Euphoric players cavorting in disbelief, long-suffering fans crumpling to their knees in tears, commentators’ voices cracking at the drama of it all.There was no doubt which sports event delivered the biggest emotional punch last weekend, but forget soccer, Formula 1, baseball and the Commonwealth Games: the real drama was to be found at Dublin’s Croke Park, where more than 80,000 fans turned out for the All-Ireland Senior Football final.For the uninitiated, Gaelic football is a hybrid of soccer, rugby and basketball, governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The All-Ireland title has been contested since 1887, and now involves all 32 counties on the island of Ireland plus teams drawn from London and New York.This year, the final was between Kerry, historically the sport’s most successful side, and Mayo, one of Ireland’s smaller counties and, in football terms, the most luckless. And incredibly, the underdog won.Mayo had gone 75 years without winning an All-Ireland Championship — as long as Arsenal’s 22 years without a Premier League title and the New York Knicks’ 53 years without an NBA championship combined — and reached 11 finals without taking the title, the longest run in the competition’s history.