The game against the Soviets was played earlier in the day. That night on the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite said that something happened at the Olympics that was very special, but he would not say anything about it. He said to watch the taped game of the Olympics on ABC tonight.
So, I watched the taped game on ABC. The game was in the third period, getting close to the 11 News. During a station break, one of the local anchors got on and blurted out that the United States had just beaten the Russians. I was so pissed.
I watched it as it developed in Germany at an ice rink where the local team played. They had a big screen TV set up and when the USA won the Germans were ecstatic. Couldn’t have been prouder than right then watching the world’s or at ;east the German’s reaction. Later ran into the coach in a NY elevator and told him the story. He was pleased and said he often got good reactions like mine.