all Dan Devine's decision to let Rudy play in Notre Dame's final game of the year. But it was also the real life Devine's suggestion that his fictional counterpart be the one holding Rudy back in the movie and instead make the other players stand up for him.
* ''Film/{{Warrior}}'' gets a lot right about MixedMartialArts, but still takes liberties. For example, one character very obviously gets his arm broken in the middle of a bout, but continues to fight on. In reality, getting your arm broken would result in an immediate stoppage, no matter how much you want to continue fighting.
* In ''All the Marbles'' with PeterFalk, women's wrestling apparently is as un-fake as the Superbowl results.
* The movie version of ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' opens with a scene of a fight breaking out during a Yankees-Dodgers game...''on Halloween''. While it's technically possible nowadays for the World Series to stretch into October 31 and beyond, such a thing would have been unheard-of in TheForties. (Possibly justified as RuleOfFunny, as well as a way to establish the film's Brooklyn setting as a sort of {{Cloudcuckooland}}.)
* ''Film/TheKarateKid III'': Snake's fouls on Danny in the final showdown were so blatant and close together, even the most lenient ref would've disqualified him halfway through the match.
* It's a well-known fact that ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' star/producer/writer Mike Myers is a big hockey fan, so the many egregious errors in the sport's portrayal - like the referee handing out on-the-spot game suspensions, goalies wearing outdated ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' style plastic masks and Guru Pitka having free access to the Toronto bench - can be put down as [[RuleOfFunny Rule Of (allegedly) Funny.]]
* Used at the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Cap wakes up in what he thinks is a hospital bed. The radio is playing the call of a Brooklyn Dodgers game. Unfortunately for [[spoiler: SHIELD]], Cap realizes the broadcast is a recording... Because he was actually at that game.
* MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen vehicle ''Switching Goals'' is a movie about soccer that manages to get many basics of the sport wrong. It is shown to allow time-outs, have plays (like in American football), the game ends as soon as the clock reaches zero (and the clock is indeed counting down) with the end signaled by a hockey-style honk, shoving another player ''when you're the one in possession of the ball'' isn't counted as a foul (in a kids' game no less!), one goalie isn't wearing gloves and a tournament final ends in a draw.
* Bullfighting is really toned down in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''. In real life, the bull is weakened by picadors who jab spears into his neck to weaken him so that the matador can further weaken him with the capote, with the goal of tiring him so much that he's forced to expose his lungs for the killing blow; here, the bull and the matador enter together. Also, Manolo's refusal to kill is somewhat meaningless, as in real bullfighting the bull will be killed after the bout whether or not the matador succeeds (a bull that fights more than once is far more dangerous, as he's learned how the fight will go).
* Granted, the Disney Channel movie ''H-E-Double Hockey Sticks'' already takes creative liberties by featuring two fictitious NHL teams in the Delaware Demons and Annapolis Angels. Still, assuming the movie refers to Annapolis, Maryland, those teams would not face each other for the Stanley Cup since they would both be placed in the NHL's Eastern Conference (and most likely the same division) due to their geographic proximity.
* It would probably be faster to list everything about baseball the 1994 film ''The Scout'' got ''right'', than to break down its impressive list of factual errors. However some key points:
** First of all, a scout is just that: goes around scouting talent and reporting back to the team. This could be either an advance scout who watches opposing teams to help the manager establish his strategy against an upcoming opponent, and scouts analyzing prospects or free agents on whether the team should consider approaching them. He would ''not'' himself be the go-between for signing players, which would instead involve the team's owners and either the prospect or his agent.
** The young pitcher at the start of the film, Tommy Lacy, as a kid with no professional experience, would ''never'' have jumped right into the Major Leagues unless the team's ownership and management was utterly incompetent or dangerously impatient to see a return on the signing. He would have been started in the Minor Leagues ''first'', and played his way up through the farm system precisely because of his unknown quality (in RealLife, highly-touted prospects more often than not fizzle out before they even reach the Majors).
** After the bidding war on Steve Nebraska, the other teams are able to force an agreement that he can only pitch if the Yankees make the World Series, which Al later promises to Steve he doesn't have to pitch until the World Series. Not only do the other teams ''not'' have a say to begin with, but the rules of Major League Baseball would have made Nebraska ''ineligible'' to pitch in the postseason anyway, as he must be on (a) the active 25-man roster (b) the disabled list, (c) the bereavement list, or (d) the suspended list before September 1, and must appear in at least one regular season game in order to be eligible for postseason play.
** The game at the climax is played in Yankee Stadium, an American League ballpark. The American League has the Designated Hitter rule, in which the pitcher does not bat. The rule ''does'' allow teams to waive their DH and allow the pitcher to bat instead, but this almost never happens. No team has intentionally waived their right to start a DH in a regular season game since 1976[[note]]A May 17, 2009 game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians saw the Rays put their pitcher in the starting batting order, but only because Rays manager Joe Maddon screwed up the lineup card by listing both Ben Zobrist and Evan Longoria as the third baseman (Longoria was supposed to be the DH) and so pitcher Andy Sonnanstine had to bat in Longoria's #3 spot after Indians manager Eric Wedge brought it up. Sonnanstine went one for three with a double and an RBI, and won the game, so it didn't help the Indians.[[/note]], and it's never happened in a postseason game.
* In ''{{Film/Hoodlum}}'', a scene is introduced with the title card "December 1934" and then shows Dutch Schultz listening to a Yankees game in his office.
* Deliberately invoked in ''Film/{{Rudy}}''. In real life, it was all Dan Devine's decision to let Rudy play in Notre Dame's final game of the year. But it was also the real life Devine's suggestion that his fictional counterpart be the one holding Rudy back in the movie and instead make the other players stand up for him.
* ''Film/{{Warrior}}'' gets a lot right about MixedMartialArts, but still takes liberties. For example, one character very obviously gets his arm broken in the middle of a bout, but continues to fight on. In reality, getting your arm broken would result in an immediate stoppage, no matter how much you want to continue fighting.
* In ''All the Marbles'' with PeterFalk, women's wrestling apparently is as un-fake as the Superbowl results.
* The movie version of ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' opens with a scene of a fight breaking out during a Yankees-Dodgers game...''on Halloween''. While it's technically possible nowadays for the World Series to stretch into October 31 and beyond, such a thing would have been unheard-of in TheForties. (Possibly justified as RuleOfFunny, as well as a way to establish the film's Brooklyn setting as a sort of {{Cloudcuckooland}}.)
* ''Film/TheKarateKid III'': Snake's fouls on Danny in the final showdown were so blatant and close together, even the most lenient ref would've disqualified him halfway through the match.
* It's a well-known fact that ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' star/producer/writer Mike Myers is a big hockey fan, so the many egregious errors in the sport's portrayal - like the referee handing out on-the-spot game suspensions, goalies wearing outdated ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' style plastic masks and Guru Pitka having free access to the Toronto bench - can be put down as [[RuleOfFunny Rule Of (allegedly) Funny.]]
* Used at the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Cap wakes up in what he thinks is a hospital bed. The radio is playing the call of a Brooklyn Dodgers game. Unfortunately for [[spoiler: SHIELD]], Cap realizes the broadcast is a recording... Because he was actually at that game.
* MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen vehicle ''Switching Goals'' is a movie about soccer that manages to get many basics of the sport wrong. It is shown to allow time-outs, have plays (like in American football), the game ends as soon as the clock reaches zero (and the clock is indeed counting down) with the end signaled by a hockey-style honk, shoving another player ''when you're the one in possession of the ball'' isn't counted as a foul (in a kids' game no less!), one goalie isn't wearing gloves and a tournament final ends in a draw.
