This post we will be looking at November 1991. We will review the 1991 running of the New York City Marathon, NCAA College Football Season, the NFL nearing the completion of the season, NBA is just tipping off the 1991-1992 season, a historical feat accomplished in the music world, a rather surprising top movie draw in pop culture we saw the passing of one of the most versatile singer, performer of all time, our news event of the month was the tragedy of the bombing of the Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scottland and our mystery guest. Sit back and enjoy our brief walk down memory lane.

1991 New York City Marathonn was ran with Salvador Garcia's time 0f 2:09:28 topped fellow Mexican countryman Andres Espinoza 2:10:00 to claim the top of the podium. The United States Pat Petersen of Bay Shore was the top American finisher at 21st with a time of 2:20:29.

On the women's side Great Britian's Liz McColgan time of 2:27:32 was nearly a full minute ahead of the Soviet Union's Olga Markov 2:28:27 to claim the women's title. The United States Joan Beniot-Samuelson placed sixth with a time 2:33:48. Winning the New York City Marathon Garcia and McColgan both earned $20,000 and a Mercedes Benz E 320 Sedan.

In college football Florida State was ranked number one in the NCAA followed by Michigan State, Miami, Washington and Florida.

The Seminoles were lead by Hesiman Trophy runner-up Casey Weldon, Amp Lee provided the spark on the ground attack with 977 yards during the season while fellow running backs Edgar Bennett was second on the Noles in receptions with 29 trailing Shanon Baker's 30. Terrell Buckley who would finish the season with 12 interceptions which ranked first in the NCAA.

FSU would finish the season as the number four team in the nationd finish the season with 12 interceptions which ranked first in the NCAA. FSU would finish the season as the number four team in the nation

The NFL's Washington Redskins posted the best record in the league with a 12-0 mark behind the offense that featured Second Team All-Pro quarterback Mark Rypien, second team All-Pro running back Ernest Byner lead the ground game, while the receiving core had second team All-Pro's Gary Clark and future Hall of Famer .

The defenses was lead by First Team All-Pro and future Hall of Famer Cornerback Darrell Green as well second team All-Pro's Defensive End Charles Mann, and Outside Linebacker Wilbur Marshall.

Green and Monk would later be enshrined in 2008 Canton Ohio as members of the Pro Football Hal of Fame.

The offense would score 485 points which lead the league, at that time the total points scored while the defense allowed only 224 points placing Washington in second behind the New Orleans Saints.

The Redskins would finish the season the season with a 14-2 record while going on to the Super Bowl where they defeated the Buffalo Bills 37-24.

The music world saw Country Music superstar Garth Brooks release his third studio album Ropin World September 1st and went immediately to the number one spot, when Novemeber came Ropin World maintained the number one slot for the entire month.

The album produced five mega hits such as "Papa Loved Mama" which was about papa being a truck driver and well Mama loving men a little too much, which didn't end well for mama. Five songs were released as singles of the Ropin' album they were "Rodeo" "Shamless" "Whats She Doing" "Papa Loved Momma" and "The River" "Shamelss" "Whats She Doing" and "The River" all reached number one on the U.S. Country chart while the other two peaked at number three

Ropin World became the first album to debut on Billboards top 200 and Billboard Country.

The Addams family was the top grossing movie for the month of Novemeber taking in $42,022,069 topping second place Cape Fear which netted $32,472,137. Worldwide at the conclusion of the movie season The Addams Family took in 191.5 million dollars worldwide.

Roger Ebert gave it two out of four stars, Rotten Tomatoes gave it 3.5 out of 5 and Gene Siskel gave it a thumbs up .

The cast of the Addams was made up of Raul Julia who starred as Gomez, Mortica was played by Anjelica Houston, Wednesday was played by Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman was casted to play Puglsey, Christopher Lloyd played the character of Uncle Fester, Lurch was played by Carel Struycken.

The movie would win the following awards:

Best Horror Film of the Year by the Horror Hall of Fame

The 1991 Fangoria Chainsaw Award Best Supprting Actress Christina Ricci.

1992 ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards for Top Box Office Film Marc Shaiman

1993 Young Artist Award Best Young Actor Co-Starringin a Motion Picture Jimmy Workman

Freddie Mercury, Queens legendary front man would unfortunately lose his courageous battle to HIV/AIDS passing away at the age of 45 in Kensignton London, England on November 24, 1991 just months after Queen released Innuendo on January 30,1991.

Mercury who had a four octave voice range which is on full display when you listen to Queen's smash hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" In a Rolling Stone article on January 1, 2023 Freddie was selected at the number 14 of the top 200 singers of all-time.

From Singersroom.com. Samuel Moore wrote an article on May 26, 2025 titled 15 Best Classic Rock Songs of All Time, Moore selected Queen's 1975 release of Bohemian Rhapsody as #2 behind Led Zeppelin's 1971 all time classic Stairway to Heaven .

