"The Charbor Chronicles": Super Bowl XVIII Memories

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Super Bowl XVIII Memories

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Super Bowl XVIII - Oakland Raiders 38, Washington 9. Played on January 22, 1984 in Tampa Stadium, Tampa, Florida. Joe Theismann 16 35 243 0 2, Charlie Brown 3 93, John Riggins 26 64 1, Clint Didier 5 65, Marcus Allen 20 191 2, Cliff Branch 6 94 1, Jim Plunkett 16 25 172 1 0, Todd Christensen 4 32, SAC Monte Coleman, Darryl Grant, Jeff Barnes, Mike Davis, Rod Martin, Matt Millen, Bill Pickel, Greg Townsend. INT Mike Haynes, Jack Squirek. Tampa Stadium, MVP Marcus Allen, Favorite Redskins by 3, Anthem Barry Manilow, Coin toss Bronko Nagurski, Halftime "Salute to Superstars of the Silver Screen" University of Florida / Florida St. Bands, Attendance 72,920, Network CBS, Announcers Pat Summerall, John Madden, Nielsen 46.4 est. 77.62 million viewers, Cost of 30-second commercial US$368,000

http://www.infoplease.com/year/1984.html

This was the third Super Bowl that I watched, although surprisingly, I was the only one in the family watching this game. Not sure what my father was watching, or where my brother was, but I was relegated to watching this Super Bowl in the tiny little black and white television that we had in the kitchen at the time. I had been pulling for Washington to beat the Raiders (something that I would never do nowadays), and was disappointed, because this game got out of hand fairly early. It turned into a rout, with Washington playing what was, by far, the worst game that they had played in their two consecutive Super Bowl seasons. This Super Bowl is considered the most glorious of Raiders Super Bowl triumphs. It was also the last one to date, and the Raiders only have managed to qualify for the Super Bowl once since then.

Here are some of the major events that took place in 1984, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 4.769 billion people. Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa won the Nobel peace Prize. Soviet Premiere Yuri V. Andropov died at the age of 69, and is replaced by Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72. President Reagan withdrew troops from Beirut, Lebanon. Italy and the Vatican agreed to end Catholicism as a state religion. After 116 years, the United States and the Vatican agree to exchange diplomats. India's Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by two Sikh guards. In the aftermath, roughly 1,000 people were killed in anti-Sikh riots. The son of the slain Prime Minister, Rajiv, succeeds her. Staying in India, in Bhopal, a lead from the Union Carbide plant kills 2,000 people and injures more than 150,000. Moderate José Napoleón Duarte is elected as El Salvador's new leader. The Soviet Union withdraws from the Olympics, set to take place in Los Angeles.

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