Thursday, February 24, 2005

I have such a blinding headache at the moment, I can't even fathom going home and sitting in front of a computer screen again. Right now, I just want to make it through the last 45 minutes of work...take my life into my hands driving home...swallow several aspirin...watch the game that time forgot...and go to bed.
Just to clarify, it's snowing here. We got about 3 inches overnight and it's been snowing all day.
As for the game that time forgot (courtesy of the wonderful folks at answers.com):

The circumstances of the U.S. vs U.S.S.R. game were so emotional and memorable that many Americans still do not realize that the match against the Soviets did not win the Gold Medal for the U.S. Once again, Coach Brooks skated a "hard" practice the day before the game, determined to disabuse his team of the idea that the game was anti-climactic, as many Americans felt after the win over USSR.

Again, the U.S. fell behind early, this time 2-1 after two periods, due to excellent play by the Finnish goalie. Coming into the dressing room, Brooks turned to his players, looked at them and said: "If you lose this game, you'll take it to your fucking grave." Paused, took a few steps, turned again and said, "Your fucking grave." And walked out.

As we all know, they didn't lose. They came back in the third period and defeated Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal on this day 25 years ago.

I'm sure you can figure out the whole headache-aspirin thing.

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