Happy April Fool’s Day

This is definitely the one day of the year I’m glad I’m not working in an office. I hate April Fools. I hate anything that makes me look like an idiot. Even if it is in “good fun.”

Our dark sports overlords, ESPN have already been up to some mischief today. You’ll notice that in today’s Streak For The Cash a game tips off at 11:59 on ESPN8 – The Ocho. That game is between the Vorkula Rick Diggers and Norilsk Gold Rollers in the Siberian Premiership II. Info for those teams can be found here. Even though I saw it coming, I still chuckled. Also, that match up is much more intriguing than any women’s basketball games. I would have no problem if ESPN wanted to start including office games. Like paper football between Dick Vitale and Matthew Berry. Let Simmons come up with a spread and then have them go at it.

Speaking of Simmons, SFTC isn’t the only platform ESPN was using to trick us today. In part two of Simmons mailbag he put together a list of females in cinema that provided most guys with their first glimpse of breasts. Towards the bottom of the paragraph, he threw in Scarlett Johansson (”The Killing Game”).

A short while later:

By the way, a belated “Got you!” to everyone who Googled Scarlett Johansson’s topless scene in “The Killing Game” — both the scene and movie were made up. You guys are too easy.

Now, I’m not entirely certain, but I seem to recall reading that in Part 1 of his mailbag yesterday afternoon. Can anyone confirm this for me? Was that a mistake that was corrected, or am I hallucinating? Either way, if this movie existed, I would own 4 copies.

ESPN isn’t the only major corporation you shouldn’t be trusting today. Here’s a list of 10 April Fool’s pranks that were pulled by companies. (Via Unsilent Majority’s Twitter) I did fall for the flying penguins last year. Probably because I love penguins so much. I want them to be able to fly. This gives us an opportunity to remeber Sidd Finch. This was also the last time Mets’ fans were legitimately excited about the future.

Individuals in the sports world should also be approached with caution today. The Arena – whose creator follows every sports related person alive with a Twitter feed – saw hasheem Thabeet’s attempt at a practical joke. He said he failed a drug test and wouldn’t be going to the Final Four. Of course, we all know that this is an impossibility, Jim Calhoun’s athletes don’t miss games for anything less than rape convictions if they average double digit minutes.