What made the USA win so incredible is the team was composed of college players going up against a professional Russian team that played together for years and that was the considered the best in the world. It would be sort of like a group of college kids from another country beating the first dream team in Olympic basketball. An amazing atmosphere and game. I'll never forget it.
What he actually said was "...your fucking grave." Then he started walking out, turned back around and said, "your fucking grave." one more time. Eruzione describes it in the HBO special and he described it at a corporate speaking gig I heard him at a few years ago.
