It’s one of the most stolidly adhered-to rules in fiction: The ragtag underdog team that everyone expects to lose will totally win. We’ve seen it with the Bad News Bears, The Mighty Ducks and a scrappy young fighter named Balboa, and we’ll likely see it again and again. When it comes to imaginary competition, we truly want to believe that sufficient heart will win the day over money, training or superior strategy, even if it seems counterintuitive, with seemingly the only subversion being Charlie Brown’s baseball team. Whether you love the idea or hate it, you have to agree Kevin James winning an MMA fight in ‘Here Comes The Boom’ was ridiculously, leading to today’s David-And-Goliath query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) would vote for Daniel LaRusso, had he not broken the clearly stated “No Face Contact” rules of the tournament with his crane kick, asking: Which underdog story is the best of them all?
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First Rocky movie. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like it and even people who claim they don’t secretly do.
Hoosiers. A bunch of farmer’s sons from no-where-ville start firing on all pistons win the state championship. One of my favorites.
That time the Cleveland Indians won the division from the Yankees, despite having a rag-tag team of misfits, including Willie Hayes, Ricky Vaughn, Pedro Cerrano and Roger Dorn, amongst other.