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I realize now,
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looking back…
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why it became so much bigger
than just a hockey game.
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In a different year,
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with a different opponent,
in a different time…
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this isn't quite the same story.
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Everywhere around the country,
people had locked into this.
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It still brings a smile to people's faces.
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Just the unbridled joy.
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It helped bring us back to what we were,
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and what we hoped we would be again.
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As a country,
we needed something to feel good about.
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And it was us.
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What we have at hand,
the rarest of sporting events.
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An event that needs no build-up,
no superfluous adjectives.
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The United States and the Soviet Union
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on a sheet of ice
in Lake Placid, New York.
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The USA, clearly the underdog.
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We weren't superstars.
We were the boy next door.
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Lunch pail, hard-hat group of guys.
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They'll have to beat the Russians,
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the finest team ever to play the game.
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It was going to be a runaway.
That's how dominant the Soviet team was.
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The ultimate confrontation,
Russia against the United States.
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Lake Placid is looking
more like a resumption of the Cold War.
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It was more than hockey.
It was our way of life versus them.
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Hockey was not part
of the American psyche,
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until in this unrepeatable,
distinctive moment, it had to be.
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We had the audacity
to believe we could do it.
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And you know what?
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The country was like, "Goddamn right."
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It wasn't a sporting event.
It was a piece of American history.
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Slap shot, and it was deflected in.
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Saved by Craig, another shot by Petrov.
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USA! USA!
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Pavelich taking it away.
Up ahead to Schneider.
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Slap shot goes in!
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This is a once in a lifetime event
that can't be duplicated.
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Here they come. Silk, a centering pass.
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Goal! It's a tie hockey game.
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And the United States
could be on the verge
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of the biggest upset
in recent Olympic history.
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People say, "What could top this?"
And I say, "Nothing."
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Do you believe in miracles?
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Here we are, Buzz.
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Oh, it's fun to come back.
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Oh, there's section six,
that's where our family sat.
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- Sitting there. Halfway up, I remember.
- Yeah, over there.
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It seems smaller to me in here.
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What I remember is just how loud it was.
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USA! USA! USA!
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USA!
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You could sense it
when you were sitting here,
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and I sat here a lot, but…
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When I come in here now,
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I think much more about these guys
and the camaraderie.
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I don't think we had any idea
it would end up like this.
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At the time, we knew
people in Lake Placid were excited,
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and our family and friends
at home were excited,
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but no clue, at all, whatsoever,
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that this event
was gonna become what it became.
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At that time,
there wasn't a lot to cheer about.
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You wake up, you look at the news,
I mean, what put a smile on your face?
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And then we were this catalyst that…
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It just kind of
brought everybody back to life.
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Of all sports,
to be ice hockey to rally a country,
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{\an8}I guess it surprised us.
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{\an8}One-all the score.
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{\an8}Ten and a half minutes remain
in the first period.
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{\an8}Prior to 1980, the US was
not considered one of the world powers
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{\an8}in ice hockey.
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Deflected into the cage!
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- You'll probably beat 'em.
- The US team struggling a bit.
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No way the US will do
anything except lose this game.
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{\an8}They have outshot
the Americans by close to a 3-to-1 ratio.
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{\an8}The USA went into
today's game clearly the underdog.
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{\an8}Hockey in the US was a niche sport.
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{\an8}They weren't playing it in Mississippi,
they weren't playing it in Texas.
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I had been hired by the Globe, late '73.
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I was one of the hockey guys,
and the US was definitely second-tier.
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They were maybe seventh,
eighth in the world.
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But the feeling was,
these guys have no chance.
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Because the Soviets
were the world's best team.
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And they showed no signs
of slowing down by 1980.
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If anything,
they seemed to be getting better.
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Not only were they winning all the time,
they were pretty unapproachable.
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The key about 1980,
it was going to be a home game.
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And the assumption was, what if we lose
15-to-one to the Russians on TV?
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The US Olympic Committee
didn't want them to be embarrassed.
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So they needed to do it a different way.
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I played for the US
in the championships in 1979,
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{\an8}and then became assistant hockey coach.
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{\an8}But we were lucky if we ever won a game.
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And we barely ever did.
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We needed a change.
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And Herb was the perfect person,
because he had ideas.
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{\an8}A lot of you are really on the threshold
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{\an8}of joining a fraternity
of Minnesota hockey players.
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{\an8}There's nothing in your life
you'll find more proud, gentlemen.
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{\an8}Let's get ready to go. Come on.
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Minnesota, when Herb was coaching,
they were on a roll.
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Herb Brooks' day was a reign of dominance,
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winning national championships
in 1974, 1976, and 1979.
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He was the best coach in the country.
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And he introduced a system
that none of us knew.
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It's going to be more of a skating game,
more of a passing game.
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We don't want to abandon
the physical nature…
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My dad, he was a natural coach,
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{\an8}and competitive as all can be.
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I mean, no one
was more competitive than him.
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He came very organized.
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No one had ever
talked about getting a team,
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playing, you know, 60, 70 games,
and then taking them to the Olympic Games.
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That was new.
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For most of the athletes here
in the National Sports Festival
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in Colorado Springs,
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this competition marks
the beginning of a dream.
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An opportunity to represent their country
in the Olympic Games.
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{\an8}The last time the United States
won a gold medal in hockey was in 1960,
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{\an8}in Squaw Valley.
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The challenge facing Herb Brooks' entry
in Lake Placid in 1980
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is certainly an enormous one.
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Guys, we've got some footage
we wanted to show you.
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Oh my goodness, who's that?
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If you're here now,
you're fighting for a position.
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You're just hoping
you're one of the 20, 25 guys
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that'll make the team.
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Is that Janny in there? Janny!
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I want to know
how we all knew that was you.
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'Cause it scored.
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If you looked at the letter
of the Olympic rule at that time,
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you could not get paid to do your sport.
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So if you played in the NHL,
you were de facto not able to play.
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So there was a thing
about the American team.
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They were all amateurs.
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Underdogs, young,
not doing it for the money.
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I made my mind up to do whatever it took
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to be ready and prepared for the tryouts,
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so I trained harder
than I'd ever trained in my life.
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I would call it nervous excitement.
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This is your moment.
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All I wanted to do
was play on that Olympic team.
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It was uncharted territory for all of us.
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Nobody had gone through
this experience before.
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They named 26 guys.
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But there were 20 spots at the Olympics.
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There was no guarantee
that you'd make the final 20.
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Any time you have
the best players in the country
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vying for, you know, 20 spots,
uh, you're gonna be nervous.
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Get it on
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Bang a gong, get it on
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Herb basically had a six-month bootcamp.
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He had felt he had to
get these guys to become a team.
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And the biggest challenge
was what he called "regionalism."
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We want the best team that we can have.
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Historically speaking,
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the University of Minnesota,
or the state of Minnesota,
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has produced an awful lot towards
the Olympic and international programs.
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A core component were the Minnesota guys,
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which made complete sense
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because they'd just won
a national championship playing for Herb.
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Were you guys
"the class" of college hockey?
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We kind of like to think
we were the class.
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{\an8}We had a really good team.
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{\an8}You know, just getting an invite
to the Olympic tryouts
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{\an8}was as good as it was going to get.
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{\an8}And from Boston University,
there were the four BU guys.
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Myself…
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{\an8}Jack O'Callahan,
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{\an8}Mike Eruzione,
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{\an8}and Jim Craig.
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I think there was a healthy competition
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between kids out from out east
and playing in the Midwest.
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To us, the Boston guys,
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there was clearly a dislike for the kids
who played for University of Minnesota,
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played under Herb.
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The Minnesota guys
thought they were so rough and all this,
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and they called Boston guys "cake eaters."
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They thought we were preppies.
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What is a preppy?
Like, what, they went to prep school?
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Whatever. They're so stupid.
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I just didn't like those guys.
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Herb told me,
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"The guys we're gonna have on this team,
they don't like each other."
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A lot of these people have been
bitter rivals before coming to this team.
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We have to have
the chemistries come together.
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We cannot beat ourselves
on or off the ice.
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The exhibition tour we played
before the Olympics,
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I think we played 60 games.
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It was a grind.
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We went to Europe for a couple of weeks
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{\an8}and played in Holland
and Norway and Finland.
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We played Norway in an exhibition game.
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It was a big game for us
to measure ourselves
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against a team we're gonna
compete against in the Olympics.
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Our guys were anxious to get home,
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but, you know, they're guys.
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And there's pretty girls in the stands,
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{\an8}and they're sitting on the bench going,
"Oh, look at that one." You know?
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And I could see Herbie on the bench,
steam coming out of his ears.
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And we ended up tied, three-three.
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{\an8}The game ended,
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we shook hands with the Norwegian players,
and we're going off the ice…
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The next thing you know…
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"Stay on the ice."
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They didn't take it serious,
didn't play with the necessary intensity.
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They just sort of took a night off.
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And we started to do the Herbies.
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We called them Herbies
because we loved it so much
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we named them after our coach.
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A Herbie was a suicider, a gasser.
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Go to the boards to blue line,
back to where you started.
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Then skate to the red line,
back to where you started.
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Then you'd skate to the far blue line,
go back to where you started.
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Then you'd go down,
touch the boards, and come back.
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The Zamboni driver came over to me,
and he said, "You guys gotta go."
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He goes over and turns the lights off.
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So now the lights are off,
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and Herbie's skating them
like no tomorrow.
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And Naggy, the doctor, goes down and says,
"Herbie, you're going to kill them."
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Throughout the drills,
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guy was smashing their stick
against the boards.
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And I remember Herb saying,
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"If I hear another goddamn stick
smash against the boards,
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you'll skate till you die."
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I remember doing them
for about an hour and 15 minutes.
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Then we went back in the locker room,
finally, when we were done, and he said,
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"If you play this way again tomorrow,
you're gonna skate again."
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And we won eight-to-nothing the next day.
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I said, right from day one,
I'm not going to be your best friend.
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I admire your talents,
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and I'm going to push you
because I admire your talents.
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I saw how those players felt about him.
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They did not like him.
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I don't know if "hate" is the right word,
but he was hard to play for.
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I was afraid of Herb.
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What do you call it,
a hook on that center?
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Stop chasing hooks
and get in the darn game, will you?
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These players say how hard it was
to play for him for one year,
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or two years, three years, four years
at the University of Minnesota.
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And my response is,
"Try living with him for 20."
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Rabid hearts! Damn it!
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There was a level
of intensity that Herb had
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that just went beyond anything
I've seen out of anybody since.
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{\an8}Hey, Stan, this isn't
a basketball game now, come on!
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I-- I just thought he was crazy.
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How can you be so unhappy?
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Herb always made you feel
like you were never quite good enough.
251
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{\an8}He knew what buttons to push on each guy,
in front of everybody.
252
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{\an8}He would say, "You're not talented enough
to win on talent alone."
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"You got a million-dollar pair of legs
and a nickel brain."
254
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He said, "You're playing like you have
a ten-pound fart on your head."
255
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What does a ten-pound fart
on your head look like?
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I'm 68 years old, and I still wake up
in the middle of the night in a sweat.
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"Janaszak, you're playing worse every day,
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and right now,
you're playing like it's next week."
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Forwards look for that weak side…
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It took a unique individual
to be able to put up with…
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some of the shit Herb did.
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Come on, do what you're told!
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To play under? He was a prick.
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A lot of these guys,
being college All-Americans,
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said they were never pushed like that.
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And I wasn't trying
to put greatness into anybody,
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I was trying to pull it out.
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Herb 100% made himself the common enemy.
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That was his… his thought.
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It was gonna be us against him,
so the rivalry, that was over.
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You know, we were now
putting on a different jersey.
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The common thread with our players
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were that we were all guys that had
come from blue-collar backgrounds.
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Our dads were working in the mines
or working in the mills.
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That's how the whole team was,
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and that's why we all eventually
really clicked with each other.
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But as we were trying to meld as a team,
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the country was just
going through a rough patch.
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It's official, there will be a recession
in the United States this year.
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An increase in unemployment,
affecting perhaps a million workers,
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and the second-worst inflation
since World War II.
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There's no work going on any place.
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It's affecting low-income people like us.
We're getting the short end of the stick.
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I was in my first decade as a columnist,
285
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and the culture of the United States
in 1979 was depressed.
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{\an8}I would describe it as a nation,
at that point, saying,
287
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{\an8}"Can't anything go right?"
288
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{\an8}The accident occurred at
the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
289
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{\an8}I remember feeling, as a country,
290
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{\an8}we were just
very frustrated at that point.
291
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{\an8}There's been no change in the status
of the American hostages in Tehran.
292
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You had our hostages being held in Iran.
293
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{\an8}The prime rate was close to 20%.
294
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{\an8}There were gas lines.
295
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I've been in two gas lines already.
296
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- This morning?
- This morning. And I'm out of gas.
297
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Why doesn't anybody contact the president?
Why is he letting this happen to us?
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It is a crisis of confidence,
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{\an8}threatening to destroy the social
and the political fabric of America.
300
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{\an8}Had we lost our mojo?
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That was what was on people's minds.
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And we were in the midst of a Cold War
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that was about as cold as it could get
before it got hot.
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{\an8}You know, the big bad Russians.
Everybody was like…
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{\an8}looking over their shoulders all the time.
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You know, when is the bomb coming?
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It has been another tense day
for superpower relations
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at the Kremlin in Moscow
and the U.N. Security Council in New York.
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{\an8}They were the enemy.
They were Darth Vader.
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Not only for political purposes,
but for hockey purposes.
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{\an8}They had two exports.
The hockey team and vodka.
312
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{\an8}The Soviet Union understood
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{\an8}that becoming dominant in sports
would give the sense of power.
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{\an8}What you would hear in Russia,
they'd use the term nasha komanda.
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"Our team."
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"We identify our nation by how
nasha komanda does at the Olympic Games."
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"These are our guys. No one else."
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Soviets, of course, gold medal winners
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every Olympics since 1960.
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{\an8}When the Big Red Machine
gets rolling, they're mighty hard to stop.
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They were trained to be the best team
in the world, and they were.
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In those years, remember,
the Olympics were for amateurs.
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Well, the Soviet Union
could say, "Amateur-schmamateur."
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The fact is, everyone in the Soviet Union
works for the state.
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The Soviets would list
their players' occupation
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as students or soldiers.
327
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They were professional hockey players.
328
00:20:05,162 --> 00:20:07,914
Tretiak was the best goalie in the world.
329
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I mean, you could say, "Okay, well,
let's focus in on Kharlamov tonight."
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Okay, now we've got Krutov,
Maltsev, Petrov, Fetisov.
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{\an8}I mean, you know, you just go
right down the list of these guys,
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{\an8}and it's like, "Oh my goodness." I mean…
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Where do you start?
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Nobody could ever beat these guys.
They are too good.
335
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Goal!
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How did you understand
your dad's fixation on the Soviets?
337
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Well, it's all he talked about.
338
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{\an8}Guys in my generation,
the stories of their father
339
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{\an8}were stories about Joe Namath
and Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle.
340
00:20:43,283 --> 00:20:48,413
And it was Alexander Yakushev
and these unbelievable Russian players.
341
00:20:51,875 --> 00:20:54,543
The Soviets' practices back in the '70s,
342
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he would find out where they're practicing
and sneak a peek,
343
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and try to steal drills.
344
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He wanted to know what they were doing
to figure out a way to beat their ass.
345
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My mind was made up early.
346
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Our approach to the game
was going to be entirely different.
347
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{\an8}We're gonna change the way we train
and change the way we play.
348
00:21:13,230 --> 00:21:15,606
We were like Herbie's science experiment.
349
00:21:15,607 --> 00:21:18,819
He put a plan together
to train us like them.
350
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What makes the Soviets so great?
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Tremendous conditioning.
352
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,079
Jump! Jump!
353
00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:34,041
So, with every time
you play the great European teams,
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you play for a period or two,
you hit the wall and die.
355
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Can't keep up.
356
00:21:40,841 --> 00:21:42,968
So we weren't gonna hit the wall.
