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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
My argument?
That winning titles in sports is more memorable and important than even rare and cool and notable regular season accomplishments.
The conversation WAS about weighing which was more memorable/important - an undefeated regular season that doesn't end with a Super Bowl win, or a 5-loss regular season that does end with a Super Bowl win. That's the context my original comment dropped into.
Unless you're a ku fan. As several of them (you?) have shown in this thread. What's more impressive on the national landscape: North Carolina winning 3 national titles (and 9 conference titles, with a long "streak" of 3 years) since Williams and Self got there? Or kansas winning 1 but pulling off the 14* year title streak?
Which baseball team is considered to have been better this century - the Braves with all their division titles and long division title streak, or the Giants with their World Series wins?
End point: Focus on the winning the Super Bowl. If they can add some cool trivia items along the way, awesome. But regular season accomplishments are distantly secondary to postseason ones.
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I'd say that Roy's 3 titles are more impressive, but I don't consider a lone title to be a bigger achievement.
This seems to keep morphing into different arguments. If you want to say it's more memorable to win one natty vs 14 straight Big 12 titles, that's a matter of personal opinion. But I'm not sure how you can say it's a more impressive feat to win six games in one postseason than to dominate one of the top leagues for 14 years straight. Come on.
Again...national analysts have called that streak one of the greatest achievements in sports history. No one has said that winning one single title is one of the greatest achievements in sports history.
There wasn't another team in the country who was consistently good enough during those years to have matched what they did. Even Duke had a few down years during that run. It's just silly to me to downplay something that no other program could have achieved.
But enough on that.
And yeah, it's lunacy to argue that any season that ends in a loss is better than one that ends with a SB victory.