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Do you believe in miracles? (Sports thread)

Cuda1447

Cuda1447

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I'm sitting here watching ESPN this morning and they are doing an interview with Al Michaels. They started talking about the Olympic hockey game against the Russians where the USA won and he announced "Do you believe in miracles?"

I'm sure most of you are familiar with this game. Unfortunately, like me most of you weren't alive to watch it. Being a HUGE sports fan, this saddens me. I've seen the movie and am very familiar with the story and it just seems perfect. I really wish I were alive to witness that moment, as it must have been amazing.

Were any of you here fortunate enough to watch this game live? Care to give your thoughts on it?
 
Only saw Mighty Ducks then the real Mighty Ducks doing what they did in the movies not other way around. What decade was that btw?
 
1980. Well I guess a bunch of us were alive, but very young. I was 5 at the time, so no memories either.


*edit* wait... I wasn't 5. I was negative 5! Gah Im stupid
 
Cuda1447 said:
1980. Well I guess a bunch of us were alive, but very young. I was 5 at the time, so no memories either.


*edit* wait... I wasn't 5. I was negative 5! Gah Im stupid
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geez that just about 2 or 3 years after our first television broadcast. We didn't even know the USA existed that time
 
I remember it vividly...I was 9 watching it with my dad.

At the time, I didn't fully understand the significance of it, and wondered why my dad was jumping up and down screaming. I thought it was weird that he was getting all excited and it wasn't even the gold medal game.

Of course, 32 years later...there's more perspective. 🙂
 
Cuda1447 said:
1980. Well I guess a bunch of us were alive, but very young. I was 5 at the time, so no memories either.


*edit* wait... I wasn't 5. I was negative 5! Gah Im stupid
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ahh 5 BC (Before Cuda)

If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game, not tonight.
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I just remember that from the movie. Didn't see the actual game.
 
I remember it. I was at Kmart with my mom, and I walked over to the TV section. There weren't too many people gathered really, but I do vividly remember the end of the game even though I didn't really understand how big it was at the time.
 
I was in my early 20's and watched the game live. It was exciting, but one of the things most people don't remember was that this was not the gold medal game. It was in the first round of the medal game. The US went on to beat Finland for the gold after this, and the USSR won silver.
 
Was one, before my time, but there are other things I will remember:

1. Watching the world cup final at the rose bowl in '94 and Baggio missing the last PK for Brazil to win.. never heard anything louder in my life
2. MJ's last shot/retirement
3. Fiesta Bowl 2007 Boise State going to OT with a flea flicker on the last play and then winning in OT with statue of liberty play
4. Wambach's header to beat Brazil last year
 
The most compelling, gripping, gut-wrenching sporting event I ever watched live was the Duke/Kentucky NCAA regional final in the 90's.

Don't care about Duke, don't care about Kentucky, but over the coures of those few hours I might have become the biggest Kentucky fan on the planet. Those guys (who had no right to be there) gave everything they had against one of the best teams in NCAA history.

Laetner's shot was gutting. If you didn't see it as it happened you just can't know.
 
I watched it & it really was/is one of the most awesome sports moments for me... ever!

Cold war... Russia is the "enemy", etc.


At the time i wasn't into hockey all that much as it wasn't on OTA broadcast in my area. But i always like watching Olympic sports, even the sports i didn't care to do myself.
 
I don't see why it was such a big deal.
Hockey scores are so low, if you get a lucky goal you can win 1-0.
 
edro said:
I don't see why it was such a big deal.
Hockey scores are so low, if you get a lucky goal you can win 1-0.
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Many reasons it was a big deal. Like Spacehead said before, it was during a time of SIGNIFICANT tension between Russian and the USA. It was an olympic event, which is arguably the most important sporting event in the world.

As for hockey being low scoring... eh... kinda. The problem is that the Russians were so completely dominant that they would easily beat teams 10-0. They would literally just toys with other teams. Other GOOD teams. They could have beaten a lot of these teams 25-0 if they wanted. In an exhibition game just before the Olympics started, Russia beat the USA 10-3 and it was an even more dominant victory than that. They were just that much better than everyone else. The USA really shouldn't have had any shot in hell to win that game. The entire team played well above their talent levels. Emotions certainly had a lot to do with the outcome as well.
 
I saw it. Even though I don't watch hockey it was the Olympics and everyone was pumped for it.

It was f'ing awesome.

Fern
 
I wasn't around yet, but I asked my dad where he was when he saw it and he said he was in traffic driving home from work and listening to it on the radio. He said that when the U.S. won, a bunch of cars around him started honking their horns and people were hollering out the windows.
 
thegimp03 said:
I wasn't around yet, but I asked my dad where he was when he saw it and he said he was in traffic driving home from work and listening to it on the radio. He said that when the U.S. won, a bunch of cars around him started honking their horns and people were hollering out the windows.
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thats awesome!
 
I was 12 and living with my Mom in upstate NY about an hour from Lake Placid. We went to the a couple of events, including the ski jump, and I even saw Eric Heiden win one of his gold medals. I didn't really follow ice hockey though so I vaguely remember this event but it is not prominent in my mind.
 
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