From the NBC Vault

At the end of one of his Olympic essays , Jimmy Roberts jsurprised Al Michaels's by pulling out a tape of a very young, shiny faced, sideburned Michaels talking hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan  with Curt Gowdy and Jay Randolph.  Which then led to the 1980 hockey assignment that assured him entry into the pantheon of iconic sports broadcasting moments: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!!!!"  The reason he got to make the call?  He was, with his one game stint eight years earlier the ABC sportscaster with the most experience of any at the network.