The Miracle Had a Hangover

Everyone knows the Miracle on Ice — the moment a team of American college kids beat the Soviet hockey machine at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. But nobody talks about what happened next: the gold medal game, the psychological crash, and how a single speech in a locker room between two periods may have saved the greatest sports story America ever told. This week, we go behind the miracle, to the part they left out of the movie.