357
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Get it loose, get it loose!
358
00:21:51,893 --> 00:21:52,811
Mike, heads up!
359
00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:58,816
I remember Davie Silk
laying on the goal line one day,
360
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{\an8}we're skating Herbies,
and he said, "That's it, I'm done."
361
00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:05,407
{\an8}"I'm just gonna die here,
and it will be on his soul."
362
00:22:06,158 --> 00:22:08,160
You've gotta be sound in that area now.
363
00:22:09,036 --> 00:22:10,996
Weak side, weak side, weak side, Bobby!
364
00:22:12,831 --> 00:22:14,291
Herbie kicked our ass.
365
00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:17,835
I put them in deep water.
366
00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:19,837
Did a lot of things through our training
367
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that was getting them
out of that comfort zone.
368
00:22:22,382 --> 00:22:26,177
So I thought this hockey club
was the best-conditioned hockey club,
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outside of the Soviets, in the world.
370
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You deal with it, or you quit.
I ain't quitting.
371
00:22:33,310 --> 00:22:37,147
You can yell at me all you want.
I only gotta deal with you for two hours.
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Practice is over, we're gonna
go to the bar, have a few beers,
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I'm gonna go back to my apartment,
and I'll get ready for you the next day.
374
00:22:46,281 --> 00:22:49,159
I just looked at myself
as a guy who worked hard
375
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because of the work ethic and the values
that I was taught at a young age.
376
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274 Bowdoin Street,
it was a three-family house.
377
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On the first floor
was my Auntie Ann and Uncle Jerry,
378
00:23:01,963 --> 00:23:05,299
then there was my cousin Karen,
my cousin Geraldine, my cousin Bubba.
379
00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:08,010
On the third floor was my Aunt A.T.,
my Uncle Tony,
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00:23:08,011 --> 00:23:11,097
my cousin Tony, my cousin Richard,
my cousin Gail, my cousin Linda,
381
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my cousin Laurie, my cousin Richard.
382
00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:16,477
And on the second floor was me,
my mom, my sister Connie,
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00:23:16,478 --> 00:23:19,188
my sister Nancy,
my sister Jeannie, my sister Nettie,
384
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myself, and my brother Vinny.
385
00:23:21,483 --> 00:23:23,944
Fourteen kids and six adults.
386
00:23:24,569 --> 00:23:26,821
They'd freeze the tennis courts
down the street,
387
00:23:26,822 --> 00:23:28,280
and my friends used to play hockey.
388
00:23:28,281 --> 00:23:32,118
I wanted to play 'cause my friends played,
but I didn't have ice skates at the time.
389
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:37,081
I'd get my sister's white figure skates
with these blue pom-poms on the toes,
390
00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:40,167
and I'd walk down the hill,
uh, to the tennis courts
391
00:23:40,168 --> 00:23:42,461
and start playing ice hockey.
392
00:23:42,462 --> 00:23:45,297
I was 12 years old,
and I wanted to go to hockey school,
393
00:23:45,298 --> 00:23:48,300
and it was $75 for a two-week camp.
394
00:23:48,301 --> 00:23:50,302
My parents didn't have $75.
395
00:23:50,303 --> 00:23:52,264
So I went upstairs,
and I asked my Uncle Tony.
396
00:23:53,473 --> 00:23:57,351
I says, "Can I borrow $75?
I want to go to this hockey camp."
397
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And he said, "Absolutely."
398
00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:00,229
I went to the camp,
399
00:24:00,230 --> 00:24:03,107
and throughout the wintertime
we had some snowstorms,
400
00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:04,817
and couldn't wait for a snowstorm,
401
00:24:04,818 --> 00:24:07,027
'cause you'd grab that shovel,
and out you'd go.
402
00:24:07,028 --> 00:24:10,448
And I made $75 over a couple of storms,
403
00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:13,242
and I went back
and I gave it to my Uncle Tony.
404
00:24:13,243 --> 00:24:15,536
And he looked at me and goes,
"Thank you very much."
405
00:24:15,537 --> 00:24:17,998
He goes, "And here."
He gave me the money back.
406
00:24:18,582 --> 00:24:22,002
He says, "That's a lesson you learned
about repaying your debts."
407
00:24:22,961 --> 00:24:26,005
Growing up in that house,
and the understanding of work ethic,
408
00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:27,883
I think helped me along the way.
409
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:36,182
Are you happy
with the players you gathered?
410
00:24:36,183 --> 00:24:37,850
Oh, yes, very much so.
411
00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:41,021
Even though we're always looking
for ways to strengthen our club.
412
00:24:41,605 --> 00:24:45,441
How safe did you all feel
about making the team?
413
00:24:45,442 --> 00:24:46,693
Zero.
414
00:24:47,819 --> 00:24:49,488
Were you safe, Phil?
415
00:24:50,113 --> 00:24:52,574
{\an8}Every practice was a tryout.
416
00:24:54,451 --> 00:24:57,536
Every month, he kind of pared it back.
417
00:24:57,537 --> 00:25:00,873
{\an8}Probably by Christmas
he had it down to 22 players.
418
00:25:00,874 --> 00:25:04,336
{\an8}And we all knew it was 20
that could go into Lake Placid.
419
00:25:05,295 --> 00:25:07,087
He threatened to cut me.
420
00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:09,256
A few weeks before the Olympic Games,
421
00:25:09,257 --> 00:25:12,468
he starts ranting about,
you know, I'm not playing well,
422
00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:14,803
and, "I think I may have to cut you."
423
00:25:14,804 --> 00:25:17,139
"I'll bring you back
as an assistant coach."
424
00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:20,602
"I'll tell them you hurt your back
and you're not going to be able to play."
425
00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:24,313
And part of me was, "He can't do that!"
426
00:25:24,314 --> 00:25:27,651
But the other part of me was,
"He… …he could do that."
427
00:25:28,902 --> 00:25:31,320
Mike and I were roommates. He was nervous.
428
00:25:31,321 --> 00:25:33,073
You know, we all were nervous.
429
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:38,036
That day, we were leaving
to go to New York.
430
00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:40,162
Mike and I had packed our bags,
431
00:25:40,163 --> 00:25:42,665
and our three teammates
were picking us up,
432
00:25:42,666 --> 00:25:45,543
and all five of us
think we're going to Lake Placid.
433
00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:46,795
And the phone rings.
434
00:25:49,756 --> 00:25:52,384
"Hey, listen, Ralph,
Herb wants to talk to you."
435
00:25:53,134 --> 00:25:55,929
Drive over to the hotel,
436
00:25:56,638 --> 00:26:02,018
and I was literally almost panic-stricken.
I thought I was going to throw up.
437
00:26:02,727 --> 00:26:04,646
And I walked through the door,
438
00:26:05,730 --> 00:26:09,733
and Herb is visually upset,
like, to the point of almost crying.
439
00:26:09,734 --> 00:26:12,487
Eyes were red.
I mean, he was very emotional,
440
00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:16,616
and he could not,
for a few minutes, say anything.
441
00:26:18,201 --> 00:26:20,869
And he points to a chair
where he'd been sitting,
442
00:26:20,870 --> 00:26:24,666
and he sits down,
and we had this ten-minute conversation.
443
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:27,626
Some of the things
he appreciated about me,
444
00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:32,007
being a gentleman, being a good player,
showing up every day, practicing hard.
445
00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:35,552
"But I'm not gonna be able
to take you to Lake Placid."
446
00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,056
That moment…
447
00:26:41,057 --> 00:26:45,312
he knew what I was going through,
'cause he had been through it himself.
448
00:26:51,484 --> 00:26:55,780
I went through it personally.
I was close to the '60 Olympic team.
449
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:59,366
Two days before the Olympics,
I get a knock on the door.
450
00:26:59,367 --> 00:27:01,119
The general manager says,
"Go see the coach."
451
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,747
And he says, "Herb, I gotta release you."
452
00:27:04,956 --> 00:27:06,499
I was the last guy cut.
453
00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:11,796
So I came home.
I'm watching this thing on TV.
454
00:27:12,547 --> 00:27:18,428
But this is the big game of the Olympics.
The United States versus USSR.
455
00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:22,640
The Americans got hot.
They won our country's first gold medal.
456
00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:25,852
And the game is over!
The United States wins!
457
00:27:33,693 --> 00:27:35,153
My father looked over at me.
458
00:27:36,446 --> 00:27:40,116
He says, "Looks like the coach
cut the right guy, didn't he?"
459
00:27:41,034 --> 00:27:42,869
Just, bang!
460
00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:46,498
It was devastating to my dad, for sure.
461
00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:49,376
It scarred him.
462
00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:53,880
This is something he did not want to do.
It was hanging on him.
463
00:27:55,548 --> 00:27:58,175
I knew that day was coming. And I just…
464
00:27:58,176 --> 00:28:00,345
I didn't know how to act.
It just killed me.
465
00:28:01,388 --> 00:28:03,472
I said,
"The thing that really bothers me, Herb,
466
00:28:03,473 --> 00:28:06,726
I have this suspicion that you guys
have a chance of winning a gold medal."
467
00:28:07,894 --> 00:28:09,853
And then he actually
started laughing a bit,
468
00:28:09,854 --> 00:28:13,649
and he smirked, and he said,
"Oh God, you're so optimistic."
469
00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:17,945
He goes, "Look, I'd be so happy just
to be fighting for a medal at some point."
470
00:28:17,946 --> 00:28:20,281
"A medal of any color."
471
00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:25,703
{\an8}We had a team meeting, and Herbie said
if we play at the top of our game
472
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,830
{\an8}and get some breaks, we can win a bronze.
473
00:28:27,831 --> 00:28:30,458
Forget the gold. Soviets have the gold.
474
00:28:31,876 --> 00:28:35,879
{\an8}Any thought of beating them
might have been diminished somewhat
475
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,967
{\an8}after that Madison Square Garden game.
476
00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:42,928
We flew down to New York
to play the Russians.
477
00:28:42,929 --> 00:28:45,098
This is why we'd just been together
for six months.
478
00:28:46,141 --> 00:28:47,892
It was a measuring stick for us.
479
00:28:52,355 --> 00:28:55,065
I knew we were in trouble
when they introduced the Russian team
480
00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:56,900
and our players were applauding them.
481
00:28:56,901 --> 00:28:59,403
When we stepped on the ice
against the Soviets,
482
00:28:59,404 --> 00:29:01,739
{\an8}it was like,
"Oh shit, these guys are really good."
483
00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:05,826
Tries to get out of
the zone, cannot. Gets set, shoots! Score!
484
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:08,121
And the Soviets draw first blood.
485
00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:11,541
Shot by Alexander Maltsev.
486
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:13,960
Kharlamov, the veteran.
487
00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,211
He scores!
488
00:29:16,212 --> 00:29:19,424
Krutov going in.
Here's a shot, they score!
489
00:29:22,051 --> 00:29:23,135
They smoked us.
490
00:29:23,136 --> 00:29:25,512
Breaking down the right side is Maltsev.
491
00:29:25,513 --> 00:29:28,098
He's got a shot. He scores!
492
00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:32,186
I remember watching that goal, like,
"Oh my God, what did he just do?"
493
00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:34,855
There he is
coming down on the right-hand side.
494
00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:37,776
Right in the short side,
beautiful execution.
495
00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:39,818
I went to the bench, I said,
496
00:29:39,819 --> 00:29:41,905
"Herbie, we don't have
a chance against these guys."
497
00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:44,115
And he looks at me and said, "No shit."
498
00:29:46,534 --> 00:29:49,453
Two US players
came together and put each other down.
499
00:29:49,454 --> 00:29:50,829
Oh, what a collision.
500
00:29:50,830 --> 00:29:54,375
Did he ever get hit.
This was the toughest check of the game.
501
00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:58,713
{\an8}We basically had
the crap kicked out of us.
502
00:29:59,214 --> 00:30:01,882
Ten to three,
and it could've been 20 to three.
503
00:30:01,883 --> 00:30:04,426
I mean, they were so much more skilled
than we were.
504
00:30:04,427 --> 00:30:07,347
{\an8}Well, if I was a player,
I'd be a bit discouraged at this point.
505
00:30:08,181 --> 00:30:10,892
They just toyed with the US.
506
00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:12,976
{\an8}That scared the hell out of me
507
00:30:12,977 --> 00:30:16,188
{\an8}when it came to thinking about
what would take place in the Olympics.
508
00:30:16,189 --> 00:30:17,732
It was gonna be a runaway.
509
00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:20,984
I don't think it is hyperbolic at all
510
00:30:20,985 --> 00:30:24,947
{\an8}to say that they were not
just two teams on the ice,
511
00:30:24,948 --> 00:30:26,573
{\an8}but these were nations
512
00:30:26,574 --> 00:30:30,495
{\an8}representing different views
of the present and the future.
513
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,753
There was a coup d'état
in Afghanistan today.
514
00:30:39,337 --> 00:30:41,506
Soviet troops helped
overthrow the government.
515
00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:50,305
The Soviet action
is a grave threat to peace.
516
00:30:50,306 --> 00:30:52,474
President Carter
put it on the record today.
517
00:30:52,475 --> 00:30:54,643
The United States, he says,
should not participate
518
00:30:54,644 --> 00:30:56,562
in the Summer Olympics in Moscow
519
00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:59,440
unless the Soviets
get their troops out of Afghanistan.
520
00:31:00,149 --> 00:31:02,526
Jimmy Carter said
something had to be done,
521
00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:05,362
and we will not
go to the Olympics in Russia.
522
00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:09,033
It was a serious, symbolic gesture.
523
00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:15,289
The troubles of the world
524
00:31:15,290 --> 00:31:18,208
simply refused to be
hermetically sealed off from the Olympics.
525
00:31:18,209 --> 00:31:19,209
They intruded.
526
00:31:19,210 --> 00:31:22,671
As the athletes began to gather
in Upstate New York,
527
00:31:22,672 --> 00:31:25,465
the politics were the politics
of the Cold War,
528
00:31:25,466 --> 00:31:27,594
which was still very cold.
529
00:31:30,471 --> 00:31:32,681
The fact that
American athletes may boycott
530
00:31:32,682 --> 00:31:35,767
the Moscow Olympics has done nothing
to stop the Soviet eagerness
531
00:31:35,768 --> 00:31:38,187
to win gold medals in Lake Placid.
532
00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:46,278
The Russians, they were on a mission
533
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:49,407
to glorify their country on our soil.
534
00:31:49,991 --> 00:31:53,035
{\an8}So, I think one of the decisions
that they made is,
535
00:31:53,036 --> 00:31:54,828
{\an8}"Okay, we're gonna come to the US,
536
00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:58,041
{\an8}and we're gonna take the gold medal
in as many sports as we can."
537
00:31:58,625 --> 00:32:02,003
Saying, "Hey, through this, we're better."
538
00:32:05,214 --> 00:32:07,050
Bear, right here.
539
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:13,430
Those questions about
the political aspect of it…
540
00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:16,433
You try to remind them
that we're not there for that reason.
541
00:32:16,434 --> 00:32:18,185
You're an Olympian.
542
00:32:18,186 --> 00:32:20,896
I made it, I'm here, the Olympic Games.
543
00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:22,106
What a great honor.
544
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:52,844
Of course, the Russian team
came in those wild fur things they wore.
545
00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:54,054
- They looked warm.
- Yeah.
546
00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:55,347
- They did.
- It was cold.
547
00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:57,642
- It was cold, wasn't it?
- Freezing.
548
00:32:58,726 --> 00:33:02,104
And the Russians with
their fur coats and their big fur hats.
549
00:33:02,105 --> 00:33:05,941
{\an8}The Russian bear and the American cowboy.
550
00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:08,569
{\an8}Now the United States, the host nation.
551
00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:15,117
{\an8}You know, you've prepared all your life
for this moment,
552
00:33:15,118 --> 00:33:18,371
{\an8}and now you can't have any regrets.
You've got to be ready to go.
553
00:33:22,583 --> 00:33:25,711
Walking in the opening ceremonies,
554
00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:27,296
this is what I've dreamt about.
