A Complete Guide to Eminem's Lyrical References to Sports on "The Marshall Mathers LP 2"

You'll never look at John Madden the same way again.

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Today, Eminem's much-anticipated album MMLP2 finally sees its official release, serving as the follow-up to his Grammy award-winning record, Recovery, and the sequel to his critically-acclaimed, sophomore release, The Marshall Mathers LP. Early reviews have been rolling in, with most critics hailing it as Em's best album in years, and with the fanbase that the 8 Mile MC has amassed over the years, commercial success seems like a foregone conclusion.

Streaming on iTunes this past weekend, Eminem gave his fans a chance to hear the record ahead of its drop date, so we, like everyone else, decided to have a listen. And since we're all about sports over here, we had our ears tuned in for every time the Detroit native dropped some lines about his hometown Lions, Tigers, Red Wings or Pistons—along with a boatload of other shout-outs in between. After getting through the album a couple times, we came up with this Complete Guide to Eminem's Lyrical References to Sports on MMLP2.

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"Better back away from the front row, get Ron, chop yo arm/Bigger than Dikembe Mutombo on the f****** JumboTron"

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"Promisin' complete dominance/Sugar Ray Robinson/I'm in the league Muhammad's in/Ali's my colleague/Bombing 'em/Probably end up on top of them/Stomping them like Ndamukong/I'm rushing like a Ukranian LaDainian Tomlinson"

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"I barely ducked and that's right when she came up with a kick to the nuts twice/Steel toe, girl probably coulda put a 100-yard field goal, through the uprights"

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"Never seen no ass as large as yours, how much that cost?/That's what I call a Roethlissplurge"

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"Nobody's crazy as Shady in an 80 million mile radius/I'm what Tom Brady is to the Patriots to rap"

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"Sugar Ray Leonard wouldn't sugar coat a f****** booger though/Just to wipe that b**** on a hooker's coat"

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"I done quit chicken heads cold turkey and started slowly roasting 'em/Cause that's where most of my anger is based/F*** your feelings, I feel like I play for the Saints"

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"And that was only the first date, coulda made it to home plate/But you slid straight for the dome and dove face first/No, you don't understand I don't do this for/Anyone ever/Yeah that ain't what they all say/I'll say it, you can suck a softball through a straw/Used to be my fiance"

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"I get to meet famous people, look at her, dag/Her nylons are ran, her skirt's snaggged/And I heard she drag-races-*burp*-swag/F***ing my Hanes shirt tag/You're Danica Patrick (yeah) work, skag/We'd be the perfect match/Cause you're a vacuum, I'm a dirtbag"

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"The way I'm racing around the track, call me NASCAR, NASCAR/Dale Earnhardt of the trailer park, the white trash god"

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"It's poetry in motion/Like Freddie Roach when he's quotin'/Shakespeare"

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"It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back/In the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make that"

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"To just come and shoot ya like when Fabolous made Ray J mad/cause Fab said he looked like a f** at Mayweather's pad/singin' to a man while they played piano"

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"You're gonna have to beat the f***** pants off me/To take my belt, word to Pacquiao"

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"Now who's a f*****, you punk?/And here's your Bronco hat, you can have that s*** back 'cause they suck"

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