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You don't think the 1976 USA Olympic Basketball Team didn't have pride? That was a NCAA All Star Team and beat everyone after the 1972 team was cheated.

Certainly, the biggest sport's upset off all time, eclipsing the Jets win over the Colts in Superbowl III. I've seen it compared to a medium size college's football team, say Valdosta State, in Valdosta GA, taking on and defeating today's Kansas City Chiefs.

Absolutely! about kids overcoming a professional team. It was awesome!

@@Gallagherfreak100 of all time in American sports history*

Those were the only great moments Eric and the hockey gold medal but to me that put this Olympics above all others winter or summer.

@@hristo5689 As a non-American, it's the best moment in sports history. It's by far the biggest underdog story ever and it had the greatest implications outside of the game. truly incredible.

I got to play for Coach Brooks in 1970 at a Minnesoat hockey school. I was 11 years old. I just came off the ice from a shift. He yelled at me "You're in midseason form!" I thought at first he was mad at me!

I watched these games -- was age 17 -- and I remember being perplexed as to why Herb Brooks left to go back to the locker room, not do the same as Craig Patrick and stay to interact with and celebrate with the players. But when I became a coach myself and coached youth athletes, then I understood why. Plus, I am convinced Herb just stayed true and consistent with his approach from the beginning, with his team -- he wasn't their friend; he didn't allow his emotions to show unless he was pissed with them. When they won, those players didn't expect him to be any different and he needed a private celebration

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He said that he left to cry as well as we some

Definitely, a CLASS ACT🎯 RIP: Coach Brooks 🙏❤️ Can't believe that 41 year's have gone by from that GREAT DAY 😢 It's the 1st time that I've rewatched this 🙏My Dad surprised me with tickets about 2 months prior. It was a lottery system and had no idea who we would be watching, that is not until the Friday victory vs. The USSR. I was 22 y.o., one of my fondest memories, especially since it was with my Dad !! Also, was able to attend the Awards Ceremony later on. Will never forget Eruzione calling the entire team up to the Gold Medal Podium. Then, out of nowhere, no PA Announcer or any type of band in charge... The crowd quieted down and a few, sounded like 10 or 20 people began singing "God Bless America", little by slow... before you knew it the entire place was belting it out in perfect unison !! I will Never, EVER forget that precious moment, a moment in which was my MOST grateful feeling of how PROUD I was to be an American... The hair's are standing up on my arms right now, just like that afternoon and tears are also sliding down my cheeks in the same way as they did on that PERFECT DAY 🥲👍🇺🇲🏒🎯❤️ I think that I just might swing by my Dad's tomorrow and watch it again with HIM ‼️ Before it becomes something that "I wished that I had done again", but it was too late 🙏 I wish EVERY AMERICAN could experience that Pride I felt on that Sunday afternoon in Lake Placid in February 1980... What seemed like such a LONG ride up, from the Boston area, the ride back could have been 3 time's the ride and it still wasn't long enough !! It was like floating on the cloud's... I'm still floating.. What happened to OUR GREAT COUNTRY... and I can't see most of the letters on this phone right now with ALL of these tears welled up in my eyes. I'd give anything to FIND that PRIDE again !!! God Bless 🙏 &..... Thanks DAD..... For EVERYTHING !!! 🎯🇺🇲

A lot of great NHL players were there

we wont see anything like it again in sports

Thomas you have to lift up your spirits on your own - bring joy to the world - tell them of the great things that have happened !

Thomas, what our scientists did in developing a vaccine for Covid-19 was infinitely greater than the US winning in 1980. My daughter is a PT and worked during 2020 dealing with patients with Covid-19 pre vax. She is way more a hero than any athlete.

the Russians were smeared USA is the best hockey country Russia is shit Slava=Glory to Ukraine! USA and Ukraine!

Ken Morrow won the gold and then switched to the Islanders and won the Stanley Cup in the same year

@@jamesfields2916 Yes the same year, what an incredible run for him.