* Bullfighting is really toned down in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''. In real life, the bull is weakened by picadors who jab spears into his neck to weaken him so that the matador can further weaken him with the capote, with the goal of tiring him so much that he's forced to expose his lungs for the killing blow; here, the bull and the matador enter together. Also, Manolo's refusal to kill is somewhat meaningless, as in real bullfighting the bull will be killed after the bout whether or not the matador succeeds (a bull that fights more than once is far more dangerous, as he's learned how the fight will go).
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** District Five takes the ice in its first game wearing a smattering of used or inappropriate pads (like a football helmet). Every league for kids mandates proper helmets with full face cages and they would never be allowed to take the ice that way.
** Later, Gordon tries to get Conway to take a dive and fake an injury in order to draw a penalty. Conway gets pinned to the boards, but refuses to act hurt. Amusingly, in that scene you can see the other player's stick jammed up under Conway's face mask, which ''is'' a legitimate penalty.
** The Flying V just avoids being illegal provided that A. The players pass the puck forward ''after'' crossing the blue line, and B. The players ahead of the puck don't initiate contact with a defender for interference. It would still be a really stupid formation in real life, however, as all the defense has to do is gang up on the lead man to either steal the puck or force the V offside (which is [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy exactly what Iceland did]] in ''D2'').
** The Ducks' win over the Huskies in the final game of the regular season gave them a playoff spot. If that happened to be the 8th seed, they should have faced the top-seeded Hawks in the first round - the most likely case given that there are 10 teams in the league (going by the chalkboard standings and district map in Hans' shop), it's stated all but two make the playoffs (one of these are the Panthers, who forfeited their remaining games due to measles), and the overall poor record of the Ducks at 1 win, 12 losses, and 1 tie[[note]]Connie states they are 0-9 at the start and District 5/the Ducks are shown losing to the Hawks, losing to the Jets, tying the Cardinals, forfeiting to the Flames, and winning over the Huskies[[/note]].
* ''D2: The Mighty Ducks''
** One of the players gets a penalty for "roping." Um, what about the fact there were too many players on the ice? Or a game misconduct penalty for leaving the bench? Lampshaded a bit--the announcer did say, "Two minutes for... roping? That's a new one on me."
** The [[OpposingSportsTeam big heel team]] is the noted ice hockey power of... Iceland. In spite of the country's name, Iceland is not a hockey powerhouse in real life.
** D2 also has them playing [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Trinidad and Tobago]] whose team is on the movie poster and DVD cover. Trinidad and Tobago does not have an ice hockey team.
** In the final shootout.. never mind that Russ switched places with Goldberg to get the shot at the end of the game, which involved him wearing goalie equipment, but under ANY circumstances, nobody can take off their helmet while on the ice anymore!
** In the final shootout to decide the tournament winner of D2, neither Fulton's nor Gunnar Stahl's penalty shots should have counted as they both clearly come to a complete stop and then shoot. During a shootout or penalty shot, the puck must always move forward.
** During the film the Duck's star player Adam gets injured when an opposing player deliberately hits him with his stick on his arm that was exposed after he removed his glove. The film treats this as slashing, a common penalty where a player swings their stick at an opposing player. In reality, deliberately using a heavy overhead swing with your stick is not only a much stiffer penalty it legally qualifies as assault. A similar real life incident in the NHL a few years ago actually led to the offending player ending up in jail for over a year.
* Pretty much every instance of body contact shown in ''SlapShot'' would be an obvious interference penalty.
* Creator/DavidMamet's ''Film/{{Redbelt}}'' features a very antiquated and ill-informed version of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts.
** The main character is offered a chance to fight on the undercard of an event for a flat $50,000, though real fight purses are divided into a "show purse" for fighting and a "win purse" awarded if the fighter wins.
** The plot revolves around the concept of implementing randomly-assigned handicaps before each bout, which would ''never'' fly in the real world. Athletic commissions are very strict about ensuring that fighters can adequately defend themselves.
** The promoters state that the whole point of the handicap gimmick is to make the handicapped fighter lose, allowing them to fix the fights. If every fight was determined by a randomly-assigned handicap, no one would bother watching. It defeats the entire point of athletic competition. This is to say nothing about how unlikely it would be that gamblers and gambling institutions would ever buy the chicanery in the first place.
* ''Film/NachoLibre'' takes a great many liberties with professional wrestling. Obviously, the most glaring issue is that it [[ProWrestlingIsReal presents wrestling as real and not staged]], but this can be forgiven for the sake of the plot. However, certain basic rules in professional wrestling (even in {{kayfabe}}) are ignored. For example, to finish one match, the hero receives a tombstone piledriver, a move which is illegal in Mexico, where the story is set. In the climax of the film, he even pins his opponent... outside the ring. While there are special matches that allow pinning anywhere, this was an ordinary match, yet he does not pin his opponent in the ring. RuleOfCool doesn't even really apply here, as while the reason his opponent was outside the ring in the first place was so the hero could perform a physics defying dive attack from the turnbuckle, there's no reason he couldn't have thrown his dazed opponent into the ring to pin him legally.
** Under traditional ''lucha libre'' rules, tampering with an opponent's mask before making the pin results in an automatic forfeit. Nacho should have won at least two matches that way.
* The film ''Film/AgentForHarm'' features a character heading to the "judo range". The film is best known for appearing on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', where Mike and the Bots tell her to grab her aikido rifle.
* Unlike other films in ''Film/TheLoveBug'' series, the last race of ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'' takes place in what is, if not {{NASCAR}} itself, then a clearly NASCAR-like organization. Assuming Team Peyton could get permission to race a Volkswagen (not likely, given the time frame), Herbie is clearly A) Too old, B) (to the naked eye) has no racing modifications, C) possesses NO safety gear (Restraint harness? Roll cage? Nope!). Herbie shouldn't have even been allowed to pass a cursory pre-race inspection.
* In the 1994 Disney version of ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'', during the climactic final game, announcer Ranch Wilder says the Chicago White Sox will have the "heart of the order" - which usually refers to the team's 3-4-5 hitters - leading off the ninth inning against the Angels. Kit Keezy ends up being the sixth batter in the inning, which would mean he was eighth in the lineup. Not the most likely spot for the Sox to place the guy who's leading the league in RBI. In fact, had the script called for Wilder to say the "bottom" of the lineup - the 7-8-9 hitters - that would have put Keezy in the more likely 3 spot.
* 2004's ''Mr. 3000'' is about a baseball player who retires immediately after getting his 3,000th hit. Years later, it's discovered that due to a clerical error, he actually has only 2,997 hits. Everyone acts as though this completely torpedoes his chances of getting into the Hall of Fame. In actuality, nearly every player with at least 2,800 hits has been elected to the Hall in their first year of eligibility, usually by a comfortable margin.
** Though the film points out that it was more of his bad attitude, as he had been retired 15 years before the error was discovered, plenty of time to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.[[note]]Players are eligible for induction upon being retired five years, and the majority who get in do so within their first five years on the ballot.[[/note]] [[spoiler: He's inducted after getting 2,999 because he simply sacrifices his last at bat to help his team rather than getting hit number 3000.]]
* The 2005 film ''FeverPitch'' gets pretty much everything wrong in its climactic scene: No one would've been scalping tickets in the eighth inning (and virtually every stadium closes off attendance after the first several innings), Lindsey somehow survives a feet-first 30 foot fall from Fenway's "Triangle" wall, is shown on TV running on the field (TV broadcasts are mandated not to show fans running on the field, in order to discourage that type of behavior), and is allowed to carry a brief conversation with Ben before being taken away by security (apparently, TalkingIsAFreeAction at Fenway Park).
* The 2012 Creator/ClintEastwood film ''Film/TroubleWithTheCurve'' quickly became notorious in baseball circles for its highly unrealistic portrait of baseball scouting and player development. Sportswriter Joe Posnanski has an entry on [[http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2013/01/trouble-curve.html his blog]] detailing the many errors and improbabilities in the movie.
** District Five takes the ice in its first game wearing a smattering of used or inappropriate pads (like a football helmet). Every league for kids mandates proper helmets with full face cages and they would never be allowed to take the ice that way.
