Jack O'Callaghan
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, 1960.
Those guys won a gold medal and in Squaw Valley.
And, you know, we knew all those guys and and.
And we looked to them always.
We were sort of standing on the shoulders of the guys that came before us.
And to see these guys really embracing our story, they've grown up watching the movie Miracle and hearing all about us for all these years.
And it's been a big motivator for all these USA Hockey kids to come out and play with the passion and emotion that we had in 1980.
And they certainly did that.
That's probably the one real similarity is
is the way they came together as a team and the way they played with passion and emotion and their pride and their USA on the front of their jerseys and playing for, you know, everybody that had done so much for them in their lives.
I mean, you see these kids talk after the game and the emotion that was coming out and how they handled themselves and how they handled the victory and how proud they were of, you know,
what it took to get there, you know, not just.
They understood.
It wasn't just them, you know, they, yeah, it wasn't just them, you know?
And so they really, they really expressed that.
And it was, it was really fun to watch for me.
And, and I'm, you know, what can I tell you?
I'm just so thrilled.
Just, again, just so happy.