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Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: May 15, 2010 ^^
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The USSR game was on a Friday afternoon. I was on a bus from Dallas to Galveston on a fraternity pledge class retreat that day. We were aware that the US team was playing the Soviets that day but we all knew the USA team had zero chance of winning. So we weren’t focused on the game.
We stopped in Huntsville, Texas at a McDonalds just off I-45 to get burgers around 6 or 7pm, and while we were in the restaurant someone with a radio shouted “we just beat the Russians!”
The entire restaurant exploded in joy, people went completely apeshit, a bunch of small town Texans, most of whom I am sure had never in their lives seen a hockey puck, spontaneously jumping up and down and singing God Bless America at the top of their lungs.
I will never forget that moment of shared exhilaration as long as I live.
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@24HeySay
2 years ago
I'll never forget my dad's response. The game wasn't televised on the West Coast until three hours after it started, so he was listening to it on the radio while he was driving home on the freeway about 5 pm or so. He said the traffic was going about 25 miles an hour so probably almost everyone was listening to the radio broadcast. When the game ended people started honking their horns, and then pulling off on the side of the freeway. He said people were getting out of their cars and jumping around and hugging each other, so he joined in too. Just a great moment.
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