As great as it was when Paulina Gretzky Instagrammed herself with Lord Stanley’s Cup, it takes a back seat to the surreality of seeing George Papadapolis’ adopted son Webster Long (actor Emmanuel Lewis) posing with hockey’s top prize.

It’s even more surreal when you realize the picture happened on Kings center Jordan Nolan’s day with the cup, and that picture is of him with it, Emmanuel freaking Lewis and the Trailer Park Boys. I think I speak for everyone when I say, “Wow, way to go, Canada”.

As Sean Leahy of Puck Daddy points out, this pic might take the Best Photo Of A Diminutive African-American Sitcom Star Of The 1980s Posing With A Stanley Cup Champion title away from ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ star Gary Coleman and a nearly-nude Mark Messier. Your move, Rudy Huxtable and Evgeni Malkin.

Welcome to the first edition of With Leather’s newest, least cool weekly feature ever: SPORTS ON TV, where we countdown the greatest sports-related moments from your favorite, mostly not sports-related television shows.

This week’s edition tackles ‘Saved By The Bell’, an UPROXX network favorite about early 90s southern California high school kids who get to do anything they want whenever they want and face zero consequences. The show ran from 1989-1993, but existed in one form or another before that and afterwards until 2000. I’m not too proud to admit that syndication eventually showed me every ‘Saved By The Bell’ episode five times over, so we’re starting there. Maybe we’ll get to those clips of Urkel playing basketball next week.

Anyway, pre-column notes:

1. I only included moments from the primary run of ‘Saved By The Bell’, so that means no ‘Good Morning Miss Bliss’, ‘Saved By The Bell: The College Years’ or ‘Saved By The Bell: The New Class’. The TV movies feature the most popular cast, so I included those.

2. I really wanted to include video of each moment, but you know how the Internet works. I don’t want you to read this in two weeks and not be able to see what I’m talking about. Besides, the entire run of the show is currently available on Netflix.

3. Big thanks to the special guests who contributed commentary on some of their favorite moments.

And now, in no particular order, the 20 greatest sports moments from ‘Saved By The Bell’. If you’ve got a favorite sports moment that didn’t make the list, be sure to drop in on our comments section and let us know.

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Something tells me that that at least half of these ballplayers are the offspring of Cpl. Maxwell Klinger:  

No other explanation fits as these antics could only be encoded in the genes of the zany company clerk of the M*A*S*H* 4077th. -KD