And, no, no one saw the US beat the USSR on live TV in 1980.
Some did just not many Americans.
With a capacity of 8,500, the Field House was packed.
[18] The home crowd waved
U.S. flags and sang patriotic songs such as "
God Bless America".
[11] The game was aired live on
CTV in
Canada, but not
ABC in the United States.
[19] Thus, American viewers who resided in or near Canadian border regions and received the CTV signal could watch the game live, but the rest of the United States had to wait for a delayed rebroadcast.
After the Soviets declined a request to move the game from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for U.S. television (this would have meant a 4 a.m. start in Moscow for Soviet viewers), ABC decided to broadcast the late-afternoon game on tape delay in prime time.
[20] To this day some of the people that watched the game on television still believe that it was live.
[21] Before the game, Brooks read his players a statement he had written out on a piece of paper, telling them that "You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."
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