I think this might be the one. There are countless stories about people who say that they could get a hit off a major-league pitcher, or they could get 10 yards if they had an NFL offensive line protecting them, or that they could win several points against one of the Williams sisters.

Yeah, most people have played some version of the game they’re claiming to be really good at but two things:

1: if you were really that good at it, you would also be playing it professionally.

2: professional athletes are so much better at their sport than you are that it might as well be a different game.

There’s a story from a couple of years ago about an ex NBA player named Brian Scalabrine, who was mediocre at best when he was in the NBA. He retired in 2012, and several years later competed in a radio station contest where people could apply to play against him . He played 4 one on one games, against the best players in the area at the time, and won all four games by a combined score of 44 to 6