Watch the incredibly dumb goal that could make Middlesbrough FC over £100 million

What you see above was an extremely important goal (at the 1:44 mark, if it doesn’t jump there). Middlesbrough’s Adam Forshaw scored in the 94th minute against Reading to break a 1-1 tie and win the match. These teams play at the Championship level of English football -- the second tier -- and at the end of their season, the top two teams in their tier will be promoted to the uppermost Premier League, a designation that comes with upward of £100 million in extra income (perhaps much more) from TV deals, ticket sales and so forth. By scoring this goal and winning, Middlesbrough moved into a two-point lead for first place in the Championship with just a few games left. The third-place team, which will have to win a playoff to earn promotion, is only four points behind them.

So this is like a $150 million dollar goal.

THIS.

I would compare this to the Three Stooges if there weren’t like nine stooges involved in this play. The ball is kicked toward the far post off a corner, gets headed backward, then gets totally whiffed as a defender pokes it away:

The ball trickles out to a free scorer ... who mishits it directly off a distant teammate’s face:

That accidental header doinks off a defender’s leg, and finally Middlesbrough cashes in on this series of mostly accidental opportunities.

THAT could dictate the extremely lucrative shifts of entire national leagues. Sports are good.