** Later, Gordon tries to get Conway to take a dive and fake an injury in order to draw a penalty. Conway gets pinned to the boards, but refuses to act hurt. Amusingly, in that scene you can see the other player's stick jammed up under Conway's face mask, which ''is'' a legitimate penalty.
** The Flying V just avoids being illegal provided that A. The players pass the puck forward ''after'' crossing the blue line, and B. The players ahead of the puck don't initiate contact with a defender for interference. It would still be a really stupid formation in real life, however, as all the defense has to do is gang up on the lead man to either steal the puck or force the V offside (which is [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy exactly what Iceland did]] in ''D2'').
** The Ducks' win over the Huskies in the final game of the regular season gave them a playoff spot. If that happened to be the 8th seed, they should have faced the top-seeded Hawks in the first round - the most likely case given that there are 10 teams in the league (going by the chalkboard standings and district map in Hans' shop), it's stated all but two make the playoffs (one of these are the Panthers, who forfeited their remaining games due to measles), and the overall poor record of the Ducks at 1 win, 12 losses, and 1 tie[[note]]Connie states they are 0-9 at the start and District 5/the Ducks are shown losing to the Hawks, losing to the Jets, tying the Cardinals, forfeiting to the Flames, and winning over the Huskies[[/note]].
* ''D2: The Mighty Ducks''
** One of the players gets a penalty for "roping." Um, what about the fact there were too many players on the ice? Or a game misconduct penalty for leaving the bench? Lampshaded a bit--the announcer did say, "Two minutes for... roping? That's a new one on me."
** The [[OpposingSportsTeam big heel team]] is the noted ice hockey power of... Iceland. In spite of the country's name, Iceland is not a hockey powerhouse in real life.
** D2 also has them playing [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Trinidad and Tobago]] whose team is on the movie poster and DVD cover. Trinidad and Tobago does not have an ice hockey team.
** In the final shootout.. never mind that Russ switched places with Goldberg to get the shot at the end of the game, which involved him wearing goalie equipment, but under ANY circumstances, nobody can take off their helmet while on the ice anymore!
** In the final shootout to decide the tournament winner of D2, neither Fulton's nor Gunnar Stahl's penalty shots should have counted as they both clearly come to a complete stop and then shoot. During a shootout or penalty shot, the puck must always move forward.
** During the film the Duck's star player Adam gets injured when an opposing player deliberately hits him with his stick on his arm that was exposed after he removed his glove. The film treats this as slashing, a common penalty where a player swings their stick at an opposing player. In reality, deliberately using a heavy overhead swing with your stick is not only a much stiffer penalty it legally qualifies as assault. A similar real life incident in the NHL a few years ago actually led to the offending player ending up in jail for over a year.
* Pretty much every instance of body contact shown in ''SlapShot'' would be an obvious interference penalty.
* Creator/DavidMamet's ''Film/{{Redbelt}}'' features a very antiquated and ill-informed version of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts.
** The main character is offered a chance to fight on the undercard of an event for a flat $50,000, though real fight purses are divided into a "show purse" for fighting and a "win purse" awarded if the fighter wins.
** The plot revolves around the concept of implementing randomly-assigned handicaps before each bout, which would ''never'' fly in the real world. Athletic commissions are very strict about ensuring that fighters can adequately defend themselves.
** The promoters state that the whole point of the handicap gimmick is to make the handicapped fighter lose, allowing them to fix the fights. If every fight was determined by a randomly-assigned handicap, no one would bother watching. It defeats the entire point of athletic competition. This is to say nothing about how unlikely it would be that gamblers and gambling institutions would ever buy the chicanery in the first place.
* ''Film/NachoLibre'' takes a great many liberties with professional wrestling. Obviously, the most glaring issue is that it [[ProWrestlingIsReal presents wrestling as real and not staged]], but this can be forgiven for the sake of the plot. However, certain basic rules in professional wrestling (even in {{kayfabe}}) are ignored. For example, to finish one match, the hero receives a tombstone piledriver, a move which is illegal in Mexico, where the story is set. In the climax of the film, he even pins his opponent... outside the ring. While there are special matches that allow pinning anywhere, this was an ordinary match, yet he does not pin his opponent in the ring. RuleOfCool doesn't even really apply here, as while the reason his opponent was outside the ring in the first place was so the hero could perform a physics defying dive attack from the turnbuckle, there's no reason he couldn't have thrown his dazed opponent into the ring to pin him legally.
** Under traditional ''lucha libre'' rules, tampering with an opponent's mask before making the pin results in an automatic forfeit. Nacho should have won at least two matches that way.
* The film ''Film/AgentForHarm'' features a character heading to the "judo range". The film is best known for appearing on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', where Mike and the Bots tell her to grab her aikido rifle.
* Unlike other films in ''Film/TheLoveBug'' series, the last race of ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'' takes place in what is, if not {{NASCAR}} itself, then a clearly NASCAR-like organization. Assuming Team Peyton could get permission to race a Volkswagen (not likely, given the time frame), Herbie is clearly A) Too old, B) (to the naked eye) has no racing modifications, C) possesses NO safety gear (Restraint harness? Roll cage? Nope!). Herbie shouldn't have even been allowed to pass a cursory pre-race inspection.
* In the 1994 Disney version of ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'', during the climactic final game, announcer Ranch Wilder says the Chicago White Sox will have the "heart of the order" - which usually refers to the team's 3-4-5 hitters - leading off the ninth inning against the Angels. Kit Keezy ends up being the sixth batter in the inning, which would mean he was eighth in the lineup. Not the most likely spot for the Sox to place the guy who's leading the league in RBI. In fact, had the script called for Wilder to say the "bottom" of the lineup - the 7-8-9 hitters - that would have put Keezy in the more likely 3 spot.
* 2004's ''Mr. 3000'' is about a baseball player who retires immediately after getting his 3,000th hit. Years later, it's discovered that due to a clerical error, he actually has only 2,997 hits. Everyone acts as though this completely torpedoes his chances of getting into the Hall of Fame. In actuality, nearly every player with at least 2,800 hits has been elected to the Hall in their first year of eligibility, usually by a comfortable margin.
** Though the film points out that it was more of his bad attitude, as he had been retired 15 years before the error was discovered, plenty of time to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.[[note]]Players are eligible for induction upon being retired five years, and the majority who get in do so within their first five years on the ballot.[[/note]] [[spoiler: He's inducted after getting 2,999 because he simply sacrifices his last at bat to help his team rather than getting hit number 3000.]]
* The 2005 film ''FeverPitch'' gets pretty much everything wrong in its climactic scene: No one would've been scalping tickets in the eighth inning (and virtually every stadium closes off attendance after the first several innings), Lindsey somehow survives a feet-first 30 foot fall from Fenway's "Triangle" wall, is shown on TV running on the field (TV broadcasts are mandated not to show fans running on the field, in order to discourage that type of behavior), and is allowed to carry a brief conversation with Ben before being taken away by security (apparently, TalkingIsAFreeAction at Fenway Park).
* The 2012 Creator/ClintEastwood film ''Film/TroubleWithTheCurve'' quickly became notorious in baseball circles for its highly unrealistic portrait of baseball scouting and player development. Sportswriter Joe Posnanski has an entry on [[http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2013/01/trouble-curve.html his blog]] detailing the many errors and improbabilities in the movie.
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* The 1993 movie ''RookieOfTheYear''
** A 12-year-old boy would not be allowed to play in the Major Leagues because 16 is the minimum age. The only time this was overlooked was due to WorldWarII in the case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nuxhall Joe Nuxhall]]. Obviously, this was a liberty that needed to be taken, or it wouldn't be much of a movie.
** When Henry throws the ball all the way back to home plate after the visitor hits a homer, everyone acts as if it's a live ball (it isn't).
