If You Love Underdogs, Then It's Time To Celebrate LEICESTER CITY, EPL Champions!

[HuckleB]

Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35988673

"Leicester started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title after almost being relegated last season.

But they have lost just three league games in what has been described as a "fairytale" and the "most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport".

Closest challengers Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and last year's champions Chelsea, have all failed to match the Foxes' consistency across the season.

"In terms of domestic football, Leicester City winning the Premier League is the greatest achievement ever and I think it will never be surpassed," former Leicester midfielder Robbie Savage told BBC Sport.

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Nothing like this has happened in a US league. This is incredible.

Yes, a good distraction is worthy, now and then.

[KamaAina]

1. Or in this case, underfoxes.

[HuckleB]

4. Nicely done.

[Ron Obvious]

2. Nothing like this COULD happen in the US leagues...

Since they are all closed cartels w/o promotion and relegation, and with artificial parity and failure being rewarded with high draft choices.

I think that's why I've found it so difficult to explain how big and how wonderful this is. The whole squad was assembled for less than the cost of what a big club might gamble on a single player who might or might not work out.

Exactly right, Huck -- this is a victory for underdogs everywhere. From now on, every team in the league will think if it can happen to Leicester, why couldn't it happen for them?

I'm not trying to go for hyperbole here, but this win could be the best thing to ever happen to a sport that was threatening to become a closed shop of oligarch playthings.

[malaise]

13. This is truly amazing

the classic underdog victory for the entire season - that's the best part.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. I think it is a huge deal, because the Premier League is worse....

....than the US sports leagues as far as keeping the little guy down.

[sarisataka]

3. Fox fans celebrate- you earned it

[gratuitous]

5. Since you're too late to jump on the Timbers bandwagon

Then, yeah, Leicester City is a good underdog.

[HuckleB]

6. Uh, well...

I've spent time in the TA since 2005, and sat in the library before that. TA STH since 2010.

[3catwoman3]

7. NPR made mention, this morning, that the outcome of today's...

...Tottenham/Chelsea match might end up deciding things for Leicester. To hear English Premier League soccer discussed, even passingly, on an American radio station means things are coming along!!!

[HuckleB]

8. More and more EPL and Bundesliga games are played on regular NBC and Fox channels each year.

[malaise]

9. An amazing season

Still I was rooting for Spurs

[HuckleB]

10. In a typical year, I would have been, too, against the other top teams.

Spurs are still a rather monied team, however. It's funny how all the people I know who won't root for the big five money teams (MU, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool) all went to Tottenham, because it wasn't one of them, but it was a still with big resources.

Boing! Boing!

[malaise]

11. The only ground in England where I watched live football

was White Hart Lane because my cousins live nearby. Spurs is 'medium' money - not big five money.
Liverpool was a slave port - could never root for them. Of the others I like Man U from way back with George Best all the way to Dwight Yorke

[HuckleB]

12. Not any more. No other team is close besides the big five.

And, right now, they may have a higher salary than some of those.

ManU is like the Yankees. Ain't going there.

[HuckleB]

14. .

[burrowowl]

15. Far out!

Go Foxes!

[Skittles]

16. I don't care for sports but can appreciate the achievement anyways

[HuckleB]

18. +1,000,000 ... 000