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OT - The Greatest Sports Story Has Just Been Completed
I know most people aren't interested in Premier League soccer, but a team who started off the season at 5000:1 odds has just won the greatest title in all of sports. Leicester City, who was on the verge of dropping down a league last season, has just clinched the Premier League title for the first time in its 132 year history. To put that in perspective, no other professional league had a team with preseason odds to win the league higher than 500:1. Leciester's odds to win the league were 5000:1.
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Frm a United supporter. - well earned foxes!
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So, it's like MSU winning a Natty?**
Congrats Ref. It has been fun to watch on the Premier thread.
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Originally Posted by
BrunswickDawg
So, it's like MSU winning a Natty?**
Congrats Ref. It has been fun to watch on the Premier thread.
The Miracle on Ice was 5 times more likely to happen than this.
B.S. Geosciences, Professional Meteorology Concentration, Operational Emphasis
c/o 2015
Mississippi State University
@Norwoodwx
Leicester City FC Owner
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Originally Posted by
BrunswickDawg
So, it's like MSU winning a Natty?**
Congrats Ref. It has been fun to watch on the Premier thread.
NO. It's much, much more unlikely than that. The odds were 5000-1 at the start of the season. The Miracle on Ice: odds were 200-1. It's the most unlikely sports story of my 52 years. If you want a college football analogy it's kind of like, say, Valley moving to the FBS, not winning a game their first year in, and then winning it all the next year.
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Originally Posted by
Liverpooldawg
NO. It's much, much more unlikely than that. The odds were 5000-1 at the start of the season. The Miracle on Ice: odds were 200-1. It's the most unlikely sports story of my 52 years. If you want a college football analogy it's kind of like, say, Valley moving to the FBS, not winning a game their first year in, and then winning it all the next year.
Oh, and doing it with an old retread like Fred Akers as the coach.
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And with a 30 year old starting QB who has been in the Navy and wasn't
recruited at all out of high school.
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Originally Posted by
Liverpooldawg
And with a 30 year old starting QB who has been in the Navy and wasn't
recruited at all out of high school.
And with the rest of the team consisting of a couple of 3 stars and the rest unrated recruits. Get the picture yet? It's totally unreal.
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Truly the craziest thing in the history of sports. Leicester was in dead last with 9 matches left last year, won 7 of those 9 to avoid relegation and basically just kept up that pace for an entire season this year.
They were in the 3rd tier of English soccer 7 years ago. And it's not like they spent their way out of it. They just suddenly saw a few of their players elevate themselves to elite. Unbelievable.
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I think I saw somewhere that there are several individual players at some of the REAL big clubs that cost more than Leicester's entire squad.
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So like South Panola winning the Superbowl. Gotcha.
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Was Hugh Freeze their coach??
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Originally Posted by
Bucky Dog
Was Hugh Freeze their coach??
Claudio Ranieri
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Originally Posted by
Liverpooldawg
NO. It's much, much more unlikely than that. The odds were 5000-1 at the start of the season. The Miracle on Ice: odds were 200-1. It's the most unlikely sports story of my 52 years. If you want a college football analogy it's kind of like, say, Valley moving to the FBS, not winning a game their first year in, and then winning it all the next year.
Not just Valley moving to FBS and winning it all. Valley moving to the SEC west and winning the CFP
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So basically it's like Old Misses making it to Atlanta in the next decade after sanctions double dick their ass.
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Manchester United paid more for TWO PLAYERS than Leicester City did for their whole squad.
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