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Shoots back
Another Olympics, another disappointment for Team U.S.A.
So I will just have to once again recall that wonderful evening in 1980, when my family gathered to witness what would become known as the Miracle on Ice.
I'm not even a real big hockey fan. I tried getting into it after that game, but even the Gold Medal game with 1980 Team U.S.A. couldn't live up to that most thrilling game of any kind I have ever seen.
Maybe it was the special night with family.
Maybe it was being witness to the guys in the white hats winning one of the biggest battles of the Cold War.
Maybe it was because the first time only happens once.
Probably it was all those things and more.
Nowadays, we have the "dream teams" of players hand picked from professional teams from around the world. But for that one night, a bunch of young college men, plucked from various schools from across the midwest and northeast, lived the dream and were better than what was billed as the greatest team on the planet.
Makes me misty eyed again just thinking about it and putting together this post.
If you were fortunate enough to see it, how do you remember this historic event?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpTj_Z9v-c]Miracle - Coach Brooks Addresses Team Pre Game - YouTube[/ame]
The game winner. We went bananas!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX5hiem8YBU]Mike Eruzione USA Game Winner - YouTube[/ame]
The countdown. You could have sworn it was New Year's Even in Times Square in our living room.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYscemhnf88]Final Minute of the "Miracle on Ice" - YouTube[/ame]
After winning the gold, goalie Jim Craig looks for his father in the stands. His mother had died of bone cancer just a year earlier.
The Gold Medal ceremony. For a few days, it was cool for everyone to be a patriot.
So I will just have to once again recall that wonderful evening in 1980, when my family gathered to witness what would become known as the Miracle on Ice.
I'm not even a real big hockey fan. I tried getting into it after that game, but even the Gold Medal game with 1980 Team U.S.A. couldn't live up to that most thrilling game of any kind I have ever seen.
Maybe it was the special night with family.
Maybe it was being witness to the guys in the white hats winning one of the biggest battles of the Cold War.
Maybe it was because the first time only happens once.
Probably it was all those things and more.
Nowadays, we have the "dream teams" of players hand picked from professional teams from around the world. But for that one night, a bunch of young college men, plucked from various schools from across the midwest and northeast, lived the dream and were better than what was billed as the greatest team on the planet.
Makes me misty eyed again just thinking about it and putting together this post.
If you were fortunate enough to see it, how do you remember this historic event?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpTj_Z9v-c]Miracle - Coach Brooks Addresses Team Pre Game - YouTube[/ame]
The game winner. We went bananas!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX5hiem8YBU]Mike Eruzione USA Game Winner - YouTube[/ame]
The countdown. You could have sworn it was New Year's Even in Times Square in our living room.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYscemhnf88]Final Minute of the "Miracle on Ice" - YouTube[/ame]
After winning the gold, goalie Jim Craig looks for his father in the stands. His mother had died of bone cancer just a year earlier.
The Gold Medal ceremony. For a few days, it was cool for everyone to be a patriot.
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