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The first two rounds of the NCAA men's basketball tournament came and went last week with the usual flurry of buzzer-beating upsets Cheap Lebron James Soldier Shoes , tearful losses and busted brackets.


One item that basically flew under the radar was guarantee made by Eastern Washington coach Jim Hayford, who, before his team's first-round game vs. Georgetown, told CBS Sports' Jim Rome, "We're going to win …"


Apparently, Georgetown didn't get the memo Cheap Lebron James Shoes Online , beating Eastern Washington 84-74. After the game, Georgetown coach John Thompson III made a point of referring to several sports guarantees from the late 20th century, when such things were socially significant.


During the 1960s, Muhammad Ali often guaranteed not only victories, but also specific rounds in which they would occur. Ali's verbal braggadocio polarizing Americans whose country was also roiling with racial and political conflict.


In 1969, quarterback Joe Namath guaranteed a gaggle of poolside reporters that his New York Jets would defeat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. The Jets' subsequent win paved the way for the AFL-NFL merger Cheap Lebron James Shoes Wholesale , and 45 years later, the league sits unchallenged atop the American sports landscape.


Even NBA legend Larry Bird's locker-room guarantee that he was going to win the 1988 three-point shooting contest was important in its own way. Bird's bravado played a huge role in his rivalry with Magic Johnson, a rivalry that helped jolt the league out of a decade-long malaise and into prime time.


In today's media-saturated society, athletes' words carry less weight than Ali's, Namath's or Bird's. Virtually anyone can have a Twitter account, where offensive or controversial tweets generally enjoy 15 seconds of fame before being shoved out of the public's increasingly short attention span by another "shocking" comment.


None of this is meant to blame Hayford. He's not the first coach to guarantee victory in an attempt to instill confidence in his team Cheap Lebron James Shoes 2019 , and he won't be the last. Tomorrow, next