37 years ago today

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

I remember it like it was yesterday!

[Tequila Cowboy]

Wow, me too. It's really hard to describe what that meant to someone that didn't live through it. There was so much more than sports going on and yet it all came down to that game. I actually thought the movie, while fluffy, captured it better than I imagined it could but nothing short of living those moments could help you really understand it.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

I can still easily rattle off the names from the top of my head- Craig, Morrow, Silk, Eruzione, Johnson, Broten, Christian, Schneider, Pavelich, O'Callahan, and of course Herb Brooks

So many Americans think that we won the gold medal by winning that game, they don't realize that we still had to play Finland two days later

rare SI cover with zero text

[Zip City]

I remember hosting my birthday party in our basement and my dad kept running upstairs to see updates of the game. The US won the gold on my actual birthday two days later

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

I remember hosting my birthday party in our basement and my dad kept running upstairs to see updates of the game. The US won the gold on my actual birthday two days later

Nice! Sounds like our birthdays are 3 days apart

[Flea]

Missed that moment live because my high school's basketball team was in a state sectional final, and going to that sounded like more fun than watching TV. Of course, they lost.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Missed that moment live because my high school's basketball team was in a state sectional final, and going to that sounded like more fun than watching TV. Of course, they lost.

funny, I played in a basketball game that night, but since the hockey wasn't shown live we still got home in time to see it

[211poundsofpork]

Awesome! Unfortunately, I am a tad to young to remember this but it is still one of the best sports moments of all time. This also is probably the last time Basket...er, uh I mean Sports Illustrated had ice hockey on their cover, other than maybe a Great One appearance ( I do know of one - 1988: The Trade)

I can still easily rattle off the names from the top of my head- Craig, Morrow, Silk, Eruzione, Johnson, Broten, Christian, Schneider, Pavelich, O'Callahan, and of course Herb Brooks

So many Americans think that we won the gold medal by winning that game, they don't realize that we still had to play Finland two days later

rare SI cover with zero text

[Tequila Cowboy]

Awesome! Unfortunately, I am a tad to young to remember this but it is still one of the best sports moments of all time. This also is probably the last time Basket...er, uh I mean Sports Illustrated had ice hockey on their cover, other than maybe a Great One appearance ( I do know of one - 1988: The Trade)

The Blackhawks made the cover at least once in 2015 as I have a copy here. I'm thinking they may have been on for their first one too.

[Iowan]

I found 4 hockey covers in 2013 alone.








TC's right about '15 as well.

[Duke Silver]

Happened 6 months before I was born, therefore not relevant to me.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Happened 6 months before I was born, therefore not relevant to me.

do you feel the same about Vietnam and WW II?

[Tequila Cowboy]

Happened 6 months before I was born, therefore not relevant to me.

do you feel the same about Vietnam and WW II?

Seriously. I was born in 1961 and WWII and the rise of the Nazis and the Axis powers and their subsequent defeat have felt relevant to me all my life. In the sports world I guess the analogy would be the 1936 Olympics and the triumph of Jesse Owens which happened 25 years before I was born but still seems relevant today. SMDH.

[Iowan]

Miracle on Ice was 5 years before I was born, but I still get chills watching those clips.

[Duke Silver]

just a dumb tongue in cheek post, folks. carry on.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Miracle on Ice was 5 years before I was born, but I still get chills watching those clips.

damn, by the time you were born I had seen the Grateful Dead 70+ times and killed a man!

[Iowan]

3DD is the only place I feel young any more.

[LBRod]

3DD is the only place I feel young any more.

Pipe down, kid. Also some of you need to get your sarcasm meters recalibrated.

[John A Arkansawyer]

Happened 6 months before I was born, therefore not relevant to me.

I was born twenty-some years before you were. It didn't really matter to me, either.

[Flea]

I found 4 hockey covers in 2013 alone.

Could those be regional variants? SI does several of those every year.

[Iowan]

I found 4 hockey covers in 2013 alone.

Could those be regional variants? SI does several of those every year.

I don't think so. I went to a blog that has every SI cover over a certain period of time.