Biggest Upset in Sports History?

[bfrench00]

07 giants beating undefeated pats in super bowl 42

[CW]

I would give it to team USA in hockey.

Being a Michigan football fan, it pains me to post something that stirs up nightmares, but this would be in the top 10: Appalachian State defeats Michigan - 2007

[EvilKing00]

1980 Team USA

[nameless]

I agree with the 07 giants! That was huge.

[39special]

How about the '60 Pirates

[SmokyBurgess]

2 others come to mind:

App State beating Michigan in the Big House a few years ago

Virginia (with R. Sampson) going down to a small school in Hawaii early in basketball season circa 1980

Not the top upsets, but memorable.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Spinks beating Ali!! (I made big money on Spinks)

NC State over Phi Slamma Jamma. A terrible shot or the greatest assist in NCAA history.

[travrosty]

villanovas run to the ncaa basketball crown, topped off by beating georgetown.

[philliesfan]

1980 Olympic team.

Honorable Mention:

Flyers come from 3 games down and down in game four to win the series. I know they did not farther but I love my Flyers.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by CW

I would give it to team USA in hockey.

Being a Michigan football fan, it pains me to post something that stirs up nightmares, but this would be in the top 10: Appalachian State defeats Michigan - 2007

Chuck,

I am a Michigan fan also and it saddens me to have to consider the UMich vs. Appalachian State as one of the biggest upsets. It doesn't lessen the embarrasment that App State was a DII school (now apparently a DI school for football).

However, I have to say the Miracle on Ice - US Vs USSR - gets my vote.

Z Wheat

[Ulidia]

From a US perspective, whilst admittedly not high profile in the US due to the limited interest at the time in soccer, one of the greatest ever upsets has to be the US national side's 1-0 victory over England in the 1950 World Cup Finals held in Brazil.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Originally Posted by Ulidia

From a US perspective, whilst admittedly not high profile in the US due to the limited interest at the time in soccer, one of the greatest ever upsets has to be the US national side's 1-0 victory over England in the 1950 World Cup Finals held in Brazil.

Aloha, mate, cheers!Dave

[chris6net]

Tough choices but I will go with the 69 Mets.
1980 USA Olympic game is a close 2nd

[nolemmings]

I'll take Miracle on Ice.

Personally, I think the Mets as a choice is misplaced. If you want to look at the long odds of them getting to the Series and all of that (contributed in large part to a huge Cubs choke), then I guess it fits. Otherwise, that team won 100 games, and to think that a team with 100 wins is such an underdog that winning the World Series is a longshot seems borderline specious to me. I get the whole miserable 60's Mets teams and meteoric rise in '69, but by the time the series rolled around, they had a legitimate shot. Sure they finished 9 games worse than Baltimore, but since that series, one team has finished 9 games or worse than its opponent 15 times and managed to win nearly half of them (seven), and nearly won in '86 as well. Frankly, had the so-so '73 Mets won Game 7 of the '73 World Series, now then you'd have a story.

[the 'stache]

Well, I'll select one that I have not seen mentioned. Super Bowl XXXII. The defending champion Packers were 11.5 point favorites over the Broncos.

I've tried my best to forget the game. It's still painful. It was the first of many games in which Brett Favre's mistakes just killed us. Of course, he didn't let Terrell Davis run wild. Gabe Wilkins tweaked his knee in the first quarter, but wouldn't go back in, and his replacement, Darius Holland, was a third stringer. That, coupled with Reggie White and Gilbert Brown were just too slow and banged up to do anything to slow Davis.

It's the greatest sports disappointment of my life, right up there with the '82 Brewers loss in the World Series, and the Packers going 15-1 only to lose in the playoffs two years ago. Oh, and Favre's numerous postseason chokes-the 5 pick game against the Rams, 4th and 26 against the Iggles, the loss to Vick and the Falcons at Lambeau, the pick in overtime of the 2007 NFC Championship Game at Lambeau (where he had Ryan Grant wide open in the middle of the field, which would have put them in field goal range).

Grr! LOL.

[deucetwins]

Upset beats Man O' War. Speaking of horse racing, anytime that a potential triple crown winner is beaten at Belmont. Big Brown anyone?

[alanu]

A few more to consider:

Red Sox coming back from down 0-3 to beat Yankees and WS win (a Cubs WS win would beat that though)

USSR over USA in 1972 basketball (although highly disputed)

NC State run to NCAA basketball championship