555
00:33:36,931 --> 00:33:39,851
I am pleased to declare, officially,
556
00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:44,021
the opening of the 13th Winter Olympics
557
00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:45,815
{\an8}at Lake Placid.
558
00:33:54,449 --> 00:33:56,616
I grew up watching the Olympics.
559
00:33:56,617 --> 00:33:59,369
Every four years,
I was parked right in front of the TV.
560
00:33:59,370 --> 00:34:01,830
The Olympic team was something, you know,
561
00:34:01,831 --> 00:34:05,585
you never expect that you'll ever have
a chance to do in your lifetime.
562
00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:12,382
My earliest memories
are, uh, skating in my backyard.
563
00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:14,135
Uh, grew up in Michigan.
564
00:34:15,011 --> 00:34:17,555
Small house, working-class neighborhood.
565
00:34:18,347 --> 00:34:21,642
{\an8}My dad got my brother and I
started in hockey.
566
00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:26,813
After it would snow,
we'd trample down the snow with our boots.
567
00:34:26,814 --> 00:34:29,691
We would pull a hose
out of the basement window,
568
00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:33,445
and flood it,
and make our, uh, our own rink.
569
00:34:33,446 --> 00:34:36,991
Everything around Flint, Michigan
was related to the auto industry.
570
00:34:38,409 --> 00:34:42,579
My dad worked at a manufacturing plant
making auto parts.
571
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:45,123
His official title was an oiler.
572
00:34:45,124 --> 00:34:48,377
He went around and made sure
all the machines were in working order.
573
00:34:50,338 --> 00:34:51,631
I was 19.
574
00:34:52,131 --> 00:34:54,342
And, uh, he got sick that summer.
575
00:34:55,343 --> 00:34:57,052
It came on suddenly.
576
00:34:57,053 --> 00:35:00,932
Originally it was melanoma,
that turned into brain cancer.
577
00:35:01,432 --> 00:35:06,019
And so he… he went downhill quickly.
578
00:35:06,020 --> 00:35:07,687
Um…
579
00:35:07,688 --> 00:35:09,439
Yeah, it was, uh…
580
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,484
Yeah, really, really hard time.
581
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,029
Especially having to leave
and not be there for him.
582
00:35:16,030 --> 00:35:18,156
But he was adamant
583
00:35:18,157 --> 00:35:24,080
that, uh, if the opportunity was there
to play for your country, take it.
584
00:35:44,225 --> 00:35:47,144
You're going on these small,
single-lane roads,
585
00:35:47,145 --> 00:35:49,646
{\an8}and all of a sudden
you come into this community that…
586
00:35:49,647 --> 00:35:53,609
{\an8}I mean, it's 3,000 people at the most,
counting the dogs and cats.
587
00:35:57,655 --> 00:35:59,699
It's all dressed up for the Olympics.
588
00:36:00,950 --> 00:36:03,494
And it just seemed a little out of place.
589
00:36:04,203 --> 00:36:05,996
Look where the speed skating rink is.
590
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:10,418
It basically occupied
the front steps of a high school.
591
00:36:12,753 --> 00:36:16,382
{\an8}We were all so excited about Eric Heiden.
You know, he was the star of the show.
592
00:36:18,968 --> 00:36:22,513
The US speed skating team
had high expectations.
593
00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:24,807
Hockey team…
594
00:36:25,474 --> 00:36:27,143
Absolutely no way.
595
00:36:32,064 --> 00:36:35,193
When we got to Lake Placid,
we were in, like, a cocoon,
596
00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:38,695
and not realizing
what was going on around us,
597
00:36:38,696 --> 00:36:40,448
but we knew it was gonna be hard.
598
00:36:41,908 --> 00:36:44,160
You know,
you picked up Sports Illustrated…
599
00:36:44,952 --> 00:36:46,829
Soviets are going to win the gold medal.
600
00:36:47,538 --> 00:36:49,831
Czechoslovakia maybe
could upset the Soviets.
601
00:36:49,832 --> 00:36:52,418
United States,
anywhere seventh to twelfth place.
602
00:36:59,467 --> 00:37:00,842
As a team,
603
00:37:00,843 --> 00:37:03,262
I think we were curious, anxious,
604
00:37:03,846 --> 00:37:06,807
wondering how we were
gonna compete at that level.
605
00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:09,726
The way the 1980
hockey tournament was structured,
606
00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:13,230
there were 12 teams
divided into two six-team divisions.
607
00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,981
You played every team in your group.
608
00:37:14,982 --> 00:37:17,651
Two points for a victory,
one point for a tie.
609
00:37:17,652 --> 00:37:19,778
At the end of that round-robin,
610
00:37:19,779 --> 00:37:22,823
the top two teams in each division
made the medal round.
611
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,165
There was nothing special
about that atmosphere.
612
00:37:32,166 --> 00:37:34,961
The Swedes were favored to win the game.
613
00:37:35,544 --> 00:37:37,380
There wasn't a lot of buzz.
614
00:37:38,589 --> 00:37:40,174
The arena was half full.
615
00:37:40,841 --> 00:37:43,552
You could hear the puck
bouncing around the boards.
616
00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:46,179
I remember having a thought that,
617
00:37:46,180 --> 00:37:49,600
{\an8}"God, I thought it was gonna be
a little bit better than this."
618
00:37:54,897 --> 00:37:56,564
The Swedes were so good.
619
00:37:56,565 --> 00:37:58,693
Oh my God, we don't have a chance
against these guys.
620
00:38:00,569 --> 00:38:02,822
The Swedes had a really good team,
and they were fast.
621
00:38:12,915 --> 00:38:16,793
{\an8}Twenty-three passes to Berglund,
who deflects it past Craig.
622
00:38:16,794 --> 00:38:19,839
{\an8}And Sweden moves in front, one to nothing.
623
00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:23,258
{\an8}The first period of
the Sweden game, we didn't play very well.
624
00:38:23,259 --> 00:38:24,718
We were running around a little,
625
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,222
not doing the things
that we felt we were capable of doing.
626
00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:31,809
I know we were all nervous as hell.
627
00:38:33,185 --> 00:38:35,396
{\an8}And then I got hurt the first shift.
628
00:38:39,442 --> 00:38:44,363
My thigh, just a big contusion from
my knee to my hip, just…
629
00:38:46,741 --> 00:38:50,660
It hurt like hell. I mean, a lot.
I couldn't play. I couldn't move.
630
00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:52,872
So I was done, I thought.
631
00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:57,292
I'm in the locker room,
I'm on my back, I had all my gear off.
632
00:38:57,293 --> 00:38:59,586
I've got my leg bent, with an ice pack.
633
00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:02,340
I was in tears.
634
00:39:03,591 --> 00:39:08,261
One shift in a game, and I… I'm screwed.
My Olympic experience is over.
635
00:39:08,262 --> 00:39:09,680
Then Herbie came in.
636
00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:13,058
Herbie went off on Robbie.
637
00:39:13,059 --> 00:39:15,435
{\an8}Told him he'd never play
in the National Hockey League,
638
00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:17,395
{\an8}he was the biggest puss,
and everything else.
639
00:39:17,396 --> 00:39:20,566
"Don't be a candy-ass.
Get out there and play."
640
00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:23,443
I played for the guy
for three years at Minnesota.
641
00:39:23,444 --> 00:39:25,111
I did everything he asked of me.
642
00:39:25,112 --> 00:39:26,696
Always.
643
00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:28,865
I was a good soldier.
644
00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:31,242
He's challenging me like that?
I'm going, "What the hell?"
645
00:39:31,243 --> 00:39:33,703
"That's-- This is complete--"
I… I lost it.
646
00:39:33,704 --> 00:39:35,622
I was this far-- I seriously…
647
00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:39,542
As I was gonna throw a punch,
that's when he turned and walked out.
648
00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:41,628
We were-- I was that close.
649
00:39:41,629 --> 00:39:45,131
{\an8}I'm thinking to myself, like, "Oh my gosh,
this is what we signed up for?"
650
00:39:45,132 --> 00:39:46,883
{\an8}We've only played 20 minutes
651
00:39:46,884 --> 00:39:49,344
and we're destructing right now
in front of our own eyes.
652
00:39:49,345 --> 00:39:50,637
I mean, I stood there,
653
00:39:50,638 --> 00:39:54,182
and I really doubted Herbie
for the first time in my life.
654
00:39:54,183 --> 00:39:57,103
I thought, "My God,
we're at the Olympics, and he's lost it."
655
00:39:58,479 --> 00:40:01,106
In essence, I said,
"You won't tell me if I can play."
656
00:40:01,107 --> 00:40:02,525
"I'll tell you if I can play."
657
00:40:04,026 --> 00:40:06,820
I wanted to play, so give it a shot.
658
00:40:06,821 --> 00:40:10,032
On the way out, he gives a wink,
like, "Mission accomplished."
659
00:40:10,783 --> 00:40:13,618
I just said,
"Hey, I gotta shake these boys up."
660
00:40:13,619 --> 00:40:17,038
McClanahan, I know what buttons
to press with this kid.
661
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:20,917
So I took the tough road.
And he played. He played like hell.
662
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:23,002
{\an8}Robbie gets his stuff on, we go back out
663
00:40:23,003 --> 00:40:26,297
He cannot--
literally cannot sit on the bench,
664
00:40:26,298 --> 00:40:28,884
so he would stand in between shifts.
665
00:40:29,468 --> 00:40:32,179
It rolls back to the far side…
666
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,514
{\an8}Lundqvist scores!
667
00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:40,438
{\an8}With startling suddenness,
Sweden has gone into the lead.
668
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,023
{\an8}I remember my mom and I sitting
at the Sweden game and…
669
00:40:44,024 --> 00:40:45,484
{\an8}- Kelly was crying.
- I was crying.
670
00:40:46,235 --> 00:40:50,322
And I said,
"We came this far, and we're losing."
671
00:40:56,078 --> 00:40:57,912
We were slow starters,
672
00:40:57,913 --> 00:41:02,918
{\an8}and then, in the third period,
we got stronger and stronger.
673
00:41:03,627 --> 00:41:06,504
Craig on the bench,
with only 41 seconds remaining
674
00:41:06,505 --> 00:41:07,881
in the hockey game.
675
00:41:07,882 --> 00:41:11,301
{\an8}When you're down by a goal,
you pull the goalie
676
00:41:11,302 --> 00:41:13,053
{\an8}to get the extra attacker out there.
677
00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:17,892
{\an8}It's that moment, right?
We've got to find a way to score.
678
00:41:18,767 --> 00:41:22,563
If we lose that first game against Sweden,
we can't be in the medal round.
679
00:41:25,816 --> 00:41:28,443
{\an8}Rammer was out with me,
and he shoots it over to me,
680
00:41:28,444 --> 00:41:29,862
{\an8}so I just rang it around the board.
681
00:41:31,197 --> 00:41:34,657
Behind the net now,
the United States trailing by one here.
682
00:41:34,658 --> 00:41:38,412
Against the boards, rolled out in front,
here's a chance! Scores!
683
00:41:40,664 --> 00:41:42,208
Baker!
684
00:41:42,833 --> 00:41:46,295
{\an8}The Olympic Arena
here in Lake Placid goes crazy.
685
00:41:46,879 --> 00:41:50,257
{\an8}A very, very, very important goal
for the United States.
686
00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:52,509
A surprisingly good shot.
687
00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:54,929
Well, yeah. Yeah, you're right.
688
00:41:55,513 --> 00:41:57,139
Maybe the biggest goal of the Olympics.
689
00:41:59,141 --> 00:42:02,018
{\an8}Against the Swedes, the US team never led.
690
00:42:02,019 --> 00:42:05,272
{\an8}Only the fine play
of goalie Jim Craig kept them in it.
691
00:42:09,276 --> 00:42:12,571
I was one of eight.
An Irish Catholic family.
692
00:42:13,447 --> 00:42:17,408
I'd always write this little love letter
to my mother every morning,
693
00:42:17,409 --> 00:42:20,746
and I'd put it in the mailbox,
and I'd go off to school.
694
00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:24,791
My family members always say
that I was my mother's favorite,
695
00:42:24,792 --> 00:42:26,793
and I used to get really upset about that,
696
00:42:26,794 --> 00:42:29,964
but now I say,
"Hey, good, I was her favorite."
697
00:42:31,257 --> 00:42:34,717
I'm in the back of the classroom,
scribbling away,
698
00:42:34,718 --> 00:42:37,720
and Mrs. Barry, my third-grade teacher,
699
00:42:37,721 --> 00:42:40,181
she goes, "What are you doing?"
700
00:42:40,182 --> 00:42:43,601
I said, "I'm practicing my autograph."
And she said, "What for?"
701
00:42:43,602 --> 00:42:46,355
I said, "Because someday
it's gonna be worth a lot of money."
702
00:42:47,439 --> 00:42:51,442
We played hockey in the basement,
we played hockey in the kitchen.
703
00:42:51,443 --> 00:42:52,403
That's all we did.
704
00:42:53,571 --> 00:42:56,573
So there's Jim Craig.
He's a hot goaltender.
705
00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:59,410
Fifteen-and-oh,
his record so far for the season.
706
00:42:59,910 --> 00:43:03,956
My first year at BU, my mother was sick.
707
00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:07,418
You know, cancer's so mean.
708
00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:11,337
Here I am in Boston,
she's at Mass General.
709
00:43:11,338 --> 00:43:13,215
After practice, I wouldn't go eat.
710
00:43:14,008 --> 00:43:16,050
Get on the Green Line, go to Mass General.
711
00:43:16,051 --> 00:43:19,263
My mother would save me her food.
We'd sit there and eat.
712
00:43:20,931 --> 00:43:23,517
My mother was an extremely strong woman.
713
00:43:24,101 --> 00:43:25,268
She helped me,
714
00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:31,774
and gave me permission
and an expectation to keep going on,
715
00:43:31,775 --> 00:43:33,652
or I would be letting her down.
716
00:43:34,862 --> 00:43:35,778
We set goals.
717
00:43:35,779 --> 00:43:37,948
You know, I wanted
to make the Olympic team.
718
00:43:38,699 --> 00:43:42,369
And then, you know, she said,
"Don't let anything get in the way."
719
00:43:49,418 --> 00:43:51,961
When somebody dies,
they don't lose their strength.
720
00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:54,048
They give it to somebody who earns it.
721
00:43:56,383 --> 00:43:57,301
So…
722
00:44:02,931 --> 00:44:03,932
It meant…
723
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,522
She gave me a lot of her strength.
724
00:44:12,483 --> 00:44:15,569
{\an8}I think my boys were very fortunate.
They had a very exceptional mother.
725
00:44:16,362 --> 00:44:18,655
She was very dedicated.
She spent her life,
726
00:44:18,656 --> 00:44:20,824
and her whole life
was her boys and her family.
727
00:44:21,784 --> 00:44:25,204
He still had her clothes in the closet.
728
00:44:25,871 --> 00:44:27,831
He's sitting at home by himself.
729
00:44:28,415 --> 00:44:32,086
You know, he was a sad man
who lost his best friend,
730
00:44:33,921 --> 00:44:37,049
and was kind of like in a spot,
he didn't know where to go.
731
00:44:37,675 --> 00:44:40,426
And, uh, the biggest joy
the Olympics brought me
732
00:44:40,427 --> 00:44:42,721
was it made my father reborn.
733
00:44:56,610 --> 00:45:03,574
The Greek Stoic Epictetus said,
"Remember that you're an actor in a play."
734
00:45:03,575 --> 00:45:07,161
Whether you are a common man,
whether you're a king,
735
00:45:07,162 --> 00:45:10,707
your job is to act the role
that you've been given,
736
00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:13,460
but to choose that role
belongs to another.
737
00:45:16,547 --> 00:45:20,591
The spring of 1979,
fresh off of a national championship.
738
00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:22,969
Most Valuable Player
of the national championship,
739
00:45:22,970 --> 00:45:24,471
Most Valuable Player of the team.
