Posted on 02/10/2022 1:42:24 PM PST by DallasBiff
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A rash tag of amateurs from the US, defeat a professional soviet team.
Seems like yesterday……incredible.
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My leftist professor was irritated by their victory to no end. It was great.
The only thing about that was as great as it was, it overshadowed what arguably was the single-greatest performance by an American Olympian, in Eric Heiden winning 5 Golds in Speed Skating.
To put it in perspective, it was like someone winning the 100 meter, 200 meter, 800 meter, 1,500 meter and 10,000 meter races in the same Olympics.
I gave a talk (sermon) using it as the backstory. I had to set up in the time which was critical to the story. Iran Hostages, Russians on the move, horrible economy.
Watch the documentary. I still stand up and cheer when I watch it. Literally brings tears to my eyes, mostly because that America is gone now.
VIDEO: Final Minute of the “Miracle on Ice”
https://rumble.com/viythz-final-minute-of-the-miracle-on-ice.html
Always remembered for the victory against the USSR in those Olympics, that short-handed goal against Finland in the Gold metal game, up only 3-2 at the time, was amazing.
One of the most fascinating ironies of that whole story was the way team captain Mike Eruzione’s perspective changed over time. Some 20+ years afterward, he finally said something that I felt for a long time: He said that as time passed after 1980, he thought the U.S. gold medal win became less and less impressive to him — because it became more clear that the U.S. team was far better than anyone gave them credit for at the time. It was function of the anonymity of hockey players and the low profile of hockey as a U.S. sport back then. But that was a talented group of players, many of whom went on to have solid professional careers.
When I was in Lake Placid, I was very surprised at how small the arena really is.
"I'll take that photo to my grave," he said in an emotional interview for a Miracle on Ice documentary years later.
1980 was probably the last real small-town Olympic games you'll ever see.
1980 was probably the last real small-town Olympic games you'll ever see.
Thanks!!!!
I haven’t been there in years, but a friend told me recently on his last trip to EPCOT at Walt Disney World, he was at the American Pavilion watching the show. I remember when they played the film clips of great moments/people in American history a brief segment of the 1980 USA hokey team celebrating.
My friend told me it’s no longer in the show. If he’s right, your professor has finally won as another great moment is being erased from history.
No surprise there. Kinda like how the exhibit honoring the first generation of astronauts disappeared from DC air & space museum, to be replaced by one celebrating the first minorities in space.
When the Gold medal U.S. hockey team lit the Olympic cauldron at Salt Lake City in 2002. Wow, has it been 20 years already?
the only good news we got that year while I was deployed
that and THANK YOU CANADA!
That may be, but the Russians were still a hockey powerhouse and were expected to win.
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