When sports do begin again, something strange will happen.

Something strange always happens.

One of the great things about sports is the unusual. Every sport has weird statistical anomaly or a peculiar factoid.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Jerry Rice had 185 receptions after the age of 40.

The next two highest on the after-40-reception list each have one.

Brett Favre and Tom Brady.

When Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998, the longballs traveled a combined 29,598 feet — enough to clear Mount Everest.

Hank Aaron blasted 755 home runs in his career. Had he hit zero, he’d still have 3,000 hits.

The average MLB game has only nine minutes and 55 seconds of action.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a seasons-worth of footballs.

Moo.

The perfect inning (nine pitches, three strikeouts) has only been accomplished 46 times in MLB history.

The Wilt Chamberlain edition because, well, he’s Wilt Chamberlain.

How good was Wilt the Stilt? He never fouled out of a game. Think about how hard that is for a big man to do.

He’s also the only player with a double triple-double with 25 points, 22 rebounds and 21 assists in a game.

He averaged 50.4 points per game during the 1961-62 season. He also played every minute in all but one game that season and averaged 48.5 minutes per contest.

The average lifespan of a MLB baseball is five pitches.

NFL referees who work the Super Bowl receive rings.

An incomplete pass in football was once met with a 15-yard penalty or a loss of possession.

That would not bode well now for Mitch Trubisky.

Harry Chiti was traded for himself.

In 1962, Chiti was swapped to the New York Mets from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later.

That player to be named later ended up being Chiti.

No one has ever filled out a perfect March Madness bracket.

Not surprising. The odds are 1 in 9,223,237,036,854,755,808.

Michael Phelps would rank 35th out of 97 nations on the all-time Olympic hold medal list.

Yogi Berra won 13 World Series championships with the New York Yankees in 18 seasons.

Talk about deja vu all over again.

Bill Buckner has more career hits that Ted Williams.

Williams never had a 200-hit season, lost three years in his prime to World War II and lost parts of seasons when he fought in the Korean War.

Barry Switzer has a better playoff winning percentage than Bill Belichick, Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs and Chuck Noll.

How ‘bout them Cowboys?

Ben Roethlisberger has more wins as a starting quarterback in Cleveland since 1999 than any Browns’ QB.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.