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00:07Welcome to Who's Number One, I'm Trey Wingo.
00:10The emotional pull is universal and irresistible.
00:14America loves the underdog.
00:15If we had our way, Cinderella would put on that magical footwear every single night.
00:21Novelty and the appeal would wear off.
00:24No, we need these upsets, the toppling of dynasties, to be spread out.
00:28The time between only sweetens what is to come.
00:31And what comes now is ESPN Classics' 20 best Cinderella stories of all time.
00:39Twenty.
00:41And they're off in the service of gold.
00:44It was an event that brought America to a standstill for a minute, 56 seconds.
00:50See this get leads by a link.
00:52Now see this get by a link for a half.
00:54Twenty.
00:55Twenty.
00:55That's the same commentator from Joe Louis Smelling, uh, two.
01:01And, uh, yeah, Cinderella must wear horseshoes.
01:10In 1938, the sport of kings was turned into a party for millions of ordinary Americans caught in the Great
01:16Depression.
01:17The catalyst was a short-legged stallion named Seabiscuit.
01:21In a match race in Baltimore, the California horse met the previous year's triple crown winner a one-to-four
01:28favorite.
01:29War Admiral was by Zeus.
01:33Seabiscuit was by a foot soldier out of a handmaiden.
01:36And they're off in the service of gold.
01:38The consensus was that the way this race would be run would be that War Admiral would take the lead
01:43and that Seabiscuit would lay behind.
01:45And Seabiscuit is outrunning him.
01:48People were astonished.
01:51My God, Seabiscuit is outrunning War Admiral.
01:56Seabiscuit is the winner by Power Rangers.
02:01If you made it up, nobody would believe it.
02:04I think everybody identifies with the underdog.
02:06They want them to win.
02:07And they don't always do it.
02:09But this is one story where they did.
02:1419.
02:1519.
02:1619.
02:19For Indiana State, number 33 at center, Larry Bird.
02:25Bird taking that team to the finals in 1979 is the single greatest individual feat in the history of college
02:30basketball.
02:3119.
02:34It was one of the great matchups in college basketball.
02:37Michigan State against Indiana State for the national championship.
02:41Magic Johnson led a talent-laden Spartans team, while Larry Bird, the NCAA Player of the Year, was the only
02:49reason Indiana State was unbeaten.
02:52You look at the team that he brought to the finals, it shows you his leadership and how he makes
02:56so many people better, because that was not a great team.
03:03Indiana State University was not on anybody's radar.
03:09It just happened that this year, the synergy was there.
03:15And everything just clicked together.
03:18To lead a team like Indiana State to the NCAA finals, you knew he was going to be great.
03:26And from Michigan State, wearing number 33 at guard, Urban Magic Johnson.
03:30And here he is playing against this kid who came out with the big-time reputation, Urban Magic Johnson.
03:42They established a rivalry that night when Michigan State beat Indiana State, and that continued for another decade or longer.
03:51Michigan State University, national champions 1979.
03:56That was one of the great college Cinderella games that I think I've ever seen.
04:0718-18.
04:09Placement down, Benatieri's field goal try for the win, it's good, it's good, and the New England Patriots have won
04:18Super Bowl 36!
04:20It was crazy, it was insane.
04:22I really, I almost had an aneurysm, I lost my mind.
04:2618.
04:28When the Rams, winners of the 2000 Super Bowl, met the Patriots for the NFL championship two years later, few
04:35outside of New England expected anything less than a blowout by St. Louis.
04:39The Pats were 14-point underdogs.
04:44Everybody thought the Rams were just going to throw the ball all over the place on these guys and run
04:48them right out of the Superdome.
04:49At quarterback, number 13, Kurt Warner.
04:53The Rams had introduced themselves and gone through endless fanfare and waving, and then the Patriots came out introduced as
04:59a team.
05:00That's when I thought, like, son of a b***h, they could win this game.
05:04Back to pass is Warner, looks, fires left, it is wide open to the 10th, touchdown, Ricky Brode!
05:10When they scored and tied it up, and I looked up at the clock with a minute 40-something left,
05:15I said, they screwed up, they gave us too much time.
05:17Here's Brady, he dumps it to Wiggins, down to the 30, and now no question about it, they are in
05:23Vinatieri's reign.
05:24Nobody in the whole world expected us to win except for about 50 guys, you know, in our locker room.
05:31Adam Vinatieri, no time on the clock, and the Patriots have won Super Bowl 36!
05:38The Patriots winning at a time when everyone's heart was filled with patriotism, brought the nation together in a context
05:46where people were hoping to have just that type of an event to cheer for.
06:03There was one person on earth who took George Foreman's comeback seriously, and that was George Foreman.
06:08I'm back, I'm back, I'm back.
06:13In November of 1994, George Foreman, at 45, met Michael Moore in a bid to regain the heavyweight title he
06:21had lost 20 years earlier to Muhammad Ali.
