At 1-15-2011 03:35 PM, Pamela Sweeney wrote:
>If we use THAT criterion, it'd probably end up as the second most 
>attended hockey game, behind the 1980 Miracle on Ice game, which I 
>believe approximately 250,000 people now claim to have attended...

I was sitting with friends in Troy, NY, about 130 miles away.  We 
listened to the game on the radio in the afternoon.  We then flipped 
on the TV and had fun with Jim McKay as he sat in the anchor 
booth.  He kept a straight face while he promo-ed that evening's 
USA/USSR hockey game.  You could see the streets of Lake Placid 
behind Jim, and in the background people were jumping up and down, 
waving flags and shouting "We won!  We won!".

Meantime my brother, a Saint Lawrence student at the time, was in a 
lumberjack bar somewhere in the Adirondacks where they got Canadian 
TV.  The Canadians had the good grace to show the game live, so he, 
too, knew the results before McKay did.

Joe
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