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The Manning Double
I’ve been thinking about it and scouring the record books and people I tell you there is simply no fraternal feat in the history of sports that compares to back-to-back Super Bowl MVP’s... The best examples I could come up with are from the world of boxing, which perhaps is more reflective of my own preoccupations than anything else, but there you have it.
The Top 20 Sports Upsets of the Last 20 Years
It’s difficult to truly comprehend the impact of a great sports upset through a historical lens. To really feel an upset’s magnitude, you have to go into a fight or match or game as a fan and feel that you wouldn’t lay a sawbuck down on the underdog even if the odds were 200 to 1, and not because you’re not a gambling man but because you just see no reason to waste a perfectly good sawbuck...
I’ve been thinking about it and scouring the record books and people I tell you there is simply no fraternal feat in the history of sports that compares to back-to-back Super Bowl MVP’s... The best examples I could come up with are from the world of boxing, which perhaps is more reflective of my own preoccupations than anything else, but there you have it.
The Top 20 Sports Upsets of the Last 20 Years
It’s difficult to truly comprehend the impact of a great sports upset through a historical lens. To really feel an upset’s magnitude, you have to go into a fight or match or game as a fan and feel that you wouldn’t lay a sawbuck down on the underdog even if the odds were 200 to 1, and not because you’re not a gambling man but because you just see no reason to waste a perfectly good sawbuck...
posted by Large at 11:52 AM
9 Comments:
I'm glad you mentioned the Marquez brothers...Holla for my peeps. vicious KO...reminds me of how I use to get leverage on my punches...holla.
I thought it was sad how they use to try to revive folks back them...lift and drop their head to the mat...glad the sport has gotten better over the years.
How about the Sutter brothers winning 2 cups together. Brent and Duane.
Or the Richard brothers from the Habs. They won 5 Cups together.
Just being on championship teams together, or brothers winning individual championships - that doesn't do it for me. Sportscenter ran a thing of all the brothers who have been on Super Bowl winners in the past - whatever. I'm talking about two brothers in a small window period of time being the MACK, each of them.
Steve and Mark Waugh were both rather dominant for the aussie cricket team at the same time in the late nineties if that means anything in this context.. and my favourite aussie rules team, the Port Adelaide Power had two sets of brothers (burgoyne & cornes) playing for them when they won the grand final in 2004
The only comparable things I can think of would have to do with the Williams sisters during the 2002-2003 seasons. The fact that they faced each other in just about every Grand Slam final was quite dominant. I know that tennis being an individual sport makes sibling dominance much easier to occur, but I still rate it as being the closest. After the fact, I saw that people had posted this in the Sporting blog comments section-- I wrote this post before reading the linked story, my bad.
Yeah kopper they nailed me on the Williams's over there - I probably would have brought them up but I was so focused on brothers. The title makes me look like a fool though which kind of bothers me cause it wasn't my title. They never use my titles on that blog for reason.
What about the brothers...Mark and Donnie...oh..sorry...wrong field.
Yo Large...I totally forgot about the Richard brothers - Henri and Maurice. Sure the Mannings got their back-to-back trophies but they have a long ways to go before they challenge The Richards. Henri won 11 Cups and was a HOFer while Maurice won 8 and is arguably the greatest ever.
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