06:25With a smiling face known to millions in commercials, Mr. Mean had become Mr. Clean.
06:32We've never seen a metamorphosis of any sports star in our lives like George Foreman.
06:36I mean, he's the, one is the, he's the grizzly bear, the other is the teddy bear.
06:40The one thing you don't want to sell around this cheeseburger.
06:49Solid right hand by Moore.
06:51Mooreman's left eye beginning to close.
06:54Those were.
06:55It's unlike Andy Narello's story because he was getting beaten very badly most of the fight.
07:06I said ringside and working press will turn each other and go, what's holding this guy up?
07:10Down goes four on a right hand.
07:14It happened.
07:15It happened.
07:17I don't think there's any accomplishment like that that you can find anywhere else in sports.
07:21I once heard somebody ask whether it was just as impressive for Jack Nicklaus to win the Masters at age
07:2746
07:28as it was for George Foreman to win the heavyweight championship at age 45.
07:33And this person stated the obvious.
07:35Nobody was hitting Jack.
07:4216.
07:4316.
07:47It was Boom Boom Becker.
07:49Not only was it a great Cinderella story, that Wimbledon, more than anything else, changed tennis into a different era.
07:5816.
08:00Unseated and under the radar, 17-year-old Boris Becker won tennis's glass slipper in 1985
08:06when he defeated eighth-seated American Kevin Curran to become the first German to win the men's singles title at
08:13Wimbledon.
08:1613.
08:17Ace.
08:1921.
08:20There's this big, strong kid unleashing these big Boom Boom serves.
08:25And everyone's pulling, what's going on here?
08:2912.
08:3020-second ace.
08:32He was hitting shots at a speed and a power that people hadn't even seen before.
08:37And he's playing with a complete lack of fear.
08:41Game to Becker.
08:43Every time he walked on the court with that majestic stride, you felt, this is a champion.
08:54Really, this was the start of the modern power attacking game.
08:59It was breathtaking.
09:0515.
09:0615.
09:0715.
09:10Gibson swings and a prime ball to deep right field.
09:13This has got to be a home run.
09:15Unbelievable.
09:16I don't believe what I just saw.
09:20We all realized, after we came back and beat the Oakland A's in game one, that the Los Angeles Dodgers
09:26in 1988 had a real shot at bringing that trophy home.
09:29And that's what you think about when you go around the bases.
09:32It's this dream may really be coming true.
09:3515.
09:37With 104 victories in 1988, the Oakland A's were led by the Bash brothers, Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire.
09:45The Dodgers, meanwhile, had one of the weakest hitting lineups ever to win a pennant.
09:50That's on paper, of course, which is not where they play the World Series.
09:55They had a powerful club.
09:58McGuire, Canseco, Connie Lansford, Dave Parker.
10:03And we had really great names like Jeff Hamilton, Danny Heap, Mickey Hatcher.
10:11Real, real great names.
10:15High fly ball into right field.
10:18She is gone!
10:22In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.
10:29I knew that the Cinderella season wasn't maybe just the Cinderella season.
10:34We served notice to the Oakland A's that day that they were in for the fight of them lives.
10:42Got it!
10:43They've done it!
10:45Like the 1969 Mets, it's the impossible dream revisiting.
10:51If you went and looked at that team today, you'd say, how do those guys ever win it?
10:54Nobody thought we could beat the team who won 104 games!
10:58Nobody!
11:0714, 14, 14.
11:16Daley was like a force of nature.
11:18He was someone that golf had never seen before.
11:24Maybe that was because John Daley had only been playing professional golf for four years when he unexpectedly received an
11:31invitation to compete in the 1991 PGA Championship.
11:35After not having played a single practice round, Daley won by three strokes.
11:41John, you were ninth alternate to get into this tournament.
11:44You've got to be thrilled to death.
11:45What are your feelings?
11:46I'm just going to go out and hit it hard and play the best I can play.
11:52You're the best!
11:53You're the best!
11:55Yeah!
11:55Watching John Daley...
11:56He's always happy, Gilmore?
11:58...drived a golf ball.
11:59Our first time you saw it up close, you had never seen anything like that before.
12:03And grip it and rip it was his philosophy, and people loved that.
12:08You're the best!
12:14A crooked stick was kind of a once-in-a-lifetime sort of experience.
12:19I'll never forget it, because here was a guy, he just came out of the blue.
12:23He was like a myth.
12:30Wow.
12:30It was wonderful.
12:32I couldn't believe I did it.
12:33It was the fastest four days of my life, I think.
12:38Hmph.
12:41Thirteen, thirteen.
12:44The French call her La Gazelle Anira, the Black Gazelle, because she had that wonderful grace about her.
12:51How she did what she did is as much a Cinderella story as you're going to find in 20th century
12:58sports.
