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"The Great Escape" blasting out of every car in the high-school lot in the summer of 2007, and a Taylor Swift duet two years later. Boys Like Girls were the MySpace-era pop-punk band that did it the MySpace way — demos uploaded from Andover, Massachusetts, a record deal within months, and a debut that sold under 1,500 copies its first week before going gold.
A janitor at MIT solves the blackboard problem, and two unknown actors from Cambridge win an Oscar for writing it. Robin Williams on a park bench, Elliott Smith on the soundtrack, and "It's not your fault."
A sixth-round quarterback who started the year as a backup, a coach who asked to introduce his team all at once, and three Lombardi Trophies in four years. Every AFC fan's villain for two decades pulled the biggest Super Bowl upset since Super Bowl III.