Courtesy of phog.net:
KSU's last win over ku in Manhattan was January 29,1983, where a Jack Hartman-led team overwhelmed a feisty Ted Owens coached squad in his swan song season by the score of 57-56.
1. None, that’s right none, of the current ku players had been born.
2. KSU has had five coaches participate in The Streak (soon to be six), ku has had 8 coaches in its 110 year history.
3. ku's last 3 coaches have never lost in Manhattan.
4. The series record since The Streak began is 50-7 favoring ku.
5. George H. Bush was vice president of the US.
6. The Soviet Union was still in existence.
7. CD's were introduced that year.
8. Toto won album of the year.
9. The ku football team went to a bowl game and is on its 5th coach since then.
10. Strom Thurmond was only 80 years old
11. Return of the Jedi was released in theatres.
12. Cheers was in its first season.
13. An 8-bit XT bus, PC-DOS 1 operating system and dual 320kb 5.25" floppy drives (retailing at about $5,000) were then state of the art in desktop personal computers.
14. More than 125 million viewers tuned in to the last episode of M*A*S*H.
15. Singer Karen Carpenter died of complications from anorexia nervosa at age 32.
16. The FCC authorized Motorola to begin testing cellular phone service in Chicago
17. Ghandi won Academy Award for Best Picture
18. George Orwell had yet to be proven wrong.
19. Swatch introduced its first watch.
20. Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time.
21. Martin Luther King Day became an official holiday.
22. McDonald's introduced the McNugget.
23. Apple computer introduced to the world a "mouse."
24. Cabbage Patch dolls were introduced and sold at $125 each.
25. 20-year-old Vanessa Williams lost her Miss America crown because nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse.
26. Nancy Reagan said "Just Say No" on Diff'rent Strokes.
27. "The A-Team" first aired.
28. Spuds MacKenzie debuted in Bud Light ads, prompting children everywhere to buy t-shirts promoting alcoholic beverages.
29. Stamps cost 20 cents each
30. Hall of Fame members Jim Kelly, Dan Marino and John Elway were drafted into the NFL.
31. The top 2 shows on television were Dallas and Dynasty.
32. The sheep in Manhattan were still nervous and purple still sucked.
