Generation Griffey: Rankfest: The Ultimate 90s Dude Countdown in Bloomington, MN

If you still wear your hat backward like Griffey, think all the Prime flavors are dumb because Gatorade Citrus Cooler is the greatest sports drink ever, miss Blockbuster and Tower Records, destroyed your friends in
Street Fighter
,
GoldenEye
, and
NBA Jam,
can quote
Tommy Boy
and
Billy Madison
, and never missed Stu Scott on
SportsCenter
-this book,
Generation Griffey
, is for you.
I ranked 90 of the '90s things that made your dude childhood legendary. A rankfest, if you will. Ninety columns. By me. For you. For US.
Why
?
First, it's a great name. We've got alliteration, "generation," and the quintessential athlete of that era: Ken Griffey Jr. Junior perfectly defines the era for late '80s and '90s kids because the apex of his career matches our childhood. From the day he joined the Mariners' lineup in 1989 through the next decade, nobody embodied '90s style (the backward hat), swagger (the swing, the smile, the commercials), and coolness (the kicks, the cameos, the crossover stardom) quite like Griffey.
His reign atop the sports/celebrity pyramid (alongside Jordan) from his rookie year in Seattle to his move to the Reds in 2000 serves as the perfect bookend for all of us who grew up in the last decade of the last century. See?
is a spectacular name for this book.
What are we ranking?
Everything. Well, not
everything
, but the 90 most nostalgic things that make us dudes smile all these years later: the movies we quoted, the athletes we loved, the cards we collected, the foods we devoured, the shows we watched, and more. All of it. Got it? Good. Let's go.