It’s been two long years since one could decorate the Boston Red Sox with the title of World Series Champion – a virtual lifetime for a franchise that has known nothing other than triumph and success.* Below is a list of events, happenings, and trends from that fateful year of 2007. You’ll be truly amazed at how far we’ve all come since then.
• Al Gore won the Nobel Prize for fiction.
• There were only 15,011 Starbucks locations.
• The final season of HBO’s “The Sopranos”
• The final time I watched HBO.
• A Bro tased a student.
• Jay Leno was still hosting “The Tonight Show”
• Apple introduced the iPhone, which did for phones what the iPod did for pods.**
• Britney Spears was still wearing underpants.
• The Duggars only had 17 kids.
• OJ was still available for golf outings.
• Tom Cruise was stuck at thetan level 5.
• Evel Knieval still walked the earth, albeit with a series of limps.
• So did Prof. Snape from Hogwarth’s (SPOILER!)
• The Patriots cheated.
• A marathon was only 26.2 miles.
• Chevy Chase was still funny.***
* Covers the years 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, 2007.
** Credit to Rob Riggle.
*** Actually occurred in 1989.
Go Yankees.
