Miracle on Ice Goalie Jim Craig Looks Back on What They Really Accomplished

Jim Craig, Goalie for the 1980 US Hockey team, best remembered for the Miracle on Ice victory over the then Soviet Union joins Thursday Night Tailgate. We talk with Jim about the games and moments leading up to the game against the Soviet Union. Bill Baker's goal to tie Sweden which changed everything. The wins over the Czech Republic, Norway, Romania and West Germany. The night of doing Herbies that was depicted in the movie Miracle. The final 10 minutes of the Soviet game after the US took the 4-3 lead and the gold medal game against Finland which if they hadn't won, they wouldn't have won, the Soviet Union still would have won the gold medal based on goal differential.