13:02Thirteen, thirteen.
13:05Born into grinding poverty as the 20th of 22 children.
13:09What?
13:10Wilma Rudolph survived pneumonia, polio, and scarlet fever.
13:15She rolled in the 100 and 200 meters, and the 4x100 relay.
13:20If you've ever seen a person run a curve, no one in the world can run a curve like Wilma
13:26Rudolph.
13:26I mean, she looked like a beautiful gazelle just floating through the air, and she was absolutely beautiful.
13:32And then she would just start to accelerate like a railroad train, and, well, perhaps more like Secretariat.
13:41Three Olympic gold medals for Wilma Rudolph was a seminal...
13:46She has the measurables.
13:48Look at her legs.
13:49...event in American track and field for women.
13:53It had never been done before.
13:55She was an icon.
13:57I can't forget her.
13:58She was the queen.
14:01I just admired her for what she had done at the Olympics, and I just thought, maybe I could do
14:07that.
14:09She had it rotten in the beginning, and she had it rotten in the end.
14:13But, oh, my God, in the middle, it was just wonderful.
14:16It was glorious.
14:24And the ground ball destroyed!
14:27He did it!
14:28He did it!
14:29No hitter for Jim Abbott!
14:32Best thing I can say about that game is that it didn't surprise Jim Abbott.
14:37Twelve.
14:38Born in 1967 without a right hand, Jim Abbott taught himself to field and pitch 10 seasons in the major
14:45leagues.
14:46His crowning achievement came on September 4th, 1993, when the Yankees left-hander threw his way into history.
14:56Jim Abbott's one no-hitter is more impressive than all of Nolan Ryan's.
15:03And a ground ball tapped to third.
15:05Fair.
15:06Boggs with the throw.
15:07One, two, three, in the seventh.
15:10He had no idea it was no no-hitter.
15:12You look up, and there's no hits.
15:14Oh, he might have something.
15:15Abbott working on a no-hitter into the eighth.
15:18I really had a resigned feeling to make my pitches and let it happen.
15:24And the ground ball to short!
15:27Bernardi!
15:27He did it!
15:29He did it!
15:30No-hitter for Jim Abbott!
15:33For Jim Abbott to throw that no-hitter was a tremendously inspiring thing.
15:37Jim Abbott throws a no-hitter!
15:40My playing with one hand isn't just a story of making it.
15:44It's making it and being good.
15:46That's got to be the most improbable no-hitter.
15:48And the one that deserves the most admiration.
15:53I love him.
15:54I didn't know about that word.
15:55Eleven.
15:56Eleven.
15:57They got military in range.
15:59I'll tell you, what Tom Brady just did gives me goosebumps.
16:03The NFL road is littered with guys like Tom Brady who get picked in the sixth round,
16:08hang around for a couple of years, then are dentists somewhere.
16:11No time on the clock, and the Patriots have won Super Bowl 36.
16:17Cinderella came from nowhere, and so did Tom Brady.
16:21Eleven.
16:22Eleven.
16:24Taken by New England, Tom Brady was the 199th overall pick in the 2000 draft.
16:31After replacing an injured Drew Bledsoe in September of 2001,
16:35he guided the Patriots to a Super Bowl championship.
16:38Over the next three seasons, he won two more rings.
16:43When he was drafted, Brady, the printout was,
16:47will compete for a practice squad position,
16:48maybe back up third string in the NFL.
16:53He has great football intelligence as well as great football talent.
16:58He is the most unassuming superstar that you'll ever meet,
17:02and he's not an eye guy, he's a team guy.
17:05And I remember when he came out against the Raiders in that snowstorm,
17:09and I saw him throw these deep comebacks,
17:10and I saw him throw those square ends,
17:11and I go, this guy's for real.
17:13He's going to be something.
17:15Great players in this game,
17:16but when you can make other players better,
17:19that's, you surpass greatness.
17:22After five years in the NFL,
17:25Tom Brady is not in Joe Montana's league.
17:27He's slightly above him.
17:29And you give him three, four, five more years,
17:31he might be the greatest quarterback of all time,
17:33but we shall see.
17:36To say that he was above Joe Montana back in...
17:442004...
17:46uh, sounds stupid.
17:49But yeah, he did surpass.
17:59An all-black Texas Western team
18:01beats the Adolf Rupp's mighty Kentucky Five
18:04in the NCAA Championship game
18:06in a historic upset,
18:07but also in a historic social game.
18:10And I don't think
18:11any other national championship game
18:14represented so much
18:15than that national championship game.
18:18Ten.
18:20In 1966,
18:22Texas Western
18:23jumped onto the basketball scene
18:24with the first
18:25all-black starting five
18:27in a national championship game.
18:28The third-ranked minors
18:29met history
18:30in the form of
18:31Coach Adolf Rupp's
18:32all-white Kentucky Wildcats
18:34ranked number one.
