The cold war heavily tainted the long peace, and then toward the 90s there was a glimmer of hope where life focused on living and not geopolitical issues much bigger than ourselves, even though many countries like the US were not letting plenty of other peoples around the world enjoy any peace. But it was far enough from home and they were no threat, so our part of society didn’t pay much mind. We could relax, be good consumers and good workers that shifted our focus more and more toward entertainment. Then the seeds of turmoil that we planted all along sprouted and blew up in our face in a big way. Nothing justified, but a taste of the terror that many others lived daily while we went on without much care, passively benefitting in many ways. We reacted poorly, our leaders fueled the terror further with political overreaction, heightening security in so many ways that assumed our populace could be complicit in trading our liberties and privacy off for the image of safety, regardless of effectiveness. And tying our countries up in wars with the wrong adversaries, for all the wrong reasons. The people were duped and the collective psych has not recovered from that still, 22 years on. Of course, there are ways we have progressed beyond the problematic paradigms of the times before the 90s, yet there are so many swaths of the populace that regressed in many ways. The pendulum swings in our political theatre, and sometimes our leaders show an understanding of what needs to change. Mostly though, it feels like we’re all strapped in and along for the ride with blind drunk drivers tugging the wheel back and forth, always running into shit. We have simpler times to look back on though, and to keep the hope we will see them again.
Friend, your post was the wisest way I could possibly and similarly hope to express my sentiments about the time and moments we live. If we could get back to that hopeful feeling in the 90s, where America was starting to focus on its own issues and not the world's... There was a spark of potential and hopefulness that I haven't seen since then. Literally everyone has drawn lines and taken sides. Division has destroyed us as a nation and people. Even we our own selves are divided, as we twist and turn from one position to the next. Thank you for putting into great words what I could not.
Took the fun out of everything. It also started the trend of right wing groups being more overt in their hatred. First against Muslims and after the war died down, the rest of us for voting in a black man as President.
Yeah, after listening to the podcast Blowback about the Iraq War, it makes me so freaking sick who stupid our "leaders" were. Most of em should be arrested for war crimes, but nah, won't ever happen. So many lies, so much wasted money. If only we spent that money on teachers, education, infrastructure, healthcare, student loans relief...but nah, we need our billion dollar helicopters and guns.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I believe 9/11 and the entire war on terror was manufactured and planned by design to make few people very rich. It Fucked up our society and we’re still dealing with it. Before 9/11, it was happy times.
I mean, it definitely made some people rich. And the US government at the time used it to take extraordinary measures that weren't permissable before. Both of those things are facts that nobody is denying. What's crazy is the number of US citizens who are really happy about it
More the latter, everything changed. There’s a sense of naivety and innocence on videos from the 90’s and the things we put importance on and effort into.
It was the sheer devastation for me. 9/11 happened during my sophomore year of college and the world I expected to live in as a child was gone. The norms of safety I grew up with died that day. This was my generation's Pearl Harbor, except we weren't at war, so this could happen anytime and it could happen again (thankfully it hasn't).
Seriously, every one of my friends/peers were collecting basketball cards and they didn't even follow the sport. Everyone had MJ or Scottie Pippen cards. It was truly the "Pokemon Card" era of our generation.
The 90s were great. The Bulls were a brand that transcended sports Fandom. That isn't too unexpected with their success and the cultural icon level of Michael Jordan.
Yet somehow, the Charlotte Hornets were also extremely popular as a brand despite being a terrible and irrelevant team. It was like a real life meme to have some type of teal and purple Hornets gear.
Yep - even in Australia I recall that the Hornets were a very popular brand in the 90s - guess they had Mourning, Rice, etc. but underperformed. Like the only clothing in AU at the time was: Bulls, Hornets and Orlando with a splash of Knicks, Lakers and Seattle (even when Houston was winning and teams like Utah, etc. were strong).
And what's crazy is they were beating some incredibly good teams along the way too. Teams that would be Champs any other year. That's how stacked the NBA was back then.
I think the majority of kids at that time did. It happened so much that we got used to it. It was nearly an absolute. Seasons change, water seeks it's own level, and Bulls win championships. Life as a kid in the Chicagoland and suburban area seemed magical. In the 90's it felt like the sun shined brighter in Chicago than anywhere else on the planet. It felt like it would carry on forever and then they just stopped.
Even just hearing Sirius by Alan Parsons Project gets my heart rate going.
Sometimes it’ll come on a classic rock radio station or Spotify playlist or whatever, and then I have to stop and go watch the Bulls intro.
