Biggest Upset in Sports History?

[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.

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[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.