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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
36 years ago today
I wish I could say I was cheering wildly "USA! USA! USA!" but the sad truth is I was convinced, having seen the NHL All Stars unmercifully dismantled by the Russians in '79, that this rag-tag collection of American college kids had absolutely NO CHANCE against the mighty Soviets. So, instead of watching maybe the greatest upset in sports history, I went out drinking
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Watched it live. Still get goosebumps.
"Do you believe in miracles?" may still be the best spontaneous sports quote of all time.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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