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style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</b></span><span style=\"font-size:36px;\"><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By The Sports Travel&nbsp;GOAT...Numbers!</b></span><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>There is only ONE Sports Fan Travel GOAT...THE Numbers speak for themselves!</b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><em>\"When you're THE GOAT of Sports Travel, you can gloat.\"</em> - THE GOAT of Sports Travel</div><div><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>THE NUMBERS – WELL, THEY JUST SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>As of May 2026…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Visited 7 Continents, 189 Countries, 44 Territories…</b></span><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Visited Every Sovereign Nation in the World Except for 6…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Attended 100+ Different Live Sporting Events Across the 6 Inhabited Continents…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>In 149 Different Countries and 27 Separate Territories – That Equals 176!</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>AND….THE GOAT of Sports Travel…Always Getting His Sports Travel Kicks…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Because Across All 6 Inhabited Continents, He’s Enjoyed a Live Match Encompassing 8 Sports:</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&gt; Football Match in 144 Countries or Territories (Americans, That Would Be Soccer)</b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b><br>&gt; Basketball Contest in 74 Countries or Territories</b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b><br>&gt; Baseball Game in 34 Countries or Territories</b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b><br>&gt; Plus, Volleyball, Tennis, Horse Racing, Aquatic Sports, and Cricket…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>And Across 5 Continents, He’s Enjoyed a Live Match Across 2 Additional Sports:</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b><br>&gt;&nbsp;Ice Hockey (THE Last One Left? South America: plans to visit Brazil in December 2026 for its annual men’s and women’s championships) and…<br></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&gt; Rugby (THE Last One Left? Pretty Persuasion Asian: plans to see a match in the first or second quarter of 2027)</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Prior to January 2023-May 2026, THE GOAT of Sports Travel Enjoyed a Game at EVERY:</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB Home Venue</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>+</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball and Ice Hockey Home (not all ladies venues are the same as the men’s), plus every American/Gridiron Football and Baseball Venue</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>+</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Professional USA Minor League Baseball Ballpark</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>+</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>NBA G-League Arena</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>+</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>USHL Arena</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>+</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Attended a Sporting Event in Each of THE 50 United States + Puerto Rico + Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in America (including in 2022 to Celebrate Turning 50 Years Old!)</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;+</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>675 Consecutive Days Enjoying a Sporting Event (Feb. 5, 2018-Dec. 11, 2019)</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>+</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>Enjoyed Games in 272 Ballparks Across 215 Days in the US and Canada in 2006 To Celebrate His Favorite Sport – Baseball</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>SO…YES, THERE ARE FEW GIVENS IN LIFE SUCH AS…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>LIFE ITSELF. DEATH. TAXES. AND CHANGE! AND <em>AIN’T TALKIN’ JUST ABOUT THE CHANGE IN YOUR WALLET, PANTS AND/OR PURSE</em>…AND…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>THERE IS ONLY ONE GOAT OF SPORTS TRAVEL…</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b>BECAUSE THE NUMBERS – WELL, THEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES!</b></span></div><div><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\"><b></b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>DO YOU WANT MORE GOAT NUMBERS, JUNIOR?</strong></div><div><br></div><div><div>GOAT ATTENDANCE AT LIVE SPORTING EVENTS: By The Mind-Boggling Numbers!</div><div><br></div><div>If there's someone else on planet earth that has enjoyed more live sporting events in more places than THE GOAT of Sports Travel – Mr. Sports Travel would like to meet his clone! Because THAT would be Breaking News!</div><div><br></div><div>2000+ - the number of sporting events he has attended worldwide since birth! This is a conservative number! His late father had season tickets for 12 consecutive seasons to the Hartford Whalers (now Carolina Hurricanes) from their inaugural season in 1979-80 until the 1990-91 season. Mr. Sports Travel would often attend games with his Dad. For TV story links to <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/yJvo0Kk05RU\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/yJvo0Kk05RU&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/yJvo0Kk05RU&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">stories about his Dad</a></u> and <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/bMGlkXomHmE\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/bMGlkXomHmE&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/bMGlkXomHmE&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">here</a>.