Bill: Let me get this straight: you took all the money you made franchising your name and bet it against the Harlem Globetrotters?!Krusty: Oh, I thought the Generals were due!
[TV shows a Globetrotter spinning the ball as Generals watch]
Krusty: He's spinning the ball on his finger! Just take it, take the ball. [the Globetrotter kicks it into the net behind him] That game was fixed. They were using a freakin' ladder, for gods' sakes!
Talk about being on a roll... On January 5, 1971 the Harlem Globetrotters lost a game in Martin, Tennessee in overtime to the New Jersey Reds as team owner Red Klotz sank the winning basket for a 100-99 score that ended a 2,495-game winning streak.
On September 12, 1995, the Harlem Globetrotters lost an exhibition game 91-85 to Kareem Abdul Jabbar's All Star Team in Vienna, Austria ending a run of 8,829 straight victories in exhibition games going back to 1971.
They also immediately went on another winning streak of 1,270 before losing 72-68 to the Michigan State University Spartans on November 13, 2000 (the eventual national champions). This was only the 333rd defeat in the organization's history since its inception in 1927. As of February of 2006, the Harlem Globetrotters had over 22,000 wins.
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