Greatest sports moment ever.

#26
#26
Mike Eruzione's gold medal is probably framed over his fireplace. I doubt Michael Jordan can even find his.

As far as hockey goes, you should try to get into a novice league. I know for a fact they have them in Knoxville. It is amazingly fun, and you don't even have to know how to skate.

What is that supposed to mean?
 
#27
#27
Young lad sitting in box seats behind home plate... shouted out to Hank Aaron while he was stepping up to the plate. He turned and looked at me... goose bumps. Deep fly out to left.
 
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#29
#29
Sadly that is probably true. A bunch of college kids beat the best team on the planet. Not a bunch of pros like the NBA dream team. Kids. Beat a team that earlier whacked Gretzky and company.

For the USA.

I guess you had to have consciousness during that time to understand, and by that I mean you needed to have been older than about 15.

It was magic.

It was a great moment for the USA for sure. I just couldn't care less about the olympics. Not then and not now.
 
#30
#30
I ask myself for the 2015 season...would I rather see a bunch of college kids win an ice hockey match against the #1 team in the universe, or see UT win the NC?

Then I'd laugh and go, "well that's a stupid question"....just like I would have 35 years ago.
 
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#31
#31
I was 5 years from being born and i couldn't care any less about hockey. While I understand how big of a moment it was, it's overrated imo too. Biggest upset probably, biggest moment? Nah. Dream Team being that dominant and winning the gold was bigger to me.

If you had been alive and old enough to even slightly be aware of current events in 1980, I don't think you'd say that. We were a country with a confidence problem, racked by inflation, with a hostage crisis in Iran and a Cold War. Beating the USSR at anything was monumental.
 
#32
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Young lad sitting in box seats behind home plate... shouted out to Hank Aaron while he was stepping up to the plate. He turned and looked at me... goose bumps. Deep fly out to left.

You were there?
 

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