Remember the boy band “All-4-One”? They had the number one song “I Swear”. Tops at the box-office that week was “Speed” starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Unemployment was at 6.1%, a letter could be mailed for 29 cents, and the median household income was thirty-two thousand dollars. If you wanted to fill up at the pumps, a gallon of gas would cost you a very reasonable (although at the time we probably complained about it) $1.09.
Seinfeld was the top TV show, and if you wanted to make a phone call, most of us either had to wait until we got home, or use something called a “pay phone”.
Most of the world was reeling from the shocking news of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, and that Nicole’s ex-husband O.J. Simpson was a suspect. Bill Clinton was President, and most of us had no idea what “the internet” was. Seventeen years ago today, none of it mattered. The only thing we had on our minds was:
Game 7.
The Curse.
1940.
