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35 years ago tonight

zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
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Just reading about the reunion in Lake Placid

I still have this Sports Illustrated - Got it signed by Eruzione in 92 I think

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Watch the last minute here. So THAT'S why Heritage had Herb Brooks' items up for auction last night!
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  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    I still remember watching that game. Great times!!!
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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,738 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Al Michaels claim to fame..


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  • charrigancharrigan Posts: 2,293
    It's amazing to me that Al Michaels called that game and is still going strong. Timeless.
  • BostonAmericansBostonAmericans Posts: 434 ✭✭
    What I love is that the game was shown on tape delay! What an experience - what a game.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey there Mike - thanx for posting.

    Was that a great moment or what? I've had great experiences in watching sports over the last zillion years - this ranks in my top 5.
    Mike
  • HuggyfaceHuggyface Posts: 304 ✭✭
    Still the greatest sports moment of my 48 years of life.
  • bjbrall4bjbrall4 Posts: 277 ✭✭
    Ten years earlier, in 1970, Al Michaels began a four year stint as Cincinnati Reds play-by-play announcer, replaced in 1974 by the current announcer, Marty Brennaman.
  • Probstein123Probstein123 Posts: 1,281 ✭
    Still the greatest sports moment of my 48 years of life.
    ==> ditto
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  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,603 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I'm not mistaken the coach just went to the locker room
    instead of going out on the ice to celebrate with the team.
  • eagles33eagles33 Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭
    I would have only been 1 but if I could pick one sporting event to be at if would be the USSR game. I can only imagine how amazing it was. I don't own many hockey cards but I recently picked up this one to represent this team.
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  • dytch2220dytch2220 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭
    ...I was 3. image
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  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    Wish I was born and old enough to experience that.

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  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What I love is that the game was shown on tape delay! >>

    Did anybody else have someone ruin it for them?
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  • 1966CUDA1966CUDA Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭
    I was in Lake Placid with my brother and mom (I was 16). We had just moved to NY from Nebraska and my mom got took us up there for three days. We couldn't get tickets for the game so we hung out, outside the arena getting "updates" as the game was being played. When the game ended and the fans poured out onto the street it was amazing!! Wish I could have got into the game but just being there was and amazing feeling and something I will never forget.
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  • jrbolesjrboles Posts: 566 ✭✭
    I love Eruzione's quote years later. Something like, "My friends give me a hard time that my goal deflected off the post. They tell me, '2 inches to the left and you're painting bridges.'

    I can watch the HBO Special and the Disney movie weekly. Not so much the 1981 TV movie where Karl Malden played Herb Brooks and Steve Guttenberg was Jim Craig.

    Regardless, one of the greatest stories of my lifetime.
  • BostonAmericansBostonAmericans Posts: 434 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What I love is that the game was shown on tape delay! >>

    Did anybody else have someone ruin it for them? >>



    I want to say I somehow caught the score before it aired, but the whole thing was such a surprise that the game was still thrilling to watch. It was one of those 'you remember EVERYTHING' moments.

    I think one of the most overlooked footnotes to the Miracle on Ice was the between periods 'speech' Brooks gave during the Finland game. USA needed to win to secure gold and was down 2-1 after two periods. Brooks walks in, and says "You lose this and you will take it to your f***ing graves" and then walks out. Final score was 4-2 USA. Greatest locker room speech of all time.

    I feel honored to have experienced it (I was 13 at the time).
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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    I was 14 at the time, and I used to go door to door selling newspaper subscriptions for the Times Picayune in New Orleans. That night I was selling them when I was invited inside by a couple to fill out the paperwork since it was cold outside. They were watching the third period of the game. I ended up on their couch watching the whole third period and screaming and yelling with them. Great moment! Didn't sell as many as I usually did that night. Oops.
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  • parkerjparkerj Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭
    I remember it well, i was 11. Yes, it was tape delayed, but honestly, I don't think anyone much knew the real result...back then you didn't have any other outlets to get this information. The other key thing that people know about but it is hard to explain the feeling and emotion because at the time we were all trained to think of the Russians as completely evil and out to kill us anyway they could if just given the chance. And that their team was juiced up and not playing fair. The cold war, and our general feeling of weakness as a nation under Carter....remember this was in the middle of the hostage crisis....so there were all these other emotions outside of sports at play. Not meant to get political here......just trying to convey the very sense that we Americans felt we were not the super power that we seem to be today.
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  • mexpo75mexpo75 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭✭
    Here! Here!
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