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Miracle has a crossover with real life.
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* ''Film/{{Miracle}}'' crosses over with {{real life}}. In Team USA's first game of the 1980 Winter Olympic ice hockey tournament, it scores a tying goal against Sweden. In the film, the goal is depicted as a confidence booster, giving the team momentum for their run to the gold medal. However, that goal had an effect on the final standings that was ''far'' more important than anyone remembers, or realized at the time.[[note]] At that time the final round was not an elimination round as has been done in every Olympics since 1992, and has been standard in almost every other sports tournament in the world. Instead, the top two teams from the two pools advanced to the medal round and played the top two teams in the other pool. The medals would then be determined by the points standings after these games. Just to make it even more confusing, teams carried their points they'd earned against the team who also advanced in their pool into the medal round, but not the points against the teams that did not advance. Since the Soviets had beaten Finland in pool play they came into the medal round with two points, but the USA and Sweden entered with only one point since they had tied. Finland entered with zero points since they had lost to the Soviets. The film does point out that the USA still had to beat Finland to secure the Gold. But had they not tied Sweden in the last minute of that first game, they would've finished the medal round with four points instead of five meaning they'd have been tied with the Soviets. Okay, so the USA beat the Soviets so they get the tiebreaker, right? Nope. The first tiebreaker is goal differential, which the Soviets had the edge in due to beating Sweden 9–2 giving them a +6 differential compared to just +3 for the USA. In other words, that one last-minute goal against Sweden spared the USA, and possibly the entire world, [[AllForNothing from the most baffling and anti-climactic result in sports history.]][[/note]]
