Sunday NFL Madness

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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 AstroTu rf. 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. Wha t 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!!!!!!