After last night's flurry of hockey posts, a friend sent along this paean to the locker room speech given to the U.S. Olympic team in 1980, before the kids went out and beat the grizzled Soviets. Enjoy — it's word for word, allowing for pronunciation. Here's how Kurt Russell gave it in the movie "Miracle," and here's Al Michaels' final call at Lake Placid in 1980.

* Backstory: Josh Sacco, known as Rizzo, couldn't read when this video was shot earlier this year (he was four then.) But he has seen the film 150 or so times. Yahoo's Greg Wyshynski has the story.

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