Marisa’s Reviews > The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team > Status Update

~ “It was the last of the small games,” said Mike Moran, who spent a quarter-century as the press chief for the U.S. Olympic Committee. “We’ll never see a Games like that again. It was almost like elementary school compared with the way the Olympics are now.”

Me: that makes me sad

The Olympic Village is now a federal prison!? Umm

Changing out the goalie was a mistake

~ “Sometimes you can’t answer the why questions,” Mark Johnson said. “You just have to trust God and be faithful. You have to be thankful and try to lead your life in a way that people can look to it as an example.”

I can't believe Mark Johnson tried to sell off his hockey gloves at a garage sale for $3

~ There’s no Mason-Dixon line in Minnesota, but the differences between north and south Minnesota are as deep as any of the state’s 15,000-plus lakes.

Me: I can verify that

~ The plates were rented from a place in the Twin Cities, and the Iron Rangers who hosted the event honored their self-sufficient ways. They woke up early the next morning and washed all 1,000 plates by hand.

reading about the Iron Range makes me so sad

~ When the U.S. team scored, they looked like kids at recess, running toward each other, exulting, a group hug waiting to happen. The Soviets had emotions; they just didn’t believe in displaying them.

I wonder if Billy Baker was Scandinavian? his last name doesn't sound it