"The Charbor Chronicles": Super Bowl XXXIII Memories

Friday, January 22, 2016

Super Bowl XXXIII Memories

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Super Bowl XXXIII – Denver Broncos 34, Atlanta Falcons 19. Played on January 31, 1999 at Pro Player Stadium, Miami, Florida. MVP John Elway. Favorite Broncos by 7.5. National anthem Cher. Halftime show Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Attendance 74,803. Network Fox. Announcers Pat Summerall and John Madden. Nielsen ratings 40.2. est. 83.7 million viewers. Market share 61. Cost of 30-second commercial US$ 1.6 million. John Elway 18/29 336 1 1, Terrell Davis 25 102, Chris Chandler 19/35 219 1 3, Jamaal Anderson 18 96

Personal Memories: For this game, my then girlfriend and I hosted a small Super Bowl party in her home at Haworth, New Jersey. What I remember most form this game was that the Broncos essentially dominated, although the Falcons fought back later in the game, falling significantly short of making it competitive. Towards the end, at a time of desperation for the Falcons, they managed to score a touchdown but, rather inexplicably, went for a two-point conversion, and missed, which meant that they were down 34-19, or by 15 points. That made me scratch my head, because it made no sense to me. Why not keep hope alive by just going for the touchdown and the extra point, so you are down by 14, and do not need to worry about a two-point conversion attempt at all? Of course, this wound up being a non-factor, because Atlanta did not score again.

I actually had seen these Denver Broncos (technically in December of 1998), when they were having an incredible undefeated run and stood at 13-0. But on the day that I saw them, they lost to the Giants in what was considered a big upset. The only real obstacle that people saw to an undefeated season was the next week, with a Monday Night Football game at Miami (which the Broncos also lost). Still, they recovered enough to go on and win the Super Bowl, making them the first team that I would see in a season that would go on that year to win the Super Bowl.

For me, 1999 was a memorable year. Things were going well at Rutgers, my new school. I was working hard, both inside and outside of school, and my GPA was starting to feel impressive, although there was uncertainty as to how long I could keep that up, having never experienced it for long before. Agassi's success was one of the things I remember the most from 1999. Went to a lot of concerts this year. Got engaged to my then girlfriend and soon to be wife (now ex-wife). I had hair still, but really noticed, for the first time, just how thin it was getting in the back on top.

http://www.infoplease.com/year/1999.html

Here are some of the major events that took place in 1999, the year this Super Bowl was played. The world's population was 5.996 billion people. The world awaited the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon. Russian president Boris Yeltsin survived impeachment hearings, and then reshuffled his cabinet twice. Yeltsin took military action against Islamic separatists in Dagestan and Chechnya. Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, stepped down after serving one term, and Thabo Mbeki took over. War erupted in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic clamped down on the province, massacring and deporting ethnic Albanians. NATO begins Operation Allied Force on March 24, 1999, launching air strikes against Belgrade for 78 consecutive days until Milosevic relents. Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,600 and leaves 600,000 homeless in Turkey. East Timor population votes for independence from Indonesia, which caused pro-Indonesian forces to massacre and uproot thousands of East Timorese. Pakistani government was overthrown in the midst of economic strife and intensified fighting with India over Kashmir. Andre Agassi won the French Open, completing the career Grand Slam. He would go on to qualify for the Wimbledon Final, and then would win the U.S. Open title, ending the year atop the men's standings.

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