Apparently swept up in Olympic fervor from the 2018 Winter Games, Eleventh Circuit Court Judge Robin Rosenbaum launched a recent opinion upholding a trial court with a stirring recitation of the U.S. Olympic hockey team’s “miracle” win over the Soviet Union in 1980, complete with a mini-profile—via footnote—of U.S. coach Herb Brooks.

“Our history contains many such stories of triumphs over long odds,” wrote Rosenbaum, with the concurrence of Judge Charles Wilson and Maryland District Judge Roger Titus, sitting by designation. “This, however, is not one of those.”