What happened that year? Who won the Super Bowl? Top book? Top movie? Man of the year? Why did a flying pig stop flights into Heathrow? What do you remember?

1. Cultural News of 1977
NEW YORK MINUTE

2. Cultural News of 1977
Cost of a Superbowl ad in 1977: $125,000.
BTW— The Super Bowl XI was the Oakland Raiders
over the Minnesota Vikings.

3. Cultural News of 1977
The first "High Five" that is widely acknowledged
occurred on October 2, 1977 between two members of
the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glen Burke and Dusty Baker.

4. Cultural News of 1977
Although there is this:

5. Cultural News of 1977
Pink Floyd tied a giant inflatable pig to a power station as
a publicity stunt. The pig broke free, and floated over
Heathrow airport, where all flights had to be grounded to
avoid collisions with the pig.
Pigs rule.

6. Cultural News of 1977
Was Nike's "Just Do It" slogan inspired by the last words
of Gary Gilmore, which he spoke just before being
executed by firing squad?

7. Cultural News of 1977
NBC broadcast an animated musical film called The
Hobbit, which was an adaptation of the novel written by
J.R.R Tolkien.
Managed to do it in one movie.

8. Cultural News of 1977
Saturday Night Live had an "Anyone Can Host" contest
and the winner was an 80-year old woman named Miskel
Spillman.

9. Cultural News of 1977
When Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977
Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organizers didn't
have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium
ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen).
Instead, a drunk person played "Happy Birthday" on a
trumpet.

10. Cultural News of 1977
Heavy Metal began publication

11. Cultural News of 1977
Director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty of raping a 13
year old girl in 1977 but fled the U.S to avoid charges.
He’s never been back.

12. The deadliest (583 casualties) crash in Aviation history
occurred not in the skies but on the runway between two
Boeing 747s on March 27, 1977. Known as the 'Tenerife
Airport Disaster'. It happened on the runway at Los
Rodeos Airport, on the Spanish island of Tenerife,
Canary Islands.
For more on great disasters and how they can be
avoided see The Green Beret Guide to Great Disasters

13. Cultural News of 1977
In 1962, special, hi-tech locks were added to all US
nuclear missiles that would prevent launch without a
secret, unique launch code. However, military officials
quietly circumvented this safeguard by setting every lock
to "00000000".
The codes remained unchanged until 1977.
For more on nuclear codes and presidents see my free
slideshows.

14. Cultural News of 1977
The US Population was officially 220,239,425 people.

15. Cultural News of 1977
World Series Champions: New York Yankees.

16. Cultural News of 1977
"We are two wild and crazy guys"
-Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night Live

17. Cultural News of 1977
"La-dee-da, la-dee-da."
- Diane Keaton, in Annie Hall

18. Cultural News of 1977
Anwar Sadat

19. The #1 Selling Book of
1977?

20. The #1 TV show of
1977?

21. SON OF SAM and
The Explosion of Tabloid Journalism
A slideshow on that on my slideshow page.

22. THE HIGH LINE
After 1980, the High Line was abandoned and mostly
forgotten about. Nature began to take over.

23. #1 Album of the
Year?

24. New York City?

25. New York City?

26. Cultural News of 1977
New York Minute takes place in July 1977.
This was the culture then.
Personal computers and cell phones were things of the
future.
To call someone from outside your home or office you
still had to ‘drop a dime’.
This is when I grew up in the Bronx.
More people were leaving the city than coming in.

27. Jack Reacher meets the Equalizer
One of the top five new series of the year.
http://bobmayer.com/fiction/

28. About the author: Bob Mayer up in the Bronx, New York
City. He graduated West Point, served in the Infantry,
including leading a Infantry platoon, a Battalion scout
platoon, and a Brigade recon platoon in the First Cav
Division. Then Special Forces (Green Berets), as an A-
Team executive officer, and later commanding an A-
Team. After leaving active duty he studied martial arts in
the Orient and was brought back for numerous ADSW
(Active Duty Special Work) tours in Special Operations.
He is the New York Times bestselling author of over 80
books.