What was going on the last time the Bengals were in the AFC Championship

[Ravage]

(01-26-2022, 03:11 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: This was a fun trip down memory lane, fun post. For those of us who were alive for that game, we were 30+ years younger! Crazy.

No kidding. For a more personal touch considering your forum name, the original Tecmo Bowl (not Super, the OG Tecmo) didn't release on the NES in the US until Feb 1, 1989, 10 days after Super Bowl XXIII. That means the last time the Bengals were in either the AFC Championship or Super Bowl, the best football video game available was...10-Yard Fight? Man, now I really feel old...

[TKUHL]

(01-26-2022, 03:07 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: I thought this might be kind of fun to look back at.

The Bengals played the Bills on January 8th 1989.

From Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1989 on January 7th the top song was "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison.

The number 1 movie January 8th 1989 was Rain Man.

The top 5 TV shows were The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Cheers, A Different World, America's Funniest Home Videos (rest in peace Bob Saget). Number 6 was The Golden Girls, so shout out to Betty White may she also rest in peace.

In 1989 we didn't have widespread access to the Internet.  We paid bills in person or by writing and mailing checks instead of online payments.  We did our shopping in physical stores and malls were still popular. 

If you wanted to watch a fairly recent movie at home you drove to the store and rented it on VHS and had to return it before late fees. Side note: In my family this was called pizza night where we would all go to rent a movie (and argue about what to rent) and eat pizza on a Friday as part of an end of week reward. You could also record a limited amount of TV on your home VHS but heaven forbid you accidentally record over one of the above named shows before everyone else got to watch it.  MTV was still known for broadcasting music videos. 

Anyway I just though it was kind of fun to look back at 1989 when the Bengals were last in the AFC Championship.  I'm sure some of you can add a few more snapshots from then.  I wanted to also include pictures of what was popular to wear then but got too lazy to look up the pictures.

Well great song and movie

[Housh]

I wasn’t born lol

[Tony]

Some of you guys are ***** old...

[bengaloo]

1989 the average rent was $420. Gas was $.97 per gallon. The average car cost was $15k and Ribeye steak was $3.79lb. Nintendo released the Game Boy. I lost my virginity and the Bengals played in the Super Bowl. Good times.

[*Go Cards*]

Was 26 years old and just moved back to Louisville from Az where I went to hike the Grand Canyon for a couple years.

Am a Card fan, but we always watched the Cats play as well being half my friends are Cat fans. Anyway back then the thing to do when watching UK play was to turn the volume on our tube TV down and listen to Cawood Ledford's call on WHAS radio. Everybody thought he was so good at knowing if the ball was going through the hoop because he would say "string music" right before the ball barely tickled the net.
In reality the radio broadcast was a split second quicker than the TV, still Cawood was way better than listening to the announcers on TV. Don't think you can watch while listening on radio anymore.

Video stores ? Oddly I still miss them lol.

Believe caller ID had just came out and definitely pay phones were still everywhere.

Now in 1981 is a much more interesting time. People were hitchhiking still, apartments were $200 a month, weed still had seeds, pool tables were a quarter, concerts were $5-$8 a ticket, and the Bengals had no stripes on helmet yet.
Cable tv had just hit Louisville and they would give you a box to change channels. Anyway they painted the screws on the bottom of the box to keep people from opening and soldering wires to get all the channels free. These screws went right through a rubber piece that acted as feet for box and you could just use the rubber incasing the screw to unscrew by hand without damaging paint. Everybody in town had every single channel available for free for at least 5 years. Then they bluff threatened prosecution but offered free amnesty to those who turned in their tampered boxes. We all turned them in and started paying full price.

Bengals may have had their bad luck per me stealing that free HBO and Playboy channel, my apologies.

[Mike M (the other one)]

(01-26-2022, 08:08 PM)Wyche Wrote: I thought this thread was gonna be about how the league was gonna try to outlaw the no huddle two hours before game time, but Bob Trumpy intervened by telling Sam Wyche the night before.

LOL that's what i was thinking as well...
2 hours...

No faking injuries and except for last 2 minutes before half/end of game is only time the no huddle is allowed..

Good thing we whipped them anyways

[UKWhoDey]

I was in first grade then. So for all intents and purposes I've been waiting my entire life for this.

[Savagehenry54]

(01-30-2022, 01:00 AM)Tony Wrote: Some of you guys are ***** old...

Your check is in the mail pal.

[Savagehenry54]

(01-30-2022, 03:56 AM)UKWhoDey Wrote: I was in first grade then.  So for all intents and purposes I've been waiting my entire life for this.

