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| delobbo |
Subject: Things that have changed
> since Super Bowl 20
> in 1986
> In honor of the Chicago Bears going to Super
> Bowl 41.
>
> Here are 41 things that have changed from the last
> time the Chicago
> Bears played in the Super Bowl (which was Super Bowl
> 20 in 1986):
>
> 1 Brian Urlacher was in 2nd grade. Rex Grossman was
> in kindergarten.
> 2 Peyton Manning was 10 years old. Eli Manning was 5
> years old. Their
> dad, Archie, had just retired from the NFL two years
> earlier.
> 3 Lovie Smith was in his first college coaching job
> at University of
> Tulsa .
> 4 Ronald Reagan was the President, and Harold
> Washington was the Mayor.
> James R. Thompson was the Governor running for
> re-election and his
> office was in the new State of Illinois Center,
> which is now called the
> James R. Thompson Center .
> 5 George W. Bush was 39 years old and still
> drinking. His father would
> run for President two years later.
> 6 Rod Blagojevich was just out of law school and was
> a low-level
> prosecutor working for the Cook County State 's
> Attorney, Richard M.
> Daley.
> 7 Barack Obama had just moved to Illinois , and
> Osama bin Laden was
> fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan .
> 8 Red Grange and Sid Luckman were still alive.
> 9 The
> Colts had just moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore
> and were the
> doormat of the AFC EAST. The Bears were the
> champions of the NFC
> CENTRAL.
> 10 Property in Wicker Park and Bucktown was cheap
> because they were
> really bad neighborhoods.
> 11 CD players, cellular phones and fax machines were
> expensive, cutting
> edge technology and only a few people used them.
> 12 "Surfing the net" meant a volleyball game at the
> beach, and
> virtually no one used the "@" key on their
> TYPEWRITER.
> 13 Sam Walton was still alive and was wealthier than
> Bill Gates.
> Windows were panes of glass...not a computer
> operating system that was a
> pain in something that rhymes with glass.
> 14 The Soviet Union was our main enemy, and Saddam
> Hussein was our
> ally.
> 15 There were no lights at Wrigley Field, and the
> oldest park in
> baseball belonged to the White Sox.
> 16 Michael Jordan and Ozzie Guillen had just
> finished their "Rookie of
> the Year" seasons. Jordan 's coach was Stan Albeck
> and
> Guillen's manager was Tony LaRussa. (Three out of
> four of those guys
> are now wearing championship rings, but what ever
> happened to Stan
> Albeck???)
> 17 Soldier Field had AstroTurf. The Houston Oilers
> played in the
> AstroDome.
> 18 The Fox TV Network didn't exist, and ESPN had yet
> to air a single
> live pro football, baseball, or basketball game.
> 19 MTV played music and so did some AM radio
> stations.
> 20 Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff weren't born yet;
> Jackie Gleason and
> Richard Nixon were still alive.
> 21 Hillary Clinton had dark hair and was the First
> Lady......of
> Arkansas !
> 22 "The Love Boat" and "Diff'rent Strokes" were
> still on network TV
> every week.
> 23 Martin Luther King Day was about to be celebrated
> as a National
> Holiday for the first time. "9-11" was a phone
> number many cities were
> just adopting for emergency calls - not a date of
> terror.
> 24 I-88 was called "Illinois Rt. 5" and I-355 hadn't
> been built yet.
> 25 What the CTA now calls "The
> Blue Line" had just been extended to O'Hare, and the
> Orange Line to
> Midway hadn't been built yet.
> 26 Q101 played adult contemporary music and most
> teenagers listened to
> WLS. Music from the 70s and 80s wasn't "retro" yet.
> 27 Tiger Woods hadn't won an amateur golf tournament
> yet.
> 28 Most people knew Seattle just as a city in the
> Northwest U.S. - not
> the home of grunge or Starbucks.
> 29 Only Southerners went to NASCAR races and only
> Northerners went to
> NHL games.
> 30 The Chicago area had no Wal-Marts, Targets or
> Home Depots, and
> Walgreen's was only in the Midwest .
> 31 Depending on your bank, your ATM card was good at
> only "Cash
> Station" machines or only at "Money Network"
> machines, but there were no
> fees.
> 32 "The Phone Company" was Illinois Bell.
> 33 They still sold leaded gasoline and you couldn't
> pay for your gas at
> the pump.
> 34 Discover Card hadn't been discovered yet, and
> Miller Genuine Draft
> hadn't been brewed yet.
> 35 Stereo TVs were
> the rage that HDTVs are now. 8-track tapes were
> still being made.
> 36 All of the Blockbuster Video stores that are now
> closing hadn't
> opened yet. Betamax was still competing with VHS.
> 37 You paid cash for your groceries and fast food,
> and you used a
> travel agent to book airline flights.
> 38 Bowl games didn't have corporate sponsors, and if
> the #1 ranked team
> was in a conference that played in one bowl game and
> the #2 ranked team
> was in a conference that played in another bowl
> game, then so be it!
> They let the sportswriters vote on the national
> champion. (and no
> college football games were played after New Year's
> Day)
> 39 The Baltimore Ravens were the Cleveland Browns.
> The Tennessee Titans
> were the Houston Oilers. The Oakland Raiders were
> the Los Angeles
> Raiders that had just left Oakland . The Arizona
> Cardinals (the former
> Phoenix Cardinals) were the St. Louis Cardinals, and
> the St. Louis Rams
> were the Los Angeles Rams. The Jacksonville Jaguars,
> Carolina
> Panthers, Houston Texans, and the Cleveland Browns
> (not to be confused
> with the Cleveland Browns that are now the Baltimore
> Ravens) didn't
> exist. The Seattle Seahawks (last year's NFC
> Champions) played in the
> AFC.
> 40 Number 9 on the Bears was their Punky QB...not
> their perky field
> goal kicker.
> 41 There were no iPods - just Sony Walkmen - so if
> you said something
> about a "shuffle" on your Walkman, they assumed you
> were listening to
> "The Super Bowl Shuffle" and one thing that will be
> the same from the
> Chicago Bears last Super Bowl appearance.....
>
> THEY WILL WIN!!!! GO BEARS!!!!!! GO BEARS!!! |
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| glass |
not to be cocky, or an or a cocky . but that track doesn't remind me of the super bowl shuffle |
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| delobbo |
| quote: | Originally posted by glass
not to be cocky, or an or a cocky . but that track doesn't remind me of the super bowl shuffle |
my bad, what was i thinking - i forgot all remixes should remind you of the original song. ;p needless to say, I put the chorus into the latest version, at the suggestion of Mr. Andy - and its sounding better. |
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| glass |
| quote: | Originally posted by delobbo
my bad, what was i thinking - i forgot all remixes should remind you of the original song. ;p needless to say, I put the chorus into the latest version, at the suggestion of Mr. Andy - and its sounding better. |
your right, so so right, it hurts.:sadgreen: |
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| wolverine16 |
| quote: | Originally posted by delobbo
I put the chorus into the latest version, at the suggestion of Mr. Andy - and its sounding better. |
Ooohhh! Did you just do the chorus or will we be hearing from the punky QB? Plz send a link!!!!!!!!!!! |
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