Chapter 1: What happened after the US Hockey team's gold medal win?
You know, one of the things about the USA hockey team, you know, and we were just talking about it off the air, the thing that happened to them, you say, because of the snow here in New York, they were supposed to charter back from Milan here to New York. And because of the snow, they ended up diverting to Miami. So they got to spend the night in Miami last night.
And I don't know if you saw this at 11 nightclub last night in Miami, the USA hockey team celebrated their gold medal and the entire place is singing the national anthem. And it actually gives you the chills just to watch these guys do this and celebrate.
And I'm thinking that the 1980 guys, right after they had finished their Olympic gold medal game, all of those guys scattered and signed professional contracts with NHL teams. So they weren't allowed to do this. You know what I'm saying?
So these guys, and of course they're going to the State of the Union tonight with Donald Trump, and he invited them, and of course he invited the women's hockey team who respectfully declined. But yeah, it's getting a little bit heated on both sides again because that's just the way it goes around here. We had a couple days to celebrate, a couple days to enjoy, and now all the...
The knives are out, if you will, on one side of the ledger, and it's unfortunate. But still, nonetheless, they won the gold medal, and it's been 46 years since they won that gold medal. And they should be able to celebrate and do whatever they want and enjoy it and really totally embrace everything that they bring to the table.
Yeah, I mean, it was just when some of the anger, I guess, yesterday sort of being directed towards them, that's where I got annoyed. And maybe I shouldn't even be paying attention to the opinions of the people that were thinking that way.
But I guess just yesterday being here in the city again alone, I'm picking up my phone and looking at it even more than I normally would and seeing all this reaction on social media. And there was a big video that said, Dave Portnoy called one of his employees to do a well check on her because she was flipping out on X about how she never wants a man to do anything for her ever again.
And the U.S. hockey team is a bunch of jerks because they laughed at the joke when President Trump said, I got to invite the women to or I'll get impeached. If you want to be mad at Donald Trump for that or dislike him for the reasons you dislike him and be mad at Kash Patel, if you want to direct all that political anger towards them, fine. We've seen it on both sides many, many years.
That's the political sewer pit that you play.
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Chapter 2: Why did the US Hockey team get invited to the State of the Union?
I mean, you know, kiss my ass. I don't care if you feel that way. Too bad. You know, I mean, this is the greatest country in the world. They represent the best we have to offer. And by the way, you know, all of these things that happen in the Olympics are merit based. You know, it's a meritocracy. You have to in order to get to that point, to be able to do what they did.
The amount of hard work, dedication, and respect and selflessness has to be at the forefront in order to be a part of this. And this goes for the men and the women. It also goes for the rest of the Olympic sports, depending on whatever your flavor may be, whether it be curling or it could be speed skating or half-pipe skiing or freestyle skiing, whatever it is.
The amount of time and effort it takes and the amount of time and effort that they are out of the spotlight is 10 times more than the times than they are in the spotlight. So, you know, this is, I don't know, it's a great moment for our country. It's a great moment to be a patriot.
It's a great moment to celebrate, you know, all the Olympic gold medals and all the medals that the Olympic athletes had won. So, I don't know, it's ridiculous, but I really got chills watching these guys last night at the 11-night club singing the national anthem with the entire crowd. Group of people that were there. And, you know, that's that should be what we should be celebrating. Yeah.
And maybe people like us do celebrate that. And there's unfortunately a group of people in this country that don't celebrate that for whatever reason. And they're still here bitching about it. And I don't know why.
Well, that's the thing. It needs to be separated. Whatever your viewpoints on what's going on politically and then what these guys accomplished, I mean, I'm sorry. And by the way, the same people that are complaining about them taking the phone call from the president would be complaining if the president didn't call them. You know that, right?
It'd be like, oh, this guy, you know, Ronald Ray used to call people or Obama used to call people, Clinton used to call people. And then these guys win a gold medal and Donald Trump doesn't call them. They would be saying the same thing. They're just finding a reason to hate on it. And it was so annoying to me yesterday is one of the points that I had.
It was like, man, I was like, this is it was so divided in so many things. And man, this was one of those rare moments that all of us were together and rooting for the same thing. For those of us that are in the sports world, for sure. Right.
You know, in the sports world and just almost everything else, it was just like, you know, you checked all the other things at the door and you rooted for Team USA to beat Canada in the gold medal game on a Sunday morning with a blizzard coming in, you know, at least here in the Northeast. It just felt like we were all together. It just felt like a special moment as the day goes on.
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Chapter 3: What are the reactions to the US Hockey team's phone call with Trump?
But, I mean, these are the times that we live in, unfortunately. But these guys, hopefully it doesn't affect them. Hopefully they're not seeing this. Hopefully they're not affected and going like, are these people actually mad at us right now? For what?
Like 1% of the people. I hope so. 99% of the people are behind them and support them. Yeah, I hope so. And you saw that Sunday morning. The entire United States was engaged in this. And I said on Fox News last night with Laura Ingraham, I said, from Montauk to L.A., there were parties galore all waiting for this game on a Sunday morning.
And it was the ultimate Super Bowl because it's one game, winner take all. You take the gold medal and anything can happen. And certainly miracles do happen. We've seen that in hockey with Herb Brooks standing in front of us here on our desk. I just think that it was a moment that we'll never forget.
And for all of us who love the game, but more importantly love what these kids represent, we'll remember where we were when this game took place.