1980 US Hockey Team
Rated the Greatest US Sports Moment by James Campion
1980 USA Hockey Team Defeats Soviet Union Juggernaut 3-2 - 2/22/03
Rag tag bunch of mostly teenaged amateurs, barely together a few months and playing a sport invented and perfected elsewhere, take on the most polished, professional and unbeatable team in the history of international hockey and win. Producing the greatest upset in the pantheon of sport in a time of international political tension smack dab in the middle of a Cold War that defined the parameters of the century. What makes the ultimate upset even more unbelievable is the fact that the same two teams played only a week earlier in an exhibition match and the Soviet Union cruised to a 10-1 victory, setting the stage for the expected American embarrassment that never came. Oh, yeah, and the US went on to defeat Finland for the gold in one of the most anticlimactic championship rounds in Olympic history.
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