Packers 1st Super Bowl Champions!
Good
morning my fellow Rotarians. This week
in history is one that includes newsworthy and interesting events…
Jan 17, 1994… Earthquake rocks
Los Angeles on this day,
at 4:31 am, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA killing 54 people
and causing billions of dollars in damages. The Northridge quake was one of the
most damaging in U.S. history. I will
never forget the phone call I got from my brother, 20 minutes after the quake
hit shaking him out of bed. It was his
first earthquake experience.
Jan 18, 1975… "Mandy"
is Barry Manilow's first #1 pop hit. Barry Manilow scored his first #1
single with "Mandy" on January 18, 1975. This was the beginning of
selling 75 million records over the course of his career. At the height of Manilow's popularity, Frank
Sinatra was quoted as saying that Manilow would be more popular than Sinatra himself.
I clearly remember this day because I was the music director at the UNI campus
radio station and our group of student broadcasters received recognition as the
first college radio station in the country to predict ( 2 months earlier I
might add) that Mandy would be Manilow’s break out song and would be #1. Man, we were a bunch of radio geeks!
Jan 15, 1967… The Packers face
Chiefs in first Super Bowl at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
The Packers won 35-10 led by MPV quarterback Bart Starr. Did you know that this first-ever world
championship was NOT a sell out with only 61,946 people in attendance. And it was NOT actually even officially called
the “Super Bowl.” It was the AFL vs the
NFL World Championship Game. Super Bowl
came along in 1969. I will always remember
this game because as a 7th grader it was when I officially became a
Bart Starr and a Packer fan. And still
am to this day. Go Pack go!
There you go, this week in history as the Bottom of the News for Friday, January 18, 2013!
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