Another week, another three points. It has become something of a habit for Leicester City throughout the course of the Premier League season. To the point that they are now sitting atop the league with a comfortable cushion with only three games remaining (having said that, if they go on to not win the title I’ll feel terrible and gladly accept tomatoes to the face).
But for all the praise and recognition they are receiving, it still feels like they are being underappreciated. Maybe it's because the improbability of it all hasn’t been properly portrayed, or maybe it's because people are busy caking hot dogs in mustard. Either way, it’s a situation that warrants some perspective. So imagine this:
There’s a man — we’ll call him Steve. On this day, Wednesday, April 27, 2016, Steve wakes up to the sound of a yelping puppy. The puppy is nine weeks old and not at all potty trained. Fortunately for Steve, the puppy has managed to avoid any mishaps throughout the night and Steve takes him, somewhat begrudgingly, to do his business.
When he returns to the room Steve throws on his workday attire: khakis, a red button up shirt with multicolored polka dots and a Snoopy tie, grabs a biscuit and heads off to work. It's a relatively normal Tuesday in the life of many people around the world, right? The only thing is, Steve is on a massive space station carrying some two million people, roughly 2,600,000,000 miles from earth orbiting Pluto.
While perhaps a bit far fetched (after all, who pairs polka dots with a Snoopy tie?), this scenario would have been a more conceivable future than the one we’re living in now. You know, the one with Leicester City on the verge of claiming the Premier League title a year removed from escaping league relegation through a minor miracle.
In fact, it’s all so improbable that the above scenario only satisfies 63% of the perspective meter. Further perspective is needed. In order to fill the remaining 37 percent, here are seven other things that would have been more likely at the beginning of the season than Leicester City winning the Premier League:
-Toasters being used as refrigerators.
-Donuts replacing Kale as a superfood.
-Chelsea finishing outside the top four in the Premier League.
-A sandstorm being a viable excuse to miss a day of work, as a resident of Indiana.
-Bricks being used as knives.
-Smartphones becoming a thing of the past due to the resurgence of flip phones (to be fair, the flip phones probably came standard with snake).
-50 Shades of Sharknado becoming a movie. And not only that, but a box office record breaker.
And yet, for however unlikely it may be, this is the reality we’re living in. It’s an amazing thing to be witnessing in modern day football, where big money and big names have a stranglehold on Europe’s top leagues, and deserving of all the praise in the world. So let’s give this Leicester City team the credit and recognition they so justly deserve. After all, it’s more unlikely than a guy wearing a Snoopy tie on a space station orbiting Pluto.
