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Muhammad Ali - Beats Foreman to reclaim the title 7 years after being stripped. Now we look at Ali as the greatest, but at the time, very few people gave him much of a chance heading into that fight.
George Foreman - Reclaims the title 20 years after losing it to Ali.
Bo Jackson - After 2+ years away due to hip replacement surgery, hits a homerun on his first pitch back.
Lance Armstrong - Comes back from cancer to win 7 strait Tour de Frances (possibly with a little help).
Seb Coe - Comes back from toxoplasmosis in 1983 (nearly killed him) to win olympic gold and silver in 1984.
Richard Nixon
Salazar at Comrades
Alan Webb
Cher '09 .
lance armstrong, yes. he has to be the winner.
how about carl lewis in atlanta? dude was written off, people were wishing he would just go away, he finished last in the 100 in the OTrials, and winds up winning a gold medal in the LJ.
on a much smaller scale, I'm loving watching somers smith tear it up - a 2:38 NYC marathon at age what - 48? I'm too lazy to look it up, but heck...heck...heck.
Hmmmmmm...have you ever heard of Jesus?
LL Cool J
Like Ali in the jungle,
like Nelson in jail,
like Simpson on the mountain,
with odds like that they were bound to fail.
Like Hannah in the darkness,
like Adam's in the dark,
like Ludwig Van, how I loved that man, oh the guy went deaf and didn't give a fvck, no...
It's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
Ben St. Lawerence
Pee Wee Herman
November 17 1968 Oakland comes back to score 14 on the Jets in the last 65 seconds.
At 7PM with about a minute to go in the game NBC cut away to air the regularly scheduled 7pm show leaving folks unaware of the Raiders comback.
The NBC phones crashed because of the volume of calls to complain and the ensuing uproar became a major media topic
that last for weeks.
This game changed the TV policy of cutting away at X time to switch to a regularly scheduled program and insured we will always see the end of the game.
The other program was Heidi.
A Skeptic wrote:
LL Cool J
Nobody?
"Don't call it a comeback!"
2004 ALCS, Sox down 3-0 to the Yankees. Win the series 4-3.
Game 4 of the 2008 NBA finals. Lakers up 24 in the 3rd quarter. Celtics win by 6.
Kenenisa Bekele
Lazarus NEVER CAME BACK.
They were bought out by the Federated Department Stores and were all renamed Macy's.
Also:
Michael Vick coming back from a prison sentence?
Mario Lemieux coming back from cancer?
and of course, Michael Jordan (his first retirement) after playing minor league baseball for 2 years and he came back and did the three-peat.
I never like Bill Clinton's politics but have to admire his 'never say die' mindset. He was considered toast early in his first term to the point where he famously said 'the President is still relevant.'
Went through a crapload of scandals starting with the Travel Office in the first year of his first term. Then the mind-wrench of the Monica case & impeachment. Still cruised to reelection and wound up with final approval rating in the mid-60's.
Sure wish the guy had not been so misguided in so many ways.
Person One Says: I'm thirsty or basically anything
Person Two Says: Your mom was thirsty...
Best Comeback Ever!