40th Anniversary Of The Miracle On Ice

This was far more than a game. It was a referendum on freedom vs tyranny and the freest nation in the history world took it hard to the Russian bear.

There is so much more to say here and the juxtaposition to the Revolutionary war, “Against all odds the free man prevailed” is incredible.

Last 1 minute of this epic game.

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Those Russian players were supposed to be an amateur team comprised of Red Army Officers. :roll_eyes:

When Igor Larionov was with the Sharks, someone asked him if he was ever really in the Red Army. He said something like “well, technically I was a Major in the Army, but I didn’t even know how to put the uniform on correctly.”

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Watching Miracle as we speak in memory of this historic event.

USA
USA
USA

Who do you play for?

Odd that a Russkie would pick today to score his 700th NHL goal.

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Beautiful story. The movie I thought was done to perfection. Russe nailed the coach completely.

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I just watched this documentary on Russian Team last night. What struck me hard was the brutality of that nation to it’s citizens.

Excellent doc.

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When my ex was looking for a place to buy, Larionov was playing for the Sharks. There happened to be a “fluff piece” in the San Jose Mercury-News about Igor and his wife, where he mentioned that his wife insisted they buy their house in Sunnyvale because it was the safest town around in an earthquake.

This influenced my ex to focus her real estate agent on Sunnyvale, where she bought a town house that I also moved in to. So, in a way, Larionov’s wife influenced where I ended up living for two years. :crazy_face:

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Everything Iknow about Sunnyvale, CA I learned at 12 years old from this movie. :slight_smile:

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I lived there 25 years ago, and still miss the place. However, if you tried to start out there from scratch right now, you would need to be pulling down at least 200 grand a year just to afford a halfway decent place.

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I’ll give it a watch. Thanks for posting man. I know russia is hard on their athletes when they lose

Look how bad they treated Drago when he lost to Rocky lol

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I remember reading some opinion piece about 10 years ago where the author predicted that Slava Fetisov would eventually be running Russia.

Even Putin looked a little upstaged by the guy in that one segment.

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If he predicted Trump would be president someone legit should ask him for the lottery numbers lol

I predicted his win. Maybe I should receive some compensation of some sort.

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Well he is worth billions. I’m sure he could give you money lol

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Let’s face it, part of the reason the man “is worth billions” is because he’s known for not paying his bills.

Kind of reminds of Joe Pesci’s betting “system” in Casino:

(NSFW)

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Hmmmm true. I kind of like his approach. I would try, but you know. I hate doing illegal stuff lol

hate? not me.

getting caught I hate

:smiley:

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Lmao truth!!! Hahahahha. A good shot of rum or 2 or 3 in my morning coffee would certainly help!