Fifty years ago, the rugby team of the Portsmouth Grammar School in Hampshire, UK posed for a photo. They went their separate ways, but all sixteen members survived the years and returned to update their picture. The odds were astronomical:
The odds of all of the original first team being alive to meet for the milestone anniversary was worked out at 256,000 to one. [...]
The old boys met the school's current first 15 rugby team and watch them play against Churchers College, from Petersfield, Hants.
In a bid to create a legacy and encourage current teams to stay in touch, the 1962 team presented the current team with a trophy - a rugby ball which they had all signed.
Link | Photo: Portsmouth Grammar School Archive/Solent News
Add in the fact that it actually didn't rain that day for once and it raises the odds to an even 1 : 1,000,000
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How about most of them still have their fancy hats?
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How truly unremarkable! Astronomical? Hardly.
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What's funny is they all ended up looking exactly the same.
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Since they are all around 67 or 68 years old and the average UK male lives to the age of 78, where do these odds of 250,000-1 come from? Also take into account that children from better financial backgrounds tend to live longer too - the school is an expensive private school. And they played rugby, so that would set them on a healthier path in life anyway. Lastly, we don't get to hear if any other school teams have similarly survived - since there are nowhere near 250,000 schools in the UK, is it really so rare?
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