Thnak You for the best season of football a fan could ever have, Can remember the games, the players like yesterday. These games were so good, there is a reason CSN replays them to this day! Last week they showed the Thursday night McMahon game in Minnesota.

This Bears ownership group wins. I reduce my fan level down to 6 from 10.

I cant go all in as a fan of a team that has a CEO/Leader that cries when someone mentions his mom.

In the words of Phil Emery "Go Bears"

let me know how they do.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I hate this team. I remember 1987 but I only have 1 or 2 memories from when I was 3 years old.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Thank God for 85. I can't even believe that was the same organization.

Wasn't Ditka basically GSH's last call?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

i was 5 in 1987. I remember watching football when I was 3, and mom said I watched all the bears 85 games like I was glued to the tv, but I dont remember anything specific. Just a bunch of robot looking things running around pile driving eachother. it was great. I didnt realize what I was watching until like 15 years later.

I would imagine most people who actually remember that season probably didnt really know what it meant until years later. It becomes a bigger legend every year the bears fail! remember superbowl lovie? we were so excited to rid ourselves of the crusty 85 team.. but after this season, we cherish the only love we have.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

I think you're right. Can you imagine Halas sitting down with Emery and Trestman?

This crying stuff really bugs me. Should be the first rule as a new GM. NO CRYING!

Oh man that would be SNL material right there.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Go buy the 1985 DVD, its just awesome.

Granted, I wasnt old enough to be going to a damn bar, but as a teen, it was about as good as it got!

An entire team of good guys and Rockstars!

Just the fact a majority of that team is still famous and Ditka tree is not only large, but flourishing wildly, only tells half the story.

WOOF WOOF WOOF!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

My all-time favorite Bear game was the 1984 playoff game vs. The Washington team.

First time I ever witnessed a Bears playoff victory.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Remember the season as well as I could, despite being a kid at the time. Most fond memory was sitting with the family and watching the game.

Its tragic that they didn't win multiple super bowls during that era.

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That is the unbelievable part of it - that they only had the one title. The 1985 team was the most dominating team on defense that I can recall in my lifetime.

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Yes. Halas & Ditka didnt really get along well when Mike played for the team, but when the Bears head coaching job became open in 1982 Ditka called Halas to tell him that he would like the opportunity to be the Bears head coach...and Halas hired him. It's a shame that George Halas didnt live to see the craziness that was 1985.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

I thought Ditka wrote Halas a letter.

And the sportswriting world thought Halas was completely senile for hiring such a coaching nobody.

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You know me like that.

This team had a run of 3 games and allowed 3 points total!

24-3 Over Detroit, then 44-0 Dallas and 30something to 0 over ATL

Shutout Giants and Rams on way to Super Bowl, only allowing 10 to NE!




Someone should write a book or something about those guyS!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

i was exactly 5 years old when the 85 bears did their thing. i have no memories of the actual ride during the season or anything like that, however since they were THE definitive one-season chicago sports team there were always reminders of them hung all over the house in the form of pennants, posters, team pictures and the obligatory clothing-related-swag.

my dad managed to make a proper tape where he started off with the super bowl shuffle and then it went straight into the superbowl with all of the commercials edited out. now that i think about it, he had a few tapes of other games from the 85 season where he'd edit out most of the dead time between plays and just focus on 100% Total Nonstop Action! with the superbowl/shuffle tape he resisted the urge to do that and thus he provided me with a tape that i often rocked when i was a kid.

i loved the shuffle when i was a kid. just the whole concept of making a big balleyhooed run at the dolphins' undefeated season only to have the dolphins Themselves show up and pop their champagne over the field; finally exposing some weaknesses in the vaunted 85 bears defense. so how do you respond to those champagne sipping twats who love to get on TV like CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE ON MY BLOCK. RIGHT NOW YOU'TE NOT EVEN IN MY SUB-DIVISION AND PROBABLY MY SIDE OF TOWN? you go out and make the GOAT sports rap song that proclaims your divine providence for the forthcoming super bowl and proceed to dominate your way through the playoffs and drop a 46-10 as the final exclamation point.

truth be told i'd often get bored of the game and rarely watch past halftime, the game itself was just this thing of legend and lore that i occasionally did my best to behold. i didn't really get into the bears until i started watching the 2001 season, and from that first game on that's where i can actually call it "my" bears teams and thus any super bowl victory would be bigger than 1985. theoretically 2006 would have been that, but it's amazing how much losing the big game really puts a damper on the good ol rosy colored glasses when you look back on what has to be one of the top-5 all-time bears teams. chicago isn't really used to losing the big one, typically when we get to the finals/championship/whatever we tend to handle our business and bring it home. c'est la vie.

