# Herb Brooks is dead.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herb-brooks-is-dead/194545>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 12, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herb-brooks-is-dead/194545 "2003-08-12T01:06:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herb-brooks-is-dead/194545/1 "2003-08-12T01:06:00Z")

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Car wreck.

About time for famous people I like to stop kicking the bucket, don’t you think?

[http://canada.com/sports/story.html?id=1D6F9040-9C0F-4BCC-88C2-59BD225524EB](http://canada.com/sports/story.html?id=1D6F9040-9C0F-4BCC-88C2-59BD225524EB)

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**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herb-brooks-is-dead/194545/2 "2003-08-12T03:01:13Z")

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My favorite Brooksism: “You’re getting worse and worse everyday. You’re playing like it’s the middle of next month.”

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herb-brooks-is-dead/194545/3 "2003-08-12T03:14:14Z")

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A true sports icon. I just saw on ESPN that when the 1980 US hockey team won, he didn’t go out on the ice with them to celebrate, because he wanted them to have the honor. What a great man.

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herb-brooks-is-dead/194545/4 "2003-08-12T03:27:55Z")

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There are a lot of people today, especially my age, who just don’t understand how huge a victory that was (not just in terms of hockey but symbolically). _I_ finally understood it when it was put to me like the 60s Celtics (the team that won 8 straight championships) losing to a middle-of-the-road college team; that analogy meant more to emphasize the utter dominance of the Russian team than to demean the American team.

I’ve enjoyed watching everything I’ve seen about that year and that team. God speed, Mr. Brooks.

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**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herb-brooks-is-dead/194545/5 "2003-08-12T03:28:23Z")

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When I moved to Minnesota, [Herb Brooks](http://www.ushockeyhall.com/Enshrinees/Herb%20Brooks.htm) had just become coach at St Cloud State, then a D2 program, I thought it was cool that he would go to a small school, and help it become a top notch Division I program.

Hockey lost a great spokesman, and it’s biggest fan.

☹