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30 November 2016 - 6:04pm

Long Odds!

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As you all know, I'm a huge glutton for punishment (code for being a Detroit Lions fan). This year, the Lions team has done the highly improbable by trailing in the fourth quarter of all 11 games they've played and somehow coming back and winning seven of those games. It's something that's never happened before, and is highly improbable. How improbable? According to this Free Press article, their odds of pulling it off have been 1 in 40,000!

Pretty interesting and I'm interested to see if their luck will continue moving forward.

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30 November 2016 - 7:40pm
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Congrats for that man 👍

Yes it's really an amazing achievement, but it just shows the character and mental toughness that the Lions as a team and their coach Jim Caldwell has, they really should had lost at least 2 or 3 of those matches but I think with every next game they've won, team confidence was growing while their opponents knowing of all these comebacks were more and more worried when they should played against the Lions...
And who knows the streak is might not over yet...

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30 November 2016 - 11:42pm
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Is that really luck, or perhaps they are better trained and conditioned to last the full length of the match?

I mean it has to be exhausting waiting around for six and a half hours through all the ad breaks, dancing girls and time outs for the final quarter of a match to start. Maybe they just have more stamina than the opposition.

/runs and hides... 😈

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1 December 2016 - 12:07am
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For sure it isn't luck...but if it's because of mental or physical strength I don't know maybe combination of both but have to agree with you Ed, you have to be a patient man to be a US football player...or viewer 🙂