Miracle (2004) with Shane Guilfoyle Part 1

Title: Miracle (2004) with Shane Guilfoyle Part 1

Description: Miracle is the classic David versus Goliath story. The scrappy underdog Team USA hockey team takes on the juggernaut of Soviet Team in the 1980 Winter Olympics in 1980. Shayne Guilfoyle of the History of Hockey podcast will show us how this Team USA developed in a short time from a bunch of amateur college kids to take out the greatest team in hockey in one of the most exciting and important games in sports history.

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Shayne Guilfoyle of the History of Hockey Podcast

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Link to watch the full February 22, 1980 Miracle on Ice Game:

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"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Begin Transcript:

Thank you so much for joining us again for a new special episode of beyond the big screen today. We are joined by Shane Gilfoyle of the history of hockey podcast to discuss hockey in the Olympics, particularly one of the most important and exciting times and US Olympic hockey history, the famous miracle on ice team of the 1980 Olympics in Lake placid, New York, USA. We will be using the 2014 movie miracle as a lens and jumping off point to discuss this fascinating time in sports history depending on when you are listening to this, the 2018 Olympics and peon Chang South Korea are still going on or just wrapped up, so I hope this will contextualize Olympic hockey a bit more. Thank you so much for coming on today. Shane.

Steve, thank you so much for having me. This is really an honor. Truly, I mean that. Thank you.

I'm really excited to dive into. It's a great story, a great story, and you have a really great podcast detailing the history. I love the history of sports. There's just so much there.

There really is. I, I, uh, I kind of feel like there's almost not enough of it out there. It's kind of something that people maybe don't, don't think about. Um, you know, there's a history of warfare and all of that really juicy stuff, but sports kind of seemed to, to fall by the wayside. So

maybe you can tell us a little bit about yourself and your interesting back story on how you got yourself interested in hockey and starting a hockey podcast.

Uh, yeah, I'd love to. Um, originally I, I'm, uh, from Colorado. I grew up in a little town of about 5,000 people, a two or three roads, only one of which was paved a that was in a central Colorado and I'm kind of up in the...

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