5 year-old Joshua Sacco from Spring Hill, TN was on the front page of today’s Tennessean for his sudden fame after an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres.

After watching Miracle hundreds of times with his hockey-obsessed dad, one day the then-4-year-old started absentmindedly naming off the roster of players from the 1980 U.S. Hockey team as they were in the movie.

When his dad, Jim Sacco noticed, he started trading lines from the film back and forth with Josh — and was amazed to find his son correcting him.

“He’s hilarious,” Sacco said. “He does Kurt Russell to a T. He would get mad when I flubbed a line. We probably know the whole movie.”

Sacco memorized the pre-game speech given by Coach Brooks (as depicted in the movie “Miracle”) to America’s hockey team in 1980 just before playing the Soviets.

In this video clip from today’s Morning Browser, you can see clips of Sacco’s appearance on Ellen and his very popular YouTube video.

Special thanks to Amy in the chat room this morning for sharing links to video.