Mike Eruzione on win vs Soviets and Al Michaels' "Miracle" call

In The Front Row with Mike Vaccaro

Eruzione grew up in Winthrop, MA surrounded by his Italian American family playing baseball, football and hockey. After excelling in high school and prep school, Eruzione wanted to play all three sports at the University of New Hampshire and enrolled at Merrimack College before fate intervened and sent him to Boston University. Playing most of his career for Jack Parker, Eruzione would become the 3rd-leading scorer in BU history and play for Team USA at the 1975 and 1976 World Championships. Following a two-year stint in the IHL with the Toledo Goaldiggers, Mike was named to the 1980 US Olympic team. Playing in Lake Placid, NY, the US stunned the world with a win over the Soviet Union in the medal round on Eruzione's third period goal. Two days later, the US would secure the gold medal with a come-from-behind win over Finland. Eruzione shares behind-the-scenes stories of US coach Herb Brooks, the bond he has with his Olympic teammates, and the other US athletes he admired in Lake Placid. Plus, he tells us about the moment he shared with his teammates on the Olympic podium, his friendship with Al Michaels after his call of the "Miracle On Ice", what life was like after the Olympics and why it took him 40 years to write a best-selling book about his life, "The Making of A Miracle". He also tells us the role he played in the World Series win for the Boston Red Sox in 2004 and where his Olympic moment stands among the greatest moments in American sports history. (Hear former Red Sox Outfield Trot Nixon reference Mike Eruzione in Ep. 41: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwQN4BvSIDg&t=1119s)