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Offline Pappymn

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35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #-1 on: February 22, 2015, 07:36:03 PM »
One of those rare events where I will never forget where I was and who I was with.

Team USA at Lake Placid. Taking on the hated Soviet Union.

Several Minnesota players, and of course our own Herb Brooks. This game still means a lot in the hockey capital of the U.S.

Greatest sport event in my lifetime!
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« on: February 22, 2015, 07:47:47 PM »
Pappy I might add that the high feeling after winning was magnified by what what going on politically at the time. Just imagine the low if we had not won!
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2015, 07:50:35 PM »
I'll never forget that game. I was young yes but I remember
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35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2015, 07:50:48 PM »

Quote from: hikerman on February 22, 2015, 07:47:47 PM
Pappy I might add that the high feeling after winning was magnified by what what going on politically at the time. Just imagine the low if we had not won!

Very true! Country was really in the tank. I was only 11, but I knew we were in need of something to feel good about
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2015, 08:09:04 PM »
Hockey is not real big here in Alabama but I was glued to the TV and standing up cheering. I have enjoyed hockey ever since.
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2015, 08:46:53 PM »
I remember that game.  I wanted to watch it because I just knew we could win.  I lived in the DC area at the time.  One of the local news anchors ruined the whole thing.  She announced the outcome before we could watch it.  She came under a firestorm of protest for having announced the outcome before the game was telecast.  She was ripped in the press for several years after for this "miscue".  IMHO, she should have been FIRED!

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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2015, 09:51:40 PM »
I was only 5 when that happened but what a great event
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2015, 10:15:30 PM »
So that's why one of the networks was televising a documentary about that game today. They were showing how badly the Soviet team got treated when they returned home for only bringing home a silver medal.
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2015, 10:20:06 PM »
I'm not even a sports fan, but remember that game. It was THAT huge to us as a nation.
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2015, 11:36:16 PM »
Quote from: Pappymn on February 22, 2015, 07:36:03 PM
One of those rare events where I will never forget where I was and who I was with.

Team USA at Lake Placid. Taking on the hated Soviet Union.

Several Minnesota players, and of course our own Herb Brooks. This game still means a lot in the hockey capital of the U.S.

Greatest sport event in my lifetime!

Absolutely correct on all counts.

International rules allow a team to suit up 20 players.  About a dozen of them were from Minnesota.  I saw many of them play their high school hockey. 

But the game winner was scored by team captain Mike Eruzione (the "ahtist"), from Boston.  I don't have to close my eyes to "see" that shot.

Eruzione's father was a bartender.  Patrons took up a collection so he could travel to see his son play.  I don't think Mike's mother was there.
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2015, 08:06:10 AM »
Problem is I wasnt young at the time  ???
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Re: 35 Years Ago Today
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2015, 12:29:39 PM »
Driving in to work this a.m. Mike O'Callahan from the US team was interviewed on wscr. He mentioned that in 1979 Soviets' Nat. team beat the NHL All-Stars 6 - 0. And in the last exhibition game before the Olympics,  the Soviets beat Team USA 10 - 3! The Soviets were thought to assume an easy victory in Olympic play because of this!
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