18:37This was one great thunderclap,
18:39and it would not have been
18:41one great thunderclap
18:42had it been
18:43Texas Western against Maryland
18:45or Texas Western against LaSalle.
18:47In terms of impact,
18:49watching five
18:50African-American players
18:51tee up Adolf Rupp
18:53and everything
18:54Adolf Rupp stood for,
18:55that was
18:57extraordinarily important.
18:59Yes, sir.
18:59I could feel
19:00their passion,
19:01and I could feel
19:02the intensity
19:03of that team.
19:04I do believe
19:05they were probably
19:05playing for a little bit
19:06more than we were.
19:08When the game was over,
19:09it was a tremendous...
19:10Pat Riley is just involved
19:12in, like,
19:13every significant moment
19:15in basketball,
19:16it seems like.
19:18Played there,
19:19play in the NBA
19:20versus
19:20Wilt Kareem.
19:22I think he was
19:23on a championship team
19:25with Wilt.
19:28He was obviously
19:29a great coach
19:30and executive.
19:35silence for a while.
19:36Nobody really believed
19:37that that could happen.
19:39You know,
19:39I think a lot of coaches
19:40had their eyes opened
19:41in 1966
19:42because of that game.
19:43I think it was
19:45a milestone
19:46in college basketball
19:48that sent the signal out
19:50that we better
19:51broaden the pool of talent.
19:599-9-9
20:03The super season
20:05for the Super Bowl victory
20:07for the Rams!
20:09Hollywood
20:10would have looked
20:11at this script
20:12and go,
20:12oh, come on.
20:14There's no way
20:15anybody would believe this.
20:16It was literally
20:17a storybook season.
20:209-9
20:22Kurt Warner's
20:23MVP performance
20:24in Super Bowl XXXIV
20:25was the pinnacle
20:26of a journey
20:27back from failure.
20:28Discarded by the Packers
20:30in 1994,
20:31he worked at a
20:32Hy-Vee food store.
20:34Then after playing
20:35for arena football
20:36and NFL Europe teams,
20:37he got a second shot
20:39at the NFL.
20:40In 1999,
20:42he replaced
20:43injured Rams quarterback
20:44Trent Green.
20:45Kurt Warner
20:46was a stock boy.
20:48I called up
20:49the grocery store
20:50he used to work at
20:51in Iowa.
20:52And one of the grocery
20:53store clerks says,
20:54yeah,
20:54I used to work
20:55with Kurt,
20:56now I got him
20:56in my fantasy league.
20:58Warner dropping.
20:59Look,
20:59it throws deep
21:00downfield.
21:01For Bruce,
21:02he comes back
21:03and catches it.
21:03He's the American dream.
21:04He's the story
21:05that through perseverance
21:07that anything can happen.
21:09Touchdown Rams!
21:11Yeah,
21:11I've been waiting
21:11for the opportunity.
21:12Now it's my turn
21:13to go out on the football
21:14field and just play.
21:15Make an airdrop.
21:16Throws right side
21:17for Dyson.
21:18He dives
21:18for the end zone!
21:20Here I am
21:20raising my hand,
21:22you know,
21:22like touchdown
21:23and all of a sudden
21:24linebacker came
21:25and tackled Dyson
21:26on the one yard line.
21:27The Rams win
21:29by a yard.
21:30You know,
21:30when he goes to show
21:31that you can find
21:33some pretty good quarterbacks
21:33under some pretty obscure rocks,
21:35you just keep looking.
21:44Rulon Gardner
21:46has shocked
21:47the wrestling world.
21:49A 1-0
21:51gigantic upset
21:53of the Russian legend
21:54Alexander Karelin.
21:58Russia's Alexander Karelin
22:00had not lost
22:01a wrestling match
22:02in 13 years.
22:03Then in the 2000s
22:05Sydney Olympics,
22:06Wyoming native son
22:07Rulon Gardner,
22:08primed by visions of gold,
22:11ended the strongman streak.
22:13Here's the big guy
22:15from Russia,
22:16you know,
22:16the dominating
22:17world figure,
22:18invincible.
22:19The Russian Federation,
22:21Alexander Karelin.
22:23Karelin was undefeated
22:25for what,
22:26100 years?
22:27Representing the United States
22:28of America,
22:30Rulon Gardner.
22:32Rulon Gardner
22:33is this farm guy.
22:34What are you talking about?
22:39A 1-0 lead.
22:41That has got to bolster
22:43the confidence
22:44for Rulon Gardner.
22:46One point
22:47is an eternity
22:48for a wrestler.
22:51That's it!
22:52Oh my!
22:53Do you believe
22:54in miracles again?
22:57Rulon Gardner
22:58has upset the king!
23:00He wins the gold medal
23:02in overtime.
