This one was a true modern sporting miracle... The 5th One-Day International, South Africa vs. Australia at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg The match was released as a DVD titled 438, at least in South Africa anyway. I don't think it would've been available in Australia...
The War of 1812 *let me stipulate that before you all throw a pink panty meltdown for the gazillionth time I'm not trying to stir up any shit since I like our neighbours to the south, so let's end this post with this fucking post. Loyalists call it a victory, Americans call it a tie. Call this scattershot war whatever you want, Canada was seriously outnumbered and weaker and fought off a powerful army so we could keep our country. We gained confidence for the first time and the Americans gained a song to be played before baseball games out of the deal. Thanks for saving our country Laura Secord. We'll name a chocolate company after you.
I'm a little surprised George Mason's NCAA Final Four run in 2006 hasn't been mentioned yet. They beat, UNC, Michigan State, and UConn (and Wichita St) to get to the final four and those teams were three of the last 4 national championship teams. At the time of the tournament, I was a senior in high school and since both of my parents went to UConn, I was a huge UConn fan. When I watched Mason beat Wichita State, matching them up with UConn in the elite 8, the only thing I could think of was how lucky the huskies were for having a cakewalk into the Final Four. Watching that game was agonizing
Rinky dink species with no sharp teeth, no claws, no thick skin or armor, no camouflage, toxins, or even hair to keep warm, armed only with the ability to contemplate the future, opposable thumbs, and relatively giant penises comes to dominate its planet and develops space flight. And as a reward we get to eat everything else.
I know I've posted this video before, but there is no denying that the New York Giants had NO BUSINESS defeating New England in 2008. As a die-hard Giant's fan, I could only watch in awe as the mighty Patriots were denied their perfect season thanks to David Tyree:
Greece entered World War II on 28 October 1940, when the Italian army invaded from Albania. The Greek army dealt the first victory for the Allies by defeating the invasion and pushing Mussolini's forces back into Albania. Hitler was reluctantly forced to send his own forces to overcome Greece in April 1941, and delay the invasion of the Soviet Union by six weeks. This is considered by some historians as the first turning point of the war, since the delay proved disastrous to the German invasion, with the onset of the Russian winter and the strong resistance of the Soviet armed forces halting it before the gates of Moscow. Although the German invasion of Greece was swift, their forces met fierce resistance on the island of Crete, where the elite Fallschirmjäger suffered almost 7,000 casualties. These heavy losses eliminated the option of a massive airborne invasion of the Soviet Union and further expansion in the Mediterranean saving Malta, Gibraltar, Cyprus, and the Suez Canal from airborne invasion.