36 years ago today, we all believed in miracles

[micropolitan guy]

 

[poindexter]

Did you miss the 10, 20, 25, 30 and 35 year anniversaries of this event?

 

[DanOregon]

Last greatest sporting event not aired live.

 

[poindexter]

With all due respect to my esteemed sj.com members, but I swear some of you are like Rainman. We go over the same things year after year.

Judge Wapner at 5:00.

 

[micropolitan guy]

And every time you watch it you remember why sports fans of my generation always remember 2/22/80. The greatest upset in sports history. Some things are worth revisiting every single year.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

What percentage of "fans" think this won gold and don't realize there was another game.

 

[LongTimeListener]

With all due respect to my esteemed sj.com members, but I swear some of you are like Rainman. We go over the same things year after year.

Judge Wapner at 5:00.

It's all been downhill since Larry Bird's back went out.

 

[Sea Bass]

My favourite Herb Brooks quote:

"You guys are playing worse and worse every day, and right now you're playing like it's next Tuesday."

 

[old_tony]

I don't know how many times I've watched that, but watching it just now gave me goosebumps again. There just aren't many clips that can keep doing that after hundreds of times.

I still remember it all. I had driven 50-some miles to a college town (one that I would be attending in the fall) to visit a high school flame. Heard the result in the dorm hallway and had to go find a good TV to watch the telecast that was still to come.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Last greatest sporting event not aired live.

Except for the Olympics, which are routinely broadcast on tape-delay.

CBC carried the US-USSR game live so those of us with access to Canadian channels saw it in real time.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I don't know how many times I've watched that, but watching it just now gave me goosebumps again. There just aren't many clips that can keep doing that after hundreds of times.

I still remember it all. I had driven 50-some miles to a college town (one that I would be attending in the fall) to visit a high school flame. Heard the result in the dorm hallway and had to go find a good TV to watch the telecast that was still to come.

How did your old high school flame feel about you traveling 50-some miles to watch a hockey game instead of seeing her?

 

[MileHigh]

Greatest moment in U.S. sports history that will never be surpassed, even if the Cubs somehow win the World Series.

And a testament to how great Al Michaels is.

And, yes, "great" Olympic moments are always on delay here thanks to Nothing But Commercials.

 

[BTExpress]

Last greatest sporting event not aired live.

Rookie Magic Johnson's 42-point, 15-rebound, 7-assist game to win the NBA title did not air live 3 months later.

 

[old_tony]

How did your old high school flame feel about you traveling 50-some miles to watch a hockey game instead of seeing her?

Was as much her idea as mine. It was a Friday night. We had plenty of time.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Was as much her idea as mine. It was a Friday night. We had plenty of time.

Sounds like she was a keeper.

 

[Armchair_QB]

And every time you watch it you remember why sports fans of my generation always remember 2/22/80. The greatest upset in sports history. Some things are worth revisiting every single year.

Yep. That never gets old.

 

[Pilot]

I made my first trip to Lake Placid this summer and it was a really neat experience. My father in law was at the gold medal game and several members of his family were at the Miracle on Ice game, so it was neat to get their first-hand accounts of everything. Father in law claims he was the first (or one of the very first) people to jump onto the ice after the gold medal game.

We, of course, walked around the facility and kind of lucked into a tour of the U.S. and Soviet locker rooms. A janitor came up and started chatting us up — came off a bit weird a first, but proved very cool — and let us in and unlocked everything.

Thanks to all the family history, my wife's fairly obsessed with the Disney movie.

 

[Huggy]

Huggy Jr. loves "Miracle", has read loads about that team and that game and spoke to a guy I know who was at the game as a photographer for Canadian Press. We have told him we will hit Lake Placid when we go to Cooperstown or if we head to Montreal this summer.

 

[Starman]

It's been much commented on other threads, but "Miracle" is pretty universally ranked the best and most accurate Disney sports movie ever.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

The 30 for 30 about the Russian hockey team that came out last year was fantastic, even though you're reading subtitles as much as you're watching.