I was in Kindergarten for SB 16.  I remember talking about it with my classmates on the half day kindergarten bus.

I also remember watching Pete Johnson not get in.

I've watched every single SB since.

In 89, Joe Montana made me cry, I was 13 so whatever.

The old man said stfu, if Krumrie's leg didn't break we win.

Man, I want the niners to come get this karma.  Sons a bitches.

[WiregrassBenGal]

My thoughts about the AFCCG and all the "then" and "now" stories:

For the Freezer Bowl and Super Bowl 16, I was 23, roughly the same age as Cris Collinsworth, who'd had a great season but a big fumble near the end zone in the SB. Yes, things were way cheaper back then but everything is relative. The minimum wage was $3.35 and high-paying jobs were very hard to come by unless you were in systems analysis or something, which for me and my friends back then seemed science-fiction-y.

For the 1988 season and '89 Super Bowl, I had just turned 30. I was in the dance business back then and still trying to find my niche in life. Career books would say to focus on what you're really interested in and what comes naturally easy to you and that the job you'd be good at may not even be invented yet.

Fast-forward to today, and anyone can quickly do the math and figure I'm technically a senior citizen, but my life is much better today. By the 2010s, I started work as an at-home electronic scribe, which turned out to be the perfect job for me. Looking ahead 30 to 40 years, who knows? Maybe there will be sound wave technology to kill viruses, delivery drones, and clear screen computers like in Minority Report, but we will all still probably be watching football!

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(01-26-2022, 04:20 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Or occasionally that the tape had a scratch and the movie got warbly at points.  

It's funny to hear so many people on social media talk with deep nostalgia about renting movies.  It was fun at the time, yes, but I don't miss having to go through those steps.  Even Netflix, when it was DVDs, was so cool at first.  Access to this huge catalog and didn't even have to go further than the mailbox.  But you had to decide in advance what you were going to feel like watching.  I'm spoiled by the on-demand/streaming world now! 

Back in '89, gas was under $1/gallon, stamps cost $.25 (I can't actually remember the last time I had to buy stamps, honestly), and the Berlin Wall was still standing (until late that year). 

Honestly just the fact that it was basically every movie ever really makes me miss it. They had everything. As nice as streaming is, now I have to go to like 4 different streaming sites to see which ones have which movies and which shows. 
Plus I normally just scroll through the lists over and over looking for something without actually watching anything.  

You made the huge queue of movies you like/wanted to see, got 3 movies you chose in the mail, and you are going to watch them because the alternative is just mailing them right back which would be silly. So yeah, I actually kind of miss mail Netflix.

[fredtoast]

Some of you will not believe this, but in 81 you could get almost anything on a satellite dish. I watched the Super Bowl on a direct network feed that stayed with the announcers over commercial breaks. The technology of having replays with "blackboard" writing on them was also new. The announcers would rehearse with the producers working out when to pause the video during the replay. Sometimes the producer would go to camera shots of hot women in the crowd and the announcers would make comments on them.

Not only were the premium channels like HBO not scrambled, but there were sperate feeds for "east coast" and "west coast" that were the same except the west coast feed was 4 hours behind.

[Tony]

(01-30-2022, 05:18 AM)Savagehenry54 Wrote: Your check is in the mail pal.

The joke is I'm old too lol..

[Tony]

(01-30-2022, 12:32 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Some of you will not believe this, but in 81 you could get almost anything on a satellite dish.  I watched the Super Bowl on a direct network feed that stayed with the announcers over commercial breaks.  The technology of having replays with "blackboard" writing on them was also new.  The announcers would rehearse with the producers working out when to pause the video during the replay. Sometimes the producer would go to camera shots of hot women in the crowd and the announcers would make comments on them.

Not only were the premium channels like HBO not scrambled, but there were sperate feeds for "east coast" and "west coast" that were the same except the west coast feed was 4 hours behind.

My uncle had the bug ugly dish. We watched Hogan slam Andre on it. It was called c band. The porn was outstanding to. I even remember what galaxy it was on. 5......

[Savagehenry54]

(01-30-2022, 02:18 PM)Tony Wrote: The joke is I'm old too lol..

Ahhh, you already got your check too...cool lol.

I'll see ya at Perkins for the early bird yo!

[Tony]

(01-30-2022, 02:24 PM)Savagehenry54 Wrote: Ahhh, you already got your check too...cool lol.

I'll see ya at Perkins for the early bird yo!

41 seems old to me lol.. My kids say I'm old and they are grown so I guess I am.. Nothing like watching the afc championship with my boys... They don't know the dark days and I like that .