30 Years ago and replays still gives me chills!!!!

[DaveAri]

Do you believe in miracles YES, do you believe it was 30 years ago, NO.

IMHO the greatest sports moment of all time and nothing even close.
THanks guys for some great memories. RIP Herb Brooks. You gave this nation a boost when it really needed it.

 

[Obsessed]

IMHO the greatest sports moment of all time and nothing even close.

I was only 12 and I'm not even a hockey fan, and it's unquestionably the greatest sports moment of my lifetime.

 

[brianw]

I'm sure all can tell you where they were when this happened

 

[DaveAri]

I'm sure all can tell you where they were when this happened

I was a teenager, who stayed away from the radio all day so I can watch the tape delay that evening. I was in the back seat of my parents car along with my brother on the way to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins when we heard the news flash on the radio, I screamed in excitement almost causing my father to lose control of the car. I still remember the exact location on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens heading to Bayside. When we got to my aunt to watch the game we still didn't believe it until the very end and Al Michaels famous call, "DO you believe in miracles, Yes.
I still get chills when I see this replay and I've seen it hundreds of times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFmAAxeOxs

 

[SalvadorMontenegro]

My Mom tells a funny story about this. She was watching the game with my Dad somewhere in the Washington, D.C. area. Now, apparently the game was not exactly being broadcast live. There was some sort of small tape delay between what was going on at the actual game and what was being shown in the metropolitan area. So, the game is winding down and is approaching the final minutes. It cuts to a commercial break and what happens? The local news program on the station that is broadcasting the game runs a commercial for the upcoming news program following the game that says something to the effect of: "An amazing upset! The United States defeats Russia! [Channel] news after the game!" The game had not been fully televised yet! Though the game had concluded, the outcome had not been shown because of the delay. The news team, in effect, provided the spoiler! My parents were livid. To this day, my Mom, who isn't even a sports fan, gets pissed when she talks about it.

 

[DaveAri]

My Mom tells a funny story about this. She was watching the game with my Dad somewhere in the Washington, D.C. area. Now, apparently the game was not exactly being broadcast live. There was some sort of small tape delay between what was going on at the actual game and what was being shown in the metropolitan area. So, the game is winding down and is approaching the final minutes. It cuts to a commercial break and what happens? The local news program on the station that is broadcasting the game runs a commercial for the upcoming news program following the game that says something to the effect of: "An amazing upset! The United States defeats Russia! [Channel] news after the game!" The game had not been fully televised yet! Though the game had concluded, the outcome had not been shown because of the delay. The news team, in effect, provided the spoiler! My parents were livid. To this day, my Mom, who isn't even a sports fan, gets pissed when she talks about it.

I vaguely remember a story here at the Soviet Embassy in NYC. if I remember it correctly directly across the street was a New York City Firehouse and they were waving flags and really stirring thing up after the surprise victory.

 

[SalvadorMontenegro]

I vaguely remember a story here at the Soviet Embassy in NYC. if I remember it correctly directly across the street was a New York City Firehouse and they were waving flags and really stirring thing up after the surprise victory.

A firehouse in New York City across from the Russian embassy during the Cold War? That sounds like a disaster no matter what the occasion!

 

[Blondie]

I get chills just reading this post. Man, could this country use something like this now!

 

[spinyeel]

You guys don't play enough international team sports.It's all Baseball and Gridiron over there.

 

[SliceOfLife]

We like our fans drunk and our athletes sans neck. Those ideals don't fit in with the Olympics.

 

[baba]

I was a teenager, who stayed away from the radio all day so I can watch the tape delay that evening. I was in the back seat of my parents car along with my brother on the way to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins when we heard the news flash on the radio, I screamed in excitement almost causing my father to lose control of the car. I still remember the exact location on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens heading to Bayside. When we got to my aunt to watch the game we still didn't believe it until the very end and Al Michaels famous call, "DO you believe in miracles, Yes.
I still get chills when I see this replay and I've seen it hundreds of times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFmAAxeOxs

Thanks a million for that post...brought back some great memories for me.

I found this on youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztlLwgSFCg&feature=player_embedded

It is an amazing play by play of that game voiced by Curt Chaplin. He was supposed to just get post game sound bites for ABC radio but when he got to the stadium and heard the crowd, he was overcome and decided to stand on a camera platform surrounded by the crowd and record his own play by play into his little tape recorder. Almost 30 years later his tapes were rediscovered and synced up with the video of the game. As you listen to it, remember that this is the only hockey game that he has ever done play by play for in his entire career, He picked a good game huh? I think he did a fine job. The result gives me goosebumps.

 

[BEAR DEN]

Nothing I've seen even comes close...no matter how I try to explain it to my kids I can tell that they will never fully understand how intense it was. Chills just thinking about it...thanks for the post.

 

[DaveAri]

Nothing I've seen even comes close...no matter how I try to explain it to my kids I can tell that they will never fully understand how intense it was. Chills just thinking about it...thanks for the post.

The two movies made about it just does not give you the felling of what it was like. Most people remember the Disney attempt with Kurt Russell play Herb Brooks, but many forget that a TV movie was made by ABC staring Karl Malden as Herb Brooks.

To really get he essence of the story I suggest is an HBO documentary "Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team" from time to time you see it on one of the HBO channels, I'm surprised that now during the 30 anniversary and the Olympics HBO hasn't scheduled it.

 

[RBE17]

Pretty amazing. I was seven when it happen and I remember watching it. I enjoy reading about it and watching the documentaries and the movies concerning it. I like how many people didn't realize that game wasn't for the gold medal.

The only other sports victory that comes close, for me, is Penn State's win over Miami in the '87 Fiesta Bowl.

 

[DaveAri]

Pretty amazing. I was seven when it happen and I remember watching it. I enjoy reading about it and watching the documentaries and the movies concerning it. I like how many people didn't realize that game wasn't for the gold medal.

The only other sports victory that comes close, for me, is Penn State's win over Miami in the '87 Fiesta Bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywCt5Hh1Pc