** Various plays he uses in the 9th are illegal; the pitcher can't be on the pitching rubber during a hidden-ball trick attempt (and play is not resumed from a timeout until the pitcher is on the rubber with the ball) and Henry's NobodyCallsMeChicken gambit with the runner would not have taken place, as the ump would have called for time as soon as he left the pitching rubber.
** Rather early in the film, Henry is testing his throwing accuracy, and he does the whole fake announcer narration bit, fabricating a scenario for himself. The scenario involves, among other things, a full count. Once he throws the ball and hits his target, he triumphantly shouts, "Strike one!" Even many people who don't watch baseball would know that a full count means "3 balls and '''two''' strikes."
** According to the announcer, the the climactic game between the Mets and the Cubs will determine the division championship, with the winner advancing to the World Series. The league championship series, which (under 1993 rules) pitted division champions against each other with a World Series berth at stake, is altogether ignored.
** At the end of the film, Henry is seen playing Little League baseball...which, having played professionally for a year, he would be ineligible to play.
* The 1994 movie ''Little Big League'' involves a 12-year-old boy who inherits ownership of a major league baseball team, and appoints himself manager. Even if the age issue could be overlooked (the team would probably be held in trust until he comes of age), while it once was common for major league managers like Connie Mack be owners as well, Major League Baseball has forbidden it since Ted Turner tried to appoint himself manager of the Atlanta Braves in 1977.
* The soccer/footie movie ''AShotAtGlory'' features a fictional Scottish team of whom the owner (Michael Keaton) threatens to move to ''Dublin''. Ireland has their own professional soccer leagues. Even if this fictional team played in the [[ScottishPremierLeague top Scottish league]]... and it appears they don't... there would be almost no draw for such a lowly Scottish League team playing in Dublin. Not to mention the logistical problems with all the other crappy Scottish teams having to travel. Not a problem for the likes of Rangers and Celtic, but a big problem for others. And taking the team and starting a new Dublin team in the Irish leagues doesn't even remotely make sense. It would be like moving the Broncos to Manitoba and joining the CFL.
** More broadly, the film features some inaccuracies in how the Scottish Cup tournament works. The semi finals in the film are played at the ground of the "home" team when they should have taken place at neutral venues, and in the final itself the game goes straight to penalty kicks when the game is tied after 90 minutes, ignoring the 30 minutes of extra time that should have taken place.
* The Creator/AdamSandler remake of ''TheLongestYard'' features a play at the end of the first half which starts with several seconds left on the clock. The announcers and players treat it as though the touchdown must be scored before the clock goes to triple zeroes. In real life, all that is required is for the play to begin before 0:00. Made especially baffling when you know that ESPN's Chris Berman is serving as one of the announcers. And even more baffling when you consider that [[TheWaterboy another Adam Sandler football movie]] got this part right.
* Golf movie climaxes almost always involve the "golden rule of golf": [[BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame Play the ball as it lies]]. This is customarily presented as an immutable law of physics, even when such a play would make a golfer's body contort in ways that would make a member of Creator/CirqueDuSoleil scream in pain. Apparently, the writers have never heard of the "unplayable-lie" rule, which, in real life, can be taken for any shot, even one safely in the fairway. It does carry with it a penalty stroke, and you can't use it to get yourself closer to the hole, but you can do it.
** In ''Film/HappyGilmore'', where JerkJock Shooter [=McGavin=] has to play the ball off the foot of the title character's former-boss-turned-fan (played by Richard "Jaws" Kiel). (Can possibly be justified because both parties are jerks). In the same film, Happy actually is offered the unplayable-lie rule, but doesn't use it to avoid the penalty stroke.
*** Actually, there's another rule that means that he could wait for the rubble to be cleared without taking a penalty -- a rule about spectator interference. While this doesn't work for Shooter (it has to do with how an obstacle appears and the ball landed on Kiel's foot due to Shooter's own influence), it would've been in play for Happy because of what caused the obstruction [[note]] [[TheHeckler Shooter McGavin's insane fan]] ran over Happy and then crashed into a TV tower. Other fans later climbed on the tower and the load plus the lack of stability caused the tower to fall[[/note]].
** Speaking of HappyGilmore, how many times did that fan rudely yell "Jackass!" and not get thrown out for being a distraction?
* ''Film/DaysOfThunder'': A {{NASCAR}} team needs more than one car. This is not just a question of repairing damage and having a backup car ready, but of suitability. In the Sprint Cup Series, a team keeps several cars for the year: cars exclusively for the restrictor plate races at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, cars exclusively for the road course races at Watkins Glen and Sonoma as well as the Pocono races, cars specifically built for the short track races at venues like Bristol and Martinsville, cars specifically built for the non-plate superspeedways, and cars built for the intermediate length tracks.
** Or that even Tom Cruise couldn't pass everybody else in the race in the last three laps at Daytona. Unless he's an [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard AI driver]] who has superhuman abilities that even Creator/DaleEarnhardt was incapable of making. During the Darlington race earlier in the movie, the driver would have lost a lot more than just two positions with the extra time he spent on pit road, due to the egg-shaped configuration.
** And, of course, in the real world a driver would be banned from NASCAR (and probably all motorsports) for ''life'' if he went out and rammed the winner from behind during his victory lap.
* ''Film/{{Driven}}'': The scene of the main characters having an impromptu grudge match in their race cars through the evening Chicago rush hour; Not only would the average race driver be fired for such a reckless stunt but they certainly wouldn't be able to use their regular car. Most single seat race cars need a team of mechanics to operate the computer systems, heat the tires, start the car with an external starter, and to strap the driver's belts since he/she cannot do that themselves.
* ''Film/HorseFeathers'' has to be [[RuleOfFunny deliberate]], as there is no way anybody could possibly think that the ref would let somebody ride down the field in a chariot and use every spare football in said chariot as a separate touchdown, no matter how much bribery was involved. Also, Groucho's team (Huxley College) received a kick-off from rival Darwin College after scoring a touchdown, as opposed to kicking off to Darwin. (This is actually a bit of Truth In Television, since some college all-star games used to do this to make the contests more competitive: in the Hawaii Bowl, for example, a team would get the ball back if they trailed by more than two touchdowns in the fourth quarter.)
* Averted at the climax of ''Film/LittleGiants''. The Giants' last play of the game, called "The Annexation of Puerto Rico" by its geeky play caller, was a legal play at the time better known as the "fumblerooski" (the ruling body of Pee-Wee football has since banned it).
* Used to very painful effect in the Wesley Snipes version of ''The Fan''. Live video replay on the Jumbotron (which is not allowed), video of arguments between players or brawls (also not allowed), a player getting his number assigned on Opening Day (numbers are assigned during Spring Training), the climactic scene occurring at a baseball game played ''during a monsoon''... it would be easier to list what the movie got '''right'''. Such things do NOT include the long shot featuring a batter from BOTH teams warming up in their respective on-deck circles, and then later showing Snipes's character go directly from the dugout to the batter's box. When Tony Scott was setting up to film that climactic scene, practically the entire cast and crew was loudly pointing out that baseball is just not played in the rain. He didn't care, saying he [[RuleOfCool liked the drama it created]].
* In the 1963 Disney film ''Son of Flubber'', Professor Brainard comes up with an ingenious way to help the local high school football team win: he'll fill up a player's uniform with his new discovery, "flubber gas", to make him light and buoyant. The other players, instead of passing just the ball, will throw ''him with the ball'', so even if he is tackled, the team will retain possession of the ball. The only problem with such a ploy? It's illegal. Rule 17 section 6 of the official football rulebook, passed in 1910, specifically outlaws players on the offensive team from pushing, pulling, or holding the player carrying the ball. Nobody in the film, including the referees, seem to be aware of this.
