The 1980 Miracle On Ice itself may be the most important event in American sporting history, let alone hockey history. So I knew I had to include it's lasting image somewhere quite high in my final standings. I chose the image of the Sports Illustrated magazine cover because hockey is so rarely featured by America's sporting leader. That in itself is significant. The photo of the American players racing to congratulate their goalie otherwise might not have been the lasting image without the magazine cover.
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I highly recommend watching the HBO sports documentary "Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team"
I don't know, and probably never will who the fan waving the flag in the background is, but I have to thank them because it puts the image and the moment in a different and higher level context.
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