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The View from the Upper Deck: SportsPickle Presents the Funniest Collection of Sports Satire Ever
"DJ Gallo Is the King of All Fake Sports Media."
--- flakmagazine
From Sportspickle.com---far and away the most popular sports satire site on the Web, with millions of visitors in its five-year history---comes The View from the Upper Deck, an uproarious collection of "news" stories and "fun facts," profiles and polls, tidbits and trivia, for sports fans of every stripe.
Yankees Purchase Naming Rights to Fenway Park
Six-Foot, 255-Pound Third Grader Wins Science Fair with Steroids Experiment
Allen Iverson Keeps It Real for Record 2,548th Straight Day
Peyton Manning Ready to Prove His Doubters Wrong at the Pro Bowl
Signature features include "Today in Revisionist Sports History," biographies of famous sports personalities, write-ups on sports, business, and well-known stadiums and arenas, and much more. An ideal gift for sports addicts and fair-weather fans, good sports and sore losers, this hilarious compendium will leave all readers dancing in the end zones and clamoring for double overtime.
"The funniest sports site on the Web"
--- Orlando Sentinel
"One of the funniest sites on the Internet."
---Fox Sports Radio
--- flakmagazine
From Sportspickle.com---far and away the most popular sports satire site on the Web, with millions of visitors in its five-year history---comes The View from the Upper Deck, an uproarious collection of "news" stories and "fun facts," profiles and polls, tidbits and trivia, for sports fans of every stripe.
Yankees Purchase Naming Rights to Fenway Park
Six-Foot, 255-Pound Third Grader Wins Science Fair with Steroids Experiment
Allen Iverson Keeps It Real for Record 2,548th Straight Day
Peyton Manning Ready to Prove His Doubters Wrong at the Pro Bowl
Signature features include "Today in Revisionist Sports History," biographies of famous sports personalities, write-ups on sports, business, and well-known stadiums and arenas, and much more. An ideal gift for sports addicts and fair-weather fans, good sports and sore losers, this hilarious compendium will leave all readers dancing in the end zones and clamoring for double overtime.
"The funniest sports site on the Web"
--- Orlando Sentinel
"One of the funniest sites on the Internet."
---Fox Sports Radio
320 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2007
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May 22, 2026
Ridiculously funny Onion-like satire pieces, taking no prisoners. Every sport, every team, and every athlete is fair game. He cleverly lambasts and mocks players, coaches, fans, and league officials across all sports: baseball, football, boxing, college sports, golf, hockey, and so on.
Some of my favorites “Fun Facts” (remember…this is satire…just jokes…):
o Pete Rose dove headfirst out of his mother’s vagina at birth
o David Ortiz holds the all-time Red Sox record for the most clutch hits with 114 which is 114 more than the next closest player
o (Jim) Brown claims the proudest moment in his life was appearing in the 1996 film Mars Attacks!
o In the time it will take you to read this sentence, five NBA players have slept with your wife
o Sydney (Crosby’s) mother isn’t sure if his father is Crosby, Stills, or Nash
o (Lennox) Lewis was never feared or respected to the same degree as past heavyweights, primarily because no one in world history has ever been scared or intimidated by a guy with an English accent.
o Seabiscuit wore a saddle by Vera Wang to the 2004 Academy Awards
o Ski jumper worried his skills might not be applicable to life after the Olympics
o …and so on…
Some of my favorites “Fun Facts” (remember…this is satire…just jokes…):
o Pete Rose dove headfirst out of his mother’s vagina at birth
o David Ortiz holds the all-time Red Sox record for the most clutch hits with 114 which is 114 more than the next closest player
o (Jim) Brown claims the proudest moment in his life was appearing in the 1996 film Mars Attacks!
o In the time it will take you to read this sentence, five NBA players have slept with your wife
o Sydney (Crosby’s) mother isn’t sure if his father is Crosby, Stills, or Nash
o (Lennox) Lewis was never feared or respected to the same degree as past heavyweights, primarily because no one in world history has ever been scared or intimidated by a guy with an English accent.
o Seabiscuit wore a saddle by Vera Wang to the 2004 Academy Awards
o Ski jumper worried his skills might not be applicable to life after the Olympics
o …and so on…
February 22, 2019
A little outdated, but DJ Gallo never fails to crack me up
June 15, 2014
This book is a funny sports satire book I laughed at almost every page I am a big fan of this book and hope he creates a new book soon.
April 19, 2008
This book is hilarious. I want to leave my husband and marry DJ Gallo.
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