* Similarly, in its predecessor ''The Absent-Minded Professor'', the same flubber gives basketball players shoes that allows them to take gigantic leaps. Unfortunately, by making several leaps in a row (as they do), without passing or dribbling the ball, they would be immediately called for travelling. Unlike a lot of the examples on this page, the opposing coach ''does'' realize that Medfield's game techniques are far from kosher, and complains about it loudly to the referee... whose only response is "[[LoopholeAbuse Ain't no rule says one team can't jump higher than the other!]]" But using ''artificial aids'' to jump higher can be called, certainly under "any equipment that is designed to increase a player's height or reach or in any other way give an unfair advantage is not permitted." Possibly as a technical foul under "sportsmanship and fair play", or because referees "have the power to make decisions on any point not specifically covered by these rules."
* The movie ''It Happens Every Spring'' is about a college professor who discovers a wood-repellent compound and uses this discovery to become a successful major league pitcher. The movie never addresses the fact that applying any kind of foreign substance to the ball is cheating of the most blatant variety: his pitches would qualify as a spitball, which was banned by Major League Baseball in 1920. Even more surprisingly, none of the umpires or opposing players seem the least bit suspicious of all the physics-defying things that the professor's pitches do.
* In ''Film/TheWaterboy'', after it's discovered that the coach forged Bobby Boucher's high school transcript to get him on the team, making him an ineligible player, the NCAA allows Bobby to still play in the team's bowl game if he passes a high school equivalency exam. In reality, not only would the NCAA not allow that, the whole team would have been forbidden to play in the game, would have had to forfeit back all its wins on the season and probably would have been banned from future bowl games and lost several scholarships for a few years.
* Not sports, but {{Game Show}}s: ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'' changes brutally how ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' works for the sake of drama (the show is not live, but recorded in studio some days before the actual broadcast - which is why they reread the hotline question on the phone and have a time limit on it; the hotline is never directed to a mobile number, to prevent connection troubles, and for the same reason it's never issued directly when the contestant asks for it; the call is first made in the very moment the contestant begins his round and it's then kept live - but soundless - until the contestant calls for the hotline).
** And players retain the right to walk away after hearing the question and even after using lifelines (except Double Dip, which was not even used in this version).
* Played with in that a common way that authors get around this trope is to create their own league or tournament that is a lot ''like'' a well-known real world event, but technically isn't. One example is ''BladesOfGlory''. Critics point out the errors made in the rules points system for Pairs Figure Skating in the Winter Olympics except that these aren't the Winter Olympics, they're the "World Winter Sports Games."
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* The 1993 movie ''RookieOfTheYear''
** A 12-year-old boy would not be allowed to play in the Major Leagues because 16 is the minimum age. The only time this was overlooked was due to WorldWarII in the case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nuxhall Joe Nuxhall]]. Obviously, this was a liberty that needed to be taken, or it wouldn't be much of a movie.
** When Henry throws the ball all the way back to home plate after the visitor hits a homer, everyone acts as if it's a live ball (it isn't).
** Various plays he uses in the 9th are illegal; the pitcher can't be on the pitching rubber during a hidden-ball trick attempt (and play is not resumed from a timeout until the pitcher is on the rubber with the ball) and Henry's NobodyCallsMeChicken gambit with the runner would not have taken place, as the ump would have called for time as soon as he left the pitching rubber.
** Rather early in the film, Henry is testing his throwing accuracy, and he does the whole fake announcer narration bit, fabricating a scenario for himself. The scenario involves, among other things, a full count. Once he throws the ball and hits his target, he triumphantly shouts, "Strike one!" Even many people who don't watch baseball would know that a full count means "3 balls and '''two''' strikes."
** According to the announcer, the the climactic game between the Mets and the Cubs will determine the division championship, with the winner advancing to the World Series. The league championship series, which (under 1993 rules) pitted division champions against each other with a World Series berth at stake, is altogether ignored.
** At the end of the film, Henry is seen playing Little League baseball...which, having played professionally for a year, he would be ineligible to play.
* The 1994 movie ''Little Big League'' involves a 12-year-old boy who inherits ownership of a major league baseball team, and appoints himself manager. Even if the age issue could be overlooked (the team would probably be held in trust until he comes of age), while it once was common for major league managers like Connie Mack be owners as well, Major League Baseball has forbidden it since Ted Turner tried to appoint himself manager of the Atlanta Braves in 1977.
* The soccer/footie movie ''AShotAtGlory'' features a fictional Scottish team of whom the owner (Michael Keaton) threatens to move to ''Dublin''. Ireland has their own professional soccer leagues. Even if this fictional team played in the [[ScottishPremierLeague top Scottish league]]... and it appears they don't... there would be almost no draw for such a lowly Scottish League team playing in Dublin. Not to mention the logistical problems with all the other crappy Scottish teams having to travel. Not a problem for the likes of Rangers and Celtic, but a big problem for others. And taking the team and starting a new Dublin team in the Irish leagues doesn't even remotely make sense. It would be like moving the Broncos to Manitoba and joining the CFL.
** More broadly, the film features some inaccuracies in how the Scottish Cup tournament works. The semi finals in the film are played at the ground of the "home" team when they should have taken place at neutral venues, and in the final itself the game goes straight to penalty kicks when the game is tied after 90 minutes, ignoring the 30 minutes of extra time that should have taken place.
* The Creator/AdamSandler remake of ''TheLongestYard'' features a play at the end of the first half which starts with several seconds left on the clock. The announcers and players treat it as though the touchdown must be scored before the clock goes to triple zeroes. In real life, all that is required is for the play to begin before 0:00. Made especially baffling when you know that ESPN's Chris Berman is serving as one of the announcers. And even more baffling when you consider that [[TheWaterboy another Adam Sandler football movie]] got this part right.
* Golf movie climaxes almost always involve the "golden rule of golf": [[BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame Play the ball as it lies]]. This is customarily presented as an immutable law of physics, even when such a play would make a golfer's body contort in ways that would make a member of Creator/CirqueDuSoleil scream in pain. Apparently, the writers have never heard of the "unplayable-lie" rule, which, in real life, can be taken for any shot, even one safely in the fairway. It does carry with it a penalty stroke, and you can't use it to get yourself closer to the hole, but you can do it.
** In ''Film/HappyGilmore'', where JerkJock Shooter [=McGavin=] has to play the ball off the foot of the title character's former-boss-turned-fan (played by Richard "Jaws" Kiel). (Can possibly be justified because both parties are jerks). In the same film, Happy actually is offered the unplayable-lie rule, but doesn't use it to avoid the penalty stroke.
*** Actually, there's another rule that means that he could wait for the rubble to be cleared without taking a penalty -- a rule about spectator interference. While this doesn't work for Shooter (it has to do with how an obstacle appears and the ball landed on Kiel's foot due to Shooter's own influence), it would've been in play for Happy because of what caused the obstruction [[note]] [[TheHeckler Shooter McGavin's insane fan]] ran over Happy and then crashed into a TV tower. Other fans later climbed on the tower and the load plus the lack of stability caused the tower to fall[[/note]].
** Speaking of HappyGilmore, how many times did that fan rudely yell "Jackass!" and not get thrown out for being a distraction?
* ''Film/DaysOfThunder'': A {{NASCAR}} team needs more than one car. This is not just a question of repairing damage and having a backup car ready, but of suitability. In the Sprint Cup Series, a team keeps several cars for the year: cars exclusively for the restrictor plate races at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, cars exclusively for the road course races at Watkins Glen and Sonoma as well as the Pocono races, cars specifically built for the short track races at venues like Bristol and Martinsville, cars specifically built for the non-plate superspeedways, and cars built for the intermediate length tracks.
** Or that even Tom Cruise couldn't pass everybody else in the race in the last three laps at Daytona. Unless he's an [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard AI driver]] who has superhuman abilities that even Creator/DaleEarnhardt was incapable of making. During the Darlington race earlier in the movie, the driver would have lost a lot more than just two positions with the extra time he spent on pit road, due to the egg-shaped configuration.