740
00:45:25,180 --> 00:45:26,556
Pretty hot stuff.
741
00:45:26,557 --> 00:45:30,893
Minnesota is the best team in the country.
We're number one, and we're the best.
742
00:45:30,894 --> 00:45:32,186
So young.
743
00:45:32,187 --> 00:45:34,732
It's a guy that just wants to play hockey.
744
00:45:35,816 --> 00:45:37,859
After we win the national championship,
745
00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:40,570
I'm sitting outside
of Bierman Field Athletic Building,
746
00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:42,071
University of Minnesota,
747
00:45:42,072 --> 00:45:44,323
reading an interview of Herb Brooks.
748
00:45:44,324 --> 00:45:45,950
And he said in this interview,
749
00:45:45,951 --> 00:45:49,287
"If we're going to win in 1980,
we're gonna need good goaltending."
750
00:45:49,288 --> 00:45:51,831
And I'm grinning ear to ear.
751
00:45:51,832 --> 00:45:56,295
The next line was, "And this kid Jim Craig
is one hell of a goaltender."
752
00:45:57,087 --> 00:45:59,214
Wow, this is gonna be
tougher than I thought.
753
00:46:00,090 --> 00:46:01,299
Jimmy was our guy.
754
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:03,885
I thought he was
the best goalkeeper available.
755
00:46:03,886 --> 00:46:05,845
And, yeah, it hurt Janaszak.
756
00:46:05,846 --> 00:46:08,014
But when you're not getting
a lot of ice time,
757
00:46:08,015 --> 00:46:10,184
you have to show unusual character.
758
00:46:11,143 --> 00:46:13,771
There were 240 players in Lake Placid,
759
00:46:14,271 --> 00:46:17,065
and I was the only player
that didn't see any ice time.
760
00:46:18,233 --> 00:46:22,570
Instead of it being a negative,
Steve was a positive.
761
00:46:22,571 --> 00:46:24,865
He worked his ass off all the time.
762
00:46:26,742 --> 00:46:29,119
I played the role that I was given.
763
00:46:29,620 --> 00:46:33,498
Not playing, just sitting,
is the hardest thing I've ever done.
764
00:46:33,499 --> 00:46:36,292
Because you're wired to play,
765
00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:39,087
and now you gotta sit there
and keep your mouth shut.
766
00:46:41,965 --> 00:46:44,259
There was an entertainment complex
in the Village.
767
00:46:44,843 --> 00:46:46,345
It was next to the cafeteria.
768
00:46:46,929 --> 00:46:48,638
A bunch of us went in one night,
769
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:51,600
and we were gonna
watch Saturday Night Fever.
770
00:46:54,561 --> 00:46:57,230
{\an8}And this interpreter for the
International Olympic Committee
771
00:46:57,231 --> 00:46:58,899
comes trotting down the aisle.
772
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:01,025
She was cute,
773
00:47:01,026 --> 00:47:04,612
and see if I can get to know her
a little bit better.
774
00:47:04,613 --> 00:47:08,366
So I would bring her
ice cream sodas and stuff
775
00:47:08,367 --> 00:47:11,202
pretty much every day
while we were in and out of there.
776
00:47:11,203 --> 00:47:15,249
That interpreter,
15 months later, became my wife.
777
00:47:16,917 --> 00:47:20,212
I proposed, and we were married
in May of 1981.
778
00:47:20,796 --> 00:47:24,465
She is the greatest thing
that ever happened to me in my life.
779
00:47:24,466 --> 00:47:29,095
And even though I didn't play,
the luckiest guy of those 20 guys,
780
00:47:29,096 --> 00:47:30,973
no doubt, hands down.
781
00:47:31,974 --> 00:47:35,561
Time at the first lap, 31.803.
782
00:47:53,078 --> 00:47:55,705
This will no doubt
be a very emotional game.
783
00:47:55,706 --> 00:47:58,332
The United States
have a very rough schedule.
784
00:47:58,333 --> 00:48:02,003
They're back against the silver medalists
at the world championships last year,
785
00:48:02,004 --> 00:48:03,254
the Czechoslovakian team,
786
00:48:03,255 --> 00:48:06,341
which has a very strong,
experienced hockey club.
787
00:48:08,594 --> 00:48:10,469
First two games, the Swedes and Czechs?
788
00:48:10,470 --> 00:48:11,846
I mean, are you kidding me?
789
00:48:11,847 --> 00:48:13,599
That's thrown right to the fire.
790
00:48:19,229 --> 00:48:22,690
The expectations
against the Czechs was for us to get beat.
791
00:48:22,691 --> 00:48:24,151
And, basically, beat handily.
792
00:48:24,902 --> 00:48:28,362
But for us, we needed to play our game.
793
00:48:28,363 --> 00:48:30,990
Just outside the Czechoslovakian line.
794
00:48:30,991 --> 00:48:35,661
Marián Šťastný goes after Broten,
feeds a pass on that left side, scores!
795
00:48:35,662 --> 00:48:38,999
{\an8}Eruzione fires it in and it's one-one.
796
00:48:43,670 --> 00:48:46,757
The United States,
just playing a great hockey game.
797
00:48:49,009 --> 00:48:51,470
Putting them under all kinds of pressure.
798
00:48:52,471 --> 00:48:54,056
{\an8}And Schneider puts it in!
799
00:48:55,807 --> 00:48:57,434
{\an8}Boy, it looks easy there.
800
00:49:02,064 --> 00:49:04,983
The Czechs were considered
the second-best team in the world.
801
00:49:05,817 --> 00:49:07,652
And we played well.
802
00:49:07,653 --> 00:49:10,196
You know something's going right.
Something's going your way.
803
00:49:10,197 --> 00:49:11,155
And you could feel it.
804
00:49:11,156 --> 00:49:13,533
{\an8}Mark Johnson scores!
805
00:49:15,953 --> 00:49:17,161
{\an8}Scores!
806
00:49:17,162 --> 00:49:19,956
{\an8}And the United States has opened it up.
807
00:49:19,957 --> 00:49:21,207
{\an8}Schneider.
808
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,918
{\an8}This is just unbelievable.
809
00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:27,422
{\an8}McClanahan gets the puck,
front of the net. He shoots, he scores!
810
00:49:28,882 --> 00:49:30,257
{\an8}We dominated the game.
811
00:49:30,258 --> 00:49:33,261
It was a huge, huge confidence builder.
812
00:49:33,929 --> 00:49:36,597
And now everybody's starting to talk
about the hockey team.
813
00:49:36,598 --> 00:49:42,603
USA! USA! USA!
814
00:49:42,604 --> 00:49:44,563
That was the first time
815
00:49:44,564 --> 00:49:48,901
that I can ever remember
the "USA, USA" chant.
816
00:49:48,902 --> 00:49:50,778
That hadn't taken place at that point.
817
00:49:50,779 --> 00:49:53,572
{\an8}It was a moment where everything flipped,
818
00:49:53,573 --> 00:49:55,200
{\an8}because during the '70s,
819
00:49:55,826 --> 00:49:58,703
we were burning a lot of American flags.
820
00:49:58,704 --> 00:50:00,414
We went from burning the flags…
821
00:50:01,748 --> 00:50:03,792
…to waving the flags.
822
00:50:04,543 --> 00:50:05,919
Seven to three,
823
00:50:06,503 --> 00:50:10,048
and the celebration continues
here in Lake Placid.
824
00:50:11,258 --> 00:50:14,301
Czechoslovakian team
was so frustrated, they can't believe it.
825
00:50:14,302 --> 00:50:16,972
They're gonna lose to this team
by four goals?
826
00:50:17,723 --> 00:50:20,642
Then all of a sudden,
one of their guys became a goon.
827
00:50:26,815 --> 00:50:28,107
Three minutes to go,
828
00:50:28,108 --> 00:50:31,277
Mark gets a cheap shot
from a Czech player.
829
00:50:31,278 --> 00:50:34,906
We've got a player down.
That's Mark Johnson, who's played well.
830
00:50:35,532 --> 00:50:39,243
- And I didn't see what happened there.
- I saw. I'll tell you.
831
00:50:39,244 --> 00:50:41,746
Neliba just cross-checked him
right in the throat.
832
00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:43,040
It was just brutal.
833
00:50:43,957 --> 00:50:46,668
You know, this is
our best player on the ice.
834
00:50:47,169 --> 00:50:49,004
Hoping he's not really hurt.
835
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:52,424
Right down your throat, 3.
836
00:50:55,135 --> 00:50:57,512
Bury that goddamn stick
right in your throat.
837
00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:00,973
- Those eyes are scary.
- Yeah.
838
00:51:00,974 --> 00:51:03,727
When he gets that look,
and I've seen that look…
839
00:51:05,312 --> 00:51:07,022
You do not want that look.
840
00:51:07,939 --> 00:51:09,190
He was pissed.
841
00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:11,400
I never saw him that mad.
He was really mad.
842
00:51:11,401 --> 00:51:13,361
Eat that goddamn Koho, 3.
843
00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:16,155
I think it showed us that, you know,
844
00:51:16,156 --> 00:51:19,993
as hard as he was to play for,
he cared about us.
845
00:51:22,579 --> 00:51:27,084
- He was riled up because… it was Magic.
- It was our best guy.
846
00:51:28,335 --> 00:51:31,463
If it was me or anybody else,
it would've been, "Ah, he's all right."
847
00:51:32,255 --> 00:51:35,342
We can't lose Mark.
If we lose Mark, we've got no chance.
848
00:51:40,347 --> 00:51:42,474
On the faceoff. Šťastný.
849
00:51:43,266 --> 00:51:46,560
Couldn't control it.
Strobel's in. Six seconds left.
850
00:51:46,561 --> 00:51:50,564
Five, four, three, two, one.
851
00:51:50,565 --> 00:51:54,820
{\an8}The game is over
just as Jim Craig catches the puck.
852
00:51:55,737 --> 00:51:57,404
{\an8}The USA win it
853
00:51:57,405 --> 00:52:00,408
with a tremendous game
against Czechoslovakia.
854
00:52:04,371 --> 00:52:07,957
If you ask someone what's impressed them
the most about the Olympics thus far,
855
00:52:07,958 --> 00:52:10,042
chances are they'd say the US hockey team.
856
00:52:10,043 --> 00:52:13,796
The squad came into the games unheralded,
even a little unsure.
857
00:52:13,797 --> 00:52:16,841
They're becoming known
as the darlings of the Olympics.
858
00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:19,260
No one will be cheering more wildly today
859
00:52:19,261 --> 00:52:21,720
than the people
who are crowded into this house.
860
00:52:21,721 --> 00:52:25,057
Forty mothers, fathers,
brothers, and sisters
861
00:52:25,058 --> 00:52:27,643
of the American Olympic hockey players.
862
00:52:27,644 --> 00:52:31,021
So I had to finish the shower,
jump out, run out check this one.
863
00:52:31,022 --> 00:52:32,189
Still available.
864
00:52:32,190 --> 00:52:34,733
{\an8}Run in here for a shave
and a tooth brushing job.
865
00:52:34,734 --> 00:52:36,527
Then I forgot my toothpaste,
866
00:52:36,528 --> 00:52:38,320
I run back to the room
to get the toothpaste,
867
00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:39,864
hoping nobody would get in there.
868
00:52:39,865 --> 00:52:43,743
And these mothers, uh, see me go that way,
shut the door.
869
00:52:44,411 --> 00:52:46,079
To my right here.
870
00:52:46,580 --> 00:52:48,540
You know? What more can I say?
871
00:52:49,249 --> 00:52:52,043
That's unbelievable. My dad was the man.
872
00:52:52,627 --> 00:52:54,628
Always said, "Pear trees have pears."
873
00:52:54,629 --> 00:52:57,507
You know? And I think my dad
was a pear tree, and I was a pear.
874
00:52:59,843 --> 00:53:04,598
My town, Charlestown,
it's on the north side of Boston.
875
00:53:05,182 --> 00:53:09,101
And the town was full of cops,
firemen, my dad was an electrician,
876
00:53:09,102 --> 00:53:11,521
plumbers, pipe fitters, and gangsters.
877
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,482
They were all in the town,
all went to church on Sunday mornings.
878
00:53:15,483 --> 00:53:18,153
We all knew who they were,
but no one would ever say anything.
879
00:53:19,029 --> 00:53:21,822
When you're growing up
in a place like Charlestown,
880
00:53:21,823 --> 00:53:23,240
you know how to avoid trouble.
881
00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:26,828
Sometimes you can't avoid it,
so you know how to throw the first punch.
882
00:53:27,412 --> 00:53:30,539
I was always that kind of person,
even back when I was playing hockey.
883
00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:32,208
I just didn't like losing.
884
00:53:32,209 --> 00:53:35,753
I can lose a game of checkers,
stuff like that, I'm not a psychotic,
885
00:53:35,754 --> 00:53:38,214
but I definitely brought intensity
to my game.
886
00:53:38,215 --> 00:53:41,675
I think I'll be so much better off
from having lived through this experience.
887
00:53:41,676 --> 00:53:45,971
I'd have passed up a million dollars
to be able to compete in this competition.
888
00:53:45,972 --> 00:53:49,351
Just to play for my country
is the greatest feeling anyone could have.
889
00:53:49,851 --> 00:53:51,102
Wow.
890
00:53:51,686 --> 00:53:53,187
I've never seen that.
891
00:53:53,188 --> 00:53:56,733
I was gonna start crying when I saw that.
Oh my God.
892
00:53:57,859 --> 00:54:00,070
Playing in the Olympics
was my lifelong dream.
893
00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:03,031
I just so wanted to do that.
894
00:54:05,116 --> 00:54:07,660
Things really building
here in Lake Placid.
895
00:54:07,661 --> 00:54:11,081
It's gonna be another busy day.
The busiest one we've had so far.
896
00:54:19,965 --> 00:54:24,718
Last night it was "USA, USA, USA."
Today, the chant was "Eric, Eric, Eric."
897
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,929
Eric Heiden, the first athlete ever to win
898
00:54:26,930 --> 00:54:28,932
five gold medals in a Winter Olympics.
899
00:54:30,016 --> 00:54:32,393
In between those races,
I was a hockey fan.
900
00:54:32,394 --> 00:54:35,229
{\an8}The days I skated,
the hockey team had off.
901
00:54:35,230 --> 00:54:38,482
{\an8}The days that I had off,
the hockey team had games.
902
00:54:38,483 --> 00:54:40,609
And I was in the crowd watching.
903
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:42,528
The hero of the Games, Eric Heiden,
904
00:54:42,529 --> 00:54:45,072
and we have the darlings of the Games,
the hockey team.
905
00:54:45,073 --> 00:54:47,199
The biggest and most unexpected thrills
906
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,662
came from 20 rink rats
from the upper Midwest and New England.
907
00:54:51,371 --> 00:54:53,039
Slap shot goes in!
908
00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:57,252
The picture-perfect goal.
909
00:54:58,044 --> 00:54:59,378
Wow, these guys just won.
910
00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:02,298
Two days later,
god dang it, they just won again.
911
00:55:02,299 --> 00:55:05,634
The US came to Lake Placid with almost
no chance of winning a medal in hockey,
912
00:55:05,635 --> 00:55:07,803
but if they can beat or tie West Germany,
913
00:55:07,804 --> 00:55:10,014
they'll find themselves
in the medal round this weekend.
914
00:55:10,015 --> 00:55:12,850
- The rebound goes in!
- Don't bring me down
915
00:55:12,851 --> 00:55:14,310
All of a sudden you're going,
916
00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:16,854
{\an8}"Holy smokes, we have a chance
to win a medal here."
917
00:55:16,855 --> 00:55:20,275
The United States got a win tonight,
but they've got to play the Soviets.
918
00:55:20,859 --> 00:55:22,569
- Well, that isn't fair.
- No, it's not fair.
919
00:55:23,153 --> 00:55:26,697
In the medal round, the Americans
are gonna play the Soviet Union.
920
00:55:26,698 --> 00:55:27,698
The same Soviet team
921
00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:30,452
that a couple weeks earlier
beat you by seven goals.
