"So What were YOU Doing in 1987?"
In my case, 1987 was a great year: I became a father for the first time when my son Ian was born at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. As a long suffering Minnesota Twins Baseball fan, my Twinkies finally won a "World Series", the championship of Major League Basball in North America.
One of my memories of when the Twins got the last out to beat the Saint Louis Cardinals in Game 7 was that my friend Mel and I were silently jumping up and down in his apartement at Randolph Air Force Base-because Baby Ian had JUST fallen asleep and we did not want to wake him with our celebration.
For fans of the New Zealand All Blacks-their national rugby team-1987 marked the first-and incredibly the ONLY time this rugby rich nation has ever won the Rugby World Cup.
Hard to believe, I know. After 20 years of coming up short in Rugby World Cups, this All Black Team looks like the team to beat-but All Black fans have heard that before-particularly in the 1999 Rugby World Cup when the Kiwis got upset by the French in the Semi-finals.(In spite of an amazing try by Jonah Lomu, who must have run over and through about 8 French defenders to score his try)
At any rate, I know my Kiwi blogging friend Ferdy is hoping that after 20 years of bad mojo, the All Blacks will finally lift the Webb Ellis Trophy.
