Wild Card (sports)
A wild card is, in general, a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.
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Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or card:
“In no part of the Seventeenth Century could the French be said to have had a foothold in Canada; they held only by the fur of the wild animals which they were exterminating.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I must save this government if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)