The 2004 movie, "Miracle" did a good job recreating that magic moment, IMHO.
I remember the rivalry between the Soviets during the cold war was incredible!
I remember finding out the score before they showed the game. Remember, it wasn’t even shown live.
That's one of my favorite movies of all time. "Again!"
I remember that day so well — and I don’t even like sports. But this was about America!
I was living in Alaska at the time and we didn’t have live TV for these things. Tapes were flown up by plane from Seattle so what we saw was always 3-4 hours behind.
While it was happening, I was talking to my sister in Syracuse and didn’t want to know the ending so I could be surprised when I could watch it. I kept telling her, “Don’t tell me!” She told me. It was great.
I was there. It was awesome.
There were few sports things I got to watch with my dad due to school day bed times - I remember him getting in trouble for letting me stay up for Monday Night Football at least once and an Ali fight another time. I was 12 and I got to watch this. If he knew the results before he didn’t let on. It was fantastic.
My daughter started hockey as a H.S. freshman 3 years ago with 9 other freshmen - they were doing everything they could to save the team. Had their best season in 8 years this year. “Miracle” is her favorite move.
I remember that game. I was just a 10 year old kid, from Minnesota and seeing those amateur athletes beat a professional Red Army team was absolutely the greatest moment in ALL sports. Its a shame that professional players are allowed to participate in the Olympics
I tell my daughter that the Olympics were more fun to watch when we had the Evil Empire to root against.