Hockey’s 1980 “Miracle on Ice“ Team chooses Trump

Fuck ‘em.

It’s utterly idiotic to claim “I didn’t know!”

They wore political hats at a political rally but supposedly didn't know it was political? Sure.

They beat the Russians, get it? Trump couldn't have any collusion because he sided with us. USA, USA, USA!!!

Well ya did, Mike. Ya DID. Trumo is trying to ruin everything, but fuck him and that whore he rode in on.

^^Trump. For those of you who might be confused about who I was talking about.

Cop out, he didn't like the heat but he voted for Trump, is a member of one of his golf clubs and ran there fast enough for the photo op.

Fuck them. They were my heroes. I can’t believe they are this horrid.

Complete turn off

The tweet quoted in the article is right on target.

Something like “In 1980, you owned the Russians. Today, the Russians own you.”

[quote] They were my heroes

If I live to be 100 I will never understand that statement.

Fuck ‘em

It's a miracle none of those middle-aged ex-hockey players are in jail for rape or dead from alcoholism. Yet.

Must be 10 convenient cases of dane braimage.

Fuck them.

I admired them and was watching when they beat the Soviets.

Now I'd spit on them. Fucking MAGAts. They knew exactly what they were doing and didn't GAF.

Way to shit can your entire legacy, assholes!

That is wack and a major bummer, dude.

For the first time since it happened I’m relieved Michael Mantenuto died so young. He would have been shattered to learn this.

You know your political career is headed STRAIGHT DOWN THE SHITTER when you have to stage and steal endorsements.

Trump has raped dozens of women, why not rape the U.S. Olympic hockey team, too?

#Desperation

Do they not see the irony? They defeated our enemy, the Russians. NOW they support a President that endorses Putin and Russia's interference?

Patriotic my ass.

Which four players refused to wear the caps?

Mike Eruzione’s such an idiot for claiming “I had no idea this was political!”

I don’t think Rizzo was ever a brain-trust, R19. In fact there were only a few all-round smart guys on that team, Jack O’Callahan & foremost among them. Most were community college kids on jock scholarships.

They should run Herbies until they apologise.

They’ve lost whatever goodwill they had built up in 40 years.

Yeah, are we shocked? Most athletes are Trump supporters. I thought this was common knowledge?

Mike Eruzione has a new autobiography out. Fodder for a book burning

Some of the team wore the hats. Some didn't. The ones that did are trying to make it seem like they wore them to be cooperative in that situation. But surely they knew that if they wore the hats it would be assumed that they're supporters of Trump. Anyway, the MAGA hat wearing members of the "Miracle on Ice" hockey team sound like idiots.

I wonder if any of the team were fucking in their rooms at Lake Placid forty years ago.

I mean, they were young and full of testosterone & adrenaline, and there was all that external pressure on them, and they were supposed to be bonding as a team...

Expecting a bunch of elderly high-school coaches, speakers-for-hire and rink-a-dink entrepreneurs who used to play Cawlidge Hawkey to have a progressive political stance?

‘Boys of Winter’ is an excellent book about them. No mention of their politics in it as I recall, though.

[quote] But surely they knew that if they wore the hats it would be assumed that they're supporters of Trump.

Um, showing up at a Trump rally did that already

"Um, showing up at a Trump rally did that already."

I don't think they considered themselves there to be in support of Trump. I think they may have just considered going there to be part of a photo session a gesture of politeness. Seems to me they were kind of duped. They let themselves be used. They don't seem like a bunch of very bright guys, although the ones who didn't wear the hats obviously had more brains than the others. It's amazing that they seemed surprised to get such a backlash by wearing the hats. Obviously they didn't believe they were making a political statement by wearing them, they were just being cooperative. The dummies.

Trump’s ascension to the presidency was on the shoulders of idiots like Eruzione.

Sheep, who can’t or don’t want to think for themselves and take the easy way out by going with the mob mentality.

Most athletes TODAY are deplorables, let alone hockey players from 40 years ago. This isn't shocking, nor is it news, this is just what's to be expected.

Who’s the cheapshotter, now?