Miracle on Ice 25th Anniversary - Mark Johnson

On the morning of the 25th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, Mark Johnson was gracious enough to provide a telephone interview with Fox6 Milwaukee.

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Sports

Tags:

• 1980
• hockey
• miracle
• ice
• olympics

[MischiefManaged413]

My uncle was on that team.

[mattyblast]

What is his name? Tell him I said Happy 30th Anniversary!!

[chicagoblackhawk11]

i know mark johnson, gary suter

[mattyblast]

That's great! You must know Jack O'Callahan, too, based on your username. :)

[bruceleedisciple]

Haha, you're mad that the US took the greatest moment in your countries sport.

[WSBT960]

Eruzione of course, is known as the hero for the game-winner, but MJ's pair of goals gave Eruzione that opportunity.

[Claymobileation]

Just went to homecoming with Marks daughter!

[hockey26hockey]

My best friends uncle was on this team, bill baker. My uncle played hockey with rob mclannahan and bill baker and steve janazcak and some others at the U of M

[wilmanric1]

@bruceleedisciple "Just play the game" That's the way we should all be. Good on ya, buddy.

[wilmanric1]

@bruceleedisciple

I'm really sorry to hear about that; there's no point in people trash-talking anyone. Every Canadian can remember playing in a backyard rink until his toes froze. Hockey has a mythic quality to us; like maybe baseball is to some Americans. It's our "Field of Dreams". That's why we get so passionate about it. Not because we're good at it, but because it's in our childhood. Mind you, we don't feel passionate about freezing our asses off waiting for the bus....

[bruceleedisciple]

@wilmanric1 Honestly, Im not so caught up in arguing about it with any of those guys anymore, as you can see, I wrote that comment over 2 years ago, and since then my hockey skills have improved, and I don't need to talk on the ice to back myself up anymore, I just play the game.

[bruceleedisciple]

@wilmanric1 Cool, I apologize if I came across as arrogant. See, I play pickup hockey down here in southern California, and a lot of canadian guys play with us and all they do is trash talk American Hockey, they say our country doesn't belong in hockey and to stick to baseball. I always bring up the Miracle On Ice, because it is widely known not only as the best moment in hockey, but in sports, and it shuts them up pretty quick.

[wilmanric1]

@bruceleedisciple No disrespect. It's your greatest moment. It can't be mine, b/c I am Canadian. OUR greatest moment in hockey is Pete Henderson's game winning goal in the last game of the '72 Can-Rus Series It's as symbolic to us as '80 is to you. I'll never forget it. I was in Gr 7; the whole school was in the gym watching two TV's. Almost every other school in Canada was the same. The game was on every TV in the country. When he scored, everyone exploded. All across Canada. Wow.

[bruceleedisciple]

@wilmanric1 Say what you want, but the USA still has the gresteast moment in your country's sport.

[wilmanric1]

@bruceleedisciple

No, we've had lots of great moments in hockey. In fact, so many that we don't feel the need to make a movie with the word "miracle" in the title.

[MischiefManaged413]

John "bah" harrington. And I will next time i see him! I love hockey, its the greatest sport ever!!!!!!!!!!1