</u>&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>1,186 - the total number of days from first sports match attended to last sports match attended during January 27, 2023-April 26, 2026 Ultimate Sports Fans Dream World Tour (embarked on 11 separate trips from San Diego, enjoying 44 different sports live across 143 different countries and 26 separate territories).</div><div><br></div><div>780+ - the number of NCAA Division I teams across men's gridiron football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's ice hockey, and men's baseball venues (the four most popular team sports in America) in the 2022-23 academic year. Prior to embarking on January 2023-April 2026 Ultimate Sports Fan Dream World Tour, he attended a match at every NCAA Division I gridiron football, basketball, ice hockey, and baseball venue. An unofficial number because some schools were \"reclassifying\" from Division III or II to I during or after the 2022-23 academic year.</div><div><br></div><div>675 - the number of consecutive days in North America (US and Canada) THE GOAT of Sports Travel enjoyed a live sporting event (Feb. 5, 2018-Dec. 11, 2019). For YouTube link to story driving his car wrapped in the American flag to raise awareness of a charity supporting veterans, service members, responders and their families, please click here: <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/Rm_f1wNCJtI\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/Rm_f1wNCJtI&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/Rm_f1wNCJtI&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">675 Day Road Trip News Story</a>&nbsp;</u>and another&nbsp;different one also about it <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/fBZGZXIyHO0\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/fBZGZXIyHO0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/fBZGZXIyHO0&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">here</a></u>!&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>272 - the number of baseball games in North America (US and Canada) THE GOAT of Sports Travel enjoyed a game in 2006. Finishing on Oct. 1, 2006 in Anaheim, California, his feat was noted on the scoreboard at Angels Stadium, <u><a href=\"https://mrsportstravel.com/pro-usa-canada\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://mrsportstravel.com/pro-usa-canada&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://mrsportstravel.com/pro-usa-canada&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">click here for the picture</a></u>&nbsp;and a <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/PVCo7KUJ9W8\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/PVCo7KUJ9W8&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/PVCo7KUJ9W8&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">TV news story here</a></u></div><div><br></div><div>144 - the number of different countries or territories enjoyed a live football/soccer match as of May 2026</div><div><br></div><div>126 - the number of professional teams in North America's four most popular sports leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB). Prior to embarking on January 2023-April 2026 Ultimate Sports Fan Dream World Tour, had attended a match at every NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB home arena - a total of 126 professional teams.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>100+ - the number of different live sports attended as a fan</div><div><br></div><div>74 - the number of different countries or territories enjoyed a live basketball match</div><div><br></div><div>50 - In 2022, to celebrate turning 50 years old, he enjoyed a sporting event in each of the 50 United States; driving across the 48 contiguous states in a car \"wrapped\" in the American flag to raise awareness of a charity supporting veterans, service members, responders and their families. He took separate flights to Alaska and Hawaii to attend sporting events there. <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/ye2LkXVqlaw\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/ye2LkXVqlaw&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/ye2LkXVqlaw&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">TV story here</a>.</u></div><div><br></div><div>34 - the number of years' sports traveling (at least as an adult). Mr. Sports Travel attended his first sporting event at age 5 – but didn't become a legal adult until 1990. He started taking trips on his own in September 1992. He traveled from suburban Orlando to Gainesville with his father to see his first Gridiron/American football match (Florida whooped Kentucky). Also, in 1992 from Orlando, he took separate trips to see the NHL's Lightning play their inaugural season in the Tampa area.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>30 – the number of “alumni” that had played in the “Feet Hockey League” by 1981, when the GOAT of Sports Travel was the ripe old age of 9! Instead of freezing their testicles off outside on bitterly cold days, his parents’ basement was converted into a venue where neighborhood kids could play a physical brand of hockey – without skates – hence the name, “feet hockey.” It was really soccer on a gladiator scale – but with checking and fighting allowed! At its peak, the league had five teams. How the hell is this even public information? Because THE GOAT of Sports Travel kept a scrapbook and has all the receipts! The league played through high school. Can’t make this shit up!