Miracle on Ice
Эл Майклс, тот самый человек, который сказал "Верите ли вы в чудо?" на матче США-СССР тридцать лет назад, вспоминает, как оно было:
That clock just seemed to be in quicksand. You have the lead, the clock is going down. I know the players all said the same thing, you’d look up and you’d hope a couple minutes went off the clock and it was like five seconds, so it was as exciting as anything I’d ever seen in sports.
They’re going insane and I think Ken Dryden and I were the only people in the place that were kind of like horses with blinkers on. I kept thinking to myself "stay in the game, stay in the moment, stay with the play by play." Now, all of a sudden, with a few seconds left in the game, the puck comes out to center ice after the Soviets had put a lot of pressure on and it afforded me the opportunity to say what I did.
It’s only 30 years ago, but the world has changed so vastly that if somebody wins the Super Bowl, they can watch it all night long on a 100 different outlets. These guys didn’t have that opportunity. I think part of that was part of the beauty of all this. They knew it big but they didn’t know how big.
That clock just seemed to be in quicksand. You have the lead, the clock is going down. I know the players all said the same thing, you’d look up and you’d hope a couple minutes went off the clock and it was like five seconds, so it was as exciting as anything I’d ever seen in sports.
They’re going insane and I think Ken Dryden and I were the only people in the place that were kind of like horses with blinkers on. I kept thinking to myself "stay in the game, stay in the moment, stay with the play by play." Now, all of a sudden, with a few seconds left in the game, the puck comes out to center ice after the Soviets had put a lot of pressure on and it afforded me the opportunity to say what I did.
It’s only 30 years ago, but the world has changed so vastly that if somebody wins the Super Bowl, they can watch it all night long on a 100 different outlets. These guys didn’t have that opportunity. I think part of that was part of the beauty of all this. They knew it big but they didn’t know how big.