The greatest team sport game was not played in the NBA or the Olympic Dream Team. Sending the best of the best in their very own game against the rest of the world playing than to just say I played against them will and did show the attitude and love for the game by creating some of the best and most beautiful, yet always chilled and relaxed moments in sport history when David played with his child no Goliath around.
In 1980 at the peak of the Cold War facing nuclear overkill coming true the two nations all up for destroying the entire planet if cold war would turn hot figured that they have one team game in common:
Ice Hockey.
The game in which violence and aggression is attitude, yet grace and quickness will win the game.
Two teams representing the very difference of the two systems up to kill each other and pulling down all of mankind met to figure out if individualism or equality are better and created the most fibrant, adrenalin packed fair game I ever watched.
The American team was pretty much the dream team on ice with the very best single players and stars of competing professional teams coming together all of them understanding that they might be the drop on the scale to skip from cold to hot playing in one team exclusively for this match.
The Russian team was a machine playing like a chain of all equal parts in perfect coordination having trained only for that game. The western media was sure they were the ultimate unbeatable favorite and nightmare opponent.
These teams represented like nothing else the differences of both systems. Ultimate individualism peaking in stardom against all equal parts of a system.
Peace won.
