DCC Appreciation Thread...

[Genghis Khan]

It's funny how your age range affects whether the story is positive or negative.

A generation before us might say the moon landing.

Before that maybe Kennedy being shot.

@L.T. Fan might say beating the British at Yorktown.

 

[NoDak]

I remember when Elvis died. My mom and her sister were standing in front of the TV hugging and crying. I just remember thinking, wtf is going on?

 

[Cowboysrock55]

It's funny how your age range affects whether the story is positive or negative.

A generation before us might say the moon landing.

Before that maybe Kennedy being shot.

@L.T. Fan might say beating the British at Yorktown.

For younger people like me it's 9-11.

Or Biggie and Tupac.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I remember when Elvis died. My mom and her sister were standing in front of the TV hugging and crying. I just remember thinking, wtf is going on?

I vaguely remember that. I was playing with a friend down the street who was staying with his grandma and she was kind of upset and crying, so I asked what was wrong with her. He said Elvis was dead. I had barely heard of Elvis and thought it was really weird someone would care that much about some singer.

 

[Genghis Khan]

For younger people like me it's 9-11.

Or Biggie and Tupac.

Wait 9-11? How young are you?

 

[Rev]

Wait 9-11? How young are you?

The kids in high school now know nothing about that.

 

[NoDak]

I vaguely remember that. I was playing with a friend down the street who was staying with his grandma and she was kind of upset and crying, so I asked what was wrong with her. He said Elvis was dead. I had barely heard of Elvis and thought it was really weird someone would care that much about some singer.

Pretty much my same thoughts. I was seven.

Stop crying and make my lunch. C’mon!

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Wait 9-11? How young are you?

38 years old. 9-11 was highschool for me.

 

[Smitty]

38 years old. 9-11 was highschool for me.

I think we are talking about like news stories you remember as a young child. You must remember things before high school. I'm 39, and I remember things like the Clinton election over Bush in vivid detail. I don't think we are talking about just major disasters.

9-11 was freshman year of college for me.

 

[Smitty]

I'm trying to think myself. I remember looking for Halley's comet in 1986 but not being able to see it, when I was 3. But I remember being outside at night and looking up at the stars trying to see it. I don't know if that counts as a major news story.

I do not have any recollection of things like the Challenger disaster or the fall of the Berlin wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union, except for well after the fact. I think I have a vague recollection of the Exxon Valdez crash and spill, but only because it was discussed in school, not from watching on the news itself. I remember family talking about the Bush vs. Dukakis election, though my memory is just of it being George Bush (HW) versus the other guy, the Democrat, and only in retrospect do I know the name Dukakis.

I remember the news covering the Gulf war a little, and Saddam Hussein being the bad guy.

Probably the first one that I remember EXPLICITLY watching and understanding myself on the news, rather than just hearing about or discussing with family or school, would have been the OJ police chase and subsequent trial, but that was 1994, I would have been 11.

You know the scary shit is that the inception of this message board is way, way closer to that time, and to me being 11, than to this moment in time right now.

 

[Simpleton]

OJ and the OKC bombing are the two big ones that I remember vividly from a very young age.

I remember sports stuff from an earlier age but I assume that doesn't count.

 

[Smitty]

Also, god, the 80s and 90s.

The best time. Wish we could go back.

This country is shit now.

 

[Smitty]

OJ and the OKC bombing are the two big ones that I remember vividly from a very young age.

I remember sports stuff from an earlier age but I assume that doesn't count.

First football memory is the Cowboys losing to the Lions in '91. Remember seeing the Cowboys player dejected on the bench near the end of the game.

By 1992 I was following along pretty much from the beginning of the season. I was living outside Philly so we didn't get all the games back then, no Direct TV or Sunday ticket back then, but I remember that MOST Cowboys games were on TV due to them being NFC East like the Eagles, and I remember seeing one or two of the Dallas games early in the year, and that they and the Eagles were both 3-0 leading into that MNF matchup in 1992, and all my friends making fun of me for being a Dallas fan, the hard time I got in school for wearing that Dallas Cowboys starter jacket, etc. The arguments of "Dallas sucks," versus "If they are 3-0 like the Eagles, how can they suck?" etc.

And I remember not being allowed to stay up and watch that whole MNF game, but being despondent that we were already getting shellacked by time I had to go to bed. I remember being awake in my room and knowing they were already losing, and then trying to listen to the TV downstairs, or listening on a radio in bed, or sneaking downstairs and seeing later that they were getting blown out.

And then having to deal with the fallout the next day at school.

Good thing we won the Super Bowl that year.

 

[Simpleton]

First football memory is the Cowboys losing to the Lions in '91. Remember seeing the Cowboys player dejected on the bench near the end of the game.

By 1992 I was following along pretty much from the beginning of the season. I was living outside Philly so we didn't get all the games back then, no Direct TV or Sunday ticket back then, but I remember that MOST Cowboys games were on TV due to them being NFC East like the Eagles, and I remember seeing one or two of the Dallas games early in the year, and that they and the Eagles were both 3-0 leading into that MNF matchup in 1992, and all my friends making fun of me for being a Dallas fan, the hard time I got in school for wearing that Dallas Cowboys starter jacket, etc. The arguments of "Dallas sucks," versus "If they are 3-0 like the Eagles, how can they suck?" etc.

And I remember not being allowed to stay up and watch that whole MNF game, but being despondent that we were already getting shellacked by time I had to go to bed. I remember being awake in my room and knowing they were already losing, and then trying to listen to the TV downstairs, or listening on a radio in bed, or sneaking downstairs and seeing later that they were getting blown out.

And then having to deal with the fallout the next day at school.

Good thing we won the Super Bowl that year.

Indeed, the 92 NFCC is the first game I remember anything specific from, so that was a pretty good one.

 

[Irving Cowboy]

I remember the hoopla around the bicentennial, and the assassination attempt on Ford when he was in San Francisco, mainly because that was where we lived at the time and my stepfather was a cop with the SFPD.

 

[Smitty]

And I remember how fucking cold it was in Octobers back then in the early 90s which is why I had to wear this monstrosity:

Redirect Notice

www.google.com

Global warming must be a thing because Octobers are like September now.

I remember crisp, frosty October mornings in SE Pennsylvania like you don't get till practically December now. Of course I moved to NC in 1997 with my family, and I live in NC again now, but even back in law school and after when I was in DE and PA until 2016, it's just not like that anymore.

 

[shoop]

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probably the Jim Jones mass suicide thing in '78

Explosion of the space shuttle

 

[Landry]

JFK assassination, I was 7 and they brought us to the auditorium in school to tell us.

 

[mcnuttz]

I remember in 3rd grade sitting in the cafeteria watching the Challenger launch.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

I think we are talking about like news stories you remember as a young child. You must remember things before high school. I'm 39, and I remember things like the Clinton election over Bush in vivid detail. I don't think we are talking about just major disasters.

9-11 was freshman year of college for me.

Yeah I just remember that one because it was so weird to me to have them cancel our football game.

The OJ Simpson case is another good one. I can remember our teachers putting that on the TV during class in like grade school. Which is also weird to me because it was a pretty horrific murder. And yet there we were, watching it in 3rd or fourth grade probably.