Um- P.S. America loves a winner. You have a point - Lance Armstrong wins all those Tour de Frances, but people follow it and the media goes nuts because he is jugging babies and swallowing soymilk while riding his bike, not because he won 7 Tours in a row.
Holy crap. Learn something new every day. 6/24/53 SAA @ NOR 3:2 in Oslo 8/19/53 GER @ NOR 1:1 in Oslo 10/11/53 SAA @ GER 0:3 in Stuttgart 11/8/53 NOR @ SAA 0:0 in Saarbrucken 11/22/53 NOR @ GER 1:5 in Hamburg 3/28/54 GER @ SAA 3:1 in Saarbrucken GER 3-0-1 7 SAA 1-2-1 3 NOR 0-2-2 2 If they had won that final qualifier, they would've gone to the World Cup Finals instead of West Germany - who won it all in one of the great upsets of all time, ending the magical unbeaten streak of Hungary in the final. Wow, just wow. EDIT: 1x2 + 1 = 3