Miracle on Ice goalie Jim Craig relives untold stories with Julian Edelman | 1980 Winter Olympics

[@gameswithnames]

Can you name a bigger underdog than the Miracle on Ice team? Sound off below! 👇

[@jpdore12]

Probably no bigger underdog ever but here are a couple: Buster Douglas vs Tyson Villanova vs Georgetown NC State vs Houston Jets vs Colts Super Bowl 3 Leon Spinks vs Ali 1 Rocky Balboa vs Drago

[@willritter4076]

actually, the Russian basketball team was probably an even bigger underdog when they took down the USA in the 1972 Olympics.

[@jojooso695]

yep should be number 1

[@geneticrex]

@@willritter4076 In reality......not even close.

[@geneticrex]

@@jpdore12 No comparison by ANY measure.

[@kylerschelling]

Miracle on Ice should be #1! It's an iconic game with an Iconic player.

[@a.s.a.m.i.x.]

Yeah a top2 crack for sure. . . a justification: Patriots were great!

[@simonmarks6870]

This is THE game. I have been waiting for this since episode 1.

[@brucevidito4923]

I consider it # 1 because it was college kids facing Russian pro's. It was indeed a Miracle On Ice. I was stationed in S. Korea when they won. I was (and still am) a hockey fan. a life-long Bruins fan from Hull, MA. Hockey was a way of life. I'm 70 years old now and still love hockey.

[@SHope-rq1hc]

I live in Chicago now, but grew up in Hingham! I miss me some Jakes seafood all the time!

[@brucevidito4923]

@SHope-rq1hc , OH YEAH ! I had been going to Jake's since 1970 when Paragon Park was still there. I don't get back home as often as I'd like, but I do go to Jake's when I do.

[@JJRM_9]

Thank you for your service Bruce. Hockey is king!

[@user-bl6ne3hc6n]

Please please stop using the word miracle, IT WASN'T , the head coach knew the Russians game plan, and he knew how to beat them, BY OUT WORKING THEM, it's not a miracle it's a bunch of guys that work their asses off and a great game plan, USA,USA,USA, 😊😊😊😊

[@musicman7101]

First time hearing Jim Craig speak. What a great guy. Confident (not arrogant), laid back, well spoken!!

[@itsnotme07]

You guys have 1600 videos on this channel. This interview is #1 of all of them.

[@petealvarez1476]

Agreed!!!

[@michaelbatt9680]

Damn Straight

[@ChristyAnderson-r4o]

I was in a bar in NH when this game was playing, I was 21 years old. Watching it, all I remember is that at the end of the game the bar erupted. It was amazing! These guys were instant heroes.

[@markcatanzaro9699]

Jimmy Craig was an 8 armed MONSTER THAT DAY! Greatest singing performances of an athlete ever!!! I was 11 years old & remember it like it was yesterday! The movie w Kurt Russell is one of the best sports movies ever made!

[@edelfan2478]

I played ice hockey in high school before it became what it is today for a girl to do so, and it was one of the best times of my life so it's nice having been able to live my dream through someone who actually experienced it. Thank you GWN.

[@dudesondudes]

Jim Craig is a STUD!

[@gameswithnames]

🔥🔥🔥

[@edelfan2478]

He's someone I always used to want to meet!!

[@bobmoroney3643]

One of the best interviews/videos I've seen. Thank you

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

Saw the game live. Something I will never forget. It saved hockey. Jim Craig is remarkable. One of my all time favorite interviews. Thx boys.

[@kylerschelling]

Whoa, how was that?

[@thereissomecoolstuff]

@ saw it live on TV. sorry. The goal in the last seconds of period 2 left everyone shocked. They never quit playing even for 1 second.

[@patrickmcmullan9146]

Incredible episode. Both entertaining and filled with endless life lessons. Possibly the best podcast episode I ever listened to. That’s a name for you. How about Game 7 of the 91 World Series.

[@grady187]

This is the defining moment of my sports fandom. I remember being at the grocery store with my mom and the butcher told us the result and my mom screamed. We had a watch party that night and when they won my Dad, who’s not a sports fan, was jumping up and down and yelling. And that’s why I always root for the underdog.

