Josh Clark

And the Soviets really, you could use the word walloped.

pretty effectively in this case.

The Soviets won 10 to 3.

So it did not look like the United States men's hockey team was going to produce much in the Olympics that year.

Yeah, you don't see a lot of double digit scores in hockey.

If you're not familiar with hockey, you know, you see a lot of like two to nothing, three to two.

Once you score over 10 goals, it's it's a big, big deal.

So the Americans weren't even supposed to advance that much in the Olympics, but they had a bunch of comeback wins, had a lot of close calls that they won.

And they got into the medal round and faced the Soviets, who up to that point in the Olympics had outscored their opponents 51 to 11.

So on February 22nd, 1980, and I know I mentioned this before, but I actually watched this match as a I guess I wasn't even nine yet.

It was right before my ninth birthday.

Oh, yeah.

I wasn't even that into hockey, but we were an Olympic family.

Right.

And I I remember I have a very distinct memory of being in my parents bedroom for some reason, which I usually wasn't much allowed in because it was I don't know, it was the 70s.

It was like, don't go in my bedroom.

But we had this little black and white TV.

I guess my dad was watching other stuff out there on the larger console TV.

But I remember being in their bedroom and watching this match on the little black and white TV and knowing as a little eight year old, like what a huge, huge deal this was.

Yeah.