Biggest upset- New York Giants defeat the then-undefeated New England Patriots thanks to a miracle catch by David "Who?" Tyree in a last minute drive, after New England stormed down the field to take the lead late in the 4th quarter.
Second biggest upset- The Boston Red Sox, down 3 games to 0 and losing in the bottom of the 9th of game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, facing the best closer in the history of baseball...they come back to tie the game, win it in the 12th, then miraculously win the next three games to advance to and win the world series. The biggest comeback in sports history.
i love both of these sports "upsets" more than any others that could be remotely considered upsets, because I absolutely hate the Patriots more than any other team ever, except maybe the Yankees (I'm born and raised in Pittsburgh and have been a Bosox fan since '97). I 100% meant it when I said that somebody, anybody beating the Pats in 2007 at any point after they were like 11-0 or whatever would mean more to me than the Steelers winning a title for the next 10 or so years, mainly because the steelers already won in 2005 but also because that's how much i hate the pats. The 2004 ALCS therefore actually came to mind first when I read the title, and i was mock-surprised when I didn't see it mentioned in the first few posts and almost Ctrl-Fed for "Boston" or "ALCS" while skimming down till I saw your post. that said, it probably wasn't a real "upset" if you really think about it (i detailed all the shit i just did to indicate that if anything i'd blindly and adamantly agree with you being a longtime sox fan), since when you do think about it you remember that the sox and the yankees are relatively even matched or whatever over the last 20 years...like, i mean, the red sox arent by any stretch of the word a real "underdog" like the 94 nuggets were or robin soderling was. i mean obviously the yanks and sox wasn 1-2 respectively in the AL East standing for like 6-7 straight years around that time, but you kind of get what i'm saying.
though i guess even then i am grossly downplaying the significance of "the curse", which is much of the reason that sox-yanks is arguably the greatest rivalry in sports. and is the reason, after losing the first three games of the ALCS, and knowing that no team in baseball ever, period (and only two NHL teams, none in basketball as pointed out) had come back from down 0-3 to win a playoff series, that it can be considered an "upset", since the sox had to overcome not only virtually insurmountable on-paper odds (no team down 0-3 etc), but also contend with "the curse". and no matter how much stock you place in the curse (i have a feeling someone like CK would pooh-pooh its significance or even its existence), that's doesn't really matter when the curse, whatever it is, was hyped up for decades and decades by the media and fans of both sides and baseball fans in general, so when asking people what an upset or comeback or whatever is, the curse is going to be in everyone's mind.
so i guess yeah, we can call the 2004 ALCS the biggest upset ever, now that I think about it further. because the red sox didn't just upset a team. and i'd argue that they didn't *actually* upset a team since the yanks were comparable skill-wise. i don't think we're calling it an "upset" if the sox won the first three and the yanks did the near-impossible and won four straight...that would obviously be one of the best comebacks ever if not the best, but not an upset. the 2004 red sox upset
The Curse. and that's what's a big deal.
as far as the pats-giants, yeah, pretty improbable, and obviously you're dumb if you forget that the patriots were 18-0 at the time, but i'd think you're being forgetful if you also fail to recall that, of all the teams the pats ran through, and all the double digit blowouts and 16, 17 point spreads that the pats still easily covered, the giants "only" lost by three points, 38-35, in the regular season finalé. it's almost a coincidence (and an unfortunate one for the patriots) that of all the teams they had to play in the SB, they had to play the one that came closest to beating them. so yeah, upsetting a streak, but as far as the actual game is concerned, no one should really have been "upset" surprised that the giants were able to pull it off.
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&Jumpman16 sets topic: fuck the pats | fuck the yanks | g0b0s0x