He was a prototypical modern day shutdown dman with very good passing ability and skating ability for a guy 6:04.

@@KMK7355 He'd score a few goals at important moments too.

@@michaelmohrle1773 won four consecutive Stanley Cups! He was the only player Brooks let have facial hair because he had it when he picked him.

Great broadcasters. Best of all time. Michaels (Reds broadcaster who gave the mic to Marty Brenneman) to this to SNF. ABC had had AL, McKay, Keith Jackson. Good old days.

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Yeah. During the two consecutive US goals

Is The Game Official Version with Commercials or just The Game ?

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I concur! The director should have been taken out and shot!!!

I remember that from watching the 1980 Games; ABC was frequently in commercial break when the U.S. or one of the opponents scored.

Actually that was my high school tennis coach Dave Buckley of Mohawk (NY) High School between the 2nd and 3rd sets of the Central Valley Conference championship, senior year 1985. And it worked.

​@@jwfmsu1990 Glad it worked! Btw, and unrelated, with my being near Albany NY, I've always been sad about Greg Jarvis being on the Challenger the following year....

@@roberts5944 They named the high school building after him. Now the district no longer exists as it merged with Ilion several years ago.

I think whoever decided to air commercials during action should take that to their graves! They missed 2 goals so far,

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Who’s Eric Heiden?

@@TylerEubank A speed skater from the US who won all five gold medals in speed skating at Lake Placid in 1980

No Gold without the boys from Massachusetts.

@@Afterlife7377 are you talking about the “Enjoy the decline” author??

I was confused why all goals covered by ads.

Certainly was...cold war was a big part of it....they beat a russian all star team, incredible

only 70's kids with remember tab cola

they actually just missed verchota's tying goal, the guy who put out the video missed 2 goals

McClanahans goal is shown at the end of the vid kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLd3iM5em628j5c.html

I think Kenny Morrow might have something to say about that !!!

I doubt Eruzione would have been an NHL regular but would have gotten a Cup of coffee with someone. Dud you see my comment regarding the USA player pool of 1976-77 USA players born between 1955&58?

2:09 Craig looks for his Father

Finland was far from success...

2:09:00 @@mikejorsch304 Yeah, and even reading lips you can tell he says "Wheahs my fahtha?" Long live the Boston accent!

And of course the commercials played during two of of the four American goals so all you saw was the celebration once you returned from the commercials.

22:40 jukkas beautiful goal 1:06:45 the prettiest goal ive ever seen. at least 2 of those passes seem to defy the laws of physics

Same at our college rent house

Corey Burnett your joking right.no commercials!?

They would have to do what soccer does and nobody did that in 1980.

Sports coverage was certainly not as good back then.

'put ad in corner of screen while keepin camera on field of play' concept had not been devised yet, sadly ... [!!]

What do you mean beginning?

@@Rockhound6165 indeed. dis was in midst of nasl gams where dey wuld stuf a commerical durin, like, a gol kik ... & hope no1 took a shot [!!]

Commercial greed is one thing, but Olympic coverage has always been the absolute worst, because on top of that they add all the dopey "human interest" crap to keep people who aren't really sports fans interested. There's nothing like watching a nordic ski race or something and having them cut away right in the middle to show you a human interest story about what one of the skiers does in the summertime, or Mary Carillo drinking hot chocolate. I have wanted to murder the producers of Olympics coverage ever since I can remember.

Actually, International hockey did not allow for "commercial" breaks. They just played the game. I am sure ABC would LOVED to have televised that goal live.

What's funny is we think of sports being more commercialised now than then, and they are, but in old hockey days this was more likely to happen. Before 1992-93, the NHL didn't schedule commercial breaks so I'm pretty sure networks just crammed them in when they could and would occasionally miss snippets of play. And I don't think the Olympics- even now- allow time for tv timeouts. I can't remember since it's been four years since Olympic hockey but I think, at least in Canada, they just don't do ads or just do brief 15 second ones. It's kind of funny that some people do remember that the USA/USSR "semi-final" (not really accurate term) wasn't broadcast live, but the benefit of that was at least you saw all the goals!