** And, of course, in the real world a driver would be banned from NASCAR (and probably all motorsports) for ''life'' if he went out and rammed the winner from behind during his victory lap.
* ''Film/{{Driven}}'': The scene of the main characters having an impromptu grudge match in their race cars through the evening Chicago rush hour; Not only would the average race driver be fired for such a reckless stunt but they certainly wouldn't be able to use their regular car. Most single seat race cars need a team of mechanics to operate the computer systems, heat the tires, start the car with an external starter, and to strap the driver's belts since he/she cannot do that themselves.
* ''Film/HorseFeathers'' has to be [[RuleOfFunny deliberate]], as there is no way anybody could possibly think that the ref would let somebody ride down the field in a chariot and use every spare football in said chariot as a separate touchdown, no matter how much bribery was involved. Also, Groucho's team (Huxley College) received a kick-off from rival Darwin College after scoring a touchdown, as opposed to kicking off to Darwin. (This is actually a bit of Truth In Television, since some college all-star games used to do this to make the contests more competitive: in the Hawaii Bowl, for example, a team would get the ball back if they trailed by more than two touchdowns in the fourth quarter.)
* Averted at the climax of ''Film/LittleGiants''. The Giants' last play of the game, called "The Annexation of Puerto Rico" by its geeky play caller, was a legal play at the time better known as the "fumblerooski" (the ruling body of Pee-Wee football has since banned it).
* Used to very painful effect in the Wesley Snipes version of ''The Fan''. Live video replay on the Jumbotron (which is not allowed), video of arguments between players or brawls (also not allowed), a player getting his number assigned on Opening Day (numbers are assigned during Spring Training), the climactic scene occurring at a baseball game played ''during a monsoon''... it would be easier to list what the movie got '''right'''. Such things do NOT include the long shot featuring a batter from BOTH teams warming up in their respective on-deck circles, and then later showing Snipes's character go directly from the dugout to the batter's box. When Tony Scott was setting up to film that climactic scene, practically the entire cast and crew was loudly pointing out that baseball is just not played in the rain. He didn't care, saying he [[RuleOfCool liked the drama it created]].
* In the 1963 Disney film ''Son of Flubber'', Professor Brainard comes up with an ingenious way to help the local high school football team win: he'll fill up a player's uniform with his new discovery, "flubber gas", to make him light and buoyant. The other players, instead of passing just the ball, will throw ''him with the ball'', so even if he is tackled, the team will retain possession of the ball. The only problem with such a ploy? It's illegal. Rule 17 section 6 of the official football rulebook, passed in 1910, specifically outlaws players on the offensive team from pushing, pulling, or holding the player carrying the ball. Nobody in the film, including the referees, seem to be aware of this.
* Similarly, in its predecessor ''The Absent-Minded Professor'', the same flubber gives basketball players shoes that allows them to take gigantic leaps. Unfortunately, by making several leaps in a row (as they do), without passing or dribbling the ball, they would be immediately called for travelling. Unlike a lot of the examples on this page, the opposing coach ''does'' realize that Medfield's game techniques are far from kosher, and complains about it loudly to the referee... whose only response is "[[LoopholeAbuse Ain't no rule says one team can't jump higher than the other!]]" But using ''artificial aids'' to jump higher can be called, certainly under "any equipment that is designed to increase a player's height or reach or in any other way give an unfair advantage is not permitted." Possibly as a technical foul under "sportsmanship and fair play", or because referees "have the power to make decisions on any point not specifically covered by these rules."
* The movie ''It Happens Every Spring'' is about a college professor who discovers a wood-repellent compound and uses this discovery to become a successful major league pitcher. The movie never addresses the fact that applying any kind of foreign substance to the ball is cheating of the most blatant variety: his pitches would qualify as a spitball, which was banned by Major League Baseball in 1920. Even more surprisingly, none of the umpires or opposing players seem the least bit suspicious of all the physics-defying things that the professor's pitches do.
* In ''Film/TheWaterboy'', after it's discovered that the coach forged Bobby Boucher's high school transcript to get him on the team, making him an ineligible player, the NCAA allows Bobby to still play in the team's bowl game if he passes a high school equivalency exam. In reality, not only would the NCAA not allow that, the whole team would have been forbidden to play in the game, would have had to forfeit back all its wins on the season and probably would have been banned from future bowl games and lost several scholarships for a few years.
* Not sports, but {{Game Show}}s: ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'' changes brutally how ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' works for the sake of drama (the show is not live, but recorded in studio some days before the actual broadcast - which is why they reread the hotline question on the phone and have a time limit on it; the hotline is never directed to a mobile number, to prevent connection troubles, and for the same reason it's never issued directly when the contestant asks for it; the call is first made in the very moment the contestant begins his round and it's then kept live - but soundless - until the contestant calls for the hotline).
** And players retain the right to walk away after hearing the question and even after using lifelines (except Double Dip, which was not even used in this version).
* Played with in that a common way that authors get around this trope is to create their own league or tournament that is a lot ''like'' a well-known real world event, but technically isn't. One example is ''BladesOfGlory''. Critics point out the errors made in the rules points system for Pairs Figure Skating in the Winter Olympics except that these aren't the Winter Olympics, they're the "World Winter Sports Games."
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* An {{Archie}} comics story involves a new kid in town coming out of nowhere to become the star player on Riverdale's baseball team, playing shortstop. His leg is then badly injured when a player on a rival team spikes him, but he reinvents himself as an ace pitcher and leads Riverdale to the championship. It would be a great story if it wasn't utter bullcrap. As anyone who's ever pitched at any level could tell you, it is impossible to pitch on an injured leg, at least with any degree of competency. Pitching is not simply about throwing a ball; pitchers generate power from their legs and put a great deal of stress and weight on them when pitching. If you try to pitch on a bad leg, not only will you have difficulty controlling your pitches, it's a good bet you'll injure your arm also.
** In another issue where Betty becomes a race car driver, the flag bearer at the racetrack waves a checkered flag at the start of her first race. The checkered flag is supposed to signal the end of a race.
* During the ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} event, the Hall of Doom flying super-prison just misses crashing into Joe Louis Arena during a Red Wings game. An establishing panel shows the ice level, where each team has eight men on the ice, nobody's wearing a helmet, the goaltenders don't look like goaltenders, and there are no officials visible. It can't be justified with an AlternateUniverse since the NHL rules were codified decades before the point of divergence.
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* An {{Archie}} comics story involves a new kid in town coming out of nowhere to become the star player on Riverdale's baseball team, playing shortstop. His leg is then badly injured when a player on a rival team spikes him, but he reinvents himself as an ace pitcher and leads Riverdale to the championship. It would be a great story if it wasn't utter bullcrap. As anyone who's ever pitched at any level could tell you, it is impossible to pitch on an injured leg, at least with any degree of competency. Pitching is not simply about throwing a ball; pitchers generate power from their legs and put a great deal of stress and weight on them when pitching. If you try to pitch on a bad leg, not only will you have difficulty controlling your pitches, it's a good bet you'll injure your arm also.
** In another issue where Betty becomes a race car driver, the flag bearer at the racetrack waves a checkered flag at the start of her first race. The checkered flag is supposed to signal the end of a race.
* During the ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} event, the Hall of Doom flying super-prison just misses crashing into Joe Louis Arena during a Red Wings game. An establishing panel shows the ice level, where each team has eight men on the ice, nobody's wearing a helmet, the goaltenders don't look like goaltenders, and there are no officials visible. It can't be justified with an AlternateUniverse since the NHL rules were codified decades before the point of divergence.
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* Played for laughs in the Advertising/SegataSanshiro marketing campaign. In one commercial for a baseball game, Segata Sanshiro hits the ball...with his foot. In another commercial, one for a winter sports game, he goes ice-skating barefooted. Naturally, both occurances result in victorious results.
