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* FIFA is notorious for its rampant corruption, and it painted itself into a corner in 2015 when nine high-ranking officials and five associated businesspeople were indicted by the United States Justice Department for wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. The 2014 propaganda film, er, biopic, ''[[United Passions]]'' made the sporting body even more of a laughing stock as the film vainly tried to paint a picture of Sepp Blatter and his cohorts as [[Blatant Lies|anti-corruption crusaders]]. Not helping matters was Blatter being accused of sexual assault by American goalkeeper Hope Solo.
* The Washington Redskins' name became the subject of controversy in the wake of controversies relating to cultural appropriation of Indigenous American tribes. Pressure from organisations and corporations eventually forced the team to use the provisional name "The Washington Football Team" until they come up with a permanent name.
* David Icke was a former Coventry FC goalkeeper and sports broadcaster, and a respected name in sports journalism at that, but is now infamous for being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] promoting insane beliefs such as the unfounded conspiracy about the global elite being secretly a hybrid race of shape-shifting reptilians, as well as patently false and outright reckless misinformation on [[COVID-19]] and 5G cellular technologies, the latter triggering a rash of arson incidents on cellular towers. As an aside, [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] has an article on him, all despite Alex Jones being deemed untropeable despite the two promoting similarly unhinged ideologies.
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