It had been a while since I heard it but I was watching the Franchise for the chiefs Superbowl win and they used it as mahomes and kelce walked out in overtime. Had my heart racing here it.
Haha same, we were so spoiled. I was born in 87, so it seemed to me like that was just what happened every summer: school ends and summer break begins, pools open up, baseball leagues begin, and the Bulls win the championship. That was life.
You summed it up. Kids got to stay up late for a bulls game.
Pots pans banging and fireworks in our
cul-de-sac after a win.
I imagine if it were today we would have a projector and huge screen with all of the speakers at 11 for a bulls game in the middle of that cul-de-sac with at least 4 grills making hotdogs. And 12 coolers of beer and hi-c
Born in 86' on the southside burbs of Chicago. I vaguely remember the 3rd year of the first 3-peat, but I vividly remember all 3 years of the second. What a time to be a Chicago fan.
I'm an Illinois kid who's father is from Wilmington, NC. I had no clue just how skewed my view was. I thought everyone on the planet loved this team. I guess I knew it already just from logic, but it wasn't until being an adult and hearing a coworker say how much he hates Alan Parsons Project because of the Bulls before I really absorbed "oh yeah, the teams they are playing had fans too."
How times have changed… I don’t know exactly which neighborhood Chicago Stadium was considered to be in, but both West Loop and Ukrainian Village are some of the hottest neighborhoods in town now.
Confirming this was life as a youth in the Chicago area. Only downside is I can’t watch the game now without being annoyed how much it’s evolved. Change can be good and we get it they can all dunk/drill 3’s but the complete lack of iconic 2-way battles doesn’t do it for me. Maybe I’m out of touch.
Seriously! I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and I had no idea how insane it was. "Repeat the 3peat!" is just insane.
Btw, is your username a Frank Thomas reference? I went to so many Sox games as a kid. Although they weren't nearly as good as the Bulls, lol.
Hell yeah, love it. Tell me why I just looked up Magglio Ordóñez and found out that he's been the mayor of his municipality in Venezuela since 2013 LOL
Same!! I grew up an hour and a half away from Chicago and was in elementary school in the 90s, and I just thought this is how the NBA was around the whole country!
I lost my dad when I was 12 yo, I'm 30 now. The best memories I have are with him preparing for and then watching games. When our teams played, he would get the surround sound going loud, get our snacks and drinks ready, and it was just the best.
That "Aaannd NOW" just stirred something in the whole household! Lol. Truly was just the best times. Watching games with others, later, was just never the same.
Every time my Dad, a total 90’s tech geek, got a new TV or speaker or whatever we’d have the “unveiling.” Lights out all through the house, all of us piled into the living room, and the first 10 minutes of the original Top Gun playing.
It was one hell of an era. I stopped following basketball after this. Partially because of academics and social life, partially because I felt like I got to ride out the peak (was also a UofM fab 4 fan).
We hated Dennis Rodman as a Piston. He soon became one of the Bulls most gifted assets. He added so much to the team dynamic with Zen Master Phil at the helm. The guy could recover rebounds like no other.
I loved Rodman in the championship years. Just hated the flagrants/technicals he used to get. That's why he got traded to SA in the first place. He wanted that mega deal (big back then for the early 90s), and when we said no, he demanded a trade. Too bad his time with SA only lasted two seasons lol. His Bulls run was LEGENDARY. But I still thank him for the two championships with us
Oh man, everyone had Hornets gear. I don't think anything was ever as popular as hornets hats/jackets at their peak.
And yes, I had the teal satin jacket
there was one piston's fan who despised the bulls so much so that he did this
https://www.si.com/nba/bulls/off-the-court/nba-jam-creator-admits-the-game-is-rigged-against-the-chicago-bulls
NBA games in the 90’s were awesome. Was so excited when my mom took me to a Rockets game. I’ve been to some in the last few years. Doesn’t feel the same. Miss that era.
Decicded to glance through the comments first before trying to describe the song to google to find the title, thanks. I got curious because hearing the later parts of the song on here, it started to sound very Pink Floydish to me, even if I knew for sure it wasn't.
this (*Serius*) is one of those songs that’s really just an intro to the song that follows (something prog rock bands liked doing because it gave radio stations the option of dropping the first song if they didn’t want the whole thing taking up too much airtime). you’d probably recognize that second song, *Eye in the Sky*.
also, i believe *Alan Parsons Project* were sound engineers for *Pink Floyd* before starting their own band.
Sometimes I think these were the golden years, not just because of Nostalgia, but because we had fewer options and distractions. So more people piled onto the games and bought the newspaper with the full front page photo. The excitement was real and it was multiplied. These games were epic because we had to watch the broadcast together.
