30 Years ago today (Lake Placid)

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They call it The Miracle on Ice, and it involved a buncha dudes I went to school with (but didn't know -- BU's a really big university): Mike Eruzione, Dave Silk, Jim Craig and Jack O'Callahan. Plus a buncha dudes from Minnesota (where Coach Herb Brooks did his thing before the Olympics).

Pics here.

Here's more on the story.

http://blog.mortgagemarketinggenius.com/images/2008/08/25/1980hockey.jpg

Yeah, it's got the Defeat of Godless Communism angle to it. But it's also a great hockey game (and not even the final championship round -- the US had two more games to win after this one). Do you remember it?

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[+3] - George - 02/22/2010Which brings us to the question: Why isn't dogsledding in the Winter Olympics? But to return to topic. Mike Eruzione is a local guy. Well, local to my Orient Heights - Winthrop - Beachmont...

Oh yeah. Screamed my lungs out.

It's hard to remember now what it was like for a bunch of college players to
beat the formidable USSR hockey machine. I would have been content to
see them score more than one on Tretiak.

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30 years ago?!?!?!

wow

yep, I remember it as if it was yesterday.

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@jespah,

And last night the USW beat the GODLESS CANADIANS.

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@farmerman,

The US has "grinders". Grinders win Stanley Cups.

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@panzade,

But canines win the Iditarod.

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@George,

http://www.nordichuskyfarm.com/productimages/badgerworks-Dog-sled-crossing.jpg

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@panzade,

Which brings us to the question:
Why isn't dogsledding in the Winter Olympics?

But to return to topic. Mike Eruzione is a local guy. Well, local to my Orient
Heights - Winthrop - Beachmont stomping grounds of yore. I saw him again
at my cousin's daughter's wedding. He does motivational speaking these days
using the Miracle on Ice as his primary "you can do it" example.

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@George,

Brian Rafalski is this years Eruzione...a grinder

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