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Reply #390 on: February 24, 2020, 09:19:09 AM
OK, so this was Saturday. Should've posted it then.



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Michaels was part of a recent NBC conference call discussing his Miracle on Ice call, and he answered the question of whether his call was pre-planned.

“Ken Dryden, who’s phenomenal, he had retired, had never done any broadcasting, was a great partner, a great analyst, and he did so many things during the telecasts. He and I were walking over to the arena. The hotel was four blocks away, and I remember the bottom line of the conversation was if it’s only like 3-1 Soviets midway through the second period, maybe we can keep the audience. Remember the U.S. is trailing three separate times, 1-0, 2-1, 3-2. As it turns out, the U.S. had been out-shot 39-16, so the Soviets really dominated so much of the game, and there was never a moment where I really felt, hey, the U.S. could win this game. Second period was dominated by the Soviets, they lead 3-2, then all of a sudden now you’ve got Mark Johnson scoring again and then Mike’s goal. Now with exactly 10 minutes to go, whoa, holy mackerel, is this possible? And then at that point the crowd is just going out of its mind.

The guys in the production truck forgot to let the key get undepressed or however that works downstairs. They pressed the key down, left it down, and meanwhile now I’ve got a building that’s shaking, a crowd that’s going crazy, and I’ve got to hear all this craziness going on in the truck. So all I did was work in an intense state of concentration. To think about what would be said at the end of the game or how it would be said never could enter my mind. I’ve got to call it pass by pass, shot by shot.

And then just serendipitous that with six or seven seconds to go, the puck comes out to center ice, and now the game is going to be over. The Soviets have no time to mount a last rush. The puck is in the neutral zone. And the word that popped into my head was miraculous. That’s just the word that popped in, and it got morphed into a question and quick answer, and away we went.

But all I’m trying to do at that point is call the game and don’t blow a call. The Soviets could have tied the game. How insane would that have sounded if I would have said that as the Soviets tie the game with one second to go? It was from my heart. It had nothing to do with what it meant to the country or anything beyond sports, but as somebody who’s loved sports since I was five years old, this was an upset. This was a gigantic upset, and so that’s why the word miraculous came into my brain, and I said what I said. But that had everything to do with what an upset, what an incredible moment this is, and not something that I ever thought would live in posterity, because remember in those years, too, nobody had a home video machine, videotape machine, so this is not something you think lives forever. Now of course anything anybody says gets played 18 gazillion times, but that was never a thought back in 1980.”
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Reply #391 on: February 24, 2020, 01:44:36 PM
I remember watching that on TV as it happened. No one anywhere thought the Russians would EVER lose a hockey game much less to a bunch of amateur Yanks.  :applause:

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Reply #392 on: February 24, 2020, 02:07:23 PM
it was broadcast on tape delay, so no one really watched it "as it happened"  8)

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Reply #393 on: February 24, 2020, 02:12:12 PM
it was broadcast on tape delay, so no one really watched it "as it happened"  8)

The people who were there did  8)

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Reply #394 on: February 24, 2020, 02:15:47 PM
The link for me says the video is unavailable :-(

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Reply #395 on: February 24, 2020, 02:55:20 PM
The link for me says the video is unavailable :-(


f'n' IOC is making copyright claims on videos that have been up for a decade, just b/c everyone is watching them w/ the anniversary of the miracle on ice

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Reply #396 on: February 24, 2020, 02:59:13 PM
I can se it.... maybe just banned in countries that don't understand hockey.  ;)

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Reply #397 on: February 24, 2020, 03:09:06 PM
You could well be right, Vance.

Actually, Newcastle does have an ice hockey team.



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Reply #398 on: February 24, 2020, 03:17:05 PM
It's HOCKEY, not Ice Hockey.  :nerd:

Only countries that don't understand hockey call it ice hockey.  ;)

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Reply #399 on: February 24, 2020, 03:21:05 PM
Iced Hockey mocha frappachino with two pumps of soy and one pump of like, totally ugg boot vanilla

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Reply #400 on: February 24, 2020, 03:47:38 PM
It's HOCKEY, not Ice Hockey.  :nerd:

Only countries that don't understand hockey call it ice hockey.  ;)

Is that the same as people who don't understand water heaters calling them hot water heaters?  :whistle:

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Reply #401 on: February 24, 2020, 03:56:47 PM
Oh!

So its not hockey played on ice then?

You mean this?


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Reply #402 on: February 24, 2020, 03:58:25 PM
It's HOCKEY, not Ice Hockey.  :nerd:

Only countries that don't understand hockey call it ice hockey.  ;)

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Reply #403 on: February 24, 2020, 04:33:38 PM
My daughter played field hockey in HS.  That sure was boring.  I don't think any of the girls had played much before HS, so at their level they couldn't string three passes together.  The ball moved by Brownian motion more than anything else, and every now and then it would drift into a goal.

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Reply #404 on: February 24, 2020, 04:35:07 PM
1525 Battle of Pavia
Climactic fight of the Bourbon-Habsburg Italian Wars.
An Imperial army enters the walled camp of the French in a night March.  The surprised French fight a unplanned Battle.  German landsknechts best Swiss Pike, and the Imperial arquebusiers, covered in the trees, massacre the nobility of France.
Next day the Habsburg commander, Marquis de Pescara, is astonished at the slaughter of armored knights.
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