Nothing is over until it is truly over. Ask any sports fan and chances are, they will instantly recall a time their favorite team turned things around when it seemed impossible.

However, they probably also remember moments of painful regret after the same athletes lost what was supposed to be a sure win.

The subreddit r/PrematureCelebration is full of examples that prove one simple rule: keep going until the final whistle. It applies to other areas of life as well!

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#4 Microsoft Employees Holding A Funeral For The iPhone Following The “Success” Of Their Windows Phone

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#18 People Magazine Prematurely Celebrates Betty White’s 100th Birthday

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#19 9 Years Ago Today

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#20 No More Delays! Ok Maybe One More

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#21 Tattoo Soon

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#22 So Much For Sweden’s First Female Prime Minister

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#23 Farewell With Covid19 In Czech Republic On July 30th. One Of The Country With The Most Cases Per 1m Nowadays

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#24 Not Today

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#26 We Are Going To Win …. Never Mind, Youngsters

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#27 Well

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#28 Perhaps Declaring Victory With Only 30% Of The Votes Counted Isn’t Such A Great Idea

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#29 Statements Don’t Change Facts – Debate Or Not

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#30 Ray Chung Spent The Most In The Wellington Mayoral Campaign And Was So Confident Initially He Pre-Ordered A $90,000 Rolex Watch

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#31 Friends Instagram Story As A Ravens Fan

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#32 Premature By Many Years

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#33 British Humour, Even In France Mid-Ww1

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#34 Prematurely Celebrating A Legend’s Anniversary Of Passing

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#35 Commitment

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#37 This Whole Operation Is Noting But Premature Celebration

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#38 Close But No Cigar

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#39 A Premature Celebration

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#40 The Newspapers Were Hoping

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#41 Oh

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#42 Greatest Tweet Of All Time

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#43 So Close

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#44 You Don’t Let Tom Brady Have The Ball Back With Time On The Clock

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#45 Saw This One Coming

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#46 Celebrating A Premature Celebration Is An Other Premature Celebration

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#47 Rudy Giuliani’s Tweet Bragging About Evading Service Of His Arizona Indictment. He Was Served 30 Minutes Later

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#48 Hallelujah

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#49 He Deleted The Tweet

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#50 Cue Reggie Miller Choke

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#51 Don’t Let This Be For Nothing! Celtics In 7 Baybee

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