Jon Bois at SBNation has a long-running series of columns where he takes sports games and tests out improbable scenarios, and they're always really good. I think he might just have made his masterpiece though, where he kills basketball by making sure every new player for years to come is utterly terrible. I started losing it at the point where Barack Obama abolishes constitutional term limits, and by the time the gifs I arrived, I cracked up:

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/6/3/5772796/nba-y2k-series-finale-the-death-of-basketball