28 years ago today....

[samikeyp]

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[Trainwreck2100]

you know you're a kickass hockey team when you don't know you're supposed to pull the goalie when down one

[FromWayDowntown]

It made me believe in miracles.

I have a tape of the medal round game against the Soviets. It's still amazing to think that the event was not broadcast live on television in the United States and that word of the victory (which was complete by the time ABC went on the air that evening) hadn't gotten out to all of the world. Jim McKay went to some lengths to hide his joy and to keep from giving up the outcome (though the shots of revelers in Lake Placid make it pretty difficult, watching again in retrospect, to not figure out what had actually happened).

Still the greatest sports memory of my life. I was 8 years old and knew literally nothing about hockey, but I knew that it was a huge deal to have beaten the Russians. I recall that almost everyone I encountered in South Texas around that time knew exactly who Mike Eurzione and Jim Craig and Herb Brooks were.