Probably Unanswerable Questions
Modern athlete comparisons; game validity; Palazzo’s future; older comedy leads
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- Modern analogues for Simpson’s fame move through Peterson, Moss and Lynch before Barkley is favored for athletic greatness followed by greater post-career affection.
- Big Papi and Griffey are suggested as modern Jackson analogues.
- Overcrowded sports booths and the anthem Mount Rushmore are recalled as questions already covered.
- The interrupted game should be void because an impostor umpired it; restarting later is compared with the pine-tar dispute, earthquake World Series and Hamlin cancellation.
- Nordberg’s balcony fall is considered fatal, adding another reason play would stop.
- Palazzo might gain talk-show notoriety but sue police and the Angels for the damage to his real career.
- Nielsen’s popularity with children as a62-year-old comic lead is considered unusual because the film is not a senior-citizen premise.