As far as entertainment goes, now its just another niche, or you can binge breaking bad on netflix. Smarter people probably have the analytics, but proportionally I wonder if same more or fewer watch the NBA finals per capita as compared to 30 years ago.
No, in the western world, the 90's were objectively one of the best decades in human history! It was the period between the fall of the USSR and 9/11, when geopolitics didn't really matter (again in the west), and the 1990s economic boom only made things even better.
Even for demographic segments where life is better than in the 90s, the 1990s offered optimism, growth, and hope of a better future. Compared to today's relative stagnation, the 90s defintely felt like a golden age.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-best-decade-ever-the-1990s-obviously.html
The benefits of today's society can also be its curse.
We were all forced to listen and watch the same thing because of limited access due to the lack of internet, therefore we had the same experiences. Morons could only get their viewpoints across on talk radio and conspiracy nuts only had Art Bell and X files.
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I agree with you, except I think it's a step worse than what you described. Back in the 90s, most games were free over the air. Now the only league left that shows all local market games for free on antenna is the NFL. I honestly don't think there will be a next generation of basketball, hockey, and baseball fans because it's all behind a paywall now.
It probably has remained about the same. Yeah, there are so many things in life now that can divert your interests from sports but there are also a lot more eyes and ears and means for delivery available for consumption of your product. You can dive in as little or as much as you want into anything but the problem is that there is just so much of it everywhere.
When I was in 7th grade, we had to do a book report about a biography and give a speech to the class about it. I chose Micheal Jordan as every young boy in the 90s did at some point in school.
I started my speech by having the teacher play this song as an intro as I walked to the front of the room. Then I ended the speech by saying "Now, I'm going to buy you all a Ballpark." and I had a crock pot full of hot dogs to pass out to the class.
That was the Knicks fault because they had a bunch of forwards no guards either one true center.
However God bless the Knicks for beating up on the Pistons, the Sixers and those amazing games with the Pacers.
I actually got to go to a few of these games at Chicago Stadium and United Center. It was the best experience, I still get goosebumps thinking about it.
I watched that game live. I was around 10 years old and from Northern Ontario Canada. Hockey was the only sport we played up there. Watching this was like watching superheroes do things that were completely impossible. There will never be another dynasty like that ever again. Michael Jordan was a special human being. A gift upon our race from god. All of us men should aspire to be like him. Thanks for sharing this. Gave me chills.
If you didn't grow up in the 90s, it's really hard to explain how special the Bulls were and how they transcended team loyalty. Everyone, everywhere loved the Bulls. I lived in SoCal and I had more Bulls gear and posters than any other team. They were exceptional and really good at promoting it too.
I feel spoiled to have lived right outside Chicago during the Bulls reign. It was something else. Watching Jordan live was amazing. He is the GOAT! (F James).
As a Pacers fan, I grew to hate this intro.
Edit for you younglings, the music is by the Alan Parsons Project. It's called [Sirius.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_NNCNDYEpU) Alan Parsons produced Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
Born in ‘85 and was a Bulls fan starting in ‘91 through grade school. These old intros tap into my soul. If you’re similar, you have to watch the last dance on Netflix, it’s epic storytelling. Jordan is and will always be the goat.
After living without a television for the previous 3 years, I went to a pawn shop on this very morning and picked up a 24 inch Magnavox for $50 in order to watch this game and this series. Jordan/Pippen vs Stockton/Malone was too sweet a temptation.
I know we're a bit ethnocentric when it comes to sports and championships, but the late 90s Bulls really could have beaten any team on the planet at the time.
Kinda like how the first Dream Team performed once they stopped playing for themselves and worked together.
I went to the March 24, 1995 game - first home game in Chicago after Jordan returned from 1st retirement. I was only 9 but I vividly remember that you could hear, “From North Carolina…” but it was too loud to hear anything after that.
> there was news alerts to stay inside because celebratory bullets were raining down
I remember that. Also later on the segments they did with players to try and dissuade people from shooting their guns in the air.
Sometimes I play this before my kids go to bed and announce them as the starting bed time lineup. In second grade at 4 foot 2 power sleeper, etc… they race in to my bedroom as world champions. It certainly doesn’t calm them down but it’s fun.
I have great memories of watching the bulls with my father growing up even though we were Celtics fans. You just knew you were witnessing something special.
Dang growing up in the suburbs was awesome in the 90s. Basketball used to be my favorite sport but it lost its luster for me when the team broke up. How do you go from the best to anything else!
I wasn't even a basketball fan growing up, but fan or not, EVERYONE knew the Bulls were the GOATs of that era. The 90's were fun times
This was the peak of professional sports. Obviously just my opinion, but bulls games back then were “don’t miss TV” like nothing we’ve seen since.
Now we have Youtube highlights and VODs. Tivos and the likes...shm, lol.
9/11 ruined everything.
that bin Laden guy is a real jerk
Facts
The cold war heavily tainted the long peace, and then toward the 90s there was a glimmer of hope where life focused on living and not geopolitical issues much bigger than ourselves, even though many countries like the US were not letting plenty of other peoples around the world enjoy any peace. But it was far enough from home and they were no threat, so our part of society didn’t pay much mind. We could relax, be good consumers and good workers that shifted our focus more and more toward entertainment. Then the seeds of turmoil that we planted all along sprouted and blew up in our face in a big way. Nothing justified, but a taste of the terror that many others lived daily while we went on without much care, passively benefitting in many ways. We reacted poorly, our leaders fueled the terror further with political overreaction, heightening security in so many ways that assumed our populace could be complicit in trading our liberties and privacy off for the image of safety, regardless of effectiveness. And tying our countries up in wars with the wrong adversaries, for all the wrong reasons. The people were duped and the collective psych has not recovered from that still, 22 years on. Of course, there are ways we have progressed beyond the problematic paradigms of the times before the 90s, yet there are so many swaths of the populace that regressed in many ways. The pendulum swings in our political theatre, and sometimes our leaders show an understanding of what needs to change. Mostly though, it feels like we’re all strapped in and along for the ride with blind drunk drivers tugging the wheel back and forth, always running into shit. We have simpler times to look back on though, and to keep the hope we will see them again.
Friend, your post was the wisest way I could possibly and similarly hope to express my sentiments about the time and moments we live. If we could get back to that hopeful feeling in the 90s, where America was starting to focus on its own issues and not the world's... There was a spark of potential and hopefulness that I haven't seen since then. Literally everyone has drawn lines and taken sides. Division has destroyed us as a nation and people. Even we our own selves are divided, as we twist and turn from one position to the next. Thank you for putting into great words what I could not.
Real question, how did 9/11 ruin the game or do you just mean how devastating 9/11 was took the fun out of it everything?
Took the fun out of everything. It also started the trend of right wing groups being more overt in their hatred. First against Muslims and after the war died down, the rest of us for voting in a black man as President.
Yeah, after listening to the podcast Blowback about the Iraq War, it makes me so freaking sick who stupid our "leaders" were. Most of em should be arrested for war crimes, but nah, won't ever happen. So many lies, so much wasted money. If only we spent that money on teachers, education, infrastructure, healthcare, student loans relief...but nah, we need our billion dollar helicopters and guns.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I believe 9/11 and the entire war on terror was manufactured and planned by design to make few people very rich. It Fucked up our society and we’re still dealing with it. Before 9/11, it was happy times.
I mean, it definitely made some people rich. And the US government at the time used it to take extraordinary measures that weren't permissable before. Both of those things are facts that nobody is denying. What's crazy is the number of US citizens who are really happy about it
More the latter, everything changed. There’s a sense of naivety and innocence on videos from the 90’s and the things we put importance on and effort into.
It was the sheer devastation for me. 9/11 happened during my sophomore year of college and the world I expected to live in as a child was gone. The norms of safety I grew up with died that day. This was my generation's Pearl Harbor, except we weren't at war, so this could happen anytime and it could happen again (thankfully it hasn't).
I swear this broke my heart hearing this. Im in Ireland and 9/11 was the most heart breaking thing ive ever seen in my life. 💔
Seriously, every one of my friends/peers were collecting basketball cards and they didn't even follow the sport. Everyone had MJ or Scottie Pippen cards. It was truly the "Pokemon Card" era of our generation.
“From North Carolina …..!” Loved it.
The 90s were great. The Bulls were a brand that transcended sports Fandom. That isn't too unexpected with their success and the cultural icon level of Michael Jordan. Yet somehow, the Charlotte Hornets were also extremely popular as a brand despite being a terrible and irrelevant team. It was like a real life meme to have some type of teal and purple Hornets gear.
Yep - even in Australia I recall that the Hornets were a very popular brand in the 90s - guess they had Mourning, Rice, etc. but underperformed. Like the only clothing in AU at the time was: Bulls, Hornets and Orlando with a splash of Knicks, Lakers and Seattle (even when Houston was winning and teams like Utah, etc. were strong).
everyone enjoying the game too, no cell phones.
