in a major sport (football, men's bball, baseball.) BTW, the year was 1939. Just a good offseason thread to provide some perspective. Pearl Harbor (and the rest of WWII) Hiroshima and Nagasaki Korean War The Howdy Doody Show The Beatles (actually they were all born after aggy's last championship) Schools were integrated Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy was assassinated Nixon resigns Vietnam war Woodstock Hendrix dies Lennon killed Iran Contra 1987 Stock Market crash Gulf war Clinton impeached 9/11 Tate Pittman needs some help Iraq war Please add to this list.
Ah yes, it must be that time of year again. At the time of aggy's last (and only MNC): no color TV (1940) no aerosol spray cans (1941) no turboprop engines (1942) LSD not yet discovered (1943) no aqualung (invented by Cousteau 1943) no renal dialysis (1944) no synthetic cortisone (1944) no transistors (and thus no transistor radios, no computers, no digital anything) no credit cards! (1950) no frisbees (1950) no cake mix (1949) no radial tires (1953) no oral contraceptives (and thus no sexual revolution) no McDonalds (1954) no lasers (1958) no Barbie dolls (1959) no Valium (1961) no acrylic paints (1964, lead-based paints were all the rage when aggy won)
Man lands on moon. Entire Space program. Personal Computers. The BeeGees Frampton comes alive Elvis The Entire 60s The Thrilla in Manilla OJ at USC OJ in NFL OJ since The birth of my parents
You guys are missing the most important ones: 6 UT Baseball national championships 4 UT Football national championships
we landed on the moon edit: nevermind, already used Al Gore created the internet if aggy is building champions, by the time they are done building them, this will probably be the motherload of all champions...but then again, they're aggy so who are we kidding?
No air-condition la Salle, Desoto, Studabaker, Packard, Hudson, Nash, and Kaiser are some of the automobiles gone since 1939 There were still icemen and milkmen making home deliveries (if one could afford an icebox) Hoover Dam was 3 years old and Golden Gate Bridge only 2 years old. Overalls was proper attire
the cosby show started and ended, even giving us a few years of those lovable characters on "a different world."
maroon carrots? uh, carrots started out maroon, but nobody would buy them so they bred them orange. back to the original premise. millions of sheep were violated. cold fusion Darth Vader Big Helmet
milli vanilli vanilla ice hip hop rap 80's music 1939 is more remembered for "Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz" over aggy "built champions"
On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb. t 5:29:45 (Mountain War Time) on July 16, 1945, in a white blaze that stretched from the basin of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico to the still-dark skies, "The Gadget" ushered in the Atomic Age. The light of the explosion then turned orange as the atomic fireball began shooting upwards at 360 feet per second, reddening and pulsing as it cooled. The characteristic mushroom cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Beneath the cloud, all that remained of the soil at the blast site were fragments of jade green radioactive glass created by the heat of the reaction. The brilliant light from the detonation pierced the early morning skies with such intensity that residents from a faraway neighboring community would swear that the sun came up twice that day. Even more astonishing is that a blind girl saw the flash 120 miles away.
That whole cold war thing. 6 Popes (not counting Pius XI, whose Papacy ended in '39) 11 US Presidents (not counting FDR, who was POTUS at the time) The US added two states. Polio shots hadn't been discovered. Xerox machines didn't exist. Neither did panty hose or ballpoint pens. FM radio didn't exist. Neither did Air Conditioners.
global warming and then global cooling for like 30 years and then more global warming. the world went from black and white to color 24,820 days have passed 595,668 hours have passed at least 408 different milkmen have led them in their whoopy thing. In buried dead dog years - it would be 476 years since they've won an NC there have been approximately 34 gallons of jizz donated to the fire. oh well - you get the idea of the futility, right?
Michael Jordan was born.Michael Jordan won a title at UNC. Michael Jordan won 3 titles. Michael Jordan retired. Michael Jordan played minor league baseball. Michael Jordan came back. Michael Jordan won 3 more titles. Michael Jordan retired again. Michael Jordan came back with the Wizards. Michael Jordan retired, for real this time. That Japanese kid won all those eating titles. The Jitterbug. The Hustle. The Monkey. 148 of the top grossing 150 films of all time were made (Snow White and Gone With the Wind are the exceptions). G_O_O was born. The Texans didn't pick Vince Young. A Freshman won the AP Player of the Year award in basketball. The establishment of Israel. The following countries gained independence: Lebanon, Iceland, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Syria, Jordan, Pakistan, India, Romania, Burma, Sri Lanka, Laos, Bhutan, Libya, Cambodia, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Malaysia, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, Togo, Madagascar, Somolia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cyprus, Gabon, Nigeria, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kuwait, Tanzania, Somoa, Burundi, Rwanda, Algeria, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Singapore, Guyana, Botswana, Barbados, Tonga, Fiji, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, The Bahamas, Mozambique, Papau New Guinea, Angola, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Canada, The Marshall Islands, The Federated States of Micronesia, Lithuania, Germany, Georgia, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Russia as a democracy, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Republic of Macedonia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Check Republic, Slovakia, Palau, East Timor, Serbia, and Montenegro, to name a few. Link And 77-0.
Lp's 45's tape cassettes cd's mp-3's downloading RCA video disc videotape dvd's television (for all intents and purposes) fm internet radio xm sirius classics illustrated audio books audio cd's porn hardcore porn ...and these are just a few of the entertainment options to having to watch aggy in any sport other than meat judging. While I'm thinking about it...the rise and fall, and rise again of drive-ins. Thoughts?