If Atlas and Cruz Azul managed to break their droughts, we now believe that anything is possible. The Cincinnati Bengals joined this idea by making it through the NFL wild card round after 31 years of waiting. The last victory of this team in the postseason occurred on January 6, 1991, 10-7 against the then Houston Oilers.
Now They did it again by beating the Las Vegas Raiders 23-19. and we will go back to that 1991 to remember what the world was like while the Bengals tasted the taste of victory in a very important game.
What was happening in Mexico and the world in 1991?
Our country was ruled by Carlos Salinas de Gortari who served three years as president. The president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had the death of the artist Rufino Tamayo. In Monterrey, Line 1 of the Metro was inaugurated.
The United States was governed by George W. Bush. and his country was directly involved in the Gulf War, against Iraq, which was ruled by dictator Saddam Hussein. This war was carried out by the invasion of Iraq to Kuwait.
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Jordan’s Bulls and women’s soccer marked the sport
The journey of women to occupy the place they deserve in sport began many decades ago and one of its most important episodes matches the year the Cincinnati Bengals won a postseason game for the last time. It turns out and highlights that FIFA refused to recognize the Women’s World Cups until 1991.
In that year he organized first World Cup in China, which ended with a Final between the United States and Norway. The Americans were crowned with a score of 2-1.
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While Scottie Pippen y Michael Jordan took center stage in the first Chicago Bulls championship in the NBA, Diego Armando Maradona He did his thing in soccer. The Argentine gave positive for cocaine in an anti-doping control while playing for Napoli and was suspended by the Italian Federation for 15 months.
In Formula 1, Ayrton Senna won his third and last title with McLaren which by the way also took the constructors’ championship. At that time, the names of Michael Schumacher, Mika Käkkinen, Nelson Piquet and of course Alain Prost also sounded strong.
Tennis had a great variety of champions in the men’s and women’s branches, Monica Seles dominated by winning three of the four Grand Slams; only Stefi Graff could keep Wimbledon. As for the men, Michael Stich won Wimbledon, Jim Courier did the same at Roland Garros, Stefan Edberg at the US Open and Boris Becker won the Australian Open.
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In that year, strikers Raúl Jiménez and Alan Pulido were also born, as well as the ‘Tuca’ Ferretti played his last game as a footballer, with the Pumas shirt, which gave him the Liga MX title, in the final against America.
Music: From the formation of Oasis to the successes of Luis Miguel and Michael Jackson
Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs, Daniel Alexander Kvns. y Chris Hutton conformaron Oasis until the last two left and there were changes that caused the arrival of Liam Gallagher y Tony McCarroll. This represented the first steps of the band that gave us hits like ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Champagne Supernova’ and ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’.
Meanwhile in Mexico, Luis Miguel released the album ‘Romance’. A tribute to boleros and that had the collaboration of AArmando Manzanero as co-producer to present new versions such as ‘Inolvidable’ and ‘Mucho corazón’, it was well received and sold more than 13 million copies worldwide.
For its part, Michael Jackson was at the peak of success. ‘Dangerous’ was released, his eighth studio album with songs like ‘Black or White’ y ‘Heal the World’. This led him to perform at Super Bowl XXVII, although this was in 1993.
Movies, politics and entertainment as the Cincinnati Bengals won the playoffs
The 63rd edition of the Oscar Awards left us ‘Dances with Wolves’ (which by the way won seven awards) as Best Film. Jeremy Irons y Kathy Bates They were recognized as Best Actor and Actress, while Kevin Costner won the award for Best Director.
1991 brought with it the birth of sports and entertainment figures such as Eden Hazard, Pixie Lott, Ed Sheeran, Ramiro and Rogelio Funes Mori, Antoine Griezmann, Aczino, Dylan O’Brien and Roberto Firmino, among many others.
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In terms of politics, Mexico was governed by Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the United States had George HW Bush in the White House. In the month of August came the independence of Ukraine from the USSR and later Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan joined. The conflict ended in the dissolution of that State.
And although it is now very common to get on the Mexico City Metro, back then not all the lines that we know of were in operation. Line A that goes from Pantitlán to La Paz started its operations on August 12, 1991. There was still no Line 8 or Line B.
May 17 marked an important turning point in terms of beauty pageants in Mexico: Lupita Jones won the first Miss Universe crown for the country and generated an empire through the formation of new competitors.
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