John Elway finally won a Super Bowl. Matt Damon, not Bo Ryan, was cast in the hit movie, “Saving Private Ryan.” Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Marion Jones were still credible, if not safe from themselves. A President was claiming that he did not have sexual relations with that woman (an intern named Miss Lewinsky). And a former Northwestern men’s basketball coach, Kevin O’Neill, insisted that almost everyone who attended the opening of the Kohl Center was wearing a red, plaid shirt. “I had one of our managers do a count and there were 13,412 in there. Several women had them on, too,” O’Neill swore.
In any mention of 10-year anniversaries (see multiple entries above), O’Neill and his colorful X-rated language would have to be among the “firsts” in the Kohl Center — as in the first coach to litter the sidelines with expletives.