goal

Hockey fans can rejoice and save the date for January 13 because hockey is back.

Seventeen seconds? Seriously? A flip-flop of positions that would make Mitt Romney proud and it happened in less time than it took Usain Bolt to set a World Record in the 200-meter dash?

Last weekend after the final match of the season for English soccer giants Chelsea, the team held a post-game ceremony at midfield at Stamford Bridge. A toddler who was supposed to be in the ceremony broke away from the crowd with a ball, dribbled down the field, and kicked it in the goal. And the crowd went nuts for him. Then he turned around and raised his fists in the air, and everyone lost it.

Yes, it is amazing! Buuuut the commentary was just a LITTLE over the top. Argentine soccer stud Lionel Messi dribbled around three defenders to score a goal in a game. The man has incredible touch. Ray Hudson's color commentary, though, was just touched.

Abby Wambach's incredible last-gasp goal tying the United States with Brazil to force penalties -- which the US won -- was an incredible sports moment, well-called by Adrian Healey of ESPN. But for that extra bit of goofy magic, you just have to turn to over-the-top former CBS play-by-play man Gus Johnson and Bill "Major Onions" Raftery.

Englishman Ian Darke's "Go-Go, USA!" goal call of Landon Donovan's stoppage time winner that lifted the US over Algeria in World Cup 2010 will live forever as one of the classic calls in American sports. But if US Soccer ever starts looking for some American excitement, look no further than Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery...