Digital Versatile Deja Vu: 'Miracle'

The one hockey game "America" cares about

Recently, I was watching hockey on ESPN, and during the intermission they had a segment to celebrate the anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice” USA Olympic hockey team winning gold. This was already odd, given that it was the 44th anniversary, not exactly a remarkable year to celebrate. Not only that, but Mark Messier and P.K. Subban were asked for their thoughts on Team USA winning gold, and beating the Soviet Union team en route to winning said gold. They are both Canadian. Messier and Subban presumably don’t give a shit about the "Miracle on Ice.” They both played for Team Canada. However, even all these decades later, mainstream hockey media in America is built upon the 1980 Winter Olympics, and the “Miracle on Ice.” All the blood has been squeezed out of that stone, but the media keeps going to that well. It’s the one hockey game that has cultural relevance in America. So much so, in 2004, Disney released a movie about that team, and that “miracle.” It was called, um, Miracle.