</div><div><br></div><div>26 – the number of years THE GOAT of Sports Travel has seen sporting events outside the US, Canada and Mexico. He enjoyed a baseball game in the Dominican Republic in December 2000.</div><div><br></div><div>17 – the age Mr. Sports Travel was first published in The West Hartford News with a byline. Hired to contribute twice a month about happenings at the private Kingswood-Oxford School of which he was a student, his mother had to sign a waiver so he could be published because he was still a minor. And she was furious when they misspelled her son’s name, “By Joe O‘Connor.” That never happened thereafter!</div><div><br></div><div>15 - the number of different baseball parks THE GOAT of Sports Travel visited to see a baseball game over 21 days in 1998 across the US and Canada. This was his first multi-state \"sports road trip.\" &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>13 – the age Mr. Sports Travel boarded a commercial flight by himself for the first time. To participate an ice hockey camp. This was in 1985. His cousin, Pete, dropped him off curbside and said “go kick ass,” a phrase he would always quip instead of “goodbye” with variations such as&nbsp;“keep kickin’ ass.”</div><div><br></div><div>12 – the number of consecutive seasons, Mr. Sports Travel’s late father had season tickets to the NHL’s Harford Whalers (now Carolina Hurricanes). Mr. Sports Travel often accompanied his father to games from their inaugural season in 1979-80 through the 1990-1991 season. His father had also been a season ticket holder while the Whalers were previously members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). They joined the NHL as an expansion team for the 1979-80 season when the WHA folded. In January 1992, the family moved to Orlando, Florida while the Sports Travel GOAT was away attending college in Pennsylvania.</div><div><br></div><div>10 – the age Mr. Sports Travel started playing on a youth ice hockey team representing his town of West Hartford. Some of his fondest memories are the road trips with his parents to play games across the beautiful state of Connecticut. He was a member of the 1984-85 West Hartford team that won the Pee Wee Division III state championship.</div><div><br></div><div>9 – the number of different countries Mr. Sports Travel visited in one year – 2004 – on what he considers his first “major” year of attending sports matches outside the US. In 2004, across five continents, he enjoyed baseball games in South Africa (Africa); Taiwan (Asia); Europe (Netherlands and Italy); North America (USA); and Venezuela (South America). 2004 also marked seeing a baseball game while visiting six continents (Venezuela was the first country in South America he visited). He had visited Australia (Oceania continent) in December 2001 to see baseball.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2004, he had been a contributing baseball writer for MLB.com, Major League Baseballs’ official website. Later, still as a contributing writer, ESPN.com hired him to write profiles of the 16 invited participating countries in the inaugural World Baseball Classic – because by the March 2006 event, he had seen a baseball game in all of them. Mr. Sports Travel also appeared on The Travel Channel in 2004 as one of multiple “Guest Ballpark Experts” for Pat Sajak’s American League and National League Ballpark Tour. <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/LMuLrcvHLQ0\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/LMuLrcvHLQ0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/LMuLrcvHLQ0&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">Here’s a clip</a>!</u></div><div><br></div><div>Mr. Sports Travel’s first international foray to attend live sports (outside the US, Canada and Mexico) was to see baseball games in the Dominican Republic in December 2000. He followed up with visits to Australia in 2001-2002; Japan in 2002; South Korea in 2003; and Cuba in 2003-2004. His Cuba escapades were part of a five-part series on MLB.com. He also appeared on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” with Bob Ley. <u><a href=\"https://youtu.be/4Cj4F6n9WqA\" data-attached-link=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/4Cj4F6n9WqA&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/4Cj4F6n9WqA&quot;}\" class=\"wz-link\">See the ESPN video here</a>!</u></div><div><br></div><div>8 - the number of different sports he has attended matches on all six continents (football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, tennis, horse racing and aquatic sports).</div><div><br></div><div>7 – the approximate age Mr. Sports Travel was the bat boy and scorekeeper for the Peter Pan Café. His father was a pitcher on the slow-pitch softball team. Pictures here: https://mrsportstravel.com/about-dadication</div><div><br></div><div>5 – the approximate age that Mr. Sports Travel first attended a live sporting event. His late father was a season-ticket holder to the-then New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association (which became the Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League and are today the Carolina Hurricanes). The key word is approximate! His parents may have taken him earlier than five!</div><div><br></div><div>5 - The uniform number Mr. Sports Travel wore at age 12, his best (and only) great year playing Little League. He was an All-Star! Then he couldn’t hit a lick after that year!</div><div><br></div><div>4 – the number of years (2006-2009), Mr. Sports Travel traveled across the USA in a Lime-Green 1984 Mercedes to see sporting events in a car running on vegetable oil (biodiesel) to raise awareness of alternative fuels. 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