Every Person Memorialized on the Moon
On August 2, 1971, in the last minutes of Apollo 15’s final moonwalk, David Scott drove the lunar rover a short way from the lander, set down a small aluminum figurine and a plaque... Read More →
Author: Jax Cole
Every Defensive Player Who Intercepted Tom Brady in the NFL Playoffs
Tom Brady played his last playoff game on a Monday night in Tampa on January 16, 2023, three days short of twenty-one years after he played his first, in a snowstorm in Foxborough, Massachusetts.... Read More →
Every FIFA Cover Athlete Who Never Reached a World Cup
EA Sports put 161 different footballers on the front of a FIFA box between 1993 and 2022. It shipped nineteen separate covers for FIFA 16 and eighteen for FIFA 10, so that a Hungarian... Read More →
Every Joe Montana Super Bowl Touchdown Pass
The most famous pass Joe Montana ever threw is not on this list. The Catch – the leaping, fingertip touchdown to Dwight Clark that beat Dallas – came in the NFC Championship Game, two... Read More →
Every Goal Pele Scored at a World Cup
In July 1950, a nine-year-old boy in Bauru watched his father cry as Brazil lost the deciding match of a home World Cup to Uruguay, and made him a promise: “Don’t worry, I will... Read More →
Every Tom Brady Super Bowl Touchdown Pass
Tom Brady won the Super Bowl seven times, which is more than any NFL franchise has managed. The Patriots and the Steelers have six apiece. Everyone else is chasing a man who was drafted... Read More →
Every Quarterback Myles Garrett Sacked in His Record-Breaking Season
The night before the final game of the 2025 season, Myles Garrett dreamed that he missed the record. He said so afterward, along with his conclusion on waking: fate would have to be denied.... Read More →
Every Goal Cristiano Ronaldo Has Scored at the World Cup
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored World Cup goals on five continents. Nobody sets out to compile a statistic like that. The tournament simply moves – Europe, then Africa, then South America, back to Europe, then... Read More →
Every FIFA Cover Player, 1993 to 2022
There has never really been a single FIFA cover. For most of the series’ thirty-year run, the same game shipped with different footballers on the box depending on where you bought it, so the... Read More →
Every Act That Played Woodstock in 1969
Woodstock did not happen in Woodstock. The festival borrowed its name from the artists’ colony in Ulster County, New York, where Bob Dylan was living and where its four young promoters hoped to build... Read More →
