It already rained! The Cincinnati Bengals will be the protagonists of Super Bowl LVI with the Los Angeles Rams, but their fans have waited many years to see them once again in this instance. Some had not even seen them so close to a championship and others have anecdotes to tell their children and even grandchildren or other generations.
This is because the team’s last Super Bowl was played on January 22, 1989 against the San Francisco 49ers. That’s how it is, it took 33 years for the Bengals to get back into the title game! And while it is true that we do not know what will happen next Sunday, February 13, what is certain is that the world has changed considerably since that day.
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What was the world like the last time the Bengals played in the Super Bowl?
Just a couple of days before Super Bowl XXIII, George W. Bush took office as President of the United States. Meanwhile in Mexico, Carlos Salinas de Gortari he was also living the first months of his six-year term. As if that were not enough, on January 24 the execution of the serial killer was carried out Ted Bundy in the electric chair.
Cinema: Batman, Cinema Paradiso and The Little Mermaid
The big screen gave us a lot of gems in 1989. Among them are ‘Back To The Future II’, ‘Batman’ directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton, ‘The death poet Society’ with the memorable Robin Williams and also ‘Cinema Paradiso’ by Giuseppe Tornatore.
As for animated films, the premiere of ‘The little Mermaid’, a Disney classic that remains in force today.
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In 2022 it is impossible to conceive of daily life without an iPhone or any other type of smartphone, but in 1989 these did not exist and each purpose required a different device. For example, sony camcorders they were a must and casettes they still allowed to save the playlists of each person or the album of each fashionable artist.
At that time, the first disc-men that marked an era appeared and cell phones were those that we know today as partitions or other synonyms. At the same time, Apple released its first PowerBook G4 for sale, the brand’s first laptop.
And if you want to feel old or remember your best years, it should be noted that in 1989 the Game Boy. Nintendo presented the ‘Super Mario Land’ for this console and the unforgettable minesweeper They appeared in Windows.
The music of Madonna, Green Dwarfs and Depeche Mode
As the end of the decade approached, music gave us new albums by big stars like Madonna, who premiered ‘Like A Prayer’. Nine Inch Nails did the same with ‘Pretty Hate Machine’, Red Hot Chili Peppers con ‘Mother’s Milk’; Depeche Mode with ‘101’, Cher con ‘Hear Of Stone’ y Brian Adams con ‘Live! Live! Live!’.
But that was not all because music in Spanish also had its share through Enanitos Verdes and ‘Once upon a time…’; G-men presented ‘I’m going to have a good time’ and even Timbiriche featured ‘Los Clásicos de Timbiriche’ to commemorate seven years of career.
And what was going on in sports outside of the Super Bowl and the Bengals?
Tennis had a clear dominance in the women’s branch: Steffi Graf. The German got the Golden Grand Slam in 1988 and the following year she repeated as champion of three of the four major tournaments in this discipline. The Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open trophies were located in their display cases; Although he did not win, he also played (and lost) the Roland Garros final against Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.
Formula 1 had a couple of protagonists who made history and marked an entire generation: Ayrton Senna y Alain Prost. The Brazilian won the 1988 season and a year later it was the Frenchman’s turn with McLaren.
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