Things that have happened since aggy'Built Champs'

[Duder]

in a major sport (football, men's bball, baseball.) BTW, the year was 1939. Just a good offseason thread to provide some perspective.

Pearl Harbor (and the rest of WWII)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Korean War

The Howdy Doody Show

The Beatles (actually they were all born after aggy's last championship)

Schools were integrated

Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy was assassinated

Nixon resigns

Vietnam war

Woodstock

Hendrix dies

Lennon killed

Iran Contra

1987 Stock Market crash

Gulf war

Clinton impeached

9/11

Tate Pittman needs some help

Iraq war

Please add to this list.

 

[sessamoid]

Ah yes, it must be that time of year again. At the time of aggy's last (and only MNC):

no color TV (1940)
no aerosol spray cans (1941)
no turboprop engines (1942)
LSD not yet discovered (1943)
no aqualung (invented by Cousteau 1943)
no renal dialysis (1944)
no synthetic cortisone (1944)
no transistors (and thus no transistor radios, no computers, no digital anything)
no credit cards! (1950)
no frisbees (1950)
no cake mix (1949)
no radial tires (1953)
no oral contraceptives (and thus no sexual revolution)
no McDonalds (1954)
no lasers (1958)
no Barbie dolls (1959)
no Valium (1961)
no acrylic paints (1964, lead-based paints were all the rage when aggy won)

 

[Doughbroz]

The dinosaurs disappeared.......

 

[Brother Horn]

Man lands on moon.
Entire Space program.
Personal Computers.
The BeeGees
Frampton comes alive
Elvis
The Entire 60s

The Thrilla in Manilla

OJ at USC

OJ in NFL
OJ since

The birth of my parents

 

[OrangEngr]

You guys are missing the most important ones:

6 UT Baseball national championships
4 UT Football national championships

 

[mez2]

we landed on the moon edit: nevermind, already used

Al Gore created the internet

if aggy is building champions, by the time they are done building them, this will probably be the motherload of all champions...but then again, they're aggy so who are we kidding?

 

[Texas Taps]

It's not easy building a champion when your building blocks are turds

 

[4th_and_18]

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[EarlOfTex]

No air-condition

la Salle, Desoto, Studabaker, Packard, Hudson, Nash, and Kaiser are some of the automobiles gone since 1939

There were still icemen and milkmen making home deliveries (if one could afford an icebox)

Hoover Dam was 3 years old and Golden Gate Bridge only 2 years old.

Overalls was proper attire

 

[Brother Horn]

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[SMDhorn]

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[naes921]

the cosby show started and ended, even giving us a few years of those lovable characters on "a different world."

 

[tropheus]

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[AeroHorn]

Aggy discovered girls.

No, wait...

 

[UTBandGuy09]

maroon carrots

 

[S197HQQKEM]

maroon carrots?

uh, carrots started out maroon, but nobody would buy them so they bred them orange.

back to the original premise.

millions of sheep were violated.

cold fusion

Darth Vader

Big Helmet

 

[orange_xpress]

all those pesky Super Bowls

 

[GHOST HORN]

milli vanilli
vanilla ice
hip hop
rap
80's music

1939 is more remembered for "Gone with the Wind and the Wizard of Oz" over aggy "built champions"

 

[wolfman]

Fedex delivery to collie station

 

[M C Orange]

On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb.
t 5:29:45 (Mountain War Time) on July 16, 1945, in a white blaze that stretched from the basin of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico to the still-dark skies, "The Gadget" ushered in the Atomic Age. The light of the explosion then turned orange as the atomic fireball began shooting upwards at 360 feet per second, reddening and pulsing as it cooled. The characteristic mushroom cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Beneath the cloud, all that remained of the soil at the blast site were fragments of jade green radioactive glass created by the heat of the reaction.

The brilliant light from the detonation pierced the early morning skies with such intensity that residents from a faraway neighboring community would swear that the sun came up twice that day. Even more astonishing is that a blind girl saw the flash 120 miles away.

 

[jmatt]

That whole cold war thing.

6 Popes (not counting Pius XI, whose Papacy ended in '39)

11 US Presidents (not counting FDR, who was POTUS at the time)

The US added two states.

Polio shots hadn't been discovered.

Xerox machines didn't exist.

Neither did panty hose or ballpoint pens.

FM radio didn't exist.

Neither did Air Conditioners.

 

[Statalyzer]

The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

 

[GHOST HORN]

Civil Rights Act of 1964

 

[hollisdude]

global warming and then global cooling for like 30 years and then more global warming.

the world went from black and white to color

24,820 days have passed
595,668 hours have passed

at least 408 different milkmen have led them in their whoopy thing.

In buried dead dog years - it would be 476 years since they've won an NC

there have been approximately 34 gallons of jizz donated to the fire.

oh well - you get the idea of the futility, right?

 

[AvengeKingTut]

The 1940s
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
Etc.

 

[TheGallopinGoose]

14/30 MLB, 23/32 NFL, 24/30 NHL, and all 30 NBA franchises were created.

 

[Burnt_Orange_Sky]

They still have the Stone Age. Whoop!

 

[PanzerDSS]

Michael Jordan was born.Michael Jordan won a title at UNC.
Michael Jordan won 3 titles.
Michael Jordan retired.
Michael Jordan played minor league baseball.
Michael Jordan came back.
Michael Jordan won 3 more titles.
Michael Jordan retired again.
Michael Jordan came back with the Wizards.
Michael Jordan retired, for real this time.

That Japanese kid won all those eating titles.
The Jitterbug.
The Hustle.
The Monkey.
148 of the top grossing 150 films of all time were made (Snow White and Gone With the Wind are the exceptions).
G_O_O was born.
The Texans didn't pick Vince Young.
A Freshman won the AP Player of the Year award in basketball.
The establishment of Israel.
The following countries gained independence: Lebanon, Iceland, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Syria, Jordan, Pakistan, India, Romania, Burma, Sri Lanka, Laos, Bhutan, Libya, Cambodia, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Malaysia, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, Togo, Madagascar, Somolia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cyprus, Gabon, Nigeria, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kuwait, Tanzania, Somoa, Burundi, Rwanda, Algeria, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Singapore, Guyana, Botswana, Barbados, Tonga, Fiji, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, The Bahamas, Mozambique, Papau New Guinea, Angola, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda,
Canada, The Marshall Islands, The Federated States of Micronesia, Lithuania, Germany, Georgia, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Russia as a democracy, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Republic of Macedonia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Check Republic, Slovakia, Palau, East Timor, Serbia, and Montenegro, to name a few. Link

And 77-0.

 

[WideHorns]

I think somewhere in there Jesus was born...died...and came back to life.
poor aggy

 

[coolhorn]

Lp's
45's
tape
cassettes
cd's
mp-3's
downloading
RCA video disc
videotape
dvd's
television (for all intents and purposes)
fm
internet radio
xm
sirius
classics illustrated
audio books
audio cd's
porn
hardcore porn

...and these are just a few of the entertainment options to having to watch aggy in any sport other than meat judging. While I'm thinking about it...the rise and fall, and rise again of drive-ins. Thoughts?