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What are your most satisfying sports victories? I grew up in Southern California. Here are mine:
Lakers over celtics 1985 (By far the Number One victory for LA)
Lakers over celtics 2010 in seven games
Dodgers over Yankees 1981 (Interestingly, the Reds had the best record in baseball that strike year and they didn't make the playoffs.)
Angels over Giants 2002
Kings over Edmonton (down 5-0 in third period), 1982
Dodgers over A's 1988
Rams over Cleveland Browns 1951 (I don't remember but it's the only LA Rams championship so I mentioned it.)
Raiders over Redskins 1984
Ducks over Ottawa 2007
Patriots over the Rams in the Super Bowl. 14 pt underdogs against the "greatest show on turf"
Red Sox over the Yankees in 2004, down 3 -0 and coming back with 4 straight
Celtics over the Lakers in 2008, ended a 22 year drought
Celtics over the Lakers in 1984, Bird beats Magic.
Celtics over the Bucks in 1974. Cowens vs. Kareem...
For me it's not a team sport, it's the end of the Formula 1 season in 2008. I was the only English person watching it in a sports bar in Germany, and Lewis Hamilton (who's English) had to finish at least fifth in the last race to win the title. He was fairly steady in fifth until about two laps to go when Sebastian Vettel (who's German) overtook him and the whole bar went crazy with laughter. When Felipe Massa won the race we all assumed he must have won the title and Hamilton must have finished sixth, but while the TV cameras were watching Massa celebrating Hamilton overtook Timo Glock (another German) on the last corner of the last lap for fifth place and when it came up on the screen that actually Hamilton had won the title neither the commentators nor anybody in the now-silent bar had a clue what had happened!
For me it's not a team sport, it's the end of the Formula 1 season in 2008. I was the only English person watching it in a sports bar in Germany, and Lewis Hamilton (who's English) had to finish at least fifth in the last race to win the title. He was fairly steady in fifth until about two laps to go when Sebastian Vettel (who's German) overtook him and the whole bar went crazy with laughter. When Felipe Massa won the race we all assumed he must have won the title and Hamilton must have finished sixth, but while the TV cameras were watching Massa celebrating Hamilton overtook Timo Glock (another German) on the last corner of the last lap for fifth place and when it came up on the screen that actually Hamilton had won the title neither the commentators nor anybody in the now-silent bar had a clue what had happened!
Auto Racing?
You know why they don't make computers in England don't you?
Spoiler
They couldn't figure out a way for them to leak oil.
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