Paint your face in your team colors and huddle up for these bits of interesting trivia.

• It’s simple to get into the NFL playoffs: win the most games, right? Not exactly. The playoffs are structured so that six teams from each conference get spots: four division winners and the two additional “wild card” teams with the best records. Somebody has to win a division, even if the division is terrible. The Carolina Panthers won the NFC South this year with a 7-8-1 record. That’s worse than the Philadelphia Eagles (10-6) and San Francisco 49ers (8-8), who missed out on wild card slots.

In 2013, former NBA star and oddball Dennis Rodman visited North Korea at the behest of its leader, Kim Jong Un. The pair took in a game of basketball, which is extremely popular in North Korea. The game was very strange, however, and revealed to the rest of the world the North Korean basketball scoring system.

Following our recap of weird football rules, here are 4 weird pro basketball rules.

Will Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota follow up his Heisman win with a long, successful NFL career like Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, or, uh, O.J. Simpson…or wind up on a list like this one?

NFL referees must know all the rules of pro football…even the strange ones.

From now until the middle of January, 39 college bowl games will be contested. That’s a lot…but there are plenty of college football bowl games that aren’t played at all anymore.

While the Buffalo Bills recently had to play a home game in Detroit due to unprecedented snowfall, other teams have hit the field under even crazier conditions.

The phrase “off to a good start” did not apply to these teams.

Bo Jackson famously played both professional football and baseball in the 1980s and 1990s. Here are some other athletes who played more than one sport.

Let’s hope these basketball players read the fine print when they signed up.

We already gave you some weird sports contract quirks. Here are some weird NFL contracts.

How Green Bay, the smallest American city with a pro sports franchise, got and kept a pro sports franchise. Here is a bit of Green Bay Packers history.

Some achievements on the field might stand forever…simply because the game just isn’t played the same way anymore.

Reza Baluchi is the sort of guy that loves to perform extraordinary feats of physical endurance. A foolhardy attempt to raise money for charity by running around the Bermuda Triangle in an inflatable bubble concluded with him giving up and calling for help on October 4.

Baseball history was made this weekend…very, very slowly and over a very, very long period of time.