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Joe Makowiec wrote:
> In 1980 ABC, presaging the 'plausibly live' of recent Olympics, actually
> showed most of the game in prime time, even though it was played in the
> afternoon. A group of friends had gathered that afternoon, popped a few
> beers and listened to the game live on the radio, so we knew the score and
> more or less what had happened when.
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> Then on comes the TV broadcast. There's Jim MacKay, sitting in the
> broadcast booth with a live street scene in Lake Placid behind him. There
> are the happy fans, waving flags and screaming "We Won! We
> Won!!!!! USA! USA!" And there sits MacKay, oblivious to what's going on
> behind him saying, "And later, we'll show you the USA - Soviet Union
> hockey
> game." Like we couldn't tell...
Joe thanks for clearing up a confused memory of mine of having known the
score before seeing the game. I heard the score from my inlaws (not hockey
fans in particular) on my way home from work that night. I just couldn't
believe it at first but then heard it confirmed on the news. Watching ABC's
presentation a little later was still thrilling, and the last ten minutes of
that game were a pure agony....
My fingernails still haven't grown back.
Craig Knowles
UNH '71
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