The girl that helped Craig find his father was girlfriend or fiancee to dave silk? or one of the other players. Sweet gesture. I think his dad had already gone to the locker room.

Was Mark Johnson's fiance I thought.

Morrow....frozen four at BGSU...Olympic Gold Medalist for the US...Stanley Cup Champion. That guy was a winner!!

He was right about that for the 1st two periods. I thought the 3rd period was one of their best periods however. Better late than never.

Finland had the lead on the Soviets with 5 minutes left.

According to Mark Johnson, between the 2nd and 3rd periods, Herb came into the locker room and said one thing twice, before leaving: "If you lose this one you'll take it to your #$&@! graves."

Hard not to have a bit of a letdown after the Soviet game.

shame yall culdnt get bronze. i luv 2 c SUOMI represent @ worlds, jrs., etc.

Jep!Awesome Film

The game was on at 11am est. It couldn't have been past midnight in Finland.

1980 to 2020 is 40 years ! Happy News Year 2020

@@holoholopainen1627 one of these days, Finland will win the Gold Medal in Men's hockey in the Olympics.

@@jasongoodwin6132 Kiitos ! Finland has been 2nd twice ! At Calgary 1988 & Turin ( Torino ) 2006 ! Turin Games were GREAT - We had The BEST TEAM EVER !

@@holoholopainen1627 Ole Hyvä! I watched Team Finland play in 2006. That was hard to watch them lose against Sweden, especially since Teppo Numminen was one of my favorite players at the time. They'll beat those Swedish bad piggies! After all, I'll never forget the early days of Angry Birds when they flew the Finnish flag and the bad piggies flew the Swedish flag

@@holoholopainen1627 Great players from Suomi ! Spent many a night admiring Kurri or Selanne.

/golf clap

Yep, some 19-year old Canadian named Gretzky or something?

@@mkrupp2011 yea, but EDM. how wil any1 b successful der [????!!!!]

nah, europeans can't play the NHL game.

He teamed with one. Some guy named the Great One #99 Wayne Gretzky (Greatest Hockey player of all-time) and all he did was win 5 Stanley Cups in Edmonton (4 with Gretzky). I would say Kurri did very well. All he did was finish his career as, at that time, the highest scoring European-born-and-trained player in NHL history, with 601 goals, 797 assists, and 1,398 points (Since passed by others).

too true, and pavelich, what a magician, he literally did the impossible on the ice.

Only US player to ever score 5 goals in an NHL game. Too bad he and Bobby Carpenter missed the 1981 Canada Cup.

They only missed one goal. The guy who did this video missed the 3rd.

I was almost 10 at the time.

That's amazing! Lucky guy!!!

wayne louey if I could be anywhere in history in last 100 years it’s lake placid 1980

2020 - 40 years ago !

Wow

Years ago the game winning puck was posted on ebay, 10,000.00

Now in 2022. This country is an absolute mess in every way imaginable.

​@@STMARTIN009thanks to JOE Biden and Democrats cheating in the 2020 election

And, lull the opponent into a level of no competition complacency. Then ya got a chance!

Pelle Lindbergh also played in those Olympics for Sweden

Yeah I was also surprised to see that Kurri played for Finland...and wasn't even considered the best player on the team, according to Al Michaels.

@@mikes3827 Do You know - Which year Kurri was born ? 1960 - so He was just 19 or 20 ! Where was Canada at These Games ?

@@holoholopainen1627 Canada missed the medal round due to losing to Finland in the opening round robin play. They had to beat the Soviets to advance in the final game and lost 6-4(they had a 3-2 lead going into the 3rd period).

@@Rockhound6165 Nobody talks about Team Canada at These Games ? Was The Miracle just for USA born players or Hockey in General ! At the time Most NHL PLAYERS - Were still born in Canada !

But it’s tab….. what a shitty drink! Only thing worse would have been shasta!

