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2005-02-22 - 8:55 a.m.
Miracle Anniversary

I was just piddling around this morning, checking out all that's going on in the world, and happened across an article about the 1980 USA Hockey miracle team! I can't believe it's been 25 years since that day!! The article said that the guys on the team are essentially *frozen in time* in our minds, which is so true! I can't imagine any of them as being middle-aged, but as the average early 20's guys most of them were at the time.
Guess that's all part of immortality, huh?
The article also made a good point....back then, there were no Dream Teams, no professional athletes in the Olympics, just amateurs. That's as it should be! Athletes in the Olympics SHOULD be amateurs, ones who have trained and given almost everything to compete in something so glorious! It shouldn't be an opportunity for professional athletes to showboat. While I'm not trying to put down the efforts that professional athletes make to GET that far, I just think that they belong in professional level sports, not in the Olympics. Let the amateurs become professional AFTER the Olympics, that's fine.
Okay, stepping down off my soap box! Giggle.
Having a good day so far, although busy with final exams! It's not so much the exams, it's the scramble to get everything done at the end of the quarter....straightening out grades, making up make-up exams, etc. Fun, fun!

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