29 Years Ago Today - Do You Believe in Miracles?

Hard to imagine it's been so long. 29 years ago today the United States of America amateur hockey team defeated a team of Russian professionals during the winter Olympics in what has to be the greatest upset in sports history. It lifted a nation. It was nothing short of surreal.

This video is a newly discovered original call of the game by Curt Chaplin who was covering the game as a sports reporter for the ABC Radio Network. Standing on a camera platform in the crowd, he did play-by-play of the entire game into his tape recorder, capturing the event on tape forever. Now, after 25 years, these tapes have been rediscovered and matched to the video.



Reading the write up on Youtube about how this video was put together, many thanks go out to Curt Chaplin, the man who was calling this game. It sounds as if he were there all by himself as ABC did not broadcast the game live on TV. It was tape-delayed. As I kid, I guess I didn't know this. Mr. Chaplin is an unsung hero in this story.

Here are some of the Youtube comments that shed more light on what it must have been like for those listening live on radio:

"Heard last 5 minutes of game on radio driving home and almost wrecked. had to pull over for the last minute and could hardly move when it was over. the greatest single moment in american sports history. with the pros playing in olympics now, we'll never see anything like this again."

"This is a great video especially since the original game was only heard live on the RADIO. The game was played around rush hour and ABC decided to delay the video broadcast. I was in Boston screaming at a radio. People pulled over and wouldn't go thru the tunnels, they pulled over on the Mass Pike. My husband and I had just graduated from BU Law and 4 of our Terriers were on that team so we were invested big time. It was fun finally SEE the game, but the original broadcast was on the RADIO."

Dems Wanted To Surrender To Amateurs Like This

Come on. Look at these guys. It's like Mike Tyson taking on Charles Nelson Reilly. Yeah, he might get in a kick or a hair pull but no way you run from him. For shame, liberals.

WHAT I'VE NOTICED ABOUT OBAMA'S SUPPORTERS AND HIS RALLIES

I can't recall one instance when a spontaneous chant of "USA...USA" has broken out at one of Obama's rallies. I'm just sayin'.

HAND OF ALLAH COMES FOR ARKAN HASNAWI

Remember the uproar a few weeks ago about a missile strike in a residential neighborhood of Sadr City? Next to a hospital of all places, the left shrieked. Well it turns out some high level Mahdi leaders received their virgins in that building. Animals like Mahdi Army commander Arkan Hasnawi were rendered room temp. The Dirty Liberal Media had a mini fit about this a few weeks ago because the Army had the nerve to use the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) in a "residential" neighborhood. Well, once again turns out it was for good reason. Oh and by the way, the terrorists in Iraq have come to call the GMLRS the "Hand of Allah" as it seems to come from nowhere. Tee hee!

Oh, there is some serious ownage going on there. They seem a little down about it too:

The US military estimates more than 700 Mahdi Army fighters were killed. "It is pretty safe to say that we have killed the equivalent of a U.S. battalion," Colonel John Hort, the commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division told The New York Times.
A Mahdi Army commander put the number closer to 1,000 killed over the past six weeks. "A thousand martyrs, what did they die for?" the commander said.

Awww! Sniff, sniff! What did they die for? You tell us, pig-dog!

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USA! USA! USA!!!!