With the biggest sports game in the world set for later this week, an unexpected contest has been stealing all the headlines recently. And the game wasn’t even close. In fact it was a blowout.

Once again, ethics and sports have become front and center with news of a girls high school basketball game where the score got out of hand. In Texas, Covenant School defeated Dallas Academy 100-0.  That’s not a misprint!

Following the game, the winning school offered an apology saying, “a victory without honor is a loss.” In the subsequent days, Covenant’s coach refused to apologize for the win or his players performance and was later fired by the school.

But this blowout, isn’t anything new. It just highlights the age old question - what is the goal of amateur sports? Are athletics all about winning or is there much more to it?  Without getting too much into it, I’ll simply stick with the latter.

Speaking of lopsided scores, this also brings me to an interesting fact for stat buffs. What was the largest margin of victory in college football history?

The answer - In 1916, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222- 0. The only picture of game action is posted above.

So what do both losing teams have in common aside from their lopsided losses? Now both Dallas Academy and Cumberland wear their losses as a badge of honor.

The scoreboard from the infamous 222-0 game.