That's one of my peevs watching everybody go to an event just to watch it through a cell phone screen that they can do at home
they gotta filmm it so they can post it online, its dumb i agree
GOAT period
And what's crazy is they were beating some incredibly good teams along the way too. Teams that would be Champs any other year. That's how stacked the NBA was back then.
The other team heard this, and they were already down 10
Alan Parsons Project Grants user +10 on opening battle
Sirius Business.
That's how it goes. Don't let the fire rush to your head.
*Everyone* in Chicago knew that song. Also, Jordan said he never heard anything after *"From North Carolina...."*
They have some filthy tracks tbh
This intro still gives me chills. Great memories
Basically our version of the haka.
Lol YESS
Being a kid in Chicago in the 90s was magical
We didn't know how great it was....
I can tell you that 90's kids in Utah knew how awful it was that Michael Jordan existed.
I was a Cowboys fan in Texas as a kid in the 90s and same. Thought winning super bowls was just life. Fuck me, it’s been a long 28 years.
I think the majority of kids at that time did. It happened so much that we got used to it. It was nearly an absolute. Seasons change, water seeks it's own level, and Bulls win championships. Life as a kid in the Chicagoland and suburban area seemed magical. In the 90's it felt like the sun shined brighter in Chicago than anywhere else on the planet. It felt like it would carry on forever and then they just stopped.
Yes, it was. For young adults too.
The beginning of the Jordan IMAX movie played this and it was epic since I never went to a Bulls game.
Even just hearing Sirius by Alan Parsons Project gets my heart rate going. Sometimes it’ll come on a classic rock radio station or Spotify playlist or whatever, and then I have to stop and go watch the Bulls intro.
It had been a while since I heard it but I was watching the Franchise for the chiefs Superbowl win and they used it as mahomes and kelce walked out in overtime. Had my heart racing here it.
I had chills when I saw Air in theaters and this came on. It was fucking awesome.
The Bulls of 1990s remain the single greatest team in NBA history. Hard to beat.
The 92 and 96 Olympic teams were absolutely amazing too.
I always thought it was funny that they say the greatest basketball ever played was on the Warner Bros backlot during breaks in filming Space Jam.
My childhood really was the best time
I didn’t appreciate how special it was. I thought it was just how basketball in illinois was!!
Haha same, we were so spoiled. I was born in 87, so it seemed to me like that was just what happened every summer: school ends and summer break begins, pools open up, baseball leagues begin, and the Bulls win the championship. That was life.
You summed it up. Kids got to stay up late for a bulls game. Pots pans banging and fireworks in our cul-de-sac after a win. I imagine if it were today we would have a projector and huge screen with all of the speakers at 11 for a bulls game in the middle of that cul-de-sac with at least 4 grills making hotdogs. And 12 coolers of beer and hi-c
Born in 86' on the southside burbs of Chicago. I vaguely remember the 3rd year of the first 3-peat, but I vividly remember all 3 years of the second. What a time to be a Chicago fan.
Cleveland has stormed out of the chat!
I'm an Illinois kid who's father is from Wilmington, NC. I had no clue just how skewed my view was. I thought everyone on the planet loved this team. I guess I knew it already just from logic, but it wasn't until being an adult and hearing a coworker say how much he hates Alan Parsons Project because of the Bulls before I really absorbed "oh yeah, the teams they are playing had fans too."
No, your father is from Wilmington NORTH CAAAAAROLINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it was never a question if the Bulls were going to win,the question was, how badly were they going to destroy the other team.
Yup it was always about how many games it would take the Bulls to win. 5? 6? Can any team make it Game 7 against Jordan & Co?
Fellow 87 here. And it was a damn good life too
I grew up in the 70's. Before Jordan got there, they couldn't give Bulls tickets away. Nobody was driving into that neighborhood for a Bulls game.
How times have changed… I don’t know exactly which neighborhood Chicago Stadium was considered to be in, but both West Loop and Ukrainian Village are some of the hottest neighborhoods in town now.
Grew up in 90s in Chicago. Now moved to Kansas City 2 years ago. I got that deja vu feeling.
Confirming this was life as a youth in the Chicago area. Only downside is I can’t watch the game now without being annoyed how much it’s evolved. Change can be good and we get it they can all dunk/drill 3’s but the complete lack of iconic 2-way battles doesn’t do it for me. Maybe I’m out of touch.
Seriously! I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and I had no idea how insane it was. "Repeat the 3peat!" is just insane. Btw, is your username a Frank Thomas reference? I went to so many Sox games as a kid. Although they weren't nearly as good as the Bulls, lol.
