I found this on another forum.
In honor of the Chicago Bears going to Super Bowl 41. Here are 41
things that have changed from the last time the Chicago Bears played
in the Super Bowl (which was Super Bowl 20 in 1986):
1. Brian Urlacher was in 2nd grade. Rex Grossman was in
kindergarten.
2. Peyton Manning was 10 years old. Eli Manning was 5 years old.
Their dad, Archie, had just retired from the NFL two years
earlier.
3. Lovie Smith was in his first college coaching job at University
of Tulsa.
4. Ronald Reagan was the President, and Harold Washington was the
Mayor. James R. Thompson was the Governor running for
re-election and his office was in the new State of Illinois
Center, which is now called the James R. Thompson Center.
5. George W. Bush was 39 years old and still drinking. His father
would run for President two years later.
6. Rod Blagojevich was just out of law school and was a low-level
prosecutor working for the Cook County State's Attorney,
Richard M. Daley.
7. Barack Obama had just moved to Illinois, and Osama bin Laden
was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
8. Red Grange and Sid Luckman were still alive.
9. The Colts had just moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore and
were the doormat of the AFC EAST. The Bears were the champions
of the NFC CENTRAL.
10. Property in Wicker Park and Bucktown was cheap because
they were really bad neighborhoods.
11. CD players, cellular phones and fax machines were
expensive, cutting edge technology and only a few people used
them.
12. "Surfing the net" meant a volleyball game at the beach,
and virtually no one used the "@" key on their TYPEWRITER.
13. Sam Walton was still alive and was wealthier than Bill
Gates. Windows were panes of glass...not a computer operating
system that was a pain in something that rhymes with glass.
14. The Soviet Union was our main enemy, and Saddam Hussein
was our ally.
15. There were no lights at Wrigley Field, and the oldest
park in baseball belonged to the White Sox.
16. Michael Jordan and Ozzie Guillen had just finished their
"Rookie of the Year" seasons. Jordan's coach was Stan Albeck
and Guillen's manager was Tony LaRussa. (Three out of four of
those guys are now wearing championship rings, but what ever
happened to Stan Albeck???)
17. Soldier Field had AstroTurf. The Houston Oilers played in
the AstroDome.
18. The Fox TV Network didn't exist, and ESPN had yet to air
a single live pro football, baseball, or basketball game.
19. MTV played music and so did some AM radio stations.
20. Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff weren't born yet; Jackie
Gleason and Richard Nixon were still alive.
21. Hillary Clinton had dark hair and was the First
Lady......of Arkansas!
22. "The Love Boat" and "Diff'rent Strokes" were still on
network TV every week.
23. Martin Luther King Day was about to be celebrated as a
National Holiday for the first time. "9-11" was a phone number
many cities were just adopting for emergency calls - not a date
of terror.
24. I-88 was called "Illinois Rt. 5" and I-355 hadn't been
built yet.
25. What the CTA now calls "The Blue Line" had just been
extended to O'Hare, and the Orange Line to Midway hadn't been
built yet.
26. Q101 played adult contemporary music and most teenagers
listened to WLS. Music from the 70s and 80s wasn't "retro" yet.
27. Tiger Woods hadn't won an amateur golf tournament yet..
28. Most people knew Seattle just as a city in the Northwest
U.S. - not the home of grunge or Starbucks.
29. Only Southerners went to NASCAR races and only
Northerners went to NHL games.
30. The Chicago area had no Wal-Marts, Targets or Home
Depots, and Walgreen's was only in the Midwest.
31. Depending on your bank, your ATM card was good at only
"Cash Station" machines or only at "Money Network" machines,
but there were no fees.
32. "The Phone Company" was Illinois Bell.
33. They still sold leaded gasoline and you couldn't pay for
your gas at the pump.
34. Discover Card hadn't been discovered yet, and Miller
Genuine Draft hadn't been brewed yet.
35. Stereo TVs were the rage that HDTVs are now. 8-track
tapes were still being made.
36. All of the Blockbuster Video stores that are now closing
hadn't opened yet. Betamax was still competing with VHS.
37. You paid cash for your groceries and fast food, and you
used a travel agent to book airline flights.
38. Bowl games didn't have corporate sponsors, and if the #1
ranked team was in a conference that played in one bowl game
and the #2 ranked team was in a conference that played in
another bowl game, then so be it! They let the sportswriters
vote on the national champion. (and no college football games
were played after New Year's Day)
39. The Baltimore Ravens were the Cleveland Browns. The
Tennessee Titans were the Houston Oilers. The Oakland Raiders
were the Los Angeles Raiders that had just left Oakland. The
Arizona Cardinals (the former Phoenix Cardinals) were the St. Louis Cardinals, and the St. Louis Rams were the Los Angeles
Rams. The Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers, Houston
Texans, and the Cleveland Browns (not to be confused with the
Cleveland Browns that are now the Baltimore Ravens) didn't
exist. The Seattle Seahawks (last year's NFC Champions) played
in the AFC.
40. Number 9 on the Bears was their Punky QB...not their
perky field goal kicker.
41. There were no iPods - just Sony Walkmen - so if you said
something about a "shuffle" on your Walkman, they assumed you
were listening to "The Super Bowl Shuffle"
