"The Charbor Chronicles": Super Bowl XXVI Memories

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Super Bowl XXVI - Washington 37, Buffalo Bills 24. Played on January, 1992 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mark Rypien 292/2, Gary Clark 7/114, Art Monk 7/113, Gerals Riggs 2TDs. Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota. MVP Mark Rypien. Favorite Washington by 7. National anthem Harry Connick, Jr. Halftime show Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill. Attendance 63,130. Network CBS. Announcers Pat Summerall and John Madden. Nielsen ratings 40.3 est. 79.6 million viewers, Market share 61, Cost of 30-second commercial US$ 850,000

Personal Memories: You could just tell that these two teams were going to meet in the Super Bowl. They were the preseason favorites to meet, and they were the best teams in each conference basically from the start. Washington raced out to an 11-0 start, and after New Orleans was knocked off from the ranks of the undefeated after losing to Chicago in their eight game, Washington would have the best record in the NFL, ending with a 14-2 mark on the year. They dominated in the NFC playoffs, beating Atlanta 24-7, and Detroit 41-10, to earn their ticket to the Super Bowl. The Bills were not quite as dominant, but were still the best in the AFC with a 13-3 mark, crushing Kansas City in the playoffs, then barely squeaking by a tough Denver team in the AFC title game to earn their spot in the Super Bowl. Unlike the previous year, the Bills were never seriously in this Super Bowl, getting shut out in the first half, and unable to keep up with Washington's high powered offense, mostly because Washington also had a dominant defense. They were able to get a couple of garbage time touchdowns to make the score look more respectable, but Washington owned a 37-10 lead in the final quarter, which was more true to how dominating they really were throughout the game.

Personal Memories: I was a Senior in high school, and would graduate in June. The Seattle scene had started really getting big in the previous year, and I remember hearing Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time. But in 1992, that was when you started to hear that song just all of the time. My brother and I started going to concerts this year, really, for the first time. We saw one near us (I think that it was at Sun Tan Lake, which is now a small cluster of stores including Target, Home Depot, J's, Staples, and a storage facility). There, we were supposed to see Jefferson Starship, but they never got on stage once it started pouring. We did see the Marshall Tucker Band and Roger McGuin. Later that summer, we saw the big concert, with Faith No More opening for Metallica and, later, Guns 'N Roses. Axl Rose got pissed off at someone throwing some stuff at him, and cut the show short, claiming that there was always one a*#+ that ruined it for everybody. Also that summer, I would see an entire NFL team for the first time, when a friend of mine and I went to the Giants training camp for one day in July (I recently just found the newsletter that they gave us fans, with the lineup). Pretty cool stuff.

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Here are some of the major events that took place in 1992, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 5.441 billion people. Yugoslavian Federation broke up, with then three republics being recognized as independent states. The remainder of Yugoslavia itself was dominated by the Serbs, and so was not recognized officially by the United Nations. Bloody war broke in Yugoslavia, which was the first such war on European soil since World War II. There were also even internment camps on European soil, for the first time since the fascists during World War II. U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin officially recognized the end of the Cold War. The United States lifted trade sanctions against China. General Manuel Noriega, the former leader of Panama, was convicted in an American court and sentenced to 40 years on drug charges. The Russian Parliament approved START treaty. American forces left the Philippines after nearly a century of continuous American military presence. The Czechoslovak Parliament approved separation into two nations, Czech and Slovakia. The United Nations approved US-led force to guard food for Somalia. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed. The 1992 US Presidential elections were really cooking by this point. These would be my personal first ever elections that I was able to actively participate in. On the Democratic side, I liked candidate Tom Harkins (recently deceased), but he faded away quickly. Paul Tsongas was also a serious candidate, pushing Democratic frontunner Bill Clinton strongly, but Clinton ultimately got the nod. President George H. W. Bush had looked invincible early in 1991, after Operation Desert Storm. However, the economy got sluggish, and Bush's reluctance to even acknowledge that the country was enduring tough economic times ultimately cost him dearly. Billionaire Ross Perot entered the race and made it a three way divide and, in fact, looked like he might himself win the race at some point. Then, he dropped out on the same week as the Democratic Convention, both of which gave Democratic nominee Bill Clinton a huge boost in the polls. He would essentially manage to carry that lead all the way until the elections themselves, ultimately winning them after Perot re-entered the race. Clinton ended the year as President-elect.

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