Bill Clinton is a huge NCAA basketball fan, as well as a fan of his own words of wisdom. So it comes as no surprise that after Chris Webber’s huge gaffe in the 1993 NCAA Championship Finals (of which you can revisit below), Clinton penned a heartfelt letter to the dejected Webber a couple days after the game.
Haven’t seen The Fab Five yet, but hearing a lot of good things and some great things.
Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings announced today that they have reached a deal that will pay the 39-year old $12 million dollars for two more seasons of pro football – his swan song is officially a swan overture.
Favre was first drafted to play in the NFL aeons and aeons ago in 1991, which, despite how lame his draft day photo makes it look, was actually a pretty prolific year, not to mention the first in a memorable decade of football (the Cowboys won a lot, the Bills lost a lot).
Here’s a compendium I put together (with a lot help from the Wikipedia entry on 1991) of stuff that happened way back when Brett Favre gave no indication that he intended to drag this thing out until another generation of Clinton became of-age to be married off in exchange for livestock.
January 27 – The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Super Bowl XXV.
February 5 – A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
February 14 – Silence of the Lambs released in theaters.
March 3 – Rodney King attack caught on video.
March 11 – Janet Jackson signs a $30 million contract with Virgin Records, making her the highest paid female recording artist ever.
March 27 - New Kids on the Block’s Donnie Wahlberg is arrested in Louisville, Kentucky for allegedly setting his hotel room on fire.
March 30 – Northern Michigan University defeats Boston University 8-7 in the third overtime to win NCAA Division I hockey title.
April 1 – Comedy Central launches.
August 13 – Metallica releases the Black album.
April 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, at 3,004.46.
April 21 – Brett Favre drafted 33 overall by the Atlanta Falcons
April 26 – 70 tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17.
August 27 – Pearl Jam releases their debut album, “Ten” – has become certified thirteen times Platinum in the United States.
May 25 – The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
June 7 – City Slickers released in theaters.
June 12 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
June 12 – The Chicago Bulls defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in game five of the NBA Finals to take the series 4-1 and win their 1st NBA championship.
June 17 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
July 22 – Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
July 22 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in 6 more murders.
June 23 – The first Sonic the Hedgehog game published by Sega.
July 3 – Terminator 2 released in theaters.
July 11 – A solar Eclipse of record totality occurs, seen first in Hawaii then enters Mexico with the path directly crosses Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City seen by 20 million inhabitants, and finally ends in Colombia in South America.
August 13 – Super Nintendo is released in the United States.
September 24 – Nirvana releases Nevermind, debuting at #144 on the Billboard 200.
September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
September 19 – Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.
October 2 – Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
October 11 – the KGB is replaced.
October 11–13 – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him.
October 27 – The Minnesota Twins win the World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
November 7 – Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
November 19 – U2 release Achtung Baby
November 23 – Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury, reveals he has AIDS; he dies the following day.
November 24 – Freddie Mercury, the lead singer and frontman of British rock group Queen passes away. The official cause of death is bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
November 26 – Michael Jackson releases Dangerous, featuring the hit single Black or White.
December 26 – The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
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Toss your additional ’91 historical facts in the comments, or, post some names of some folks who, like Favre, were born and walked out of the primordial soup of 1969…
