Our 40th episode of the Scoring At The Movies podcast goes back to the 1980 Winter Olympics as we gab about one of the greatest upsets of all-time, in one of the best pure sports films we’ve covered yet: Miracle!
We dug into the world-shaping issues of the late-’70s, problems that went way beyond USA v USSR on a hockey rink. Both of us also watched the actual “miracle” game on YouTube, so we were able to spend plenty of time comparing what’s portrayed to what really happened. The hockey action is vividly done by director Gavin O’Connor and the acting (led by Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks) is as good as it needs to be. After all, most of the players were athletes more than they were actors.
So jump on the bandwagon, but play like a bunch o’ commies (we’ve got a hot take on that!) and hear us tongue-wag about Miracle…again…again…again…
Pedantry Alert: Mario Lambert was Montreal’s coach and Ronald Corey was the team’s president when Patrick Roy said he’d just played his last game for the Canadiens. Also, plenty of other Soviets from this dominant USSR team other than Vladislav Tretiak are in the Hockey Hall Of Fame. Also also, just to be clear, Wayne Gretzky was an executive for Canada’s ’02 Olympic team, not a player. Also also also, Mark Johnson scored 2 goals in the miracle game, not a hat-trick (Buzz Schneider and Mike Eruzione scored the other two).
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Ep. 91 - The Peanut Butter Falcon
Ep. 90 - The Way Back
Ep. 89 - Ali
Ep. 88 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ep. 87 - 61*
Ep. 86 - Battle of the Sexes
Ep. 85 - The Waterboy
Ep. 84 - The Running Man
Ep. 83 - Snatch
Ep. 82 - Without Limits
Ep. 81 - Ford v Ferrari
Ep. 80 - Lucas
Ep. 79 - Enter the Dragon
Ep. 78 - The Damned United
Ep. 77 - The Legend of Bagger Vance
Ep. 76 - Necessary Roughness
Ep. 75 - 42
Ep. 74 - Hardball
Ep. 73 - Glory Road
Ep. 72 - Fighting with my Family
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