Al Michaels is probably best known to current sports fans as the voice of ABC’s “Monday Night Football,” NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” and Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football.” Yet during a legendary career in sports broadcasting, Michaels has called virtually every sport that’s been contested during his nearly 60 years at the mic.
That includes the medal round ice hockey match at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York between the United States and the Soviet Union.
This Saturday, Feb. 22, is the 45th anniversary of Team USA’s improbable “Miracle on Ice” 4-3 upset victory and Michaels is still best known to past generations of fans for his iconic call during the game’s final seconds, “Do you believe in miracles? YES!”
Amazingly, as Michaels explained on “The Rich Eisen Show” on Friday, the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” was only the second hockey game he had ever called. A big…
