I know I have used this one before. My buddy Carl posing in Lake Placid in 2018. He was so proud to be there. So was I.

Some things get better with age. I am one of those and I am not one of those.

Knowing I was alive and well and of an age, 12, to know what a big deal it was, I still rewatch The Miracle on Ice. I watch the MIRACLE movie.

I have told the story before. When I was a college student, I did a phone interview with Herb Brooks. Herb was the coach of the Miracle on Ice team. I was writing a paper about the team for a class. He talked to me. I didn’t get much. He certainly made an impression. He thought the players should be the ones I was calling.

When Carrie and I visited the Herb Brooks Arena where the games were played in 1980, I was told I could sit anywhere I wanted in the team box. This was as close as I could bring myself. Nothing in sports has meant more to me. This team and this event are other-worldly to me.

I came across this photo recently and thought I would share it. The two from the love story of A-Ha’s great song and video Take on Me all these years later. The lead singer and the actress in the video.

Back to 2018. On the way back home from our trip to The Berkshires in 2018, we stopped by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I swore I would never darken the door until The Moody Blues were inducted. They were that Spring.

One of the coolest things I came across during our visit were storyboard illustrations for the video of A-Ha’s Take on Me song.

If you were a teenager in 1985, you know what I am talking about. This video transcended everything we had ever seen before. I still enjoy watching it.

Speaking the rights…

Danny Johnson