I’m not a soccer fan. I don’t enjoy watching 90-plus minutes of running around with only a shot here and there, but keeping up with Leicester City (pronounced LESS-ter, for some odd reason) and their road to the Premier League championship has been fun. The team had 5,000-1 odds to win it all going into the season, and right now English bookies are struggling to pay out over 25 million pounds of winnings. The odds were better for the Loch Ness Monster to be found (bookies were offering about 500-1). But the real credit for the victory goes to the dead guy.

The body of King Richard III of England, immortalized in William Shakespeare’s play named after him, was missing ever since he was killed in battle in 1485. Hastily buried by his few remaining friends so his body would not be desecrated, it was discovered by scientists under a Leicester parking lot in late 2012. Odds of finding the royal corpse? The experts had put it at 18-1 for the foreseeable future. And right when the body was pulled out from under a reserved parking spot after just months of looking, Leicester City FC started to look good again.

A lifelong Leicester fan, Leigh Herbert, a British plumber, put a slightly tipsy bet of five pounds on the team. Now he has thousands. Placing a bet that had the same odds as Elvis Presley being found alive didn’t discourage him. “If I’d have spent five pounds trying to find as much excitement, I couldn’t have got it,” Herbert said in an interview the BBC.

But the truly amazing thing here isn’t just the winners, it’s the story. Just look at it from an American football fan’s perspective. Imagine the Cleveland Browns winning the Super Bowl. Now, this is a team that was 3-13 last year, hasn’t been in the playoffs since 2002, and last won a championship in 1964. Their odds currently are 150-1.

What I’m really excited for here is the movie. I can see actors vying to play Leicester coach Claudio Ranieri, an old Italian soccer coach, viewed as kind of a has-been, and turn the team around in just over a year. Imagine half Hoosiers, half Miracle, with maybe a tiny bit of Cool Runnings sprinkled in. It could be amazing.

But in all honesty, Leicester City’s victory reminds us something important about life in general. There is nothing that is truly impossible. Improbable, yes, but impossible, no. And if someone works hard enough, wants it enough and puts himself or herself out on the line, they might just succeed.

So, maybe, Obama will play professional cricket, Kim Kardashian will be elected president in 2020 and yetis will be scientifically discovered. Because those are the other 5,000-1 odds English bookies are offering. I’ll take them.