What's New and Now: The Best Viral Sports Videos of the Week

Let's be honest, 90 percent of you had no idea what a "jet dryer" was before you watched one blow up on national television. Sure, the NASCAR fans among us had surely seen one before, though we've never seen one get hit by a race car, burst into flames, then leak 200 gallons of fuel that also burst into flames and delay the Daytona 500 for hours. 

This accident made the "Great American Race" a far larger topic of interest than normal, and sent us to our smartphones and laptops to watch a replay of the crash that turned this turning-left sport into a huge trending topic.

Yup, NASCAR went viral. This non-injury wreck (thank goodness) became captivating, upstaging a slate of NFL combine eye-openers and basketball plays in our weekly roundup of the week's best viral videos. 

Juan Pablo Montoya Hit a Jet Dryer with Flaming Results

Check Facebook or Twitter recently? Good chance your friends and people you follow were mentioning this wreck, a crash that transcended the boundaries NASCAR has with the mainstream. People who usually post pictures of their foodie-dinners and dogs are absolutely fascinated by the site of jet fuel burning on asphalt. 

(More proof to the old adage "people watch for the crashes.")

Anyhow, they eventually cleaned up the mess – using Tide of all things – an Matt Kenseth won, though he'll always be an afterthought, reduced to a mere footnote in "That race where the dryer-thing blew up."

Dunk Contest King

Sure, we could bemoan what the dunk contest has become. We could talk about how it's become a pool of no-names, a forgettable affair where none of the people we'd actually want to see show up and compete. (Wussies.)

Or, we could just enjoy the players who step up, like Jeremy Evans. He took the title home for 2012, and while it's not Vince Carter-ish on the "OOOOOOOOOOO"-scale, it's entertaining nonetheless. 

This Dude's (Way) Bigger and (Way) Faster Than You

Go outside, chalk out 40 yards, grab a friend with a stopwatch (your iPhone will work fine), and prepare to get embarrassed, because this absolutely massive dude's got way more speed than you. Imagine a Mack Truck with Mustang GT acceleration – and you've got Dontari Poe. 

He ran it in less than five seconds, and he's a 346-pound D-Line prospect. It was the crown jewel of his impressive combine performance, which you can watch here. Bonus points if you can guess his bench press reps (it's a lot). 

Ouch ('nuff Said)

Imagine training for a fight – the cardio and sparring and dieting and dedication it takes. Then, when it finally comes time to get into the ring, your opponent does all the work for you ... like in this case here. Guy literally Chuck Norris-ed himself.

Yeah, really, a self-inflicted KO. 

Big-Time Buzzer Beater

I covered Cal Poly Pomona in college, a little cub reporter with his little notebook sitting courtside at little Division II games with little crowds. Yeah, it was little, the essence of D-II. 

So that's why it's so cool to see this team come through in a way like this, get mobbed like big-timers, and break into the blogosphere for some recognition. 

Congrats.