As an avid sports fan, I’ve made pilgrimages to hallowed ground like St. Andrews, Scotland to play golf and Oahu’s North Shore in Hawaii to surf.

And my sports bucket list still needs ticking off for cycling up France’s Alpe d’Huez and running in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the starting place for the Boston Marathon.

But Canadian super fans and filmmakers Ethan Cole and Laurence Payne have gone one further with The Project on Score Media.

The duo have shot four short films that recently aired on the Canadian specialty channel, and online, as a branded series where they track down lost sporting legends so they can relive legendary sporting moments.

The Project includes shorts where Payne and Cole attempt to get archrivals Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis to reenact their 100 meter dash at the 1988 Summer Olympics, or getting Otis Nixon to recreate the bunt that ended the 1992 World Series.

“These are all of the things you would do if you [got to] to meet your sporting heroes. And Score Media came on board to air the episodes,” Payne tells Playback Daily.

The idea of the bucket list stems from Rob Reiner’s 2007 dramedy The Bucket List, about two terminally ill men, played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, who escape their hospital beds with a wish list of things to do before they “kick the bucket.”

The bucket list that inspired The Project got started when Cole and Payne were making a documentary about Buster Douglas, who scored one of boxing’s biggest upsets when he knocked out Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1990.

As it happened, the 22-minute road-trip film soon took a comedic twist when Payne arranged for Douglas to box Cole in Columbus, Ohio.

Cole eventually spars with the bruiser wearing a bizarre rubber suit for protection.

A second film for Score Media has Cole in a black SUV vehicle, with Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson in the passenger seat, as they stalk Carl Lewis in Malton, New Jersey.

Johnson won a 100 meter final showdown with Carl Lewis at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, only to fail a drug test, be stripped of his gold medal and be sent home in disgrace.

“Ben Johnson (at the 1988 Olympics) was a big scandal and sportscasters handle that by sitting down and doing 20/20 interviews,” Payne explained.

Not Payne and Cole.

Their gold medal moment comes as they treat the 1988 Olympic showdown from the perspective of sporting fanatics aiming at comedy, rather than seasoned sport journalists doing serious reportage.

“We interviewed him [Johnson] as he waited for his rival to show up at a 7-Eleven,” Payne recalls, adding prior research told them Lewis came to the convenience store most mornings for a cup of coffee.

The duo have done four 22-minute films for Score Media, and more are on the way.

“The ball is rolling on some of these. Now that we have a little bit of time, we’re going to do some thinking and research some ideas,” Payne says, looking forward to crossing off more legendary sporting events on their bucket list.