July 1, 2025 • 5 mins
What do Olympic Pigeons, a 29-minute tennis point, and one city's legendary sports flex have in common? This episode of IDKMYDE might sound random at first... but trust--the twist at the end is worth it!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I welcome back nord Alls to another episode. If I
didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I'm your host b
Dots And make sure you're following us on our Instagram
IDK myde with an underscore before it and behind it,
And make sure you're checking out episodes on our YouTube.
Just search IDK myde and you can put a face
(00:23):
with the voice.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You mean timee BA.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Of course, I'm headquartered right here in North Carolina and
a lot of people are talking sports around these parts. Yeah,
the NBA Draft just happened, is almost time for summer league.
And there's a line right down the middle on if
you were happy with the Charlotte Hornets draft or you weren't.
And personally I thought the DEEI Hiles were perfect. Konker
Nipple picked at number four. He looked like STEVEE from
(00:49):
Eastbounding Down, but I loved that character. Liam McNeeley with
the twenty ninth pick, Buddy Got swagged the number thirty
fourth pick that picked up the seven foot of Ryan Kalkbrenner,
he the Big East defensive player of the year, and
right before him at thirty three, they picked up Cyon
James from Duke A guard, but defensive minded, stronger than
a rubber band that holds a natural ponytail in place.
(01:11):
I liked the pigs and can't wait for the team
to get it popping in Vegas for some of the league.
So in the spirit of sports, that's what this whole
episode is about. First, I'm about to give you three
of the most useless facts. He'll never need, never not
a day in life about sports. Your first useless fact,
did you know that live pigeon shooting was an actual
Olympic sport in the nineteen hundred Olympic Games in Paris. Yeah,
(01:35):
hundreds of pigeons were released in front of the competitors.
Three hundred birds got killed. The winner killed twenty two himself,
and for obvious reasons, it was the first and last
time that live pigeon shooting was an Olympic sport. I
could just hit the gunshots and the feathers and the no,
(01:56):
three hundred birds did. Your second useless fact, The longest
recorded point in tennis history was twenty nine minutes. I'm
talking about for just one point, the tennis ball went
back and forth over the net six hundred and forty
three times. It was a nineteen eighty four women's tennis
match between Vicki Nelson and Gene Hepner. And your third
(02:20):
and final useless fact, which will actually be today's episode.
What American city won three championships in one calendar year?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Because I didn't know, I didn't know, didn't know. I
didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I didn't know, didn't I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I didn't know. I didn't know. What in LA? What
in New York? Wasn't even Chicago? The answer?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Detroit in nineteen thirty five, Yeah, Motown the d Paul's
the motor City. Detroit was in his bag that year.
Let me tell you how they ran it up. First
up October nineteen thirty five, the Detroit Tigers. They won
the World Series. They beat the Chicago Cubs in six games.
(03:12):
Final game, Tigers four, Cubs three, big crowd, big energy.
They got it done at Navinfield, and the Cubs held
on to that l for the next eighty one years.
Then came December nineteen thirty five, the Detroit Lions. Yeah,
the Lions stepped up and smacked the New York Giants
in the NFL Championship Game. And of course it wasn't
(03:35):
the Super Bowl because the first Super Bowl played January fifteenth,
nineteen sixty seven, it wasn't even the Super Bowl then,
it was the AFL NFL World Championship Game that when
the Packers beat the Chiefs thirty five ten they played
in LA. But see, the NFL started September seventeen, nineteen twenty,
so in nineteen thirty five they was having championships and
the Detroit Lions won that joint final score twenty six
(03:58):
to seven. Out of fact, the Detroit Lions got four championships.
Their first one was nineteen thirty five. They won in
fifty two and fifty three back to back, and then
they won in fifty seven. But since we've had the
Super Bowl era, the Lions ain't sniffed that. But back
to nineteen thirty five, they whipped up on them Giants
twenty six to seven in Detroit at the University of
(04:20):
Detroit Stadium. And then in April nineteen thirty six, it
was still the thirty five thirty six year, still in
the calendar year, but the Detroit Red Wings they wrapped
it up.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They beat the Toronto Maple Leafs in five games in
Game five, winning the overtime and Detroit won three to two.
That was the first Stanley Cup in franchise history. And
now it ain't a franchise with more Stanley Cups than
the Detroit Red Wings.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They got eleven of.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Them, joints, three teams, three sports, one city, all champs,
all within six months. And while all that was happening,
another champ was rising, not in cleats and not on skates,
but in the ring. Joe Lewis, young black kid from
Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood. In nineteen thirty five, he went
(05:06):
eleven to ozho eight of them by knockouts. They wouldn't
even let him fight for the world title yet because
you know, he were black, but he was already the
people's champion. So the city of Detroit was stacking trophies
and Joe Lewis was stacking bodies, giving Black America something
to believe in. He would proof that a black man
could not only fight, but.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He could win. And Detroit, Detroit was the home of
it all.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So yeah, they called Detroit the City of Champions for
a reason because in nineteen thirty five, they wasn't just
winning games, they was making history.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And I didn't know maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I
I welcome back nord Alls to another episode. If I
didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I'm your host b
Dots And make sure you're following us on our Instagram
IDK myde with an underscore before it and behind it,
And make sure you're checking out episodes on our YouTube.