23:04That's a great
23:05Sunderilla story.
23:05You're not supposed
23:06to beat the Russian bear
23:07and he did.
23:117-7.
23:20When the ball
23:22left my hands,
23:22I knew the shot
23:23was going in.
23:26Looking back,
23:27it made a significant
23:28change in our lives.
23:307-7.
23:33In 1954,
23:35the Indiana High School
23:36Basketball Championship
23:37was on the line
23:38when little Milan
23:39met Muncie Central
23:40with an enrollment
23:41more than 7 times larger.
23:43The game became
23:44a touchstone
23:44in the state's
23:45collective memory
23:46and later entered
23:46the national culture
23:47as a feature film.
23:49People pretty much
23:51focused on one thing
23:52at that time.
23:53In Indiana,
23:54it was basketball.
23:55In 1954,
23:56there were 752 teams
23:58that were all thrown
23:59into the state tournament.
24:00Everything just broke
24:01right,
24:03miraculously,
24:03and we were in
24:04the state finals
24:05all of a sudden.
24:06Down the court,
24:07he breaks down the lane,
24:08lays it up and is!
24:12Everybody likes
24:13to tell that story
24:14to instill in the young
24:15people, you know,
24:15that this can't happen.
24:20Got the ball back
24:21and with five or six
24:23seconds to go,
24:24just as in the movie,
24:25Hoosiers,
24:26you'll see him
24:27fake left,
24:28went right,
24:29and a shot of jump shot.
24:31I didn't think about
24:32winning the state tournament,
24:34but I knew we were
24:34going to win that game.
24:446-6-6.
24:46The Mets win the ball game.
24:48It's absolute bedlam
24:50here at Shea Stadium.
24:5169 Mets to me
24:53are the ultimate
24:53Cinderella story.
24:556-6-6.
24:56Look at how poor
24:58that team
24:59with some of those
25:00players started.
25:02It was Ed Cranepool
25:04asked how the Mets
25:05would do that,
25:06yeah,
25:06and he said,
25:06you know,
25:07people are going
25:07to be walking
25:08on the moon
25:08before the Mets
25:09ever win anything.
25:10And he was right,
25:11but just by a few
25:12months,
25:12you know.
25:156-6.
25:16The Mets
25:17were a miracle
25:17of faith
25:18and a thorn
25:19in the side
25:19of Las Vegas.
25:21After they finished
25:22ninth in their
25:22seventh season
25:23in the majors,
25:24the oddsmakers
25:25gave New York's
25:26other team
25:27a 100-to-1
25:28chance
25:28to win
25:29the 1969
25:30National League
25:31pennant.
25:33The 69 Mets
25:34are never going
25:35to get too
25:35little attention
25:36because they're
25:37a New York
25:37darling
25:38and a Mets
25:38fan darling.
25:39On the other
25:40hand,
25:40they're one
25:41of the New York
25:41teams that gets
25:42great credit
25:42that actually
25:43deserves it.
25:44You want to
25:45make any analogy
25:46to life of a
25:47person facing
25:47long odds,
25:48the baseball
25:49analogy to me
25:50is the 69
25:51Mets.
25:52There really
25:52was the feeling
25:53that anything
25:54is possible
25:55if the Mets
25:57could win this
25:58year,
25:58really completed
25:59the story.
26:00Waiting is
26:01Jones
26:02and a world
26:03champion.
26:06The Mets
26:06show that when
26:07you're inspired
26:08and you get
26:08momentum rolling
26:09your way,
26:10that a baseball
26:10team can rise
26:11up.
26:15Five,
26:16five,
26:17five.
26:17The game
26:17is over.
26:18The New York
26:19Jets are the
26:20world champions.
26:21They have
26:22upset the
26:22Baltimore Colts
26:23and beat them
26:24handily here
26:25today.
26:25From day
26:26one,
26:27man,
26:27we knew
26:28we could
26:28beat them.
26:31Another miracle
26:32that occurred
26:32earlier in
26:331969,
26:34Broadway Joe
26:35Namath led
26:36the AFL
26:36champion Jets
26:37against the
26:3815-1 Colts
26:39who had pummeled
26:40the Browns to
26:40secure the NFL
26:41title.
26:42In Super Bowl
26:43III,
26:43New York was
26:44expected to
26:44fold under
26:45what was
26:45believed to
26:46be superior
26:47forces.
26:48No one
26:49gave us a
26:49chance,
26:50you know,
26:51being an 18
26:51points underdog.
26:53Hey,
26:53they were a good
26:53team,
26:54otherwise they
26:54wouldn't have
26:54been there.
26:55We didn't
26:56take them
26:56lightly.
26:56Matt Snell
26:57almost,
26:58he just
26:59passed,
27:01like,
27:02I don't know,
27:02two months
27:03ago.
