Welcome to April Fools’ Day, a day during which many people on social media giddily post the wildest and zaniest content imaginable in the name of a good ol’ fashioned prank. (In this era of misinformation? It’s going to be a long day, indeed.)
A legendary prank is not too unlike a legendary play-call: a creative mind draws it up and often elicits the help of others to execute it. But where a play-call delivers points, a prank delivers laughs. Sports history is littered with all-time great pranks, from LeBron announcing his retirement (it should be coming any day now) to the “Harvard pep squad” pulling an unbelievable trick during an Ivy league football game to Mark Cuban fighting a ref to Phillies’ Kyle Kendrick learning he got fake-traded to Japan.
