Reply #25: He watched too many "come from behind" sports movies. [View All]

You know the ones.

The boxer has his jaw smashed, 4 ribs broken, his nose is up around his eybrows, both eyes closed, and he looks like the star of "Passion of the Christ", but he remembers his old granpa made him promise to be the Champeen just before they hung him, and is so inspired by the memory that he gets up off the canvas and with a mighty blow from his broken hand, floors the 6'9", 483lb, sneering challenger.

Or, the one where it's the bottom of the ninth, the Home Team is behind 412-0 and the Hero, who has been benched because he's never played baseball, is blind, has only one arm, and is only 8 years old, is sent in to bat, because the rest of the team has given up and are now in Clancey's Bar & Grill dead drunk. He smacks a record breaking 800 yard homerun, and then beats his own record 412 times, with the final home run reaching the city limits 3 miles away.

It is reported that a maligned general named Custer was fond of similar stories.