Just search IDK myde and you can put a face
(00:23):
with the voice.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You mean timee BA.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Of course, I'm headquartered right here in North Carolina and
a lot of people are talking sports around these parts. Yeah,
the NBA Draft just happened, is almost time for summer league.
And there's a line right down the middle on if
you were happy with the Charlotte Hornets draft or you weren't.
And personally I thought the DEEI Hiles were perfect. Konker
Nipple picked at number four. He looked like STEVEE from
(00:49):
Eastbounding Down, but I loved that character. Liam McNeeley with
the twenty ninth pick, Buddy Got swagged the number thirty
fourth pick that picked up the seven foot of Ryan Kalkbrenner,
he the Big East defensive player of the year, and
right before him at thirty three, they picked up Cyon
James from Duke A guard, but defensive minded, stronger than
a rubber band that holds a natural ponytail in place.
(01:11):
I liked the pigs and can't wait for the team
to get it popping in Vegas for some of the league.
So in the spirit of sports, that's what this whole
episode is about. First, I'm about to give you three
of the most useless facts. He'll never need, never not
a day in life about sports. Your first useless fact,
did you know that live pigeon shooting was an actual
Olympic sport in the nineteen hundred Olympic Games in Paris. Yeah,
(01:35):
hundreds of pigeons were released in front of the competitors.
Three hundred birds got killed. The winner killed twenty two himself,
and for obvious reasons, it was the first and last
time that live pigeon shooting was an Olympic sport. I
could just hit the gunshots and the feathers and the no,
(01:56):
three hundred birds did. Your second useless fact, The longest
recorded point in tennis history was twenty nine minutes. I'm
talking about for just one point, the tennis ball went
back and forth over the net six hundred and forty
three times. It was a nineteen eighty four women's tennis
match between Vicki Nelson and Gene Hepner. And your third
(02:20):
and final useless fact, which will actually be today's episode.
What American city won three championships in one calendar year?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Because I didn't know, I didn't know, didn't know. I
didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I didn't know, didn't I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I didn't know. I didn't know. What in LA? What
in New York? Wasn't even Chicago? The answer?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Detroit in nineteen thirty five, Yeah, Motown the d Paul's
the motor City. Detroit was in his bag that year.
Let me tell you how they ran it up. First
up October nineteen thirty five, the Detroit Tigers. They won
the World Series. They beat the Chicago Cubs in six games.
(03:12):
Final game, Tigers four, Cubs three, big crowd, big energy.
They got it done at Navinfield, and the Cubs held
on to that l for the next eighty one years.
Then came December nineteen thirty five, the Detroit Lions. Yeah,
the Lions stepped up and smacked the New York Giants
in the NFL Championship Game. And of course it wasn't
(03:35):
the Super Bowl because the first Super Bowl played January fifteenth,
nineteen sixty seven, it wasn't even the Super Bowl then,
it was the AFL NFL World Championship Game that when
the Packers beat the Chiefs thirty five ten they played
in LA. But see, the NFL started September seventeen, nineteen twenty,
so in nineteen thirty five they was having championships and
the Detroit Lions won that joint final score twenty six
(03:58):
to seven. Out of fact, the Detroit Lions got four championships.
Their first one was nineteen thirty five. They won in
fifty two and fifty three back to back, and then
they won in fifty seven. But since we've had the
Super Bowl era, the Lions ain't sniffed that. But back
to nineteen thirty five, they whipped up on them Giants
twenty six to seven in Detroit at the University of
(04:20):
Detroit Stadium. And then in April nineteen thirty six, it
was still the thirty five thirty six year, still in
the calendar year, but the Detroit Red Wings they wrapped
it up.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They beat the Toronto Maple Leafs in five games in
Game five, winning the overtime and Detroit won three to two.
That was the first Stanley Cup in franchise history. And
now it ain't a franchise with more Stanley Cups than
the Detroit Red Wings.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They got eleven of.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Them, joints, three teams, three sports, one city, all champs,
all within six months. And while all that was happening,
another champ was rising, not in cleats and not on skates,
but in the ring. Joe Lewis, young black kid from
Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood. In nineteen thirty five, he went
(05:06):
eleven to ozho eight of them by knockouts. They wouldn't
even let him fight for the world title yet because
you know, he were black, but he was already the
people's champion. So the city of Detroit was stacking trophies
and Joe Lewis was stacking bodies, giving Black America something
to believe in. He would proof that a black man
could not only fight, but.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He could win. And Detroit, Detroit was the home of
it all.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So yeah, they called Detroit the City of Champions for
a reason because in nineteen thirty five, they wasn't just
winning games, they was making history.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And I didn't know maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I
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