Today the New York Times, on its front page no less, compares Missouri's being #1 in college football polls to Albania winning the World Cup.
Oh, I think that's the media ref throwing a flag for unnecessary belittling!
The appropriate analogy would have been Ecuador winning the World Cup. You can't really see them winning it all, but you can see them getting to the final tournament at least. From that point its improbable but not impossible.
Albania winning the World Cup would be more like Akron winning the BCS Bowl, or the Blues winning a Stanley Cup. Theoretically possible...but in the world we actually lnhabit simple nonsense.
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