Wacky Sports Facts That WILL Impress Your Friends

!±8± Wacky Sports Facts That WILL Impress Your Friends

We have all heard them - the kind of sports trivia that do not mean anything to the world, such as the baseball player with the highest career batting average on Wednesday night games. Or statistics on whether or not a golfer will score a better round while wearing red. We all have that one friend who keeps track of these meaningless factoids and uses them to impress people. The following facts, however, are sure to not only impress your friends, but stump them and leave them wanting to find more on their own.

Coors Field, the stadium in which the Colorado Rockies play their home games, is built at the highest elevation in Major League Baseball at 5,183 feet above sea level. At about 1,500 feet elevation, the next highest baseball stadium in the league is, surprisingly, Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Phoenix is located in a valley and does not have a high elevation, but it just so happens that most other MLB stadiums are built next to a large body of water.

The Arizona Cardinals, a part of one of the worst divisions in football in the NFC West, weren't always in a Western Division. Even after they moved to Arizona in 1970, the Cardinals remained part of the NFC East division for 32 years. They are the furthest Western team to be a part of an Eastern Division in the history of professional sports.

The opposite is true for the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. Detroit is located in Eastern Michigan, just on the other side of Lake Erie as is Pennsylvania and New York, yet the Red Wings still belong to the Western Conference. Same goes for the Blue Jackets. In Fact, Detroit and Columbus are further East than cities such as Chicago, Indianapolis, and even parts of Florida.

There are always fun facts that you can find out on your own if you are willing to do a small amount of research. These facts aren't going to make you any new friends, and they certainly aren't going to get you any dates. But the purpose of stating these facts is solely to expand your knowledge of the wild and wacky world of sports and to show that anyone, if they put their mind to it, can discover interesting and unique facts about the sports they love.

Wacky Sports Facts That WILL Impress Your Friends

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3 Steps to Start a Cattle Ranch

!±8± 3 Steps to Start a Cattle Ranch

"Hey move your car!", screams the guy in the rearview mirror. I would if I could, but there are a million cars in front of me! Same route, same thing everyday. I remember growing up, people weren't as rude or uptight. Oh, check it out, they're putting up a new billboard.. Hmmm, a picture of a house over looking a scenic view of land that goes for eternity. It looks like a cattle ranch or something. On the top of the picture reads, "Get away from the Hustle and Bustle, Land For Sale, Great Rates". Wow, that is very enticing.

That was me. Living in the city, working a job I hated.

Now, I grew up in a rural area, and my parents had a cattle ranch. After high school I went away to a university on the opposite side of the country. I wanted the city life. Boy was I wrong. So I decided to sell my house, that was crammed in a nice suburb, and invested in a cattle ranch.

Starting from scratch, I needed to remember what I needed to have a cattle ranch. So I called my dad and he gave me this for advise. He said to start with the 3 basic things, then go from there. Well here are the 3 steps that I applied when I started my cattle ranch.

1. Land - This is obvious, you must buy land to become a cattle rancher, but there are some things you can do to increase your profit. Like when you seek out to buy your land, check with the state or county to see about leasing some land for grazing rights. That helped me out, because I wasn't some rich guy. I bought 125 acres, then I leased 1,800 acres from my state.

(Remember that you will have to build your home and other buildings pertaining to cattle ranching, unless you buy an already existing ranch.)

2. Cattle - Unless this is more of a hobby, treat this as a business investment. Because when you buy your cattle you have to calculate how many are going to be able to graze on your land. For instance, 50 cattle to every 600 acres. So, for 2,000 acres you want around 150 head.

3. Horses or All Terrain Vehicles - You will need to check your cattle 3-4 times a week. In order to check on the herd, the use of a horse or an all terrain vehicle is used. In the mid-west, 4wheelers and Polaris' are very popular, due to the rolling hills. Out west, horses are used more, because of the rocky terrain and the canyons that cattle goes down into.

3 Steps to Start a Cattle Ranch

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