27:04So,
27:04RIP Matt
27:05Snell,
27:05the really
27:06VP of that
27:07game.
27:08I almost
27:08felt sorry for
27:09the Colts.
27:10We had Joe.
27:11How could we
27:12lose?
27:12Joe Namath.
27:14Joe Namath,
27:15who likes
27:15girls.
27:17Namath again,
27:18nice protection,
27:19it's complete to
27:20Snell.
27:20We used to
27:21put 11 people
27:22up there
27:22on the line
27:23of scrimmage
27:23and either
27:24blitz or
27:24fake the
27:25blitz,
27:25and Namath
27:26was able
27:26to handle
27:27our blitz.
27:28Namath is
27:28tricking the
27:29Baltimore
27:29secondary
27:30pieces right
27:30now.
27:31The world
27:31was telling
27:32them that
27:32they were
27:32the better
27:33of the
27:33two teams.
27:34We played
27:35ten times,
27:36you know,
27:36maybe they
27:37would have
27:37won one or
27:37two.
27:38The New York
27:39Jets are
27:39the world
27:40champions.
27:41What?
27:42They beat
27:43them the
27:43next four
27:44times.
27:46If they
27:46played ten
27:47times,
27:47they would
27:48have beaten
27:50them nine
27:50or eight
27:51out of ten
27:52times.
27:53They didn't
27:53need ten
27:55games to
27:55win a
27:56few.
27:58The
27:59Rebels beat
28:00the establishment.
28:06Four.
28:07Four.
28:08Four.
28:09Houston's
28:10defense will
28:11be swarming.
28:11You better
28:12believe it.
28:12Houston will
28:12five slam
28:13a jammer.
28:14Ranked
28:14number one.
28:14And here
28:15comes Jim
28:15Valvano and
28:16this ragtag
28:17North Carolina
28:18state team.
28:19The team that
28:20barely got in.
28:21Five seconds
28:22left to
28:22Wittenberg.
28:23Wittenberg tries
28:24about a 30
28:24footer.
28:25No good
28:25step back.
28:27Lorenzo
28:27Charles
28:28slams it
28:29in.
28:29The
28:30Cinderella.
28:33It's
28:34anybody's
28:34game,
28:35baby.
28:35And for
28:35that moment,
28:36it was
28:37NC State's.
28:38Four.
28:39Four.
28:41Jim
28:42Valvano's
28:42six-seeded
28:43Wolfpack
28:43reached the
28:441983 NCAA
28:45Tournament
28:46Final.
28:46They were
28:47confronted by
28:47a national
28:48power led
28:49by Akeem
28:49Olajuwon and
28:50Clyde Drexler.
28:51Houston had
28:52won 26
28:52straight games
28:53and few
28:54and few
28:54expected its
28:54streak to
28:55end against
28:55NC State.
28:56But with
28:57seconds left,
28:58all bets
28:58were off.
29:01When we
29:01came out,
29:02you know,
29:02we were
29:02going to
29:03hold the
29:03ball a
29:03little bit
29:04and try
29:04to get
29:04the last
29:04shot.
29:05The Wolfpack
29:06has it in
29:06midcourt and
29:07the clock is
29:07ticking.
29:08Wittenberg's
29:08double team
29:08gets it again
29:09and is checked
29:09in.
29:10Now to low.
29:10I saw
29:11Thurl Bailey
29:11in the
29:12corner,
29:12which is
29:13his shot.
29:13So I hit
29:14Thurl with
29:15the ball.
29:15He didn't
29:16take the
29:16shot.
29:17He threw
29:19it all
29:19the way
29:19up to
29:20the top.
29:20Wittenberg
29:21shoots the
29:21jumper.
29:22It's short
29:22and out of
29:23nowhere comes
29:23Lorenzo
29:24Charles.
29:28I just
29:29happened to
29:29be standing
29:29up under
29:30the basket
29:30at the
29:31time so I
29:32could see
29:32that the
29:33ball was
29:33going to
29:33fall short.
29:34The
29:34Cinderella
29:35team has
29:36done it.
29:37The
29:37glass
29:37flipper
29:38fits.
29:39The
29:39Wolfpack
29:39has won
29:40the
29:40national
29:40championship.
29:41And who
29:42would ever
29:42forget when
29:43it all
29:43ended running
29:44around the
29:45court looking
29:45for somebody
29:46to hug
29:47Jimmy V.
29:47A moment
29:48that will
29:49always stand
29:49out in
29:50college
29:50basketball.
29:52If he
29:52doesn't win
29:53that game,
29:53we don't get
29:54to know
29:55Jimmy
29:55Valvano the
29:56way we do.
29:57And because
29:57of the way
29:58his life
29:59ended, I
30:00think that
30:00was destiny.
30:06Three,
30:07three,
30:07three.
