It was a 5:00 PM ET start, so the game was in the books when McKay went on the air at 8:00. Both games were in the same rink, so they'd have had to have time to reset the building for the nightcap.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:55 AM JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would strongly disagree that they weren't building to that game. Here > is > > part of Jim McKay's introduction: > > There's a lot I don't remember 36 years later, like what time the US-USSR > game actually started. If the second game started at 8:45, then the first > game must have been very late, if not over, when ABC went on the air, and > the Miracle was possible, if not certain. If the Soviets had been up 6-1 > when the telecast started, I don't think McKay would have expressed that > same excitement. Perhaps ABC would have shown more skiers and less hockey. > We'll never know, which is fine with me. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
