The Sunday after Super Bowl Sunday 1994 could have been a boring one for me. Football was over, baseball was a long way off and CBS didn’t have a Big East basketball game that afternoon. This potentially boring post-Super Bowl Sunday was saved by the Montreal Expos. That offseason, a caravan from the Expos organization came to my hometown of Burlington, Vt. to promote the upcoming season.
The 1994 campaign proved to be the most successful and heart-wrenching in franchise history. A young, exciting Expos team posted the best record in baseball before an August players strike shut down the remainder of the season and prevented Montreal from competing for a championship. Free agency soon broke up this remarkable team but