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partly injuries, mostly arrogance.

1986 Bears went 14-2 and injuries , minaly McMahon killed them. This was the Doug Flutie debacle. They lost to Wash in the Playoffs. Its not like they were the 2014 Bears! 14-2 aint bad.

1987 NFL Players strike and Sean Peyton Qbed the BEAR.

Its why you go for it when you have the horses.

Wilbur went free agent.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

The Charles MArtin play took McMahon out of the 1986 season.

Imagine doing this to 12 today! how many years suspension would a guy be suspended?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wilIF30NLRU

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

More 85 Bears for all you kids that dont know what Bear FOOTBALL was!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCo_ThcnSSI

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Bears won a Super Bowl in 1985? Why have I never heard about this or this team?

He was the backup, wasn't he? Hohensee was the starter and the Spare Bears were one of the better replacement teams. That was really the end of Ditka. When he called those scabs "the real Bears", the real real Bears would never play for him again once they returned.

Anyway, the Bears need an ass-kicking type guy like Ditka to come in and rattle some cages. The first thing Ditka did was tell Rickey Watts to grab his shit and get the fuck out. Whoever they hire as coach needs to do the same thing with Cutler.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

I was 5. I remember watching the Super Bowl and some of the ensuing parties.


Kinda sucks I missed it, but the Bulls were awesome

Yeah, the Rodman Bulls had a similar feel. It's more than just being great. Those Bears had style. The first threepeat Bulls were the better team, but the second one was more fun to watch and more like the '85 Bears in terms of being interesting.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

I still fucking hate Stills. That douche tackled Suhey when he was almost out in the stands then he hi fives Martin after this play. Forest Gregg really gave that team a character of untalented players who sucked but loved to cheap shot

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Flutie and the spare Bears ended Ditka's control of the locker room.

Those events really highlighted the change in Ditka that eventually lead to things like "I don't know OB". We see occasional remnants of what was but Ditka we are now in this "Hey gang", "Man in the Mirror" guy who doesn't understand that the only thing that separates him from a life in a coal mine is a piece of leather.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yeah, I think you can say the Bulls were analogous in that the championship was a foregone conclusion. Bulls reign obviously lasted longer. I think the Bears one was sweeter.

I was still in grade school and in my early days of football interest. Still, I felt I had earned it. I had sat through a few cold games. My father would get tickets once in a while and I was the son with the only interest in going to those dog games. We had a ritual of waking up for 8 am mass, driving down and parking near South Michigan Avenue (my dad passed on the tradition of finding street parking whenever possible), then going to some greasy spoon called The Surf before walking to the stadium. That greek diner was packed with Bears fans even at 9:30 in the morning.

I'll have to see if my dad remembers those days. I wonder what my kids will remember about me.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

They probably would have shut out the Patriots too if Payton didn't fumble early in the game, which lead to a Pats field goal. I have no doubt if the Pats didn't already have the 3, Ditka would have kept the starters in to preserve the shutout.

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46-10 doesn't even represent the blowout it was. It was over by halftime and everybody was already celebrating.

that Rams game was a joke. opposing QBs were just shitting their pants, running backs would go nowhere.

I was 13 at the time. best sports thing I'll ever witness in my life, I'm sure of that.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

it was what set the tone for me for super bowls...it was the first one i remember watching as a kid. i remember instantly hating the patriots uniforms and thinking they were a joke after that...when i played football, one of the teams we played against wore those kinds of uniforms. i remember laughing about it, and thinking no one could ever win a thing in those uniforms.