Shareefruck
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Sure. I just keep thinking of the CBC version of that story that was filmed/released a while ago, which touched on many of those same topics, and it just did not do much of anything for me at all. I think I got more out of reading about it than from watching it unfold in a show/movie.I hate underdog stories too, but I don't think it has to be that. For me Canada vs. Russia in '72 is the individual vs. the collective, in terms of personalities and style of play. I like the uneasy feeling of Canada having to resort to breaking the best Russian player's ankle to pull off a win that so many overconfident Canadians thought was a foregone conclusion.
It kind of ended up just feeling like "These are the stakes, here's how crazy it got, here's why you should care, now watch the rest of this and root for Canada. Oh look, against all odds, we won-- Yay for us."
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