922
00:55:31,494 --> 00:55:33,829
And while the Americans
were building momentum,
923
00:55:33,830 --> 00:55:36,665
the Russians were doing
what they were expected to do.
924
00:55:36,666 --> 00:55:38,125
Blowing people out.
925
00:55:38,126 --> 00:55:41,463
{\an8}And the Soviets have
won it easily, 16 to nothing.
926
00:55:42,505 --> 00:55:45,008
The Soviets, they beat Holland 17 to 4.
927
00:55:46,968 --> 00:55:49,762
They were just overwhelmed by the Soviets.
928
00:55:49,763 --> 00:55:52,556
But the Soviets seemed a bit indifferent.
929
00:55:52,557 --> 00:55:54,058
More so than they'd been before.
930
00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:56,394
{\an8}The Soviets acted like
they'd been there 100 times.
931
00:55:59,064 --> 00:56:02,232
Herb was constantly
talking about our youth.
932
00:56:02,233 --> 00:56:03,901
{\an8}"We're the best conditioned team here,
933
00:56:03,902 --> 00:56:06,237
{\an8}and they can't skate with us
if we play our game."
934
00:56:08,198 --> 00:56:10,407
He had confidence in us.
935
00:56:10,408 --> 00:56:11,700
We were ready.
936
00:56:11,701 --> 00:56:13,160
{\an8}We were prepared.
937
00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:16,456
{\an8}It doesn't mean you're gonna win,
it means you're ready.
938
00:56:18,666 --> 00:56:21,585
So Dad kept all his notes.
939
00:56:21,586 --> 00:56:25,381
{\an8}Probably from '78 to 2000.
940
00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:28,425
Playbooks, notes on players.
941
00:56:28,426 --> 00:56:31,387
- Here, Danny. Here's one on the Soviets.
- Yeah.
942
00:56:31,388 --> 00:56:36,101
He said, "They are arrogant, cocky."
They're "Not respecting their opponents."
943
00:56:47,278 --> 00:56:50,572
There's a feeling of joy,
anticipation, and excitement in this town
944
00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:53,409
like nothing we have seen
at these Winter Olympics.
945
00:56:53,410 --> 00:56:55,786
What were the odds
before this tournament began
946
00:56:55,787 --> 00:56:59,332
that the United States and Soviet Union
would meet as undefeated teams?
947
00:57:01,334 --> 00:57:04,211
There was a tremendous
amount of anticipation.
948
00:57:04,212 --> 00:57:06,505
Ken Dryden was my broadcast partner.
949
00:57:06,506 --> 00:57:10,217
Kenny and I were walking
over to the arena, and I said,
950
00:57:10,218 --> 00:57:11,927
"The best thing we can hope for
951
00:57:11,928 --> 00:57:16,181
is that it's only three-one Soviets,
middle of the second period."
952
00:57:16,182 --> 00:57:19,810
{\an8}But he said, "If you really knew
the sport of hockey
953
00:57:19,811 --> 00:57:24,232
{\an8}and the difference between the two teams…
how could this happen?"
954
00:57:26,151 --> 00:57:29,528
You know, if you're honest,
and I can only be honest for myself,
955
00:57:29,529 --> 00:57:32,866
{\an8}we're not going to beat them,
there's no chance. None. Zero.
956
00:57:33,575 --> 00:57:36,160
Thousands of Americans
gathered around their TV sets
957
00:57:36,161 --> 00:57:38,121
as the American hockey team hit the ice.
958
00:57:38,705 --> 00:57:41,498
Every TV was tuned to one thing only.
959
00:57:41,499 --> 00:57:45,085
But there's no doubt this Winthrop family
was the most excited of them all.
960
00:57:45,086 --> 00:57:48,172
The family of team captain Mike Eruzione.
961
00:57:48,173 --> 00:57:53,094
{\an8}I knew my family was watching,
but I had no idea how big this thing was.
962
00:57:53,761 --> 00:57:56,388
The sports pages began to pick up on this.
963
00:57:56,389 --> 00:57:59,683
{\an8}And a lot of us take our cues
from the sports pages,
964
00:57:59,684 --> 00:58:02,811
{\an8}of these things, and said,
"This is more than a hockey game."
965
00:58:02,812 --> 00:58:05,147
There were good guys and bad guys,
966
00:58:05,148 --> 00:58:08,693
and in this case,
there was a really clear demarcation.
967
00:58:10,111 --> 00:58:14,448
{\an8}We were not aware of the impact
we'd had with the rest of the country,
968
00:58:14,449 --> 00:58:17,076
with the exception of these telegrams.
969
00:58:17,952 --> 00:58:19,786
So, the long walk of the hallway,
970
00:58:19,787 --> 00:58:23,081
which is probably
like 50, 60 yards to the ice,
971
00:58:23,082 --> 00:58:25,960
has telegrams from everybody
wishing us well.
972
00:58:26,628 --> 00:58:30,005
I remember the one
we got from a lady in Texas,
973
00:58:30,006 --> 00:58:32,675
and all it said was
"Beat those Soviet bastards."
974
00:58:37,138 --> 00:58:40,308
The vibe in the locker room
was a nervous excitement.
975
00:58:41,184 --> 00:58:44,436
We're just getting into it,
in our own way,
976
00:58:44,437 --> 00:58:46,104
of how we're gonna play,
977
00:58:46,105 --> 00:58:48,525
and then waiting for Herb's speech.
978
00:58:50,026 --> 00:58:53,488
{\an8}My memory was that
he pulled something out of his pocket…
979
00:58:55,198 --> 00:58:57,534
- This is the famous speech here.
- Yeah.
980
00:58:58,034 --> 00:59:00,410
"You were born to be a player."
981
00:59:00,411 --> 00:59:04,332
"You were meant
to be here. This moment is yours."
982
00:59:05,333 --> 00:59:07,335
And then he walked out.
983
00:59:12,507 --> 00:59:15,175
We're about to step out, I look up,
984
00:59:15,176 --> 00:59:17,761
and even though
that place doesn't hold a lot,
985
00:59:17,762 --> 00:59:19,764
it couldn't get any more full.
986
00:59:20,390 --> 00:59:21,933
And it's like, "Whoa."
987
00:59:25,979 --> 00:59:28,981
Dave Christian's mom,
she had spunk. She was like,
988
00:59:28,982 --> 00:59:33,443
{\an8}"We gotta ramp this crowd up,"
and she started chanting, "USA."
989
00:59:33,444 --> 00:59:37,282
USA! USA! USA!
990
00:59:39,242 --> 00:59:41,827
USA! USA!
991
00:59:41,828 --> 00:59:44,080
{\an8}My dad and sister and my mom.
992
00:59:48,042 --> 00:59:50,420
{\an8}USA! USA!
993
00:59:51,754 --> 00:59:54,131
USA! USA!
994
00:59:54,132 --> 00:59:55,216
Wow.
995
00:59:56,134 --> 00:59:58,011
It was incredibly loud.
996
01:00:03,474 --> 01:00:11,106
USA! USA! USA!
997
01:00:11,107 --> 01:00:13,234
The excitement, the tension building.
998
01:00:16,446 --> 01:00:18,823
The Olympic Center filling to capacity.
999
01:00:19,991 --> 01:00:22,701
{\an8}Hello again, everybody,
I'm Al Michaels, along with Ken Dryden.
1000
01:00:22,702 --> 01:00:25,912
{\an8}It should be a great night. I'm sure
there are a lot of people in this building
1001
01:00:25,913 --> 01:00:29,041
{\an8}who do not know the difference
between a blue line and a clothes line.
1002
01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:32,461
It's irrelevant, it doesn't matter,
because what we have at hand,
1003
01:00:32,462 --> 01:00:34,212
the rarest of sporting events.
1004
01:00:34,213 --> 01:00:37,716
An event that needs no build-up,
no superfluous adjectives.
1005
01:00:37,717 --> 01:00:39,760
In a political or nationalistic sense,
1006
01:00:39,761 --> 01:00:42,763
I'm sure this game is being viewed
with varying perspectives,
1007
01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:45,057
but manifestly, it is a hockey game.
1008
01:00:45,058 --> 01:00:47,059
The United States and the Soviet Union
1009
01:00:47,060 --> 01:00:49,519
on a sheet of ice
in Lake Placid, New York.
1010
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,772
Ken, some of your thoughts
before the game.
1011
01:00:51,773 --> 01:00:54,441
Well, Al, for the US team,
it's really discovery time.
1012
01:00:54,442 --> 01:00:57,944
It's one thing to be young and promising,
and it's quite another to be good.
1013
01:00:57,945 --> 01:00:59,279
And in the next 2.5 hours,
1014
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:02,991
the US team players will go through
perhaps the most difficult and demanding,
1015
01:01:02,992 --> 01:01:05,453
yet exhilarating time of their lives.
1016
01:01:05,953 --> 01:01:09,247
After it's all over, this team will
find out an awful lot about themselves.
1017
01:01:09,248 --> 01:01:11,167
They'll simply find out how good they are.
1018
01:01:13,211 --> 01:01:14,628
Oh boy.
1019
01:01:14,629 --> 01:01:18,424
We had been in big moments before,
but there was nothing like this, nothing.
1020
01:01:19,842 --> 01:01:22,178
The great thing about sports, though, is…
1021
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:25,682
eventually you have to play the game.
1022
01:01:29,977 --> 01:01:32,355
Here we go, as the game is underway.
1023
01:01:36,859 --> 01:01:40,863
The Americans having trouble
getting the puck out of their own end.
1024
01:01:41,572 --> 01:01:45,451
The Americans, 13 days ago,
losing to the Soviets ten to three.
1025
01:01:48,037 --> 01:01:50,330
It was really, really fast.
1026
01:01:50,331 --> 01:01:52,166
You could just feel
it was a different game.
1027
01:01:54,085 --> 01:01:55,293
He shoots!
1028
01:01:55,294 --> 01:01:57,547
Craig makes the save.
1029
01:02:00,216 --> 01:02:02,051
These guys had tree trunks for legs.
1030
01:02:02,719 --> 01:02:06,012
You're there playing against these guys,
and they're immovable.
1031
01:02:06,013 --> 01:02:07,932
I had a thing going with Krutov.
1032
01:02:08,808 --> 01:02:10,810
They called him The Russian Tank.
1033
01:02:11,394 --> 01:02:14,147
I collided with him
several times in the game.
1034
01:02:14,897 --> 01:02:16,857
It was just like hitting a brick wall.
1035
01:02:16,858 --> 01:02:20,611
Pavelich picks it up.
And an angle shot saved by Tretiak!
1036
01:02:23,489 --> 01:02:26,868
Buzzy's got the puck,
he gets a slash, it goes off his stick.
1037
01:02:28,786 --> 01:02:31,330
{\an8}Slap shot, and it was deflected in.
1038
01:02:32,582 --> 01:02:34,292
The guy tips it, and it's in.
1039
01:02:34,876 --> 01:02:37,628
Okay, we're down.
1040
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:41,006
No sustained attack thus far
for the United States,
1041
01:02:41,007 --> 01:02:44,469
who seem to have been bottled up
by the Russian checking pattern.
1042
01:02:45,178 --> 01:02:47,262
If you think you're gonna lose, you will.
1043
01:02:47,263 --> 01:02:50,599
So, we were nervous,
but I know we weren't afraid.
1044
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:51,934
I can promise you that.
1045
01:02:53,352 --> 01:02:55,104
Pavelich taking it away.
1046
01:02:56,314 --> 01:02:58,690
Mark drew everybody to the right.
1047
01:02:58,691 --> 01:03:01,735
Cross-screened a pass to me,
and I caught him moving.
1048
01:03:01,736 --> 01:03:04,030
Shoots, scores!
1049
01:03:04,614 --> 01:03:06,365
Buzzy Schneider!
1050
01:03:07,116 --> 01:03:10,244
Buzzy comes down
and just blasts one by Tretiak.
1051
01:03:11,078 --> 01:03:14,247
{\an8}That's the type of goal
you don't expect somebody like Tretiak
1052
01:03:14,248 --> 01:03:15,249
{\an8}to give up.
1053
01:03:19,086 --> 01:03:21,380
We knew how we had to play them.
1054
01:03:21,881 --> 01:03:25,675
But it was sort of like a little bit
of that feeling in the pit of your stomach
1055
01:03:25,676 --> 01:03:27,804
where you know something's gonna happen.
1056
01:03:31,265 --> 01:03:33,600
Golikov, number 23, leaving it to Makarov.
1057
01:03:33,601 --> 01:03:37,395
He tried to get it back to Golikov,
then gets it back and scores.
1058
01:03:37,396 --> 01:03:42,819
{\an8}Deflected off the American defenseman,
and the Soviets take the lead two to one.
1059
01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:46,571
That game in Madison Square Garden,
1060
01:03:46,572 --> 01:03:50,367
where we got beat ten-three,
I think it made them overconfident.
1061
01:03:50,368 --> 01:03:53,996
They looked at us as not a hockey team
but a bunch of college kids.
1062
01:03:54,664 --> 01:03:57,499
The Soviets had zero respect for us. Zero.
1063
01:03:57,500 --> 01:03:59,167
It's the end of the period,
1064
01:03:59,168 --> 01:04:01,962
the Soviets have it
in the United States' end.
1065
01:04:01,963 --> 01:04:03,881
They're not gonna mount an attack.
1066
01:04:04,465 --> 01:04:06,092
The clock is ticking down.
1067
01:04:06,592 --> 01:04:08,802
Twelve seconds remaining in the period.
1068
01:04:08,803 --> 01:04:11,555
I look up at the clock,
and I see eight seconds.
1069
01:04:11,556 --> 01:04:14,058
And I look to my left,
and Davey Christian's got the puck.
1070
01:04:15,476 --> 01:04:18,395
And I start to go to the bench,
thinking the period's over.
1071
01:04:18,396 --> 01:04:22,107
Then, all of a sudden,
I see Mark fly by me, and I'm like,
1072
01:04:22,108 --> 01:04:23,400
"Where's he going?"
1073
01:04:23,401 --> 01:04:25,360
Long shot, easy save by Tretiak.
1074
01:04:25,361 --> 01:04:27,195
But Johnson is there and scores!
1075
01:04:27,196 --> 01:04:30,031
With one second to play in the period!
1076
01:04:30,032 --> 01:04:31,993
Right now, the clock shows nothing…
1077
01:04:32,577 --> 01:04:35,579
Their two defensemen just pause a second.
1078
01:04:35,580 --> 01:04:37,623
Gives me enough time to get through.
1079
01:04:39,083 --> 01:04:41,501
My only fear was that
there wasn't enough time left,
1080
01:04:41,502 --> 01:04:44,379
so as I turned and put my head up,
and looked at the clock…
1081
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:46,883
Was there enough time?
Were they gonna count the goal?
1082
01:04:48,843 --> 01:04:53,472
{\an8}It's gonna count!
The US ties the game two to two!
1083
01:04:56,100 --> 01:04:59,561
That's why we call him Magic.
He was our Magic Johnson.
1084
01:04:59,562 --> 01:05:01,689
By far our best player.
1085
01:05:02,648 --> 01:05:04,441
We were excited.
1086
01:05:04,442 --> 01:05:07,945
This is the biggest game we'd ever played.
We didn't play great, but it's two-two.
1087
01:05:09,113 --> 01:05:12,283
Mark's goal was
a lightning rod of confidence.
1088
01:05:12,783 --> 01:05:16,787
And the chant begins. "USA, USA."
1089
01:05:17,288 --> 01:05:19,497
USA! USA!
1090
01:05:19,498 --> 01:05:21,125
We got a hockey game.
1091
01:05:23,127 --> 01:05:30,592
USA! USA! USA!
1092
01:05:30,593 --> 01:05:35,221
Everybody in the locker room,
we were so pumped up, big time.
1093
01:05:35,222 --> 01:05:38,184
{\an8}"We can skate with these guys.
We can beat these guys."
