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 Posted: Wed Apr 9th, 2008 08:18 am
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YARGH

 

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 Why does the lesser team *ever* win?  That's what makes sports exciting.  My Giants took the Super Bowl from the immortally great Patriots, and although I found this, as a sports fan, to be quite thrilling, I'd never go around saying that the 2007 Giants were a better team than the 2007 Patriots.  It all came together for them on one day, though, and they won the game. 

The NCAA championship game doesn't even have the distinction of being that clean-cut., since Kansas didn't exactly punch Memphis in the mouth and win all facets of the game the way the Giants did it to the Pats -- they got behind big late and needed miracle after miracle just to get the game to ovetime.  They needed about 5 lucky breaks to go their way, in the span of 120 seconds and -- miraculously -- they all did.  They were in the position to require *needing* all of those breaks to win, however, because they simply are not as good as Memphis.  Hey, just because someone wins the lottery, it doesn't mean that their best move is to keep playing.  You walk away quietly, happy that you beat the odds.