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Miracle Match (other)
Miracle match or miracle game are terms sometimes used to refer to sporting events with highly unexpected outcomes (a significant upset) or very dramatic finishes. The term may refer to one of the following: Film and literature * ''Miracle'' (2004 film), a film about the United States men's ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics * ''Miracle on Ice'' (1981 film), an earlier film about the same topic * '' The Miracle Game'', a 1972 Czech novel by Josef Škvorecký * ''The Miracle Match'', an alternate title for ''The Game of Their Lives'' (2005 film) about the 1950 FIFA World Cup victory of the United States over England * ''The Miracle Season'', a 2018 film about an American high school volleyball team following the 2011 sudden death of its team captain Sports Note: a "miracle" name can refer to an entire game, its defining play, or both. American football College * Bluegrass Miracle, the 74-yard game-winning pass in a 2002 game between the LSU Tigers and Kentucky Wildcats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upset (competition)
An upset occurs in a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports, when the party popularly expected to win (the "favorite"), either loses to or draws/ties a game with an underdog whom the majority expects to lose, defying the conventional wisdom. If it happens in a cup competition, it is sometimes referred to as a "cupset" (a portmanteau, combining the words "cup" and "upset"). It is often used in reference to beating the betting odds in sports, or beating the opinion polls in electoral politics. Origin The meaning of the word "upset" has long included "an overthrowing or overturn of ideas, plans, etc." (see OED definition 6b), from which the sports definition almost surely derived. "Upset" also once referred to "a curved part of a bridle-bit, fitting over the tongue of the horse", (now the port of a curb bit) but, even though the modern sports meaning of "upset" was first used far more for horse races than for any other competition, there is no evidence of a connecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle At The Met
The ''Miracle at the Met'' refers to the Minnesota Vikings' comeback win over the Cleveland Browns in Week 15 of the 1980 NFL season. The Vikings trailed 23–9 in the fourth quarter, but won after Vikings quarterback Tommy Kramer passed for two touchdowns to wide receiver Ahmad Rashad in the last two minutes, including a 46-yard Hail Mary pass caught with one hand on the last play of the game. The final play is also known as the "Miracle Catch." The Vikings won, 28–23. Game summary The Vikings came into the game with an 8–6 record. The Browns, nicknamed the Kardiac Kids for their many close games, were 10–4. A win for the Browns would clinch them a playoff berth, while a win for the Vikings would clinch them the NFC Central and a playoff appearance. The Browns were favored by 3 points. First half The Browns opened up the scoring in the first quarter when their quarterback, eventual league MVP Brian Sipe, threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Calvin Hill, giving Clevelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle On Ice
The "Miracle on Ice" was an ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. It was played between the hosting United States and the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980, during the medal round of the men's hockey tournament. Though the Soviet Union was a four-time defending gold medalist and heavily favored, the United States upset them and won 4–3. The Soviet Union had won the gold medal in five of the six previous Winter Olympic Games, and they were the favorites to win once more in Lake Placid. The team consisted primarily of professional players with significant experience in international play. By contrast, the United States' team, led by head coach Herb Brooks, was composed mostly of amateur players, with only four players with minimal minor-league experience. The United States had the youngest team in the tournament and in U.S. national team history. In the group stage, both the Soviet and U.S. teams were unbeaten; the U.S. achieved several s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle In Espoo
The Miracle in Espoo, known in Finnish as Ihme Espoossa, was the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship semifinal game played on 13 April 2019, at Espoo Metro Areena in Espoo, Finland, between Canada (10-time world champion) and hosts Finland (12-time bronze medalists). It is considered one of the biggest upsets in women's ice hockey history. The semifinal game determines the winner that will advance to the gold medal game, while the loser will play in the bronze medal game. Finland stunned Canada with a score of 4–2, winning their first semifinal game and advanced to the gold medal game for the first time in IIHF Women's World Championship history, while Canada will play for bronze. Background Since the first IIHF Women's World Championship in 1990 and the first women's tournament at the Winter Olympics in 1998, the American and Canadian national teams have dominated the competitions, winning every single gold medal. They have also won every single silver medal, except one: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Miracle Of Coogan's Bluff
In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a game-winning home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL) pennant. Thomson's dramatic three-run homer came in the ninth inning of the decisive third game of a three-game playoff for the pennant in which the Giants trailed, 4–1 entering the ninth, and 4–2 with two runners on base at the time of Thomson's at-bat. The game was seen by millions of viewers across America and heard on radio by millions more, including thousands of American servicemen stationed in Korea, listening on Armed Forces Radio. The classic drama of snatching victory from defeat to secure a pennant was intensified by the epic cross-town rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers and by a remarkable string of victories in the last weeks of the regular season by the Giants, who won 37 of their la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle On Grass (Australian Rules Football)
The Miracle on Grass was an Australian Football League match in Round 13 of the 2013 AFL season, between the Brisbane Lions and the Geelong Cats. In the match, the Lions came back from a 52-point deficit during the third quarter to clinch a 5-point win with a goal after the siren. The win was the eighth-biggest comeback in VFL/AFL history, and the largest in the history of the Brisbane Lions. The game was given its name by commentator Anthony Hudson. Background Prior to the game, Geelong was in second place on the ladder, with 10 wins and one loss. By contrast, Brisbane was in the bottom four with only 3 wins. The game was the 200th of Brisbane veteran Ash McGrath, and the game in which Brisbane player Simon Black broke the club record for most games played, with his 320th game. Coming into the match, Geelong was heavy favourite to win. The game First three quarters Geelong kicked the first two goals of the game, and while Brisbane managed to gain the lead early, by half-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Miracle Match