Queen had many hit singles, in an article written on January 4, 2018 by Gary Graff for Billboard he ranked his choices of Queen's top 25, here is Graff's top 10

10) Stone Cold Crazy 9) My Best Friend

8) Crazy Little Thing Called Love

7) We Are The Champions

6) Tie Your Mother Down 5) Killer Queen

4) Fat Bottom Girls 3) We Will Rock You

2) Under Pressure 1) Bohemian Rhapsody

My Top 10 Queen singles are

10) Who Wants to Live Forever

9) Need Somebody to Love

8) Show Must Go On

7) We Are The Champions

6) Under Pressure 5)"My Best Friend"

4) Fat Bottom Girls

3)These are the Days of Our Lives"

2) Seaside Rendezvous

1) Bohemian Rhapsody

"Freddie Mercury" by kentarotakizawa is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

On November 14th the Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Clipper Maid of the Seas flight departed from Frankfurt, Germany with it's final destination Detroit, Michigan with a layover in London, England.

At 7:03 the Pan Am Flight explode in mid flight causing the death of 259 people, of which 190 were Americans. 11 residents who were on the ground also lost their lives.

During the course of investigation more than 10,000 people in 16 countries were interviewed.

British and American governments charged Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah in the bombing of Pan Am 103. At the conclusion of the trail Fhimah was acquitted, however, the court convicted al-Megrahi and was sentenced to life in prison.

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by George D'Alessandro

As you can see our mystery guest is Pro Football Hall of Fame Houston Oilers left guard Mike Munchak.

Mike Munchak was the first guard selected in the 1982 draft when the Houston Oilers used their number eight overall draft choice for the Penn State linemen.

Munchak would open holes for three 1,000 yard rushers Earl Campbell 1,301 yards in 1982, next in 88 Mike Rozier would rush for 1,002 the last 1,000 yard rusher he would block for was his last year (1992) for Lorenzo White 1,226. Rozier in 87 rushed for 957 yards.

During his career he would help with the Oilers passing attack that would have six 1,000 yard receivers,. In the 1991 and 92 season Drew Hill and Haywood Jeffires would top the 1,000 yard receiving mark, in 91 Jeffires lead the NFL with 100 receptions. IN the 90, 91 season Earnest Givins had narrowly missed the 1,000 yards mark with 971 yards and a mere four yard shy of the 1,000 yard mark. Speaking of the passing attack it was lead another Hall of Famer Warren Moon, Moon would lead the NFL in completions (362) yards (4,689) and touchdowns (33) in the 1990 season, Moon followed the 90 season to leading the NFL in completions (404) and yards (4,690). With Munchak blocking Moon would pass for 30,200 yards and 175 touchdown strikes. Following the completion of the 1990 season Moon earned the AP Offensive Player of the Year and the NEA MVP.

During Mike's illustrious 12 year career from 1982-1993 he was selected to nine Pro Bowls, nine time second team All-Pro selection, a four time All Pro choice, selected to the 1980's All Decade team. Munchak would play in 159 games during his career.

I asked Mike the following questions:

What was the best game you played? "The best game I played in was up in Pittsburgh when we beat them to win the Central Division" The game Mike is referring to is when the Oilers came out on top of the Steelers 26-17 December 19, 1993 putting the Oilers record at 10-4 clinching the AFC Central Division.

Who was the hardest player you had to block? " Randy White was the best player I played against" Mike would face Randy on three occasions with Dallas winning two of the three meetings. In 1982 Dallas won 37-7, in 85 the Cowboys came out on top again this time by a score of 17-10, the last game White played for the Cowboys facing the Oilers was in the 88 season which the Oilers won 25-17. White recorded two sacks facing the Oilers both of those sacks came in the 82 season.

What team gave you the most problems? "The Browns probably gave us the most problems over the years" During Munchak's tenure the Oilers squared off against the Browns 13 times in the regular season, once in the playoff which Houston won 10-7. The Oilers record against the Browns was three win 10 loses. From 1984-87 the Browns won all six games played.

After Mike's playing career he would join the coaching ranks. n 1994 the Oilers hired Munchak as the Oilers offensive quality control coach. From 1997-2010 Mike was the Oilers/Titans offensive line coach, 2011-13 he was the Titans head coach where he posted a record of 22-26, from 2014-18 the Steelers hired Munchak as their offensive line coach, 2019-21 Mike took his coaching talents to the Denver Broncos to serve as their offensive line coach, next Mike went to the Los Angeles Rams from 2023-24 as a offensive consultant. Do not be surprised if a team hires Mike for their offensive line coach as he has proven his knowledge both on and off the field of play.

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Queen's Offical These are the Days of Our Lives Freddie Mercury's last video. This is used for educational use. No intentions to infringe on copywrites