There was little in the first half to encourage Wales, after the heights of victory in Dublin a week earlier.
There they endured another interminable flogging of attention, this time shared shoulder-to-shoulder with the outright victor, David Cameron, whose expression of pathos and connection to a bigger, past tragedy was all the more sincere when experienced from the exultant heights of victory. .
But given that halftime shows historically just feature bands playing medleys of their most popular songs, along with the fact that Maroon 5 has never written anything that reaches the epic heights of "Sweet Victory" over the course of the band's entire career, maybe the petition will inspire Adam Levine to belt out a few lines of the song in Hillenburg's honor.
That spirit reached its height during the celebration of victory over Japan in August 1945, when the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured a sailor and a nurse in an innocently wanton embrace in the middle of Broadway.
At the height of the Nazi victories, Count Helmuth James von Moltke invited about two dozen foes of Nazism, many of them aristocrats like himself, to imagine a new, better postwar Germany.
The reign of Suleyman the Magnificent (1520-66) was the golden age of the Ottomans, when they achieved the height of their military victories and artistic endeavors.
He is scathing about the ECB's inability to capitalise on cricket's popularity at the height of the 2005 Ashes victory, implicitly criticising the decision to sell exclusive rights to Sky and explicitly criticising the cosy relationship between the broadcaster and the governing body.
Chang's missed opportunity came in the final in 1996, at the height of his career, when a victory over Pete Sampras would have meant a No. 1 ranking.
Even without him, though, Bayern were able to continue their upward trend to reach the dizzy heights of the 7-0 victory.
For every victory in the height of the civil rights movement there were setbacks, there were defeats," Obama said.
Sampson's analysis included another clip of a game-winning home run that preserved a Fernando Valenzuela victory during the height of Fernandomania.