[@mattycrowley6175]

I’ve been waiting for this game since the start of this podcast

[@Matt-vx3wi]

Man Jim summed it up best. This show is special y’all do great work thanks for the amazing content

[@ThomasE897]

I found your podcast and im a Miralce on ice super fan, i usually cant stay interested for more then 15 minutes, but i sat through the entire cast, Jim Craig is fantastic, I hope to meet him one day, thank you thank you for this podcast, the day Herb died i drove by the scene minutes afterward and was in shock, he did his job, he got them to be a team, a family, and most of all underdog winners, thanks again

[@tinyhato]

I agree with Jim that you guys are doing this the right way. Keep it up!

[@russelljdj]

Edleman, like Slater, McCourty, & Grogan are and always will be Real True New England Patriots. Great to see Jim Craig.

[@a.s.a.m.i.x.]

This episode is more than being about a MIRACLE, it’s about Life. Awesome Episode! 🫡 great job with this one.

[@bryxcore]

Fellow Oliver Ames High School graduate. Class of 1995. I remember seeing his jersey framed right outside the gym.

[@13mfreddy]

Jim Craig is a legend and great guy. I watched Miracle religiously every night growing up. When I was a young kid, one night my parents scored suite tickets to a MN Wild hockey game, and Jim Craig was in the suite next door. He called me and my buddy over to watch the game with him, and even had someone grab pictures to sign for us. He’s awesome

[@keithbeck2300]

Awesome interview with Jim Craig, a sports legend. I was in junior high in 1980 when the US Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union. That's all anyone talked about at school for weeks afterwards, it was an incredible moment

[@andreww8941]

Awesome episode!!!! Fantastic interview with Jimmy Craig regarding one of the greatest victories of all time for any sport!!!!! Bravo gentlemen

[@anthonybonilla42]

Jules and the boys always coming through with the best!!!!

[@jdeleon1j]

He was right you guys do such a great job with this show! Truly enjoy it!!

[@BarryNevins]

Jules, you're killing it. Thank you for all the memories past and present. Where can I get a Nuthouse hat?

[@PDLM1221]

I like if true when Herb Brooks walked off and said at the buzzer at the end of that game “ it’s their moment”!

[@griffingeraghty5147]

Met you in person at a game when I was a kid around 15 years ago still got that autograph hung up

[@TheBamboozer]

Without a doubt, this game is number #1. 🇺🇸

[@cameronwilk105]

You need to get the 1997 hockey game with detroit red wings vs Colorado avalanche! One of the greatest games of all time!

[@kylerschelling]

We're working on it!

[@RowdyYates007YNWA]

Hands down the greatest sports moment in US history…it is the greatest game because we’re all Americans 💪🏼🇺🇸

[@NathanCline12-21]

Jim Craig and Grant Fuhr are the reasons I chose to play goaltender growing up playing ice, street, and deck hockey.

[@colinmuldoon6159]

As a life long hockey guy you guys crushed it!! Great job guys

[@Sero4]

I don't watch much hockey, hell I'm not even from the US, but this is one of the best ones yet

[@donaldlans3902]

Fantastic episode. The Miracle on ice is definitely a 10. What game could possibly be higher? Now I need to go watch the movie again.

[@bmrfitness2296]

That was brilliant - loved this.

[@pimpwood]

This absolutely is a top 5 game all time and it shouldn’t ever leave the top 5

[@davidloftus3771]

The podcast we didn’t know we needed

[@stevenkent8529]

Julian, less than a minute after the Gibson home run call, Vin Scully, after closing his mouth for the crowd reaction, which he was great at, gets off the best part of that call when he says, “in the year of the improbable, the IMPOSSIBLE has happened!”

[@bubbaballer88]

Wow..what a man, what a team, what an episode.

[@deannawilliams6471]

Great interview with Jim Craig

[@simonmarks6870]

It is criminal that there are 3 patriots games above this, I understand the bias, and the excellence shown in those games, but this was a moment in history we will never see again. These players weren’t stars, that day they became national heroes. The cultural impact, not only in the US, but across the world that this game has had will endure far beyond our memory of even the greatest superbowls ever played. Not to downplay the patriots of that period, there were some amazing things done and those were incredible games, but 3 games above it?! Even accounting for recency bias, it blows me away that this is not a top 3 game.

[@rickdonnelly3937]

For Americans, this has a legit case for greatest game ever. I may have a generational bias but, this was Rocky vs Drago before Rocky IV was a thing.

[@Spookypiratez]

Jim’s car had crossed the median line on Route 6, but Craig said he tried to avoid the women's car which he said cut directly in front of him. Killed in the accident was Margaret Curry, 29, of New Bedford, and injured were Patricia Belleveau, 21, of Westport, and Ingrid Olsen, 30, of Westport. 4 years later he was arrested around 2:30 a.m on Route 495 in Middleboro after state police officers observed him swerving and speeding.

