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If you could change any championship outcome, Which would it be?


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I'd have the 72 Dolphins lose to the Redskins in Super Bowl VII. Primary reason, I'm a Skins fan lol. There has been no escape from SB7 highlights. Even though it was over a decade before my time, it sucks seeing footage of my team losing the big game every friggin year. SB7 highlights are shown way more often than those from SB18 (in which the Skins were blown out by the Raiders). Changing this outcome gives my Skins another Super Bowl win, as well as save us all from decades of Mercury Morris' ego lol

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Without question, the 2001 World Series.

 

Aside from that, the last few minutes of the 2011-12 Premier League season. To go from United winning the league, to City (of all teams) winning a shock victory after two goals in three minutes in stoppage time against a freaking 10-man QPR... so painful.

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Far too many to list, but I'll say:

 

Every Yankees World Series win.

Every Patriots Super Bowl win.

Every Steelers SB win.

2004 and 2010 Stanley Cup Final, as well as any Final the Devils won, and any Final the Habs won.

Any LeBron championship.

2007 Ontario Hockey League Final.

 

That's enough for now.

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1. 2000 Western Conference Finals. No collapse in the fourth quarter. Blazers beat LA, and go on to beat Indiana. Then, with a more positive vibe the next year, they don't collapse, and they beat the 76ers for their second straight title (Sabonis retires as a result).

 

The Shaq-Kobe combo probably breaks up three years earlier (with no rings. In 01, it's Kobe that's more than likely on the move), and you probably don't see the Frail Blazer era begin in 2006 with the drafting of Roy and Aldridge (with Oden to follow the next year).

 

2. Have the AFC Playoffs go differently from 1992-94. No Buffalo-Dallas SB's. No San Diego Chargers. Just two straight appearances by the Oilers in 92 and 93, which would leave 94 up in the air because Moon probably stays as a result.

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2 hours ago, Magnus said:

Far too many to list, but I'll say:

 

Every Yankees World Series win.

Every Patriots Super Bowl win.

Every Steelers SB win.

2004 and 2010 Stanley Cup Final, as well as any Final the Devils won, and any Final the Habs won.

Any LeBron championship.

2007 Ontario Hockey League Final.

 

That's enough for now.

 

You just changed 69 championships in North American sports.

 

Nice.

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Aside from any championships that my teams have lost:

  • Rams win Super Bowl XXXVI, sparing us all from the Patriots' reign of arrogance
  • Cardinals win Super Bowl XLIII, capping off their Cinderella run
  • Kings win the 2002 NBA Finals because the WCF is called fairly
  • Butler beats Duke and UConn for back-to-back national titles

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12 minutes ago, Lights Out said:

Aside from any championships that my teams have lost:

  • Rams win Super Bowl XXXVI, sparing us all from the Patriots' reign of arrogance

Changing this one outcome prevents the Patriots from winning Super Bowls 38 and 39? Same core players for the most part. Hard for me to think they'd completely fall off from 2002-2004 had the Rams won instead.

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14 hours ago, the admiral said:

2005 White Sox

 

Still beating that drum, eh?

 

Back to the question, I would've given the Bills the last Super Bowl they played in, not the first. This way, their narrative is how resilient they were to finally break through, rather than a 'dynasty' that should've been. 

 

Honorable mentions worthy of discussion:

 

Super Bowl 40

2013 Stanley Cup

2006 NBA Finals

Super Bowl 34

2009 Stanley Cup

Super Bowl 43

 

Sadly, the teams I like haven't been in many title games or series, so I'd have to try the more altruistic route. 

 

 

 

"And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday." 

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- The '94 NFC Championship game between the Cowboys and 49ers. Cowboys beat the Niners, go on to crush the Chargers and would have been considered one of the greatest teams of all-time with 4 straight Super Bowls. Essentially, the anti-Bills.

 

- 2008 NBA Finals. Lakers beat the Celtics and Kobe would ultimately end up tying Jordan's six 'ships with the beginning of another 3-peat.

 

- 2014 Round of 16 match between the US and Belgium. Chris Wondolowski either puts his shot on target, or cleverly taps the ball to Dempsey on his immediate left and Dempsey scores the game winning goal in the 93rd minute. (The real play still haunts me. Everytime I watch it, I always think that this time the US actually scores in that moment).

Cowboys - Lakers - LAFC - USMNT - LA Rams - LA Kings - NUFC 

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Yeah, that Belgium loss is brutal. Every time I see Wondo score a goal in MLS, I think about the wide open net he had against Belgium. 

 

Eff Chris Wondolowski.

1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said:

and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags

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On June 3, 2016 at 5:45 PM, ninersdd said:

Super Bowls XLIII and XLVII come to mind to me, and of course the 2002 NBA West finals. 2002 World Series sucked, but at least the Giants have won 3 times since 2010. 

 

Yeah, I can't really complain about times my team were in the finals, but the 02 NBA West Finals still bugs me just for what it could've done for Sacramento. I'm not even a Kings fan any longer (that series basically killed the NBA for me until pretty recently), but had that not gone down in that manner, I probably would still be. 

 

 

As it stands now, the Kings haven't been much more than an afterthought since then, and that series nearly cost Sacramento their only pro sports team. 

 

 

 

I used used to wanna change 02, but it kinda made the recent titles more sweet, and it's probably better Bonds didn't end up with a ring as a player. 

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2004 Stanley Cup Finals

Gelinas' phantom goal counts, Flames capture the cup in Calgary as the city and (most of) Canada rejoices.

 

2006 Stanley Cup Finals

Roloson doesn't get injured.  Back to back Stanley Cup victories for Alberta.

 

2011 Stanley Cup Finals

Aaron Rome doesn't deliver the late hit to wake up the Bruins.  Canucks end their 40 year drought as all 3 western Canadian teams win a championship in the span of 7 years.  *sigh*

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1 hour ago, Morgo said:

2004 Stanley Cup Finals

Gelinas' phantom goal counts, Flames capture the cup in Calgary as the city and (most of) Canada rejoices.

 

2006 Stanley Cup Finals

Roloson doesn't get injured.  Back to back Stanley Cup victories for Alberta.

 

2011 Stanley Cup Finals

Aaron Rome doesn't deliver the late hit to wake up the Bruins.  Canucks end their 40 year drought as all 3 western Canadian teams win a championship in the span of 7 years.  *sigh*

I would definitely change the 04' and 06' Finals. Roloson deserved a Cup that year, and I don't really like seeing extremely Non-Traditional franchises win a Cup before Minnesota... (Yeah, Yeah, I know, like that's ever really going to happen, and Tampa is really developing as a more traditional Market Lately... Unlike Carolina...)

 

But I wouldn't change the 2011 Finals, cause I enjoy seeing the Canuckleheads struggle...:P

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It's really hard for me not to go homer with this. I'd be ecstatic if there was some way to go back in time and tip the '97 and '98 Finals scales in the Jazz's favor. Preferably something like 4-3 Jazz in '97 and a 4-0 sweep for the Jazz in '98, haha.

 

But aside from that, I think the two I'd really really want to change would be the 2003 Stanley Cup and Super Bowl XL. The '03 Cup so the Ducks could win their first cup wearing the classic uniforms and not the worst uniforms in hockey history, and Super Bowl XL so the Seahawks could win and not get hysterically screwed over by officiating. Or at the very least, even if they had to lose, change to where it would have been much better officiated and not royally screwed up (Hasselbeck for an illegal block in the back on his own interception return? Yeah, whatevs, refs.)

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