What were you doing when the U.S. men's hockey team won Olympic gold?
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Where were the hosts during the U.S. men's hockey team's gold medal win?
I guess we're going to mollify your hockey quotient for the day with Catherine Tappan joining us at 1045. Olympic gold medalist himself, Jack O'Callaghan, joining us later in our show at 1225. And in the meantime, Bears and baseball and more. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. And... I'm trying to use it in a sentence, but appease is not the word I would use for something I hadn't seen in my lifetime, which was an Olympic gold medal hockey team. And here we are. I think we talked about this in our pre-show meeting. Marshall Harris, Mark Grody, where were you when you watched something that you hadn't seen happen since 1980 or perhaps hadn't seen at all? I will confess. I DVR'd it, and I watched the game on tape delay.
I got to see Mike Tirico's wonderful closing comments for that broadcast live, but I did not get to see what happened real time, but I kept up with the data. But I had to watch it when I was fully awake on Sunday.
I'm not going to lie. I was at the gym, and I got the alert. that the U.S. had won. The class itself was from 9 to 10, so towards the end of the class is when I got the alert. I knew they were winning, and I knew they were tied, and then I knew what happened in overtime. Then I went home and I watched it. It was great because it made me feel like no longer is the U.S. this underdog story. The U.S. is... on par with other nations who have prioritized hockey. And I know that's a bummer for our neighbors up north, but hey, them's the breaks. The USA has arrived and the USA is not going anywhere. Watching specifically the third period, but even before that, I was like, I think Canada is playing a better game of hockey than the US.
But hockey is one of those sports where if you don't get the bounce... The post is real. You have to find a way to not only have more opportunities than your opponent, but to take advantage. And if you don't get the breaks, you end up losing an overtime three-on-three game for a gold medal.
I ended up on Saturday night, spent the night at my parents' in the mighty northwest suburbs where they might build a new Bears stadium. Spent the night. I set my alarm for... I knew my dad was going to get up and watch it. Hey, you want me to wake you up? I was like, you know what? You know what? dad i'm gonna set the alarm for for nine o'clock and we'll see what happens the alarm goes off i look at my phone it could not have been more perfect it says on my phone that it is a tie game it's one one after two periods i jump out of bed like it's christmas morning i go downstairs and i get my coffee and i go into another room in my parents house There's my mom. My mom is in another room because my mom is one of these sports fans who can't handle it when the pressure gets too much.
She's like, I am not going to watch this. I can't handle it right now. But I went and hung out with my dad in the other room. where the game was blaring, and we just had a blast. And my mom actually did eventually come into the room, and when the goal is scored, I'm going crazy. For some reason, because it's so sudden, and it's for all the marbles, it did remind me of the Blackhawks' first cup of their three-cup run in 2010. when you didn't know that Cain had scored. He's running down, throwing the mitts up. That's what it felt like.
What emotions did the hosts feel while watching the game?
The Hawks won a Stanley Cup. Team USA wins gold. That was the feeling to a different level. Not quite the same. The Blackhawks level was different. That was like Pride, Chicago. That was a 10. This was a little different, but in the same sort of family of feeling that I had, Blackhawks versus Olympics.
Well, I had a good laugh because Mark Lazarus, who covers the Blackhawks for The Athletic, and was the noted longtime Blackhawks reporter here in town, had the barf cry die during Twitter when Twitter was like fun. So that was always the stress of watching the hockey playoffs. And I did think of him in the barf cry die while I was watching the game and just understanding the stress and knowing that... Even when you're watching an Olympics time delay where you know what you're going to see, just feeling it all together.
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