1094
01:05:38,935 --> 01:05:41,019
As we start the second period now,
1095
01:05:41,020 --> 01:05:44,940
a change for the Soviet Union,
as Vladimir Myshkin becomes the new goalie
1096
01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:47,735
after Tretiak had given up two
in the first period.
1097
01:05:48,319 --> 01:05:51,196
We were shocked
that he pulled Tretiak. Shocked.
1098
01:05:51,197 --> 01:05:54,866
There's Tretiak on the bench,
a very uncharacteristic place for him.
1099
01:05:54,867 --> 01:05:58,871
Our feeling was
that Tretiak must have been sick or hurt.
1100
01:05:59,497 --> 01:06:03,084
You don't pull
the best goalie in the world.
1101
01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:07,963
Kharlamov, number 17, the veteran.
1102
01:06:07,964 --> 01:06:09,757
Now up ahead to Petrov.
1103
01:06:10,841 --> 01:06:14,095
We're playing these monsters,
and it's close.
1104
01:06:14,637 --> 01:06:18,014
But we were waiting
for the hammer to be dropped.
1105
01:06:18,015 --> 01:06:19,641
Maltsev on a breakaway.
1106
01:06:19,642 --> 01:06:23,145
{\an8}Maltsev gets it by Craig
to give the Soviets the lead.
1107
01:06:24,313 --> 01:06:26,564
Second period was where they said,
1108
01:06:26,565 --> 01:06:29,026
"Okay, we're going to
take this game over now."
1109
01:06:30,111 --> 01:06:32,822
And so that was survival for us,
that second period.
1110
01:06:35,324 --> 01:06:36,826
Save by Craig!
1111
01:06:37,410 --> 01:06:40,538
Jimmy Craig kept us in it,
playing out of his mind.
1112
01:06:42,164 --> 01:06:43,748
Saved again by Craig!
1113
01:06:43,749 --> 01:06:46,126
Craig has held the US in the game.
1114
01:06:46,127 --> 01:06:49,504
I realized that
playing the Russians for one period
1115
01:06:49,505 --> 01:06:52,674
was like equivalent
to playing a game against another team.
1116
01:06:52,675 --> 01:06:54,343
{\an8}I never visualized losing.
1117
01:06:55,886 --> 01:06:58,138
I visualized the game
and what could happen,
1118
01:06:58,139 --> 01:07:00,306
what the play was, what it looked like,
1119
01:07:00,307 --> 01:07:03,644
so that when the game came,
I'd already seen it.
1120
01:07:05,813 --> 01:07:10,484
If they took 30 shots in a game,
that means that they could score 30 times.
1121
01:07:10,985 --> 01:07:12,986
The Russians are that good.
1122
01:07:12,987 --> 01:07:17,073
But tell me I can't do something,
and I'll show you I can.
1123
01:07:17,074 --> 01:07:21,119
USA! USA! USA!
1124
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,456
And the second period is over.
1125
01:07:24,415 --> 01:07:26,791
If he gives up one more goal,
1126
01:07:26,792 --> 01:07:29,044
it's probably the end of the game.
1127
01:07:29,045 --> 01:07:33,090
You're not going to come back
against the Soviets down by two.
1128
01:07:33,883 --> 01:07:36,217
For the second period
at the Olympic Ice Center,
1129
01:07:36,218 --> 01:07:39,930
it's still the Soviet Union, three,
and the United States, two.
1130
01:07:40,431 --> 01:07:48,772
USA! USA! USA!
1131
01:07:48,773 --> 01:07:50,023
USA!
1132
01:07:50,024 --> 01:07:53,943
I was sitting in the locker room
in between the second and third, thinking,
1133
01:07:53,944 --> 01:07:55,696
{\an8}"We just need to get the next one."
1134
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,114
As we start the third period,
1135
01:07:58,115 --> 01:08:00,076
the Soviet Union on top three to two.
1136
01:08:00,659 --> 01:08:03,369
The US team has got to
pick up its pace in the game.
1137
01:08:03,370 --> 01:08:06,581
They've got to get
some more offensive pressure.
1138
01:08:06,582 --> 01:08:08,792
Makarov skating in, splits the defense,
1139
01:08:08,793 --> 01:08:10,753
and then can't get the shot away!
1140
01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:12,922
A break for the US.
1141
01:08:15,216 --> 01:08:17,634
Silky makes a good play and gets upended,
1142
01:08:17,635 --> 01:08:20,678
and the puck takes a bounce
right to my stick.
1143
01:08:20,679 --> 01:08:23,682
He chopped it in.
Followed by Johnson, they score!
1144
01:08:28,896 --> 01:08:30,731
{\an8}I thought the roof was gonna come off.
1145
01:08:34,860 --> 01:08:38,363
It's a tie hockey game.
Who would have believed it?
1146
01:08:38,364 --> 01:08:40,198
Now it's a hockey game.
1147
01:08:40,199 --> 01:08:43,119
{\an8}Eleven minutes of hockey left to go,
and this score is tied.
1148
01:08:43,994 --> 01:08:46,496
The energy in the room, I could feel it.
1149
01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:48,665
USA! USA!
1150
01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:50,583
Anything can happen now.
1151
01:08:50,584 --> 01:08:52,920
But you're still
not expecting it to happen.
1152
01:08:53,587 --> 01:08:55,840
Harrington rolls it off the center ice.
1153
01:08:57,133 --> 01:08:59,384
The loose puck picked up by the Soviets.
1154
01:08:59,385 --> 01:09:02,012
Recovered by Schneider.
Schneider moves in.
1155
01:09:03,013 --> 01:09:06,808
Took a slap shot.
Got off the ice. Mike jumped on.
1156
01:09:06,809 --> 01:09:08,268
I jump over the boards.
1157
01:09:08,269 --> 01:09:12,105
John Harrington went in the corner,
fighting with the Soviet for the puck.
1158
01:09:12,106 --> 01:09:14,400
Pav chips the puck over to me.
1159
01:09:15,067 --> 01:09:18,361
When it left my stick,
I thought I might have pulled it,
1160
01:09:18,362 --> 01:09:20,156
and then I saw the crowd react.
1161
01:09:21,699 --> 01:09:24,994
{\an8}Eruzione scores! Mike Eruzione!
1162
01:09:26,537 --> 01:09:28,164
{\an8}Now we've got bedlam.
1163
01:09:33,043 --> 01:09:35,211
I had never celebrated like that.
That was a new one.
1164
01:09:35,212 --> 01:09:36,797
I don't know how I came up with that one.
1165
01:09:38,132 --> 01:09:43,219
USA! USA! USA!
1166
01:09:43,220 --> 01:09:45,930
There are times when sound has feel.
1167
01:09:45,931 --> 01:09:53,605
USA! USA! USA!
1168
01:09:53,606 --> 01:09:55,231
USA! USA!
1169
01:09:55,232 --> 01:10:00,695
USA goal, scored by number 21, Eruzione.
1170
01:10:00,696 --> 01:10:03,199
USA! USA! USA!
1171
01:10:05,409 --> 01:10:09,622
Once we got back to the bench,
a lot of us looked up at the score…
1172
01:10:11,582 --> 01:10:14,627
and we're going, "Whoa, there's still
ten minutes to go. Ooh."
1173
01:10:17,338 --> 01:10:19,673
Can they hold a four-to-three lead?
1174
01:10:20,341 --> 01:10:22,634
They could score ten goals in ten minutes.
1175
01:10:22,635 --> 01:10:25,303
{\an8}Every time I've seen ten minutes
on a clock for the rest of my life,
1176
01:10:25,304 --> 01:10:27,305
{\an8}I always think back to that moment.
1177
01:10:27,306 --> 01:10:29,682
It stayed at ten minutes forever.
1178
01:10:29,683 --> 01:10:32,227
The clock would not move.
1179
01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:36,314
Looking at their bench
and knowing how good they were,
1180
01:10:36,315 --> 01:10:37,815
the thought was like,
1181
01:10:37,816 --> 01:10:40,526
{\an8}"Hey, are they gonna
flip the switch again,
1182
01:10:40,527 --> 01:10:43,238
like we've seen so many times?"
1183
01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:45,865
When a lead is there, and hope is there,
1184
01:10:45,866 --> 01:10:47,284
the Soviets have taken it away.
1185
01:10:48,035 --> 01:10:50,329
Now we've really pissed them off.
1186
01:10:50,913 --> 01:10:53,957
The Soviets were putting a lot of pressure
on the United States.
1187
01:10:53,958 --> 01:10:56,584
Krutov…
And it looked like it hit the post.
1188
01:10:56,585 --> 01:10:59,504
Jim Craig had to make
a number of very good saves
1189
01:10:59,505 --> 01:11:01,547
in those final ten minutes.
1190
01:11:01,548 --> 01:11:03,258
Spectacular save!
1191
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:05,469
- Saved again by Craig!
- Whoa!
1192
01:11:08,222 --> 01:11:10,807
Herbie was really cool on the bench.
1193
01:11:10,808 --> 01:11:14,644
He just stayed his way.
He just was Herb the whole way.
1194
01:11:14,645 --> 01:11:17,605
The one thing he kept saying to us was,
"Play your game."
1195
01:11:17,606 --> 01:11:19,941
Play your game, play your game.
1196
01:11:19,942 --> 01:11:24,154
All he said was, "Play your game."
He never said anything else.
1197
01:11:24,738 --> 01:11:26,115
"Play your game."
1198
01:11:27,241 --> 01:11:32,162
Then the mindset becomes like,
okay, we spent the six months doing this.
1199
01:11:32,746 --> 01:11:34,540
That's why we did all those Herbies.
1200
01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:37,459
Eight minutes to go.
1201
01:11:38,127 --> 01:11:41,838
The Americans have not
beaten the Soviet team in two decades.
1202
01:11:41,839 --> 01:11:44,590
The Soviet bench is chaos.
1203
01:11:44,591 --> 01:11:46,927
6:47 left in the game.
1204
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:52,890
Panic. Dumping the puck in the zone.
Doing things they normally did not do.
1205
01:11:52,891 --> 01:11:55,060
Lebedev shoots! It's way off the mark.
1206
01:11:55,644 --> 01:11:57,979
They got away from their game.
1207
01:11:57,980 --> 01:12:01,274
They'd never been in that position.
They didn't know what to do.
1208
01:12:01,275 --> 01:12:02,651
Two minutes left.
1209
01:12:03,193 --> 01:12:04,777
They didn't pull their goalie.
1210
01:12:04,778 --> 01:12:07,155
USA! USA!
1211
01:12:07,156 --> 01:12:09,657
McClanahan. His shot goes wide.
1212
01:12:09,658 --> 01:12:11,452
No one wanted the puck,
1213
01:12:12,077 --> 01:12:14,454
'cause we didn't wanna
be the one to screw it up.
1214
01:12:14,455 --> 01:12:17,081
A minute and 12 seconds.
1215
01:12:17,082 --> 01:12:18,791
Keep it moving. Get rid of it.
1216
01:12:18,792 --> 01:12:21,045
Now Johnson. 19 seconds.
1217
01:12:21,628 --> 01:12:25,715
Johnson over to Ramsey.
Bilyaletdinov gets checked by Ramsey.
1218
01:12:25,716 --> 01:12:27,842
McClanahan is there,
the puck is still loose.
1219
01:12:27,843 --> 01:12:31,763
Eleven seconds. You've got ten seconds.
The countdown going on right now.
1220
01:12:31,764 --> 01:12:34,849
Morrow, up to Silk.
Five seconds left in the game.
1221
01:12:34,850 --> 01:12:36,976
{\an8}- It's over.
- You believe in miracles?
1222
01:12:36,977 --> 01:12:39,605
{\an8}- Yes!
- Unbelievable!
1223
01:12:46,653 --> 01:12:48,905
They thought it was impossible!
1224
01:12:48,906 --> 01:12:51,450
This is a miracle! I can't believe it!
1225
01:12:54,661 --> 01:12:56,579
I threw my stick against the boards,
1226
01:12:56,580 --> 01:12:58,247
then I jumped on the pile.
1227
01:12:58,248 --> 01:13:00,416
USA! USA!
1228
01:13:00,417 --> 01:13:02,585
You couldn't hug a guy quick enough.
1229
01:13:02,586 --> 01:13:06,173
USA! USA! USA!
1230
01:13:07,549 --> 01:13:10,802
USA! USA! USA!
1231
01:13:10,803 --> 01:13:12,595
USA! USA!
1232
01:13:12,596 --> 01:13:14,639
They're jumping up and down
1233
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:18,893
while the Russians
are just watching the celebration.
1234
01:13:18,894 --> 01:13:21,062
I'm not gonna say
they enjoyed watching us,
1235
01:13:21,063 --> 01:13:26,067
but they probably forgot about
how much fun it was to win.
1236
01:13:26,068 --> 01:13:28,028
USA! USA!
1237
01:13:30,447 --> 01:13:33,241
Did that just happen? Did we just win?
1238
01:13:33,242 --> 01:13:34,326
Yeah, we won.
1239
01:13:42,167 --> 01:13:44,001
You almost had to pinch yourself.
1240
01:13:44,002 --> 01:13:47,881
We just beat the Russians.
I can't believe we just beat the Russians.
1241
01:13:52,094 --> 01:13:53,553
Just incredible.
1242
01:13:53,554 --> 01:13:57,349
- Look at Jim Craig. Look!
- Unbelievable.
1243
01:13:59,226 --> 01:14:04,565
The United States hockey team, unknown,
totally anonymous a week and a half ago,
1244
01:14:05,149 --> 01:14:06,065
has done it.
1245
01:14:06,066 --> 01:14:08,025
Defeating the Soviet Union,
1246
01:14:08,026 --> 01:14:12,780
the most improbable circumstance
you could ever have imagined.
1247
01:14:12,781 --> 01:14:17,911
The final score, the USA, four,
the Soviet Union, three.
1248
01:14:22,291 --> 01:14:25,669
USA! USA! USA!
1249
01:14:26,378 --> 01:14:29,964
So, after the Russian game,
we all went to the hotel with our parents.
1250
01:14:29,965 --> 01:14:33,050
We just wanted to go experience
the excitement in the Village.
1251
01:14:33,051 --> 01:14:36,804
{\an8}How do I feel? I feel total exhilaration!
1252
01:14:36,805 --> 01:14:38,181
{\an8}Yay!
1253
01:14:38,182 --> 01:14:41,893
USA! USA! USA!
1254
01:14:41,894 --> 01:14:43,895
It wasn't a hockey game, it was a miracle.
1255
01:14:43,896 --> 01:14:47,274
All over the country,
there was a feeling of nationalism.
1256
01:14:51,987 --> 01:14:55,990
- What do you think?
- Oh, hey, super! Super!
1257
01:14:55,991 --> 01:14:59,160
God bless America…
1258
01:14:59,161 --> 01:15:01,954
It just made me proud
to be an American citizen.
1259
01:15:01,955 --> 01:15:04,582
USA! USA!
1260
01:15:04,583 --> 01:15:06,793
Number one, USA! USA!
1261
01:15:07,419 --> 01:15:09,003
It was an upset so enormous
1262
01:15:09,004 --> 01:15:13,090
that to match it, you have to go back,
perhaps, to David over Goliath.
1263
01:15:13,091 --> 01:15:15,801
People who don't know
a hockey puck from a lump of coal
1264
01:15:15,802 --> 01:15:17,011
became instant hockey fans.
1265
01:15:17,012 --> 01:15:18,221
If you could watch--
1266
01:15:18,222 --> 01:15:20,014
I can't talk about it.
1267
01:15:20,015 --> 01:15:23,100
There wasn't much celebrating
at the Russian Embassy in New York,
1268
01:15:23,101 --> 01:15:24,936
though across the street,
a local fire station
1269
01:15:24,937 --> 01:15:27,313
hung out a silent reminder
for their neighbors.
1270
01:15:27,314 --> 01:15:28,731
The only reason we put it up
1271
01:15:28,732 --> 01:15:31,734
was we realized sometimes
it's hard to get out-of-town scores,
1272
01:15:31,735 --> 01:15:33,402
so it's actually a public service.