The 1963 Miracle Match was an Australian rules football game contested in the second half of the 1963 VFL season home-and-away competition’s round 10 "split round" matches. The match, between the Fitzroy Football Club and the Geelong Football Club, and attended by 16,221 spectators at the Brunswick Street Oval in North Fitzroy, Victoria, on 6 July 1963, was one of the major highlights of the 1960s, wherein the young, inexperienced (and, for the 1963 season, winless) Fitzroy team unexpectedly, comprehensively — and, for some, "miraculously" — beat the experienced and powerful Geelong team, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31): a team that had finished second on the 1962 VFL Ladder, had already won six, and drawn one, of its nine home-and-away matches, and would eventually go on to win the 1963 VFL Grand Final and premiership. The game was notable for the extensive, detailed, and well-structured team strategies and player-against-player tactics devised by Wally Clark (the stand-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music City Miracle
The Music City Miracle was an American football play that took place on January 8, 2000, during the National Football League's (NFL) 1999–2000 playoffs. It occurred at the end of the American Football Conference (AFC) Wild Card playoff game between the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills at Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville, Tennessee. After the Bills had taken a 16–15 lead on a field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game, on the ensuing kickoff return, Titans tight end Frank Wycheck threw a lateral across the field to Kevin Dyson, who then ran 75 yards to score the winning touchdown to earn a 22–16 victory. Pregame info Rob Johnson / Doug Flutie controversy Going into the game, Bills coach Wade Phillips created a stir by starting quarterback Rob Johnson, rather than Doug Flutie, who had started 15 games and led them into the playoffs by winning ten games. Prior to the 1998 season, Buffalo acquired Johnson in a trade, and he was expected to become the primary quarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At Dallas Cowboys
AT or at may refer to: Geography Austria * Austria (ISO 2-letter country code) * .at, Internet country code top-level domain United States * Atchison County, Kansas (county code) * The Appalachian Trail (A.T.), a 2,180+ mile long mountainous trail in the Eastern United States Elsewhere * Anguilla (World Meteorological Organization country code) * Ashmore and Cartier Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code, and obsolete NATO country code) * At, Bihar, village in Aurangabad district of Bihar, India * Province of Asti, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT code) Science and technology Computing * @ (or "at sign"), the punctuation symbol now typically used in e-mail addresses and tweets) * at (command), used to schedule tasks or other commands to be performed or run at a certain time * IBM Personal Computer/AT ** AT (form factor) for motherboards and computer cases ** AT connector, a five-pin DIN connector for a keyboard * The Hayes command set for computer modems (each command begins with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monday Night Miracle (American Football)
The Monday Night Miracle was an NFL Monday night game between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins played at Giants Stadium on October 23, 2000. The Jets scored 30 points in the fourth quarter, twice tying the score, and sending the game into overtime, where they defeated the Dolphins, 40–37. Background Like their 1994 showdown at Giants Stadium which was made famous by Dan Marino's "fake spike", this game was for first place in the AFC East as the Jets were 4-1 and the Dolphins were 5-0. But unlike the 1994 game which featured the Jets failing to hold a double-digit (18) lead in the second half, it was the Dolphins who failed to hold the lead. The game is notable for having the second largest fourth-quarter comeback in NFL history and the largest comeback in Jets history. It was also voted the greatest game televised on ABC's ''Monday Night Football'', along with being #5 on NFL Top Ten's ''Top Ten Comebacks''. At the end of the third quarter with the score 30–7 in Miam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle In Motown
The Miracle in Motown was the final play of an American football game between the NFC North divisional rivals Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions on December 3, 2015. The game, which was broadcast on television nationally on ''Thursday Night Football'', was played at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan during the 2015 NFL season. On the final play of regulation, with no time remaining on the game clock, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a Hail Mary pass into the end-zone that was caught by tight end Richard Rodgers II for the game-winning touchdown. The play resulted in a dramatic 27–23 come-from-behind victory for the Packers, who had trailed 20–0 in the second half. The victory was the Packers' fourth-largest comeback in franchise history. It was also the start of a 3–game winning streak that would help the Packers clinch their seventh consecutive postseason berth. The play won the NFL Play of the Year Award for the 2015 season and would be named the year's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle In Miami
The Miracle in Miami, also known as the Miami Miracle, was an American football play that took place at the end of a National Football League regular season game on December 9, 2018, between the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots. It was the first walk-off game-winning touchdown in NFL history to involve multiple lateral passes, and the first multi-lateral touchdown since the River City Relay in December 2003. After the game, the play was known by several names, most commonly the "Miami Miracle" and the "Miracle in Miami". The play went on to win the Bridgestone Performance Play of the Year Award at the 8th Annual NFL Honors Award Show on February 2. History Desperation lateral attempts have been used before in American football. In the history of the NFL, only once in the 21st century has a team successfully converted a lateral pass for a touchdown at the end of a game. It occurred in the River City Relay on December 21, 2003, where the New Orleans Saints succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