[@billvill61]

The greatest single sporting event EVER!

[@TheAcgtrs]

I remember watching the HBO documentary “do you believe in miracles“, and the thing that always struck me was the interview with the hostage from the American Embassy in Iran saying that, when they were educated about what had gone on in the world, during their year in captivity, that they cheered for the US hockey team the most. I really wonder what Jim, and the other 1980 team members think about what the American hostages in Iran said, about that game.

[@JrJVintage1956]

I was at an international Track Meet in San Diego that night... the announcer came over the loud speaker and said.. "Ladies and Gentlemen from Lake Placid... the Final Score in Men's Hockey game Soviet Union 3 (Pause) and the United States 4!) and the roof blew off the Arena with the roar of the crowd... even the athletes on the field all stopped and were celebrating no matter what country they were from... magical night.

[@DeniseCunniff]

He mentioned Raynham, NO ONE mentions my tiny town.

[@bigbonededFFB]

Love the Pedroia shoutout. YOLO County, CA!

[@rabbitinnh]

Great idea for a guest guys!

[@JrJVintage1956]

Not a Patriot podcast? 4 of the top 5 Games are New England Patriot games? How any of those could be above the Miracle on Ice is ridiculous but .. still grateful for this EXCELLENT interview.

[@zacharyhall2012]

What a fantastic guest!!

[@claytongiampaolo7848]

When first started watching this podcast (seen almost every episode) this is the first game I thought of and I'm so glad this game got covered. Also I'm surprised that Jim liked how the movie portrayed them, most Hollywood movies piss people off by what they change.

[@mjohnson406]

Feel like the best comparison for the end of the game was the end of Super Bowl 49. Belichick looks at Seattle's sideline and doesn't take a timeout because they seemed to be in disarray. Didn't give them extra time to think

[@Rick-qp5zf]

Great game and great episode. You guys have one of the best podcasts out there. And this is coming from a Seahawks fan. Keep up the good work.

[@bb-gc2tx]

great to see jim looking healthy and happy

[@benmecha01]

Stakes: 9.9 Star Power: 8.1 Gameplay: 9.0 Name: 9.9

[@Lcngopher]

I really enjoyed watching the 30 for 30, of miracles and men. It talks about the history of this game but from the soviet perspective.

[@MrDuds1984]

It’s the greatest story of all time

[@tlucas99]

The best! Grab Tom Barrasso and Kelly Dyer on a hockey goalie episode... two great goalies with one winning 2 Stanley cups and the other leading Women's Hockey in Mass during the early 80's

[@RichandBritwist-jh7wc]

Bad Bay Area knowledge by Jules Segei Makarov was a SJ shark’s legend who was the heartbeat of 94 playoff run that that produced the undisputed most electric deafening building in Bay Area history including the we believe Warriors. Also Warren Strelow was the sharks long time goalie coach.

[@tomdigangi2722]

Huge Red Sox fan, and Patriots fan, and I can say without a doubt this is the greatest sporting event of my life. Didn't see it live, but watched the broadcast a few hours later and it still brings an enormous smile, and usually tears, to my face. Thanks for posting

[@ryleylund1556]

Dick Bremen twins broadcast legend has to have amazing stories too

[@collinrust2641]

Bremer

[@musicman7101]

Great Cast

[@MacMcSharry]

Andy Fila was my highschool principal. He's one tough SOB!

[@Searles007]

“What’s the Purpose?” - song by Dennis Kyne 🤙🏼

[@carlmack2188]

i was 17 1980 Olympics. I was a sports junky. if i recall USA pulled out a tie against Sweden early in the round robin. i really was hoping the team could do something special. the US as a nation was down, hostages in Iran, the economy in the tank, etc. All you heard was how the Red Army was the greatest team in the World. And the US was bottom of the barrel usually, no wonder, it was amateurs vs pros. I’ll never forget Friday night, my best friend and I couldn’t find the game on TV. We snuck some beers chatting things up, and it zapped on the radio the US beat the Soviets in Olympic hockey. We went nuts. When the replay was played on ABC the next day it felt like it was live. In my lifetime, for me, it’s the No# 1 sports victory. i hated the commies. i played a lot achieved a lot, but when you guys finished off Finland and stood on that podium i can’t explain the emotions.

