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Here's an idea

In this thread, post things that were true the last time the Seahawks won a playoff game. It was 21 years ago in 1984 I believe.


Here's a start:

1) Reagan was president.

2) The VCR was new technology.

3) Computers ran on MS-DOS.

What's a VCR?

Actually, I hate these kinds of stats. They used to bring this up everytime the Redskins played the Cowboys before we broke the streak, as if the Skins had no chance of winning the game because they hadn't won a game in so long.

It's interesting, but it has no relevance to what happens Saturday. The Skins will need to play their best on both sides of the ball from here on out...

REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:- Michael Jackson's hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.

- Menudo and Menudomania reached Asia. Ricky Martin substituted Ricky Melendez in the group.

-The following series premiered on Network TV:
Punky Brewster on NBC.
Highway to Heaven on NBC.
The Cosby Show on NBC.
Who's the Boss? on ABC.
Miami Vice on NBC.

That's flippin awesome!!

Chrysler introduced the first "Minivan".

Cell Phones first came onto the scene. They were bigger than most house phones.


Top 5 Movies of 1984

1. Beverly Hills Cop
2. Footloose
3. Ghostbusters
4. Gremlins
5. The Terminator
6. Legend of Tarzan / Lord of the Apes
7. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
8. The Karate Kid
9. The Natural
10.Police Academy

The Hogster wrote:Chrysler introduced the first "Minivan".

Cell Phones first came onto the scene. They were bigger than most house phones.


Top 5 Movies of 1984

1. Beverly Hills Cop
2. Footloose
3. Ghostbusters
4. Gremlins
5. The Terminator
6. Legend of Tarzan / Lord of the Apes
7. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
8. The Karate Kid
9. The Natural
10.Police Academy

Wow, that's quite a list of top movies. I don't think I've seen the Tarzan one, but I've seen the rest dozens of times.

16 year old Gloria James was a few weeks away from conceiving a son Lebron.

(I guess that teenage pregnancy turned out alright)

Wasn't it 1984? If so thats the year I was born. The chickenhawks have sucked as long as Ive been alive.

i think chuck knox was their coach at the time too.
dave krieg curt warner,steve largent, man it has been a long time, oh brian bosworth was apart of the seahawks wasn,t he but not in 84.hey even the raiders coach tom flores was their coach too. i need to stop it,s been awhile since they,ve been in the playoffs.
since man invented the donut...... just kiddin but it,s been a longtime.

man i,m gettin old.........

In 1984 George HW Bush was just a promising Vice President.

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I was born in March of that year.

FanfromAnnapolis wrote:I was born in March of that year.

You're older than me too? Dag.

I was 5, almost 6...

Joe Gibbs already had a ring.

I was three years old and already a Redskins fan.

I was also born in March that year.

January '84: Wendy's "Where's the beef?" commerical airs for the first time

I was 8 years old and living in Cleveland

January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units.
January 23 - Hollywood Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik to win the WWF Championship, thus beginning Hulkamania.
January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
February 26 - United States Marines pull out of Beirut,Lebanon.
March 5 - Iran accuses Iraq of the use of chemical weapons - UN condemns the use on March 30.
March 16 - The CIA station chief in Beirut, William Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists Islamic Jihad and later dies in captivity.
May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
June 8 - The film Ghostbusters is released into theaters -- becoming a summer blockbuster hit with the song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. becoming a Top 40 hit.
July 21 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in what is apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
July 23 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine.
July 28 - Opening day of the 1984 Olympics
August 16 - John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.
August 30 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
September 26 - United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
November 2 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
November 28 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
December 22 - Four African-American youths, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey, board an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Hugo Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime, which was a plague in 1980s America.
Ethiopian famine begins.
Deaths:
April 1 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
May 16 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
May 16 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
July 26 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
August 25 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (b. 1899)

I was in 10th grade, and thought Largent was overrated.

March 16 - The CIA station chief in Beirut, William Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists Islamic Jihad and later dies in captivity.
May 4 - Christopher Corey Allen later to be known as CLL was born. The polar caps began melting that day in preparation. Global warming isn't causing the sea levels to rise, it was CLL torching your sons and daughters on the football field in HS.
May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
June 8 - The film Ghostbusters is released into theaters -- becoming a summer blockbuster hit with the song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. becoming a Top 40 hit.

GibbSkins wrote:January 23 - Hollywood Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik to win the WWF Championship, thus beginning Hulkamania.

Of course, he wasn't "Hollywood" Hogan then. He didn't adopt the moniker until much later in his career.

Can anyone check the rookies of that year and if there are already members of the HOF?

Chris Luva Luva wrote:May 4 - Christopher Corey Allen later to be known as CLL was born. The polar caps began melting that day in preparation. Global warming isn't causing the sea levels to rise, it was CLL torching your sons and daughters on the football field in HS.

You played football with chicks?

I was over 3.5 years away from being born.