Cavs worse than Hitler.

I'll admit, I was blown away watching the highlights of the Lakers-Cavs game on Sports Center this morning. Kobe and company won the game 112-57, posting one of the biggest NBA blowouts in recent history. It was the least amount of points allowed by a Laker team in the shot clock era, the third largest margin of victory since the Lakers moved to LA, and a game so crazy that it prompted LeBron James to take to Twitter and talk about how karma played a role in Cleveland getting embarrassed.

But, as usual, the "real" media is stuck in the present when putting sporting events or performances in historical context. On the way in to work, AM830's "The Sports Lodge" (a sports talk show hosted by the former "Blind Date" host...and we don't have a show?) made the comment that the Cavs not only showed us the worst performance in sports history, but quite possibly the worst performance in history...period (personally, I'd go with the performance of Judas Iscariot, but that's just me). You know how much I love ridiculous comments like this (memorable example: "A-Rod is having the greatest month any human being has ever had in the history of mankind"), and I thought it'd be fun to take a look at a couple of memorable sports blowouts that make last night's Lakers-Cavs game look like a tight one. I'd like to thank "The Maintoban" for bringing us the historical notes, and I apologize in advance for leaving out the CFL blowouts.

1940 NFL Championship: Bears vs Redskins-

The two teams had met in two tight games in the regular season. After a 7-3 win, Washington players went to the media and said that the Chicago players were "a bunch of crybabies." To prove them wrong, the Bears went on to post the biggest rout in NFL Championship history, destroying the 'Skins 73-0.

2009 Girl's High School: Covenant School Knights vs Dallas Academy Bulldogs-

I think we all remember this embarrassing game. Convenant made National headlines when they ran up the score 100-0 against the Dallas Academy Bulldogs. Sadly, the Bulldogs were from a school helping kids with disabilites. Convenant hadn't won a game in 5 years, and their coach decided to take advantage of the disabled children across the court, going up 59-0 at the half, and didn't stop it there. The Knights continued a full court press defense until the final whistle en route to their 100 point victory. Covenant's coach stood by his running up of the score, and was fired shortly after.

2010 Winter Olympics Qualifying: Bulgaria vs Slovakia-

The Bulgarian women really didn't do very well in the run up to the Vancouver games. That's kind of an understatment. The only goal they scored came in a 1-30 loss to Croatia, they ended the qualifying tournment for the games with 192 goals allowed on 398 shots, and that's not the worst of it. In their final game, the Bulgarian women lost to Slovakia by the score of 0-82. That's not a mistyped score. 0-82. Now you finally know why you didn't see the Bulgarian women on the ice in Vancouver. 

1916 College Football: Georgia Tech vs Cumberland-

This one is great. After the 1915 season, Cumberland had discontinued their football program. However, due to a contract issue, they would have had to have paid Georgia Tech $3,000 to cancel their 1916 clash. They decided instead to send 14 students to suit up and take on the G Tech team coached by John Heisman (yeah, that Heisman). The story goes that Heisman hated Cumberland because the year before, they hired semi-pro baseball players to play baseball for them in a game against Georgia Tech, and beat Tech 22-0. Because of that, Heisman decided to show little mercy on the 14 members of Cumberland's "football team" in their 1916 clash. Georgia Tech ran the ball every play, finishing with 1,620 rushing yards, 28 TDs, and an amazing 222-0 final score. Take that, Cumberland!

I love sports history.

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