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El Supremo

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Thu Jan 12, 2023, 04:44 PM Jan 2023

When Dallas last won the Super Bowl: [View all]

Some curios from that year (1996):

📬 First-class postage stamp: $.32
⛽️ A gallon of gas: $1.23
🎟 Regular season ticket at Texas Stadium: $32
🏠 Median house price in D-FW: $98,653

The most popular things in America the week of that game?

📺 TV show: "ER." (Followed by "Seinfeld" and "Friends." )
🎞 Movie: "Mr. Holland’s Opus."
📚 Books: Fiction: "Intensity" by Dean Koontz. Nonfiction: "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates.
💻 Website: AOL. (Followed by Webcrawler and Netscape.)

What's happened since then:

🗳️ We’ve had six entire presidential terms.
📶 Modern WiFi was invented.
💰 If you invested $1,000 in Amazon stock, it would be worth $2 million now.
🙃 The Cowboys have had 25 different starting quarterbacks.

https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2021/12/12/dallas-cowboys-last-super-bowl-history-lesson

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