Remembering 1986: One The Greatest Years In Sports History

There’s no reason you should care about this … but 1986 was the pivotal year of my life.

It was the year my car spun out, the year I worked in a factory and in the photo department of a retail store (I called people while they were eating dinner to offer them a free 3×5 photograph), the year she said she just wanted to be friends.

It was the year everything seemed hopeful and the year when reality came crashing down like the top shelf of an overstuffed closet.

It was the year when a little man dunked, when young Bears rapped and an old bear charged, when the hand of God reached out (and the referee missed it), when a ball rolled through the legs, when a genius set up behind the net. It was a year of folk heroes and comic book bad guys, a year when a gladiator dressed in black terrified the world.

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