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This mirth-provoking list of the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during the Summer Olympics, a collection of facepalm statements and double entrendres, is dusted off every four years and recirculated online to much social amusement. Although we can't guarantee that no sports commentator anywhere ever said any of these things, the age of this list and its inclusion of hoary urban legends (such as the kiss his balls tale) and items attributed to a variety of different sports figures over the years puts paid to the notion that all the entries issued from the mouths of NBC Olympics commentators. Similar lists with somewhat differently worded entries attributed to other people (and featuring some non-Olympic sports) have been making the rounds since at least as far back as 1999, such as the following example from in Australia circulated during the run-up to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney:
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