[@TylerOConnor-xs6py]

good stuff. when i think legendary olympic hockey games the OT gold medal game in 2010 was legendary. fuckin canada won tho

[@benmecha01]

so the U-S-A chant started here? Interesting

[@carsfornormalpeople6031]

This is the number 1 sports moment of all time. #2 was Jesse Owens winning gold medals in Berlin in front of Hitler. #3 is Ali-Frazier. #4 was Piazza’s HR after 9/11. #5 is tough…Namath Super Bowl vs. Colts?

[@DavisMay74]

IDK, THIS game has my vote for Greatest Game. You will never see anything like that again, Russians had been playing together for years, won several gold medals, getting beat by college kids. Such an amazing story, game, etc.

[@benmecha01]

this is a white whale for you guys congrats!!

[@destinfrantz6660]

Pls get Biznasty on here

[@ryleylund1556]

Bring Paul allen Vikings radio legend

[@MisterP-rz1yp]

Man I can't believe I'm actually leaving a comment but I used to play a pickup game at that rink in Raynham, one bench all americans the other all russian and who did they have on their side Kovelenko, Frankenstein big, the talent was pretty evenly matched but if team Russia was lagging behind ol Kovelenko, even at 60 whatever he was could go end to end at will, he'd wind up and you'd just get out of the way. He wouldn't take any clappers though, nice guy, I took the puck from him once...

[@bubbaballer88]

This might be a contender, kids..

[@jbdel]

half the team as from MN Jimmy. think about those underdogs, where hockey was a way of life in MN

[@michaelbatt9680]

i dont care what you guys score this, its #1...period, end of story.

[@gtrdd]

Is this an interview or a corporate seminar?

[@willyboyw.5771]

Myshkin was screened by his defensemen on Eruzione's goal.

[@Dablefschrempf]

Imagine a place where you could just walk where ever you want except industry and critical infrastructure. Imagine a place that you did not have to spend your income on needs like your house. Imagine a place where you could spend that income on your wants and pursue what you want because your needs were always satisfied with governmental safety nets. Imagine a place where people go to prison and are treated like they can become a better version of themselves and not start at -50 when they get back out. Thats what we could have here in the US. We just have to think outside of capitalism.

[@lilbiggs4661]

I mean youre right, but like this game fucking slapped

[@Dablefschrempf]

@@lilbiggs4661 I do not think either are exclusive. This game was amazing.

[@andrewernst4468]

Patriots legend Julian Edelnut get my blue Gatorade roookie.

[@bigbonededFFB]

Jules' fits make this show.

[@Rockhound6165]

Jim was outstanding in that Olympics. Too bad his game didn't translate to the NHL.

[@BillyJoe-s6r]

This is number 1. It’s way more than a sporting event or a game. It’s a cultural phenomenon. The entire country rallied around this team and against the ideals of the Soviet Union and when we won the game the country was united. From non hockey fans to hockey fans it wasn’t about hockey. It was about America.

[@dbeelee8564]

Rating the game? None higher, period. At the time, I was living in the DC Metro (not a hockeytown) and the game wasn't televised, but EVERYONE knew it was being played. I was in a grocery store when over the public address, we heard, "May I have your attention. USA 4, russia 3." The store erupted ! Not heard before nor since, the results of a sporting event was announced in a grocery store ... because we all wanted to know.

[@MrDuds1984]

I betcha that American flag Craig still has could be auctioned for millions.

[@tommymacdonald1225]

Stakes are 11

[@bobrcmwall4271]

Ranked too low I think!!!! This is from a Brady, Edelman, Belichick, Patriot fan!!!! Should be 1 or 2

[@jacksdad734]

Yoooooo

[@willritter4076]

ah yes, 1980, Team USA finally got revenge for the embarrassment of the Russians beating us in basketball at the '72 Games in Munich.

[@Wordsley]

First!

[@kevinkinal9557]

Ok I love Jules and all but dudes c'mon.. your stroking him saying that his imitation of Johnny Most "was awesome" and "Did it justice". Or... if you ACTUALLY believe that was awesome ... umm.. your on phreaking Mars. In fact... I almost cant imagine a worse imitation unless he was doing a falsetto women's voice.

[@thawkereynolds]

I just started the video but this absolutely should be NUMBER 12 or three and the only reason it’s not definitively number one is because I think it loses something with star power but maybe I’m wrong

[@peterbparis]

Who is hiring a guy to teach corporate people who is famous for playing hockey at 21 years old? Sayings are not wisdom.

[@gk5908]

Weird take if that what you got out of this conversation