1997 Wheaties Cereal Ice Hockey 1980 Team USA Winter Olympics Legends

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1997 Wheaties Cereal Ice Hockey 1980 Team USA Winter Olympics Legends.
OLYMPic
WINTER
LEGENDS
PERHAPS THE MOST ENDURING MEMORY OF ALL OLYMPIC WINTER
GAMES BEGINS WITH FOUR SIMPLE WORDS: THE MIRACLE ON ICE.
A YOUNG AMERICAN HOCKEY TEAM (AVERAGE AGE 22) WAS
ASSEMBLED JUST SEVEN MONTHS PRIOR TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
THE TEAM WASN'T EVEN FAVORED TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE QUALIFYING
ROUNDS IN LAKE PLACID, LET ALONE TUMBLE AN EXPERIENCED
SOVIET SQUAD, WHO HAD HUMBLED THEM IN A PRACTICE GAME. YET
IT WAS THIS TEAM AND ITS UNMITIGATED PASSION TO WIN THAT
INSPIRED THE NATION AND STUNNED THE WORLD.
MERICA'S HOCKEY TEAM TIED THE
FIRST GAME OF THE ROUND-ROBIN WITH THE
SWEDISH TEAM 2-2 AND THEN SET A PATTERN FOR ALL
GAMES TO FOLLOW: COME FROM BEHIND TO WIN. BY THE TIME THE
SEMIFINAL MATCH WITH THE SOVIETS ARRIVED, THE ENTIRE NATION
WAS WATCHING WITH INTEREST AND HOPE. BEFORE A FULL-
CAPACITY "RED, WHITE AND BLUE"-CHANTING ARENA, THE
HOME-ICE ADVANTAGE PROVED AN UNBEATABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL
FORCE. BUZZ SCHNEIDER, MARK JOHNSON AND MIKE ERUZIONE
LED THE SCORING IN A GAME THAT WOULD PROVE SO MEMORABLE
THAT, 18 YEARS LATER, TALK OF MIKE ERUZIONE’S 30-FOOT SHOT
TO WIN A 4-3 GAME OCCURS AS IF IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY.
TWO DAYS LATER, THE UNITED STATES TRIUMPHED OVER FINLAND
AND WON THE FIRST U.S. HocKEY GOLD MeDAl SINCE 1960.
REMEMBERING LEGENDARY MOMENTS LIKE THE 1980
U.S. OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM ON THE VICTORY PODIUM
LISTENING TO "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"
MAKES ALL AMERICANS RAISE THE CHEER “U.S.A."
USA HOCKEY
PROUD SPC
TEAM