I think they would have won bronze sine Finland and the US would have been tied with three points after the USSR beat Sweden. But it could have been silver depending on what the 1st tie breaker was.

@@paulsonj72 LPGA Pp

tony palombini jr awful ABC

@@MrDuds1984 Problem is they had no clue what they were doing. You would think the producer might have inquired into the length of a stoppage in play. Guess they didn't think of that.

tony palombini jr I will grant them that 1980 was so different in live sports coverage than it is today. Maybe there is Canadian coverage somewhere out there of the game

sadly, that's how they broadcast hockey back then. No TV time outs

They only missed Verchota's goal not McClanahan's. The person who put this together missed two.

What? This was rated the number 1 sporting event of the 20th century. 24 years into the 21st century still nothing has ever come close.

James, Ill take what that guy is smoking...lol.

that would have been one hell of a drive

@@afuzzycreature8387 One hell of a game.

altfactor .......really ?

I grew up in Greater Boston and graduated from UMass in '77, so I had seen the BU 4 play a lot and watched Johnson & Suter in the '77 and '78 NCAA. Didn't get the opportunity to see The UMinnesota kids until the '79 NCAA. That group of NCAA eligible players born from 1955-58 who played from 1976-77 thru 1978-79 was every bit as good if not better than there counter parts born in 1955-58 from USSR, Czechoslovakia and Sweden. Czechoslovakia had essentially Peter Stastny from those birth years, while Sweden was definitely better with Kent Nillson, Thomas Gradin and several others. The Soviets had 2 D men born in '55 in Pervukhin and Bilayaletidinov and no forwards born 55-57!!! They had Malaria upfront born in '58 and Fetisov and Starikov from '58 on D. The US produced the best '55 iin the world in Mark Howe who could play forward and defense along with Mike O'Connell and Paul Holmgren. '56 saw Reed Larson and Morrow on D and Tom Rowe up front. '57 had Steve Baker in net along with Rod Langway and Gord Roberts on D and Joe Mullen and Mark Johnson up front. '58 produced Mark Pavelich upfront with Steve Christoff.

Yes, International hockey would not take TV time outs

The USA outscored their opponents 16-3 in the third period. 5-0 in the medal round.

Team FIN Roster: #1 Antero Kivelä, #3 Seppo Suoraniemi, #4 Olli Saarinen, #6 Hannu Haapalainen, #8 Tapio Levo (c) , #9 Kari Eloranta, #10 Lasse Litma, #12 Esa Peltonen (a) , #13 Ismo Villa, #15 Mikko Leinonen, #17 Jari Kurri, #19 Jorma Valtonen, #20 Jukka Koskilahti, #21 Hannu Koskinen, #22 Reijo Leppänen, #23 Markku Hakulinen, #25 Jukka Porvari, #28 Jarmo Mäkitalo, #29 Timo Susi. Head Coach - : Kalevi Numminen / Assistant Coach - Frank Moberg

JTB60 GSO Did Bob Suter ever play?

@@ville948 I didn't realize Jari Kurri played in this game. Thanks for the list!

Suter didn't play this game and didn't play much but more than Janaszak who didn't play at all. Honestly Jack Hughes should have been there over Suter but Brooks and Hughes didn't get along.

Mitigated by much smaller goalie equipment and no butterfly pads.

1980 was the first year for the plastic skate blade frames

Dubble D yeah, first Olympics anyway. But still not like today’s.

Sports are really strange. I remember thinking why doesn't the goalie go down on shots (butterfly) as a kid. I also remember thinking they should make bigger, but lighter pads for goalies. I also remember thinking why do NFL QBs plant their feet after throwing a ball only to get their knees snapped (Peyton Manning changed that). It's crazy how stubborn sports are and how long it takes them to change. Those players wouldn't have gotten half the goals with butterfly goalies nowadays.

SeanP7195 funny you mention all that. I was just remembering the other day how I used to think, “Why don’t teams just get a bunch of three-point shooters and shoot threes all day?” And now that’s what you see. We were ahead of our time!

You live in Belmont?