1273
01:15:33,403 --> 01:15:35,488
{\an8}How do you think your parents feel now?
1274
01:15:35,489 --> 01:15:37,740
{\an8}Oh, they're probably
bursting their buttons.
1275
01:15:37,741 --> 01:15:39,617
{\an8}They're probably so proud.
1276
01:15:39,618 --> 01:15:42,828
I wonder if you've ever had
a feeling quite like that in your life?
1277
01:15:42,829 --> 01:15:45,206
No, I never have. It was a big win for us,
1278
01:15:45,207 --> 01:15:48,960
and was a big thing for me and my family
and my town and parents.
1279
01:15:48,961 --> 01:15:50,503
{\an8}It was just a great game.
1280
01:15:50,504 --> 01:15:52,672
{\an8}Congratulations, Mike. Jim…
1281
01:15:52,673 --> 01:15:54,007
{\an8}That's pretty cool.
1282
01:15:56,176 --> 01:15:59,845
The joy that they got,
the pleasure that they got to watch me…
1283
01:15:59,846 --> 01:16:01,723
…meant a lot.
1284
01:16:03,517 --> 01:16:05,852
'Cause I know what it meant to them.
1285
01:16:08,021 --> 01:16:11,107
As much emotion as I think
I've ever seen at one sporting event.
1286
01:16:11,108 --> 01:16:13,067
I wonder if you could feel it
down on the ice?
1287
01:16:13,068 --> 01:16:14,944
We could feel it throughout the stands,
1288
01:16:14,945 --> 01:16:17,863
{\an8}throughout the whole game,
and especially in the last ten minutes.
1289
01:16:17,864 --> 01:16:21,117
{\an8}Just to see my father there,
1290
01:16:21,118 --> 01:16:24,955
seeing how happy he is,
for how sad he was, that's…
1291
01:16:25,956 --> 01:16:27,291
That's the gold medal.
1292
01:16:31,461 --> 01:16:34,130
Saturday morning,
we come into the locker room,
1293
01:16:34,131 --> 01:16:37,091
and all of a sudden,
it's all on top of us.
1294
01:16:37,092 --> 01:16:38,426
All this attention.
1295
01:16:38,427 --> 01:16:40,762
I think that was the first time
I ever signed my autograph.
1296
01:16:42,806 --> 01:16:45,057
Pictures and autographs and laughing,
1297
01:16:45,058 --> 01:16:47,226
and Herb came in and just flipped out,
1298
01:16:47,227 --> 01:16:49,895
screaming and yelling,
"What are you guys doing?"
1299
01:16:49,896 --> 01:16:52,106
{\an8}There were sticks on the training table,
1300
01:16:52,107 --> 01:16:54,025
{\an8}and guys were coming in
and signing the sticks.
1301
01:16:54,026 --> 01:16:56,611
And he came in
and knocked them all off, he says,
1302
01:16:56,612 --> 01:16:58,030
"You guys haven't won a thing yet."
1303
01:16:59,448 --> 01:17:02,241
And he proceeded to
put us through one of the hardest skates
1304
01:17:02,242 --> 01:17:03,284
we had all year.
1305
01:17:03,285 --> 01:17:04,744
He skated our asses off.
1306
01:17:04,745 --> 01:17:07,663
And we were like,
"Why is he so pissed off?"
1307
01:17:07,664 --> 01:17:09,248
"We just beat the Soviets."
1308
01:17:09,249 --> 01:17:10,666
I guess, looking back at it,
1309
01:17:10,667 --> 01:17:13,753
it was to make us aware
that we had another game to play.
1310
01:17:13,754 --> 01:17:15,838
We keep things in the proper perspective
1311
01:17:15,839 --> 01:17:19,800
so we do not think
that we're better than we are,
1312
01:17:19,801 --> 01:17:21,928
we understand what we're up against.
1313
01:17:22,429 --> 01:17:24,597
You know,
the Finns got a heck of a hockey club.
1314
01:17:24,598 --> 01:17:28,393
The goal is to win a gold medal,
not to just beat the Russians.
1315
01:17:35,317 --> 01:17:37,985
Everybody will remember
what happened Friday night,
1316
01:17:37,986 --> 01:17:40,864
but can the US do it today
against Finland?
1317
01:17:41,448 --> 01:17:44,492
So, Herbie always
had a speech before every game.
1318
01:17:44,493 --> 01:17:49,205
{\an8}Herbie came in, paced back and forth…
turned to all of us and said,
1319
01:17:49,206 --> 01:17:51,875
"If you lose this game,
you'll take it to your fucking grave."
1320
01:17:52,793 --> 01:17:55,211
Turned back, went to the door,
turned to us and said,
1321
01:17:55,212 --> 01:17:56,838
"Your fucking grave."
1322
01:17:57,714 --> 01:17:59,049
Herbie did not swear.
1323
01:17:59,549 --> 01:18:01,217
He never said the F-word.
1324
01:18:01,218 --> 01:18:03,511
That was the first time
I've ever heard him say that.
1325
01:18:03,512 --> 01:18:04,721
We knew what he meant.
1326
01:18:06,515 --> 01:18:08,558
Here comes the US team.
1327
01:18:09,935 --> 01:18:12,853
We go from an underdog to a favorite.
1328
01:18:12,854 --> 01:18:14,815
{\an8}That's a totally different pressure.
1329
01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:16,774
{\an8}All right, Jimmy!
1330
01:18:16,775 --> 01:18:21,153
{\an8}USA! USA! USA!
1331
01:18:21,154 --> 01:18:25,033
Here we go with the chant
which has become so familiar all week.
1332
01:18:25,742 --> 01:18:29,787
USA! USA! USA!
1333
01:18:29,788 --> 01:18:32,206
The United States
in blue, Finland in white.
1334
01:18:32,207 --> 01:18:34,459
The gold medal at stake for the US.
1335
01:18:40,424 --> 01:18:43,217
Save made by Craig. And he hangs on.
1336
01:18:43,218 --> 01:18:45,846
The first period
against Finland, we played pretty well.
1337
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:49,599
But Finland was great.
I mean, they were a great hockey team.
1338
01:18:52,853 --> 01:18:55,730
The beginning of every game
in the Olympics, we were trailing.
1339
01:18:55,731 --> 01:18:58,859
And the slap shot
to make it one to nothing, Finland.
1340
01:18:59,943 --> 01:19:01,902
You can lose a game early,
1341
01:19:01,903 --> 01:19:04,238
{\an8}but you don't necessarily
always win a game early.
1342
01:19:04,239 --> 01:19:06,407
So I think that was the feeling.
1343
01:19:06,408 --> 01:19:09,410
A little, like, nervousness
and a little bit of anxiety.
1344
01:19:09,411 --> 01:19:11,829
USA! USA!
1345
01:19:11,830 --> 01:19:14,331
Take it out, Broten. Come on, Michael!
1346
01:19:14,332 --> 01:19:16,877
What stayed in your mind was,
we gotta get back in this game.
1347
01:19:18,044 --> 01:19:19,754
We've got to keep playing.
1348
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:21,756
USA! USA!
1349
01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:25,677
Goal! Steve Christoff scoring backhanded!
1350
01:19:26,219 --> 01:19:29,139
{\an8}Now it's tied,
but a tie is not gonna help you.
1351
01:19:31,933 --> 01:19:34,185
Johnson, in over the Finnish blue line.
1352
01:19:34,186 --> 01:19:35,687
Mark goes down.
1353
01:19:36,980 --> 01:19:39,356
{\an8}I think what a lot of people don't realize
1354
01:19:39,357 --> 01:19:42,027
is the emotional drain
of the Russian game.
1355
01:19:42,569 --> 01:19:44,528
It's like,
how much do you have in your tank?
1356
01:19:44,529 --> 01:19:48,241
At some point, you're gonna be on empty,
and when you get to empty, then what?
1357
01:19:50,660 --> 01:19:53,496
Centered out in front.
Silk's shot, and a save.
1358
01:19:53,497 --> 01:19:54,538
Still loose.
1359
01:19:54,539 --> 01:19:56,875
And now it's tied up for a faceoff.
1360
01:19:59,294 --> 01:20:00,669
Schneider loses his stick,
1361
01:20:00,670 --> 01:20:03,256
and he'll also be going off
for two minutes here.
1362
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:07,093
The US team has to keep its composure.
1363
01:20:08,136 --> 01:20:10,596
Kiimalainen comes toward the point.
1364
01:20:10,597 --> 01:20:12,224
And deflected in.
1365
01:20:16,144 --> 01:20:18,229
It's two to one, Finland.
1366
01:20:18,230 --> 01:20:20,439
The Finns are leading two-to-one
1367
01:20:20,440 --> 01:20:22,233
at the end of the second period.
1368
01:20:22,234 --> 01:20:23,985
We were thinking of the worst.
1369
01:20:26,196 --> 01:20:28,572
{\an8}If they lose that game,
1370
01:20:28,573 --> 01:20:32,701
{\an8}you walk around for the rest of your life
having people say,
1371
01:20:32,702 --> 01:20:33,953
{\an8}"What happened?"
1372
01:20:33,954 --> 01:20:37,249
{\an8}"You beat the Soviets,
you lost to Finland?"
1373
01:20:39,376 --> 01:20:42,044
When we were walking
around that locker room,
1374
01:20:42,045 --> 01:20:43,588
I couldn't sit down.
1375
01:20:44,089 --> 01:20:46,048
{\an8}I'm whacking guys in the knee, I'm like,
1376
01:20:46,049 --> 01:20:49,009
{\an8}"There's no way we're losing this game
to these goddamn Finns. No way."
1377
01:20:49,010 --> 01:20:50,761
He's in your face.
1378
01:20:50,762 --> 01:20:52,972
{\an8}"The Finns aren't gonna take
a gold medal away from me,
1379
01:20:52,973 --> 01:20:55,015
{\an8}they're not gonna take
a gold medal away from you."
1380
01:20:55,016 --> 01:20:57,977
Then I remember Phil Verchota
standing up, and he goes,
1381
01:20:57,978 --> 01:21:01,188
"Jack's right. There's no way
we're losing to these guys."
1382
01:21:01,189 --> 01:21:05,150
"No way!" And then he starts going.
Then the whole team was standing up.
1383
01:21:05,151 --> 01:21:08,195
{\an8}We're in the hallway
outside that locker room,
1384
01:21:08,196 --> 01:21:10,698
and Herbie says,
"Craig, they stopped listening to me."
1385
01:21:10,699 --> 01:21:11,740
"You go talk to them."
1386
01:21:11,741 --> 01:21:14,451
So I walked in, I said two words.
I said, "Hey, guys…"
1387
01:21:14,452 --> 01:21:17,746
And OC said,
"Patty, get the hell out of here."
1388
01:21:17,747 --> 01:21:19,999
"There's no way
we're losing this fucking game."
1389
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:23,836
So, "Okay." I went back out in the hallway
and Herbie said, "How'd it go?"
1390
01:21:23,837 --> 01:21:25,839
"Good."
1391
01:21:29,968 --> 01:21:33,178
Twenty minutes to play,
the third period beginning now.
1392
01:21:33,179 --> 01:21:35,973
The United States
trailing Finland two-to-one.
1393
01:21:35,974 --> 01:21:40,227
This last 20 minutes,
although it's gonna be our last as a team,
1394
01:21:40,228 --> 01:21:41,605
let's make it our best.
1395
01:21:48,778 --> 01:21:51,071
That was our proudest moment as a team
1396
01:21:51,072 --> 01:21:52,990
during that whole two-week period.
1397
01:21:52,991 --> 01:21:54,992
Our proudest moment was that third period.
1398
01:21:54,993 --> 01:21:57,537
Everything was on the line,
and we played our best hockey.
1399
01:21:58,872 --> 01:22:00,373
Phil scores to tie it.
1400
01:22:02,167 --> 01:22:05,753
{\an8}Phil Verchota has just scored
to tie the game.
1401
01:22:05,754 --> 01:22:08,672
{\an8}So now you're cranking it up,
you're energized.
1402
01:22:08,673 --> 01:22:11,967
And that tiredness
that you maybe had going into the period,
1403
01:22:11,968 --> 01:22:13,761
boom, you get a shot of adrenaline.
1404
01:22:13,762 --> 01:22:15,346
And then Robbie scores.
1405
01:22:15,347 --> 01:22:16,847
Score!
1406
01:22:16,848 --> 01:22:19,851
McClanahan! The US leads it!
1407
01:22:21,144 --> 01:22:24,772
Eric Strobel was to my left.
I was actually gonna pass to Eric.
1408
01:22:24,773 --> 01:22:27,901
The goalie almost anticipates
like I was gonna make that pass.
1409
01:22:28,485 --> 01:22:31,571
Then he kicks out his leg.
So I just jammed it home.
1410
01:22:35,325 --> 01:22:37,576
The US, three. Finland, two.
1411
01:22:37,577 --> 01:22:40,162
Verchota taken out of the play.
Johnson is there.
1412
01:22:40,163 --> 01:22:44,041
Christoff scrapping for it again,
gets it in front, Americans control it.
1413
01:22:44,042 --> 01:22:45,668
Johnson skating in. The shot.
1414
01:22:45,669 --> 01:22:47,420
He shoots, he scores!
1415
01:22:52,884 --> 01:23:08,440
USA! USA! USA!
1416
01:23:08,441 --> 01:23:10,944
The US leads it four-to-two!
1417
01:23:19,619 --> 01:23:21,662
You know, when I scored the fourth one,
1418
01:23:21,663 --> 01:23:24,499
I think,
"Okay, this thing's gonna happen."
1419
01:23:25,625 --> 01:23:28,460
"We got this one. This is ours."
1420
01:23:28,461 --> 01:23:39,638
USA! USA! USA!
1421
01:23:39,639 --> 01:23:42,808
Five seconds to the gold medal.
Four to the gold medal.
1422
01:23:42,809 --> 01:23:46,062
- Three, two, one!
- This dream comes true!
1423
01:24:00,869 --> 01:24:07,875
USA! USA! USA!
1424
01:24:07,876 --> 01:24:10,336
Jim Craig
looking for his father in the stands.
1425
01:24:12,297 --> 01:24:13,673
Where's my dad?
1426
01:24:19,763 --> 01:24:23,265
This is to show my father
respect for my mother.
1427
01:24:23,266 --> 01:24:27,020
That, you know, even though
she wasn't there, she was, and that…
1428
01:24:28,021 --> 01:24:29,272
we did it.
1429
01:24:31,483 --> 01:24:34,026
All the sacrifices she made.
1430
01:24:34,027 --> 01:24:37,489
The strength that she was losing,
I was getting.
1431
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:41,576
He said to me…
1432
01:24:53,254 --> 01:24:54,421
He said to me,
1433
01:24:54,422 --> 01:24:56,633
"Your mother would
be really proud of you."
1434
01:25:08,645 --> 01:25:10,938
Herb never came out on the ice
after we won.
1435
01:25:10,939 --> 01:25:12,232
He went in the locker room.
1436
01:25:13,191 --> 01:25:16,402
Nobody knows, when he went back in
that locker room, what his thoughts were.
1437
01:25:17,403 --> 01:25:19,905
But because of what happened in 1960,
1438
01:25:19,906 --> 01:25:24,327
I think he just took great pride
in knowing what our team had accomplished.
1439
01:25:26,204 --> 01:25:30,458
That was his gold medal
that he didn't get in 1960.
1440
01:25:31,084 --> 01:25:33,628
This is a 20-year journey for him.
1441
01:25:39,968 --> 01:25:41,261
Way to go, Ramsey.
1442
01:25:43,263 --> 01:25:46,266
The United States winning the gold.
1443
01:25:46,975 --> 01:25:50,854
Three, two, one!
1444
01:26:00,530 --> 01:26:03,407
I've been covering sports
since 1948 on television,
1445
01:26:03,408 --> 01:26:05,659
and this is the greatest moment
I have ever seen.