30:10Cinderella,
30:12where's
30:12the
30:14Villanova
30:15Wildcats
30:16are the
30:16champions
30:17of college
30:17basketball.
30:19Three.
30:21When
30:22number one
30:22Georgetown
30:23met
30:23eighth-seeded
30:24Villanova
30:24in the
30:251985
30:25NCAA
30:26tournament
30:26final,
30:27it was
30:27favored by
30:28nine and a
30:29half points.
30:29But when
30:30Raleigh
30:30Massimino's
30:31Wildcats
30:31made 22
30:32of 28
30:33shots from
30:34the floor,
30:34the Hoyas
30:35failed to
30:35retain their
30:36national title.
30:38We were
30:38the Raiders.
30:39We were the
30:39Raiders of
30:40college basketball.
30:41Everybody hated
30:42us and we
30:42loved kicking
30:43everybody's butts.
30:44Everybody said
30:44this Georgetown
30:45team was
30:46absolutely
30:48intimidating.
30:52The Georgetown
30:53players knew
30:53they were in
30:54for a tough
30:54game.
30:55We had
30:55played them
30:56tough twice
30:57during the
30:57season.
30:58They were
30:58Big East
30:59rivals, so
30:59they knew
31:00us just
31:00like we
31:00knew them.
31:01They didn't
31:02want to
31:03tussle with
31:03us.
31:04They would
31:04have never
31:04won the
31:04game, so
31:05they used
31:05finesse.
31:07I sat
31:07there on
31:09press row
31:09and I
31:10kept expecting
31:10the bubble
31:11to burst.
31:12It still
31:12doesn't seem
31:12like it's
31:13real to me.
31:16I think
31:17they started
31:18to feel
31:19the pressure
31:19of the
31:22Georgetown
31:22aura.
31:24It's
31:25inbounded
31:25to Dwayne
31:26McClain
31:26and the
31:27clock goes
31:28off and
31:28that is
31:29it!
31:30Did we
31:30just win?
31:31Yeah,
31:32we won!
31:33You know,
31:34can I
31:35go out?
31:36So
31:36Philadelphia
31:37Wildcats
31:38are the
31:38champions
31:39of college
31:40basketball.
31:45Two,
31:46two,
31:46two,
31:47two.
31:48I knew
31:49that I
31:50could do
31:50this game,
31:51that I
31:51could box,
31:52that I
31:52could be
31:52in here
31:52with the
31:53best of
31:53them.
31:56Oh,
31:56Tyson
31:56nailed!
31:57God,
31:58yo,
31:58Tyson!
31:59What a
31:59shock!
32:00It's
32:00gone over!
32:01The biggest
32:02upset in the
32:03history of
32:03boxing!
32:04James
32:05Buster
32:05Douglas,
32:06the new
32:07heavyweight
32:07champion
32:08of the
32:08world!
32:10A 42-1
32:11underdog,
32:12challenger Buster
32:13Douglas faced
32:14the great
32:14intimidator
32:15Iron Mike
32:16Tyson for
32:17the heavyweight
32:17title in
32:181990.
32:19At 37-0,
32:20the snarling
32:21street kid
32:21radiated
32:22invincibility.
32:23Cinderella
32:24looked down
32:25from the
32:25rafters of
32:25that arena
32:26in Tokyo
32:26and whispered
32:28to Douglas,
32:28this is
32:29your night.
32:31Buster
32:32Douglas,
32:33could not
32:34be intimidated
32:35on that
32:36night.
32:38Historically,
32:38Buster
32:39Douglas was
32:39never in
32:39shape.
32:40He was
32:41always kind
32:42of a
32:42second-tier
32:43heavyweight.
32:44We all
32:44figured,
32:45just in due
32:46time,
32:46it's over.
32:47But Buster
32:48Douglas held
32:49on and
32:50fought back
32:51strong,
32:51strong.
32:53I don't
32:53think anybody
32:54on this
32:54planet that
32:55I'm aware
32:55of thought
32:56that Buster
32:57going to win
32:58that fight.
33:02Tyson,
33:02we never
33:03expected to
33:04see this.
33:04Does he know
33:05where he is?
33:05We get a new
33:06heavyweight champion!
33:07We have a new
33:08heavyweight champion!
33:10This is a miracle.
33:11This is one of
33:12those once-in-a-lifetime
33:13situations.
33:15Welcome back to
33:16Who's Number One
33:16and the 20 best
33:17Cinderella stories
33:18of all time.
33:19Here's what we've
33:20seen so far.
33:2020, 20, 20.
33:23Seabiscuit.
33:2419, 19, 19.
33:27Indiana State
33:28reaches 1979
33:29NCAA final.
33:3118, 18.
33:32Midnight Nears,
33:33the number one
33:34Cinderella about
33:35to be revealed.
33:39One, one, one,
33:41one.