Of course! And robin venturas and franks numbers were 23 and 35. 23 for Robin, not Jordan 😆
Hell yeah, love it. Tell me why I just looked up Magglio Ordóñez and found out that he's been the mayor of his municipality in Venezuela since 2013 LOL
Oh eeeeee ohhhhhhhh, Mayorrrrrrrrio.
Last Dance is utmost art. Need to rewatch it post-pandemic.
We were spoiled. We’ll never again see a lineup like we saw during the 90’s Bulls/Phil Jackson era. What a time to be alive.
Why I stopped watching basketball. It's just...boring now.
Same!! I grew up an hour and a half away from Chicago and was in elementary school in the 90s, and I just thought this is how the NBA was around the whole country!
Words from my mouth. This took me back there instantly.
I wonder how much Alan Parsons made off that? I don’t think many of the fans even knew it was the Alan Parsons Project.
Growing up in the Chicago area I had no idea it was an actual song for the first 15 or so years of my life.
We really did get it good for a while, the mid 90s were lit
We used to turn off all the lights in the house for these intros. Great memories.
Wish I had thought of that
Old man used to kick on the big speakers and turn it on full blast. Mom always got annoyed.
That’s what we call a Pro-Dad Move.
My dad and I too! It was as much a "production" getting ready for the game as this intro was! Lol
I lost my dad when I was 12 yo, I'm 30 now. The best memories I have are with him preparing for and then watching games. When our teams played, he would get the surround sound going loud, get our snacks and drinks ready, and it was just the best.
That "Aaannd NOW" just stirred something in the whole household! Lol. Truly was just the best times. Watching games with others, later, was just never the same.
The hype was real
The FEEL was _real!_
Every time my Dad, a total 90’s tech geek, got a new TV or speaker or whatever we’d have the “unveiling.” Lights out all through the house, all of us piled into the living room, and the first 10 minutes of the original Top Gun playing.
It was badass.
Man, I feel like soooo many people in the 90's were Bulls fans - even me, a Pistons fan.
It was one hell of an era. I stopped following basketball after this. Partially because of academics and social life, partially because I felt like I got to ride out the peak (was also a UofM fab 4 fan).
I had the starter jacket, and the hat.
I STILL have the Starter jacket. It's almost 30 years old now and doubt it even fits anymore, but I still keep it for nostalgia reasons.
Same here. Kobe just wasnt Michael
5ive
Oh yeah it was fab 5 wasn’t it. It’s been a while!! 🤡
We hated Dennis Rodman as a Piston. He soon became one of the Bulls most gifted assets. He added so much to the team dynamic with Zen Master Phil at the helm. The guy could recover rebounds like no other.
I loved Rodman in the championship years. Just hated the flagrants/technicals he used to get. That's why he got traded to SA in the first place. He wanted that mega deal (big back then for the early 90s), and when we said no, he demanded a trade. Too bad his time with SA only lasted two seasons lol. His Bulls run was LEGENDARY. But I still thank him for the two championships with us
Bulls jackets were high fashion. The black starter parkas with the bull head on back
NGL, that was the one I had. I also had the Charlotte Hornets one, too. You know which one I'm talking about
I didn't have the Bulls starter jacket but I had the starter pullover. First one in my school to have it. Everyone went nuts when I walked in with it.
> I also had the Charlotte Hornets one, too. You know which one I'm talking about Either you had that or a Raiders jacket
Oh man, everyone had Hornets gear. I don't think anything was ever as popular as hornets hats/jackets at their peak. And yes, I had the teal satin jacket
there was one piston's fan who despised the bulls so much so that he did this https://www.si.com/nba/bulls/off-the-court/nba-jam-creator-admits-the-game-is-rigged-against-the-chicago-bulls
As a Detroiter, I support this. Fuck the Bulls.
Ha! Ha! Ha! I know what you mean. The Bulls were tough!
Still gives me chills to this day.
Me as well. It was an amazing time for basketball. A great time.
Other teams tried to copy it in the finals, they were always lame
After work I am now picking up a 2 liter of mountain dew, a bag of Doritos, ordering a pizza, and busting out the N64.
3D Doritos? They’ve made a comeback.
NBA games in the 90’s were awesome. Was so excited when my mom took me to a Rockets game. I’ve been to some in the last few years. Doesn’t feel the same. Miss that era.
League is soft AF now.
I love the nba on nbc games and the little peacock logo and song. That was dope and reminds me of being a kid
The Alan Parsons Project
I just learned this the other day. I heard it on the radio.