1446
01:26:05,660 --> 01:26:09,246
The greatest achievement on the part
of a single group of young men.
1447
01:26:09,247 --> 01:26:12,417
{\an8}My best memories
were what happened afterwards.
1448
01:26:13,084 --> 01:26:15,127
I was in the locker room.
1449
01:26:15,128 --> 01:26:18,463
Walter Mondale's in there.
They get Jimmy Carter on the phone.
1450
01:26:18,464 --> 01:26:20,175
Hello, Mr. President.
1451
01:26:21,134 --> 01:26:23,051
Tell all the team how much I love them.
1452
01:26:23,052 --> 01:26:26,180
We'll see you tomorrow at the White House,
and we're all proud of you.
1453
01:26:26,181 --> 01:26:28,432
- Thank you, we'll be there.
- Good luck to you.
1454
01:26:28,433 --> 01:26:30,267
- Okay, good luck to you.
- Go celebrate.
1455
01:26:30,268 --> 01:26:31,603
Oh, we won't.
1456
01:26:33,438 --> 01:26:35,023
We partied hard. We…
1457
01:26:35,607 --> 01:26:36,900
We had a lot of fun.
1458
01:26:41,362 --> 01:26:45,199
Hey, OC, uh, I'm just wondering
what it feels like
1459
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,743
to be the only gold medal winner
ever from Charlestown.
1460
01:26:47,744 --> 01:26:51,747
Oh, it's, um… it's in the shadow
of Bunker Hill, you know.
1461
01:26:51,748 --> 01:26:55,418
So, the Americans won at Bunker Hill,
the Americans won at Lake Placid.
1462
01:27:00,089 --> 01:27:02,467
The Americans didn't win at Bunker Hill.
1463
01:27:03,927 --> 01:27:05,220
I don't wanna hear that.
1464
01:27:07,430 --> 01:27:10,182
{\an8}Oh my God, I think I had
too many of those Kirins.
1465
01:27:10,183 --> 01:27:13,937
If there is a fitting Brooksism
to describe this moment?
1466
01:27:14,729 --> 01:27:17,273
We're damned if we did,
and we're damned if we didn't.
1467
01:27:18,024 --> 01:27:23,445
And, you know, fool me once, shame on me,
fool me twice, shame on you.
1468
01:27:23,446 --> 01:27:25,448
Uh…
1469
01:27:27,784 --> 01:27:30,953
{\an8}That was about three beers after the game,
1470
01:27:30,954 --> 01:27:32,789
and I was just being a…
1471
01:27:33,998 --> 01:27:36,167
My typical bigmouth, I think.
1472
01:27:36,876 --> 01:27:38,543
Like I said, you know,
1473
01:27:38,544 --> 01:27:41,046
we looked like a monkey
screwing a football out there
1474
01:27:41,047 --> 01:27:42,715
for two periods.
1475
01:27:47,178 --> 01:27:50,056
For lack of a better phrase,
that just about wraps it up.
1476
01:27:53,810 --> 01:27:55,520
That was pretty good there.
1477
01:27:56,104 --> 01:27:58,690
- Nice one, Harrington. Hammered.
- Oh, this…
1478
01:28:00,024 --> 01:28:01,066
Ridiculous.
1479
01:28:01,067 --> 01:28:03,402
{\an8}We came together,
like I said, six months ago,
1480
01:28:03,403 --> 01:28:05,654
{\an8}from, uh, all parts of the United States,
1481
01:28:05,655 --> 01:28:08,115
different backgrounds,
different ethnic beliefs,
1482
01:28:08,116 --> 01:28:11,118
and things like that,
and we gelled into a team.
1483
01:28:11,119 --> 01:28:14,246
The saddest thing right now
is gonna be we go different ways,
1484
01:28:14,247 --> 01:28:18,500
and who knows if I'll ever see, say,
John Harrington or David Christian again.
1485
01:28:18,501 --> 01:28:21,503
And to me,
that's gonna be a disappointment.
1486
01:28:21,504 --> 01:28:23,172
And a relief, I guess too.
1487
01:28:27,260 --> 01:28:29,387
Sorry.
1488
01:28:30,471 --> 01:28:33,557
{\an8}I don't think
any of us really had any idea
1489
01:28:33,558 --> 01:28:37,769
that we would be bonded for life
the way we've been.
1490
01:28:37,770 --> 01:28:40,439
We've all gone in different directions.
1491
01:28:40,440 --> 01:28:42,566
And, uh, um…
1492
01:28:42,567 --> 01:28:44,777
But we all come back to… to this.
1493
01:28:47,530 --> 01:28:49,115
And that's really awesome.
1494
01:29:03,755 --> 01:29:07,299
It kind of feels like
we've got a game to play later tonight.
1495
01:29:07,300 --> 01:29:11,636
It doesn't feel like 45 years has gone by.
1496
01:29:11,637 --> 01:29:15,140
I still kind of remember
1497
01:29:15,141 --> 01:29:19,269
not wanting to let the rest of the guys
in this room down
1498
01:29:19,270 --> 01:29:21,063
in any way, shape, or form.
1499
01:29:21,064 --> 01:29:23,690
I think you become a team over time.
1500
01:29:23,691 --> 01:29:28,403
And skating all night in Norway,
guys getting threatened to be cut,
1501
01:29:28,404 --> 01:29:32,200
and other guys sticking up
for the guys that were there.
1502
01:29:33,409 --> 01:29:37,788
The way Herbie coached
accelerated us coming together.
1503
01:29:37,789 --> 01:29:39,247
- Yeah.
- Us against him.
1504
01:29:39,248 --> 01:29:40,708
- Yes.
- Yeah. Definitely.
1505
01:29:41,292 --> 01:29:43,795
How long has it been since Herb passed?
1506
01:29:44,462 --> 01:29:46,171
- What, 20-plus years?
- Yeah.
1507
01:29:46,172 --> 01:29:48,256
- Twenty-two years.
- Twenty-two years.
1508
01:29:48,257 --> 01:29:50,509
We just wish that one time,
1509
01:29:50,510 --> 01:29:55,348
that he would have let his hair down
and talked to you like we're talking now.
1510
01:29:56,724 --> 01:29:59,643
Well, I came across this
a couple months ago,
1511
01:29:59,644 --> 01:30:01,436
uh, not knowing I had it.
1512
01:30:01,437 --> 01:30:03,438
Still in the original envelope here,
1513
01:30:03,439 --> 01:30:04,356
from Herb.
1514
01:30:04,357 --> 01:30:06,900
And I'm assuming
that it went out to everybody.
1515
01:30:06,901 --> 01:30:11,696
This was in June of 1980,
so a couple months after.
1516
01:30:11,697 --> 01:30:12,989
"Under separate cover,
1517
01:30:12,990 --> 01:30:15,659
you will be receiving
a laminated team picture
1518
01:30:15,660 --> 01:30:17,328
from Craig and myself."
1519
01:30:17,829 --> 01:30:21,123
"This reflects our complete respect
we have for you
1520
01:30:21,124 --> 01:30:23,083
as an athlete and as a person."
1521
01:30:23,084 --> 01:30:28,672
"Personally, this year was not only
my most enjoyable year in coaching,
1522
01:30:28,673 --> 01:30:30,341
but also my toughest."
1523
01:30:30,925 --> 01:30:34,803
"Toughest because it involved
making so many difficult decisions
1524
01:30:34,804 --> 01:30:37,597
regarding the makeup of our final team."
1525
01:30:37,598 --> 01:30:41,977
"Because of that, and because
I wanted to be as objective as possible,
1526
01:30:41,978 --> 01:30:45,397
I stayed away
from close personal contacts with you."
1527
01:30:45,398 --> 01:30:47,817
"This year was a challenge for all of us."
1528
01:30:48,401 --> 01:30:55,073
"A challenge to live and work as a unit,
play a positive game a creative way,
1529
01:30:55,074 --> 01:30:56,908
make the most of our dreams."
1530
01:30:56,909 --> 01:30:59,744
"You met those challenges
and conquered them."
1531
01:30:59,745 --> 01:31:04,374
"If there was any team I ever wanted
to identify with on a personal basis,
1532
01:31:04,375 --> 01:31:05,750
this was the team."
1533
01:31:05,751 --> 01:31:07,837
"Hopefully that day will come."
1534
01:31:09,213 --> 01:31:10,298
Wow.
1535
01:31:11,215 --> 01:31:16,303
I think the biggest regret he had
once we finished doing what we did,
1536
01:31:16,304 --> 01:31:19,139
was that he didn't connect
with some of the players.
1537
01:31:19,140 --> 01:31:23,310
And so I think that ate at him
until he passed away.
1538
01:31:23,311 --> 01:31:25,562
And he forgot to forgive himself.
1539
01:31:25,563 --> 01:31:28,940
I have the utmost respect
for what he gave me
1540
01:31:28,941 --> 01:31:30,192
and what he did for me,
1541
01:31:30,193 --> 01:31:33,196
but I wish I could've known him
as a person.
1542
01:31:33,988 --> 01:31:38,992
{\an8}I think it was hard for him
to resist to be one of the guys,
1543
01:31:38,993 --> 01:31:41,495
{\an8}and to joke and to laugh.
1544
01:31:41,496 --> 01:31:45,124
He had to be so, so distant.
1545
01:31:49,837 --> 01:31:53,381
USA! USA! USA!
1546
01:31:53,382 --> 01:32:15,988
USA! USA! USA!
1547
01:32:29,919 --> 01:32:34,881
I think that the sports moments
that stick out in our minds,
1548
01:32:34,882 --> 01:32:37,342
{\an8}that's "sports plus."
1549
01:32:37,343 --> 01:32:39,554
And Lake Placid was a "plus."
1550
01:32:40,221 --> 01:32:43,306
That was the human moment
beyond an athlete's moment.
1551
01:32:43,307 --> 01:32:46,643
USA! USA! USA!
1552
01:32:46,644 --> 01:32:48,603
Over those two weeks,
1553
01:32:48,604 --> 01:32:52,316
people just started
grasping a hold of our story.
1554
01:32:52,984 --> 01:32:55,569
We might be from
different parts of the country
1555
01:32:55,570 --> 01:32:58,154
and have different ideas,
things, and cultures,
1556
01:32:58,155 --> 01:33:01,408
but the one thing we do have
is that we're Americans,
1557
01:33:01,409 --> 01:33:04,578
and when we stick together,
and we help each other,
1558
01:33:04,579 --> 01:33:06,330
we can achieve great things.
1559
01:33:07,790 --> 01:33:12,377
There was something that
took place with me in that moment, and I…
1560
01:33:12,378 --> 01:33:15,714
It's as close as I've come
to really kind of losing it.
1561
01:33:15,715 --> 01:33:19,093
I really couldn't say anything on the air
because I was all choked up.
1562
01:33:31,606 --> 01:33:34,567
That was just emotion after emotion.
1563
01:33:35,192 --> 01:33:38,446
It was just so special to share it
with all the people in the stands.
1564
01:33:41,282 --> 01:33:43,033
{\an8}I saw my Uncle Tony…
1565
01:33:43,034 --> 01:33:44,785
{\an8}'Cause if you see, I give a fist.
1566
01:33:45,369 --> 01:33:47,746
That was my uncle
who drove to the game that day.
1567
01:33:47,747 --> 01:33:48,998
The one who lent me the money.
1568
01:33:50,124 --> 01:33:54,086
He drove up with my brother and my cousin,
and they snuck into the building.
1569
01:33:59,550 --> 01:34:00,885
It's…
1570
01:34:01,510 --> 01:34:06,932
{\an8}It's the purest kind of joy…
…a person can have, yeah.
1571
01:34:07,683 --> 01:34:11,604
We had pulled off something
that was beyond impossible.
1572
01:34:14,023 --> 01:34:17,692
You think about everybody
that helped you along the way.
1573
01:34:17,693 --> 01:34:20,488
My mom, my sister, my brother.
1574
01:34:21,572 --> 01:34:22,865
My dad.
1575
01:34:28,913 --> 01:34:30,331
Man…
1576
01:34:33,250 --> 01:34:36,587
I made it a point
after every national anthem…
1577
01:34:38,506 --> 01:34:39,799
to thank him.
1578
01:34:41,425 --> 01:34:42,760
Through my career…
1579
01:34:44,970 --> 01:34:46,472
into the NHL.
1580
01:34:49,225 --> 01:34:52,687
{\an8}It wouldn't have happened
without him and my family.
1581
01:34:56,399 --> 01:35:03,363
O say does that star-spangled banner
1582
01:35:03,364 --> 01:35:07,826
Yet wave
1583
01:35:07,827 --> 01:35:14,708
O’er the land of the free
1584
01:35:14,709 --> 01:35:21,716
And the home of the brave
1585
01:35:24,927 --> 01:35:28,555
The whole thing about this was
it was a team that accomplished something,
1586
01:35:28,556 --> 01:35:30,099
not individuals.
1587
01:35:30,599 --> 01:35:33,769
This is what I was trying to build,
is a team.
1588
01:35:34,270 --> 01:35:44,613
USA! USA! USA!
1589
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:50,453
We loved each other.
1590
01:35:51,203 --> 01:35:53,998
We were family. Still are.
1591
01:35:54,749 --> 01:36:01,671
Somehow this band of kids came together
and pulled off an impossible sports upset.
1592
01:36:01,672 --> 01:36:05,508
And it was as special a moment
as I've ever seen in sports.
1593
01:36:05,509 --> 01:36:07,845
People say, "What could top this?"
1594
01:36:08,429 --> 01:36:10,848
And I say, "Nothing."
1595
01:36:20,900 --> 01:36:33,621
USA! USA! USA!
1596
01:36:41,253 --> 01:36:44,756
There is nothing like the feeling you have
1597
01:36:44,757 --> 01:36:48,594
when you're with 19 other guys,
and you pull off something like we did.
1598
01:36:49,637 --> 01:36:52,972
And to this day, it gives me chills.
1599
01:36:52,973 --> 01:36:56,476
One morning, I woke up
1600
01:36:56,477 --> 01:37:00,438
And I knew
1601
01:37:00,439 --> 01:37:01,898
Team USA!
1602
01:37:01,899 --> 01:37:03,191
Yeah!
1603
01:37:03,192 --> 01:37:04,527
Thanks, guys!
1604
01:37:08,197 --> 01:37:09,657
We were the boy next door.
1605
01:37:10,533 --> 01:37:14,662
We were the kid you saw out in the street
playing street hockey or stickball.
1606
01:37:15,746 --> 01:37:18,122
I think people related to who we were.
1607
01:37:18,123 --> 01:37:20,792
The sky is clearing…
1608
01:37:20,793 --> 01:37:22,210
You gave us so much pride.
1609
01:37:22,211 --> 01:37:24,213
- Thank you!
- Well, thank you.
1610
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:28,132
When you have people coming up to you,
1611
01:37:28,133 --> 01:37:32,263
and they find out you played on that team,
and they start crying themselves…
1612
01:37:32,763 --> 01:37:36,516
The reaction I get,
the mail I get, 45 years later,
1613
01:37:36,517 --> 01:37:39,854
that's been the greatest part
of this all for me.
1614
01:37:41,438 --> 01:37:45,483
I've never been in a stadium like that,
with that kind of energy again, ever.
1615
01:37:45,484 --> 01:37:48,195
- I get goosebumps thinking about it.
- Yeah.
1616
01:37:49,238 --> 01:37:51,782
As a country,
we were just getting beat up,
1617
01:37:53,033 --> 01:37:55,368
and all of a sudden, a bunch of young kids
1618
01:37:55,369 --> 01:37:58,080
brought joy to a country
at a time when we needed something.
1619
01:37:58,914 --> 01:38:02,459
People looking for something to
feel good about, and it happened to be us.
1620
01:38:03,711 --> 01:38:05,545
We could use a 1980 now.
1621
01:38:05,546 --> 01:38:09,257
Carry on
1622
01:38:09,258 --> 01:38:13,052
Love is coming
1623
01:38:13,053 --> 01:38:20,060
Love is coming to us all