33:47It's never just
33:48a hockey game
33:49when you put
33:50on that jersey.
33:50It's an
33:51unbelievable
33:52sense of pride
33:53that you represent
33:53your country
33:54in everything
33:55that we stand
33:55for.
33:58In 1980,
34:00in the latter
34:00stages of the
34:01Cold War,
34:02the U.S.
34:03faced the
34:03USSR in a
34:04power struggle
34:05of Olympian
34:05measure.
34:06A bunch of
34:07college kids
34:08took on the
34:08Soviet's
34:09big red
34:09machine.
34:10The outcome
34:11will forever
34:12be remembered
34:13as the
34:13miracle on
34:14ice.
34:16We were the
34:17ultimate
34:17underdog.
34:18I mean,
34:19we had no
34:19chance of
34:20winning this
34:20hockey game.
34:21Roy Snyder
34:23losing it,
34:23out to the
34:24point,
34:24slap shot,
34:25and it was
34:25deflected in.
34:26The Soviet Union
34:27hadn't lost an
34:28Olympic hockey
34:28game since
34:291960.
34:29They had
34:30beaten the
34:30Rangers,
34:31they'd beaten
34:31the Maple
34:31Leafs,
34:32they'd beat the
34:32Montreal
34:32Canadians.
34:34They were
34:35professionals,
34:36we were
34:36amateurs.
34:37They were
34:37arrogant,
34:38they were
34:38better than
34:38everybody else,
34:39they won
34:40their games
34:40with ease,
34:41there was
34:41nothing to
34:42celebrate for
34:42them,
34:43they were
34:43supposed to
34:44win.
34:45Golikov,
34:45number 23,
34:46leaving it for
34:47Makarov,
34:47he tried to get
34:47it back to
34:48Golikov,
34:49then gets it
34:49back and
34:50scores.
34:51When you're
34:51going against
34:52Soviets,
34:52you know,
34:52you always
34:53had in your
34:54mind,
34:54are you going
34:55to lose
34:5510-0,
34:565-0?
35:01We were
35:02just flukes,
35:03we all
35:03kind of knew
35:03what we were
35:03doing on the
35:04ice.
35:09At that
35:10point in the
35:11game,
35:12there had been
35:13a little bit
35:13of a lull,
35:14and the
35:15Soviets had
35:15started to
35:16take the
35:17game to
35:17us a little
35:18bit.
35:18Having a
35:19power play
35:20would at
35:20least give
35:21us the
35:21opportunity
35:21to shift
35:22the momentum
35:23and create
35:24some energy.
35:31If you
35:32told me
35:32we'd be
35:33tied with
35:3412 to
35:3413 minutes
35:35left to
35:35go in
35:35the game,
35:35I'd have
35:35told you
35:36we had
35:36a good
35:36chance
35:36of winning.
35:39Finally,
35:40the building
35:40has come
35:41to light.
35:43Arruzioni
35:43scores!
35:44By
35:45Arruzioni!
35:48Now we've
35:49got that
35:49look.
35:51We looked
35:51up at the
35:52clock and
35:52there was
35:52exactly 10
35:53minutes to
35:53go.
35:54It was
35:54the longest
35:5410 minutes
35:55of my life.
35:564-3-10
35:57minutes.
35:57It's a
35:58long time.
35:59I went
35:59out, took
36:00a shift, went
36:01back and
36:01looked up and
36:02it was like
36:02the clock
36:02said 9-59.
36:042-25, 2-24,
36:062-23 remaining.
36:07As the
36:08clock began to
36:08tick down and
36:09the minutes
36:10became seconds,
36:11you could
36:11feel it.
36:1228 seconds.
36:14The crowd
36:14going insane.
36:16And the
36:16noise in
36:17that building
36:18was palpable.
36:19You've got
36:2010 seconds.
36:21The countdown
36:21going on
36:22right now.
36:23Morrow, up
36:23to Sulf,
36:24five seconds
36:25left in
36:25the game.
36:26Do you
36:26believe in
36:27miracles?
36:27Yes!
36:29Unbelievable.
36:33People not
36:33realize in the
36:34beginning what's
36:35happened, but
36:35after that
36:36everybody starts
36:37thinking, oh,
36:38something happened
36:39to us, you know,
36:39like we lost to
36:40the college guys.
36:41It's impossible.
36:44the Russians
36:44couldn't believe
36:45that they lost.
36:46It was a
36:47national shame.
36:52You know what?
36:53You can throw the
36:53talent out.
36:54It doesn't matter.
36:55It's a game of
36:55emotion and it's
36:56a game of passion.
37:03So here we have
37:0420 happily ever
37:05afterings, 20
37:06glorious comebacks,
37:0820 overcomings to
37:09warm the heart.
37:10But as usual, we
37:11want to know, did we
37:12get it right?
37:13Who better to
37:14analyze ESPN?
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