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* A 2013 commercial for [=McDonald's McRib=] sandwich had two fans of the [=McRib=] compare the awesomeness of it to crazy plays from American football, including "Running the Wishbone out of the I-Formation." The Wishbone isn't a play, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_formation it's a formation as well]], so you can't run the one out of the other.
* A 2013 Microsoft commercial has two baseball scouts scouting a pitcher while talking to their team's General Manager, one on an iPhone, the other on Windows. One asks "What's his E.R.A.?" the followed by "How about against lefties?" It's impossible to have an E.R.A. against lefties, because E.R.A is calculated as a rate of earned runs per 9 innings. Runs allowed have two components: batters getting base and then scoring as runners while another batter is hitting (who may or may not be left-handed) before three outs in an inning are recorded.
* A 2014 Bud Light radio ad, tailored for NFL radio broadcasts in respective markets, had a named fan spending the '97 season of the local team calculating the perfect temperature at which to serve Bud Light. This was a problem in the Cleveland market, as the Browns did not have a 1997 season following the original team's move to Baltimore. That one was later changed to reference the '04 Browns season.
* A 2013 Microsoft commercial has two baseball scouts scouting a pitcher while talking to their team's General Manager, one on an iPhone, the other on Windows. One asks "What's his E.R.A.?" the followed by "How about against lefties?" It's impossible to have an E.R.A. against lefties, because E.R.A is calculated as a rate of earned runs per 9 innings. Runs allowed have two components: batters getting base and then scoring as runners while another batter is hitting (who may or may not be left-handed) before three outs in an inning are recorded.
* A 2014 Bud Light radio ad, tailored for NFL radio broadcasts in respective markets, had a named fan spending the '97 season of the local team calculating the perfect temperature at which to serve Bud Light. This was a problem in the Cleveland market, as the Browns did not have a 1997 season following the original team's move to Baltimore. That one was later changed to reference the '04 Browns season.
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Many {{Sitcom}}s use the gimmick of the sports episode, usually setting the man up to be [[BestedAtBowling humiliated by a woman]]. When this happens, the writers will use the most basic terminology available, and most of the time not even get that right. Most of the time, the sport is [[SmallReferencePools just out of reach]] of [[ViewersAreMorons most of the viewing audience]], but rest assured that some [[SeriousBusiness sports fanatic]] will find fault with it. The most basic fault is LoopholeAbuse using a loophole that's actually closed... the TV says there AintNoRule, but the RealLife rulebook says there is.
This is especially {{egregious}} when the protagonist is [[InformedAbility supposed to be a sports writer]].
{{Film}}s usually avoid this trope, as the writers there will generally have plenty of time to research for the script. Television, however, only gets seven to ten days of shooting.
See also CriticalResearchFailure. NewRulesAsThePlotDemands is the version of this trope for games that only exist in the work of fiction. If the news media gets its pop culture wrong, it's CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. In video games, if this is the theme of the entire level, you have AthleticArenaLevel. PacManFever is this trope with video games standing in for sports. Of course, it's impossible to make this mistake in a game of {{Calvinball}}.
This is especially {{egregious}} when the protagonist is [[InformedAbility supposed to be a sports writer]].
{{Film}}s usually avoid this trope, as the writers there will generally have plenty of time to research for the script. Television, however, only gets seven to ten days of shooting.
See also CriticalResearchFailure. NewRulesAsThePlotDemands is the version of this trope for games that only exist in the work of fiction. If the news media gets its pop culture wrong, it's CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. In video games, if this is the theme of the entire level, you have AthleticArenaLevel. PacManFever is this trope with video games standing in for sports. Of course, it's impossible to make this mistake in a game of {{Calvinball}}.
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Many {{Sitcom}}s use the gimmick of the sports episode, usually setting the man up to be [[BestedAtBowling humiliated by a woman]]. There are also many family movies set around sports. When this happens, the writers will use the most basic terminology available, and most of the time not even get that right. Most of the time, the sport is [[SmallReferencePools just out of reach]] of [[ViewersAreMorons most of the viewing audience]], but rest assured that some [[SeriousBusiness sports fanatic]] will find fault with it. The most basic fault is LoopholeAbuse using a loophole that's actually closed... the TV says there AintNoRule, but the RealLife rulebook says there is.
This is especially {{egregious}} when the protagonist is [[InformedAbility supposed to be a sports writer]].
{{Film}}s usually avoid this trope, as the writers there will generally have plenty of time to research for the script. Television, however, only gets seven to ten days of shooting.
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See also CriticalResearchFailure. GretzkyHasTheBall is when this is done intentionally and in-universe. NewRulesAsThePlotDemands is the version of this trope for games that only exist in the work of fiction. If the news media gets its pop culture wrong, it's CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. In video games, if this is the theme of the entire level, you have AthleticArenaLevel. PacManFever is this trope with video games standing in for sports. Of course, it's impossible to make this mistake in a game of {{Calvinball}}.
This is especially {{egregious}} when the protagonist is [[InformedAbility supposed to be a sports writer]].
{{Film}}s usually avoid this trope, as the writers there will generally have plenty of time to research for the script. Television, however, only gets seven to ten days of shooting.
See also CriticalResearchFailure. GretzkyHasTheBall is when this is done intentionally and in-universe. NewRulesAsThePlotDemands is the version of this trope for games that only exist in the work of fiction. If the news media gets its pop culture wrong, it's CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. In video games, if this is the theme of the entire level, you have AthleticArenaLevel. PacManFever is this trope with video games standing in for sports. Of course, it's impossible to make this mistake in a game of {{Calvinball}}.
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'''Peter''': [[AluminumChristmasTrees Wrong team.]] [[note]]Rice and Montana played together for the 49ers for a while, but Montana was playing for the Chiefs at the time the strip was written.[[/note]]\\
'''Jason''': He sees Derrick Thomas open in the end zone!\\
'''Peter''': Wrong position. [[note]]Thomas was a linebacker with the Chiefs. Since that's a defensive position, he wouldn't have been on the field at the same time as Montana.[[/note]]\\
'''Jason''': He sees Wayne Gretzky open in the end zone!\\
'''Peter''': Wrong sport, moron. [[note]]He played hockey.[[/note]]
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'''Jason''': He sees Wayne Gretzky open in the end zone!\\
'''Peter''': Wrong sport, moron. [[note]]He played hockey.[[/note]]
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'''Peter''': Wrong sport, moron. [[note]]He played hockey.
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* Played for laughs in the Segata Sanshiro Sega Saturn marketing campaign. In one commercial for a baseball game, Segata Sanshiro hits the ball...with his foot. In another commercial, one for a winter sports game, he goes ice-skating barefooted. Naturally, both occurances result in victorious results.
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* Even though it's a shonen series and thus we can expect liberties with everything, but the portrayal of American football in Eyeshield 21 is at times just plain wrong. Despite handwaving with comments like "American football is a violent sport", the referees should be showing up more than twice in the entire series. Still, it gets the basic rules right, especially under Japanese rules, which is more can be said for most examples on this page.
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* Even though it's a shonen series and thus we can expect liberties with everything, but the portrayal of American football UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball in Eyeshield 21 ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' is at times just plain wrong. Despite handwaving with comments like "American football is a violent sport", the referees should be showing up more than twice in the entire series. Still, it gets the basic rules right, especially under Japanese rules, which is more can be said for most examples on this page.
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* MixedMartialArts, being a relatively new sport, gets butchered by TV constantly. Rules are gotten wrong if not ignored, weight classes are often non-existent, and it's still treated often as a seedy, underground-maybe illegal sport.
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The trope name doesn't actually come from any examples; it's just a great example of a person afflicted with this trope. (For those not in on it: Wayne Gretzky is basically the most famous ice hockey player ever to live... and ice hockey uses a puck, not a ball.)
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* Even more so with ''ThePrinceOfTennis'', aside from the gravity- and physics-defying shots the characters use.
