And you could tell Jim McKay couldn’t contain himself even before they showed the game.
yup...remember it as though it was yesterday...they would not move the game to prime time and I couldn’t contain myself and wait for tape delay..i HAD to call Sportsphone here in NY (no internet or sports talk radio back then) and it was $.50 a pop...”900-976-1313” was the jingle and I heard “this is Howie Carpin for Sportsphone- they did it in 1960 and they just did it again!!! the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union 4-3!!!”
my dad, 23 year vet of the NYPD, was in street enforcement unit at the time and said they made a general announcement over the radio to all patrol cars that the Americans had won the game...