#grays sports almanac
Biff Howard Tannen was born on March 26, 1937 to Irving Thomas “Kid” Tannen and Myra Benson in Hill Valley, California. Kid and Myra married in December of 1936, only to make it look as though Biff were not born out of wedlock; they divorced soon after, and Tannen was raised by his grandmother, Gertrude Tannen. Though not bright, Tannen was strong, and got through school by bullying younger classmate George McFly.
On November 12, 1955, a time-traveling older version of Tannen presented him with Gray’s Sports Almanac, providing him with a list of all sports scores for the next fifty years. Though the younger Tannen was initially reluctant to believe his geriatric counterpart, over time, he discovered its true value. Tannen made his first million betting on a horse race on his 21st birthday, March 26, 1958. From there, he raked in impossible amounts of money, and reshaped the town of Hill Valley and, potentially, the world in his own image.
You know how in Ocarina of Time, the people of Hyrule all experience seven years of Crap™ while Link sleeps in the Sacred Realm, and when he wakes up he realizes Ganondorf has taken over everything and the whole world has gone to hell so he has to fix it? And then at the end how Zelda hopes that sending him back to his childhood will allow him and everyone else to live the happy, peaceful lives they were meant to, implying that this time Ganondorf won’t gain power and nothing will go to hell in the first place?
OR you know how in Back to the Future Part II, Doc and Marty end up in the absolute nightmare that 1985 Hill Valley has become since Biff went back to ‘55 and gave himself the almanac, but then when the guys have fixed everything back in '55 the people of the original*/repaired '85 have no memory of Biff’s Hell '85™ because they never actually lived through it in their eventual experiences of the final/Real timeline?
…sometimes (no pun intended) I wonder if we’re currently living in the Hell Timeline or Hell Universe but our time-travelling hero just hasn’t fixed things yet before winding back the clock (maybe even flying around the earth to make it spin in retrograde??), resetting all our memories, and allowing us to wake up one day never having gone through the last [insert number] years.
(And then my head inevitably starts hurting )