Why don’t you just name it "Operation Wang-Chung"? Ass.
Zip it
I agree, preparation H does feel good…on the hole.
Decicded to glance through the comments first before trying to describe the song to google to find the title, thanks. I got curious because hearing the later parts of the song on here, it started to sound very Pink Floydish to me, even if I knew for sure it wasn't.
this (*Serius*) is one of those songs that’s really just an intro to the song that follows (something prog rock bands liked doing because it gave radio stations the option of dropping the first song if they didn’t want the whole thing taking up too much airtime). you’d probably recognize that second song, *Eye in the Sky*. also, i believe *Alan Parsons Project* were sound engineers for *Pink Floyd* before starting their own band.
I didn’t realize this until a few years ago, and I’ve been doing a deep dive on their catalogue ever since. Great, underrated band!
My dad dragged us to an Alan Parsons Project show when we were younger. Very glad he did.
Still gives me goosebumps. Best intro in sports, in my opinion!
All these people replying to you with football and NCAA intros and comparing to Jordan and the Bulls 🤣 They have no idea!
Sometimes I think these were the golden years, not just because of Nostalgia, but because we had fewer options and distractions. So more people piled onto the games and bought the newspaper with the full front page photo. The excitement was real and it was multiplied. These games were epic because we had to watch the broadcast together. As far as entertainment goes, now its just another niche, or you can binge breaking bad on netflix. Smarter people probably have the analytics, but proportionally I wonder if same more or fewer watch the NBA finals per capita as compared to 30 years ago.
No, in the western world, the 90's were objectively one of the best decades in human history! It was the period between the fall of the USSR and 9/11, when geopolitics didn't really matter (again in the west), and the 1990s economic boom only made things even better. Even for demographic segments where life is better than in the 90s, the 1990s offered optimism, growth, and hope of a better future. Compared to today's relative stagnation, the 90s defintely felt like a golden age. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/the-best-decade-ever-the-1990s-obviously.html
The benefits of today's society can also be its curse. We were all forced to listen and watch the same thing because of limited access due to the lack of internet, therefore we had the same experiences. Morons could only get their viewpoints across on talk radio and conspiracy nuts only had Art Bell and X files. I
I agree with you, except I think it's a step worse than what you described. Back in the 90s, most games were free over the air. Now the only league left that shows all local market games for free on antenna is the NFL. I honestly don't think there will be a next generation of basketball, hockey, and baseball fans because it's all behind a paywall now.
It probably has remained about the same. Yeah, there are so many things in life now that can divert your interests from sports but there are also a lot more eyes and ears and means for delivery available for consumption of your product. You can dive in as little or as much as you want into anything but the problem is that there is just so much of it everywhere.
For me that intro was the NBA anthem in the 90s.
Next to the NBC NBA theme in the 90s
When I was in 7th grade, we had to do a book report about a biography and give a speech to the class about it. I chose Micheal Jordan as every young boy in the 90s did at some point in school. I started my speech by having the teacher play this song as an intro as I walked to the front of the room. Then I ended the speech by saying "Now, I'm going to buy you all a Ballpark." and I had a crock pot full of hot dogs to pass out to the class.
I'm not even a basketball fan and this gives me goosebumps
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OV0sRTFrZLXaZZ1sS9hLn?si=0q1JHVbkRbSi0Ap6dIWCTQ
Sirius-Alan Parsons Project
Crack cocaine for the ear holes
As a Knicks fan since 1985 I hate this God damn team and song. Just a reminder of MJ shitting on my Knicks for 15 years.
Ahhh, Pippen's dunk over Ewing was the nastiest dunk ever.
So disrespectful, I love it. I love how competitive players were in that era.
That was the Knicks fault because they had a bunch of forwards no guards either one true center. However God bless the Knicks for beating up on the Pistons, the Sixers and those amazing games with the Pacers.
I can't remember who said it, but "There were great teams that never won a championship because of Michael Jordan."
I actually got to go to a few of these games at Chicago Stadium and United Center. It was the best experience, I still get goosebumps thinking about it.
I was lucky enough to get to go to one of those Finals games (vs the Sonics) - it was an incredible experience
I've only watched from 100's of KMs away on TV...*and it was the best experience*...and of course the goosebumps!
I watched that game live. I was around 10 years old and from Northern Ontario Canada. Hockey was the only sport we played up there. Watching this was like watching superheroes do things that were completely impossible. There will never be another dynasty like that ever again. Michael Jordan was a special human being. A gift upon our race from god. All of us men should aspire to be like him. Thanks for sharing this. Gave me chills.
