22nd February 2010, 1:15 AM
How can NBC not promote Olympic hockey considering how meaningful and important the 1980 Miracle on Ice was? Ryan Kesler, whose father was on that team, is on the USA team now, and last night's game took place the day before the 30th anniversary of the game! Cold War and all that, defeated Communism and yadda yaddda yadda. Brought the country together and gave them something to rally around against the mighty Soviets and blah blah blah, I mean COME ON! It's promotion gold! NBC has gotta continually beat their audience over the head with footage and stories of that game just like we do in Canada with the '72 Summit Series. Nothing gets people more excited than reminders of the Cold War I'll tell you that much, yah huh. The United States is one sports-crazy country, and perhaps the most famous moment in the history of American sports took place on a hockey rink - why can't more Americans get behind hockey????