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unusual facts about The Final Game


The Final Game

Some of the scenes were shot on 1 March 1998 in the Bundesliga match Hertha BSC Berlin against Hansa Rostock.



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1951 Brooklyn Dodgers season

Bobby Thomson's dramatic ninth-inning home run off Dodger reliever Ralph Branca in the final game won the pennant for the Giants and was immortalized as the Shot Heard 'Round the World.

1958 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp, won the national title with an 84-72 victory in the final game over Seattle, coached by John Castellani.

1971 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

UCLA, coached by John Wooden, won the national title with a 68-62 victory in the final game over Villanova, coached by Jack Kraft.

2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl

MSU only earned bowl eligibility by defeating Minnesota in the final game of the season.

Alnwick RFC

They clinched promotion by finishing as champions of Durham & Northumberland 1 with a 10–28 victory against Medicals RFC in the final game of the season.

Alphonso Ford

Ford signed the deal and the results were immediate: he led the Reds to a Greek Cup trophy by having 20 points, 7 assists and 3 rebounds in the semifinal against Bodiroga's Panathinaikos and 24 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists in the final game to defeat Maroussi 66–74.

Andy Moog

In the final game of the series Moog gave up the overtime goal to the Sabres' Brad May.

Anthony Floch

He held his place for the final game of the tournament against Wales in Cardiff where the hosts were victorious and secured their second Grand Slam in four seasons.

Ben Sankey

He dressed for 16 games and did not see any playing time until the final game of the season against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Best Nine Award

Until 2004, the winning players of the award were announced two days after the final game of the Japan Series; from 2005 onwards, the winners have been announced at the Professional Baseball Convention, the NPB's annual awards ceremony.

Blagoy Georgiev

After scoring his 17th league goal in the final game of the 2003–04 season, a 2–0 win against Naftex Burgas, he ended the campaign in joint second place with Stoyko Sakaliev in the race for the Bulgarian A PFG golden boot.

Brenda Frese

In the final game, Maryland's Kristi Toliver tied the game with a jump shot over center Alison Bales with six seconds left, forcing Duke into overtime, and eventually led Maryland to a win by a score of 78-75.

Cathy Rush

In 1975, they again earned a spot in the national tournament, and reached the final game against Delta State, coached by Margaret Wade and featuring one of the best players in basketball history Lusia Harris.

Charlie Moore

Moore hit .462 in the 1982 ALCS and made an important defensive play in the final game, throwing out Reggie Jackson at third base from right field.

Chris Conte

On December 29, 2013, in the final game of the Bears regular season against the Green Bay Packers with a playoff berth on the line, Conte did not get a pre-snap defensive "check" out of zone coverage and into a blitz with man coverage which allowed a wide receiver Randall Cobb to score the go-ahead and eventual winning touchdown.

Crystal Tools

Back then, the artists asked programmer Taku Murata for a fast way to check how their work would look in the final game.

Daniel Pudil

On the final game of the season, Pudil scored in a 2-2 draw against Baumit Jablonec.

Detroit Junior Red Wings

During that game vs. Brandon, there was an online report that said that Milan Kostolny scored the winning goal, but in fact after video research, the goal was scored by Matthew Ball, off of Wade Redden's foot Detroit then started the final game vs Kamloops shorthanded, playing without Shayne McCosh (broken wrist) and Bryan Berard, trying to play with a bad charley horse.

East York Lyndhursts

This was the Soviet Union's first entry in the World Championship and the Lyndhursts lost the final game to them.

Endy Chávez

On September 28, the final day of the 2008 regular season and the final game at Shea Stadium, the Mets played the Florida Marlins.

Frank Solich

After winning the final game of the regular season, Solich was fired by new athletic director Steve Pederson.

Gelson Fernandes

In the final game of the league 2006–07 season, Fernandes received a second bookable offense on a 90th minutes after receiving a yellow card in a first half which turns out to be Fernandes last appearance for Sion as Sion won 3–0 against St. Gallen.

Geoffrey Paillet

Paillet moved to the Lyon Hockey Club in 2007 where he was part of the vice-champion squad that lost to Nice in the final game of the playoff series.

Guillem Bauzà

On 26 April 2008, he scored his first hat-trick for the Swans as they beat Leyton Orient 4-1 in the final game of the season.

Jay Barker

In the final game of the 1992 season, Barker led the Crimson Tide to a National Championship by defeating the #1 Miami Hurricanes 34–13 in the 1993 Sugar Bowl.

Jim Weir

He ruptured his Achilles tendon during the final game of the 1997/98 season, which ruled him out of most of the following season.

Joe Lutz

Lutz became the head coach of the Southern Illinois University baseball team, leading the Salukis to the 1968 College World Series, in which they lost the final game 4-3 in nine innings to the University of Southern California Trojans, after finishing the regular season with a 34-12 record.

Johnny Fullam

His last League of Ireland game was the final game of the 1979–80 League of Ireland season at St Mel's Park when Limerick United won the league.

Josh Bourke

He missed the final game of the 2007 regular season and the playoffs due to a knee injury but signed an extension on his contract on January 7, 2008.

Justin Pogge

He helped Canada to the final game, where they lost to HC Davos 3–2.

Kübra Öztürk

She won the Turkish Chess Championship women's title in Kemer, Antalya on January 29- February, 2012 defeating title-defender Betül Cemre Yıldız in the final game.

Luigison V. Doran

In the 2005/2006 season, he scored the only goal in the final game against Centro Social Deportivo Barber, winning the Curaçao League for his team.

Marek Nikl

He played in all 22 games after his arrival in Franconia but could not prevent the side going down despite scoring his first goal for the Club in the final game of the season.

Marie Mansfield

Rockford was the winner in Game 1 by a 9–2 score, but Earlene Risinger pitched a 2–0 shutout to lead the Chicks in Game 2, while Dorothy Mueller held off the Peaches on eight hits in the final game, to send Grand Rapids into the finals.

Milt Stock

His tenure as third-base coach in Brooklyn ended in controversy when Stock was blamed for sending home runner Cal Abrams with the potential winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning of the final game of the 1950 season.

Resting the starters

The 2011 Green Bay Packers rested their starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers on the final game of the regular season, as the Packers had already secured the #1 seed in the NFC playoffs.

Roch Karaa

He made his debut for the club on the final game of the 1984–85 season against Torquay United, becoming the first Tunisian to play in the English Football League.

Roger Peters

Peters started the season at outside left but had to share the left wing duties with Jantzen Derrick and made only 13 appearances scoring his first goal in the final game of the season on 28 April 1962 in a 2-2 draw v Crystal Palace.

Shannon Szabados

She was a member of the 2009–10 Hockey Canada national women's team which won the gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics and earned two shutouts, including the final game against the United States women's national ice hockey team.