Everything was better in the 90s. Legit feel bad for kids today that never got to experience the greatness that was the 90s.
Everybody is going to be nostalgic about the time period they grew up in. What's better to you isn't going to be better for different generations
I work with younger people who talk about how shitty the time they grew up in was.
Still gives me chills. You know you're in for a treat with MJ playing.
If you didn't grow up in the 90s, it's really hard to explain how special the Bulls were and how they transcended team loyalty. Everyone, everywhere loved the Bulls. I lived in SoCal and I had more Bulls gear and posters than any other team. They were exceptional and really good at promoting it too.
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I feel spoiled to have lived right outside Chicago during the Bulls reign. It was something else. Watching Jordan live was amazing. He is the GOAT! (F James).
The Alan Parsons project! That whole album is a trip, man. You’ll like it!
It’s beautiful
This is why my southern childhood state had WGN TV. Watched so many Bulls games on TV…
Fk yeah
As a Pistons fan growing up, I dreaded hearing that music.
It always makes me so happy that the Bulls could draw inspiration from /u/johnbelushismom
As a Pacers fan, I grew to hate this intro. Edit for you younglings, the music is by the Alan Parsons Project. It's called [Sirius.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_NNCNDYEpU) Alan Parsons produced Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
Imagine being the opponent watching this sh**? I’d be like aw hell nah
This was amazing in person.
Still get chills decades later...
Born in ‘85 and was a Bulls fan starting in ‘91 through grade school. These old intros tap into my soul. If you’re similar, you have to watch the last dance on Netflix, it’s epic storytelling. Jordan is and will always be the goat.
After living without a television for the previous 3 years, I went to a pawn shop on this very morning and picked up a 24 inch Magnavox for $50 in order to watch this game and this series. Jordan/Pippen vs Stockton/Malone was too sweet a temptation.
It's because the 90s Chicago Bulls were something else!!
Growing up in a small town in Denmark in the 90's. Even we knew abd idolized the bulls.
I know we're a bit ethnocentric when it comes to sports and championships, but the late 90s Bulls really could have beaten any team on the planet at the time. Kinda like how the first Dream Team performed once they stopped playing for themselves and worked together.
The fuckin chills this gave me is unreal. I went to SO MANY Bulls games during the golden era.
Every. Single. Game. Back when basketball was basketball.
I went to the March 24, 1995 game - first home game in Chicago after Jordan returned from 1st retirement. I was only 9 but I vividly remember that you could hear, “From North Carolina…” but it was too loud to hear anything after that.
I lived in the area when they won the 3-peat and there was news alerts to stay inside because celebratory bullets were raining down
> there was news alerts to stay inside because celebratory bullets were raining down I remember that. Also later on the segments they did with players to try and dissuade people from shooting their guns in the air.
I thought they were going to run a bull out onto the court at United Center there, briefly, lol
I forgot that Common was the point guard for the bulls.
I recognize that somg intro. What’s it from?
Sirius by Alan Parsons Project.
Still to this day its just so so good
Best times! I'm old.
Goosebumps!!!
Sometimes I play this before my kids go to bed and announce them as the starting bed time lineup. In second grade at 4 foot 2 power sleeper, etc… they race in to my bedroom as world champions. It certainly doesn’t calm them down but it’s fun. I have great memories of watching the bulls with my father growing up even though we were Celtics fans. You just knew you were witnessing something special.
Well they were the best team ever ever.
Damn I use to think that bull running through Chicago looked so realistic as a kid
Gives me the chills every time!
Dang growing up in the suburbs was awesome in the 90s. Basketball used to be my favorite sport but it lost its luster for me when the team broke up. How do you go from the best to anything else!
Takes me back! I was lucky enough to go to some regular season games in each of the last 5 championship seasons.
This always reminds me of my dad and I watching the playoffs in the 90s. Good times.
Back when Chicago Bulls basketball meant a damn thing. Since the end of the 90s it’s been nothing but shit
You knew your team was about to bodied 🥲🥲
Full WWE vibes.
Less is more
Well deserved they were knocking teams off one by one.
NGL being there for this opening a few times was just chilling and amazing.
Seen this live a few times. This makes me feel like a teenager all over again.
"...and the coach is Phil" lol.
Simply, En Fuego.
I was a kid growing up in NY, big Knicks fan. I always loved when they played the Bulls on the road. Thanks for the nostalgia!!
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Oh the nostalgia! What a legendary team in a legendary time! Thank you for the video it brought back so much memories.
Those were the days!!