* ''CaptainTsubasa'' has a variation: while most of soccer/football's rules are respected, the players make impossible moves, and use strategies that are pathetic for anyone that understands the sport, all in name of the plot. The matches depicted on the show also have muuuuch more goals than real life's scores.
** But then it comes an episode (in the Road to 2002 series) where the main focus is a referee that was, apparently, being unfair. The episode then takes a while to talk about referee's methods and other stuff... but then you stop to think about it - this is an anime that ''never gives a damn thing'' about referees. Characters are constantly getting ''severely'' injured in the middle of matches, sometimes in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqn4R2R9u-U&feature=related most blatant ways]], and nobody lifts a finger. All for the sake of awesome, sure, but sends the anime squarely into this trope.
** There are more [[TVTropesDrinkingGame egregious]] examples. Sometimes players violently attack players of the opposite team without receiving any kind of punishment or only receiving a yellow-card. Have in mind we are not talking about faking a miscalculation and hitting your opponents on purpose ([[TruthInTelevision which happens in real life]]) but actually kicking them without holding back, sometimes even after being shouted by your coach/team captain/team partners to "break his leg". This in real life not only would get a red card, but it'd get you kicked from Soccer League, and probably get your team punished as well.
* Parodied in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' with beach volleyball. Hayate is worried because he doesn't know how to play, but Nagi tells him it's okay because the author has no idea either. So [[WidgetSeries obviously]], it ends with killer robots.
* The ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' manga had one caused by an artist error: A panel showed Saki with 15 tiles in her hand, which is not legally possible in {{Mahjong}}. Strangely enough, the error made its way into the anime adaptation.
** Crunchyroll's subtitles also demonstrated that the translators apparently didn't know how to play Mahjong, at least not the Riichi variant used in the series. The translation notes in the first episode alone had:
*** An incorrect definition of ''yaku'' as "special hands that are worth 1 fan [sic] (point doubling) each". Correct definition: ''Yaku'' are hand patterns each worth 1 or more '''h'''an (''fan'' is the Chinese term used in other variants).
*** "The player sitting east gets double points and pays double points." The East seat player actually gets 1.5x the points if they win the hand, and pays double if and only if someone else wins via ''tsumo'' (drawing the final tile themselves, as opposed to taking someone else's discard).
*** For some crazy reason, the subtitles had mixed not only romanized Japanese and English translations for Mahjong terms, but some terms were ''translated into their Chinese word origins and then romanized''. Sometimes all in the same line, for example "all simples pinfu mixed triple chow."
* ''CaptainTsubasa'' has a variation: while most of soccer/football's rules are respected, the players make impossible moves, and use strategies that are pathetic for anyone that understands the sport, all in name of the plot. The matches depicted on the show also have muuuuch more goals than real life's scores.
** But then it comes an episode (in the Road to 2002 series) where the main focus is a referee that was, apparently, being unfair. The episode then takes a while to talk about referee's methods and other stuff... but then you stop to think about it - this is an anime that ''never gives a damn thing'' about referees. Characters are constantly getting ''severely'' injured in the middle of matches, sometimes in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqn4R2R9u-U&feature=related most blatant ways]], and nobody lifts a finger. All for the sake of awesome, sure, but sends the anime squarely into this trope.
** There are more [[TVTropesDrinkingGame egregious]] examples. Sometimes players violently attack players of the opposite team without receiving any kind of punishment or only receiving a yellow-card. Have in mind we are not talking about faking a miscalculation and hitting your opponents on purpose ([[TruthInTelevision which happens in real life]]) but actually kicking them without holding back, sometimes even after being shouted by your coach/team captain/team partners to "break his leg". This in real life not only would get a red card, but it'd get you kicked from Soccer League, and probably get your team punished as well.
* Parodied in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' with beach volleyball. Hayate is worried because he doesn't know how to play, but Nagi tells him it's okay because the author has no idea either. So [[WidgetSeries obviously]], it ends with killer robots.
* The ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' manga had one caused by an artist error: A panel showed Saki with 15 tiles in her hand, which is not legally possible in {{Mahjong}}. Strangely enough, the error made its way into the anime adaptation.
** Crunchyroll's subtitles also demonstrated that the translators apparently didn't know how to play Mahjong, at least not the Riichi variant used in the series. The translation notes in the first episode alone had:
*** An incorrect definition of ''yaku'' as "special hands that are worth 1 fan [sic] (point doubling) each". Correct definition: ''Yaku'' are hand patterns each worth 1 or more '''h'''an (''fan'' is the Chinese term used in other variants).
*** "The player sitting east gets double points and pays double points." The East seat player actually gets 1.5x the points if they win the hand, and pays double if and only if someone else wins via ''tsumo'' (drawing the final tile themselves, as opposed to taking someone else's discard).
*** For some crazy reason, the subtitles had mixed not only romanized Japanese and English translations for Mahjong terms, but some terms were ''translated into their Chinese word origins and then romanized''. Sometimes all in the same line, for example "all simples pinfu mixed triple chow."
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* Played for laughs in the Segata Sanshiro Sega Saturn marketing campaign. In one commercial for a baseball game, Segata Sanshiro hits the ball...with his foot. In another commercial, one for a winter sports game, he goes ice-skating barefooted. Naturally, both occurances result in victorious results.
* A 2014 Mountain Dew commercial has a Dew-drinking show jumper attempting tricks as though the horse were a motorcycle. At the end, judges give him three zeros. Unfortunately, stadium show jumping is timed, not judged.
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* Even though it's a shonen series and thus we can expect liberties with everything, but the portrayal of American football in Eyeshield 21 is at times just plain wrong. Despite handwaving with comments like "American football is a violent sport", the referees should be showing up more than twice in the entire series. Still, it gets the basic rules right, especially under Japanese rules, which is more can be said for most examples on this page.
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->'''Jason''': Joe Montana fades back to pass. He sees Jerry Rice open in the end zone!\\
'''Peter''': [[AluminumChristmasTrees Wrong team.]] [[note]]Rice and Montana played together for the 49ers for a while, but Montana was playing for the Chiefs at the time the strip was written.[[/note]]\\
'''Jason''': He sees Derrick Thomas open in the end zone!\\
'''Peter''': Wrong position. [[note]]Thomas was a linebacker with the Chiefs. Since that's a defensive position, he wouldn't have been on the field at the same time as Montana.[[/note]]\\
'''Jason''': He sees Wayne Gretzky open in the end zone!\\
'''Peter''': Wrong sport, moron. [[note]]Wayne Gretzky played hockey.[[/note]]
-->-- ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot''
Many {{Sitcom}}s use the gimmick of the sports episode, usually setting the man up to be [[BestedAtBowling humiliated by a woman]]. When this happens, the writers will use the most basic terminology available, and most of the time not even get that right. Most of the time, the sport is [[SmallReferencePools just out of reach]] of [[ViewersAreMorons most of the viewing audience]], but rest assured that some [[SeriousBusiness sports fanatic]] will find fault with it. The most basic fault is LoopholeAbuse using a loophole that's actually closed... the TV says there AintNoRule, but the RealLife rulebook says there is.
This is especially {{egregious}} when the protagonist is [[InformedAbility supposed to be a sports writer]].
{{Film}}s usually avoid this trope, as the writers there will generally have plenty of time to research for the script. Television, however, only gets seven to ten days of shooting.
The trope name doesn't actually come from any examples; it's just a great example of a person afflicted with this trope. (For those not in on it: Wayne Gretzky is basically the most famous ice hockey player ever to live... and ice hockey uses a puck, not a ball.)
See also CriticalResearchFailure. NewRulesAsThePlotDemands is the version of this trope for games that only exist in the work of fiction. If the news media gets its pop culture wrong, it's CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. In video games, if this is the theme of the entire level, you have AthleticArenaLevel. PacManFever is this trope with video games standing in for sports. Of course, it's impossible to make this mistake in a game of {{Calvinball}}.
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