Usain Bolt
Edwin Moses
Mark Spitz
I saw so many familiar handles I thought I had to Join … the price was right … @Goat your Dan D. Ban tagline seems to be missing …
2024 and 2025 IUFB seasons were a joy … weren’t they …
As for the topic … I once saw Yes in concert in my Indiana hometown basketball palace … Before scalpers made concert tickets unobtainum for poor college students …
Class of ‘78
The ABA Pacers
The Knight led IU teams
The Madden and Flores led Raiders teams (before we got the Colts)
The Manning era Colts teams after mostly suffering through the previous 14 years
The Dream Team
The Mallory, Hep, and Covid Allen years that showed we could compete and the Cignetti era to erase all doubt
Saturday Night Live (back when it was good)
Being old enough to have experienced first hand many of the simpler traditions and things of eras past yet young enough to fully embrace much of the advancements of the age of modern technology
The Space Shuttle program
Of course the fall of the USSR and the Berlin Wall
The dumb luck and sheer happenstance of randomly meeting my soulmate while tossing around a football in my friend's backyard as a teen and never looking back
Many already listed, plus:
'84 Cubs, '16 Cubs
'85 Bears
Miami Vice--oh what a time to be alive!
Jennifer Connelly and Denise Richards
The Marvel movies up to End Game (I grew up reading all those comics as a kid)
The apprehension and killing of OBL
The swift cultural shift that saw American public support swing to backing gay marriage and gay rights
The popularization of the breast implant
I got my family - including underage kids - out of bed and opened a bottle of champaign when they waxed bin Laden.