I was born around that time. Everything was Bears for months. Even my grandma sat down and watched games with me. The wall to wall Bears coverage of today is a remnant of what happened in 85.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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Yeah, that's kind of how I remember it. Oh fuck! Here we go. They're not as good as we thought.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

It's not complicated. It just means, nationally, non-Cub fans won't give a shit by December. Obviously it will be remembered and celebrated for years locally, as I said.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Was he? I thought it was Ali?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Maybe ESPN put up that kind of garbage, but I'd have had to have put Ali and possibly Jesse Owens & Jim Thorpe above Jordan.

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Yes exactly, plus didn't Mike Richardson [Edit: Leslie Frazier] blow his knee out within the first 5 minutes of the game? I remember thinking that they're really fucked now.

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"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

by the way, the IF in the thread title shows the chink (insert Steve, Scooter, chas joke) in Cub fan armor. All that braggadocio is to mask the fear that It's Not Gonna Happen

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

Not really joking, but I thought it was Secretariat. Maybe he was 2nd or 3rd.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

It was Frazier, wasn't it? The real lockdown corner. But I don't remember when it happened in the game.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I believe it was Jordan. The whole thing was dumb - it was just a popularity contest. There was really no criteria. I think Ali was 2 or 3 after Ruth.

Secretariat was in the Top 30. If we're talking about the true definition of "athlete," I'm pretty sure a thoroughbred race horse should beat out everyone.

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I think Secretariat was up there, but not first. Anyway, how the fuck could number one not be Dan Gable?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

You threw Thorpe in to fill a quota. Dont patronize us (white people).

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

You couldn't escape Bears talk anywhere in this city or in any demographic.

Any city's team that didn't routinely sell out, didn't bother with the gimmicks to avoid blackouts. Virtually every other market wanted to watch the Bears as much as possible. In Atlanta I know I saw at least 10 games. IIRC, John Madden (when he was at his best) actually lived here for weeks at a time.

Boy did the McCaskeys & Ditka blow that quick.

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No, Jim Thorpe was widely regarded as the best athlete of the first half century in 1950. (Time/Life magazines?)

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Or the great Mark Spitz?

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my wife who was growing up in California at the time knew McMahon, Ditka, and Perry Perry Refrigerator Perry! The other day I said something about Cutler. She didn't know who Cutler was.

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Because that's what happens when you make such a list with no actual criteria.

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Frazier, on a punt return in the 1st Quarter iirc.

Mike Richardson had problems with the blow & was MIA within 2-3 years.

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mick the miller would've smoked Secretariat in the quarter mile.

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Kind of like starting a circle jerk party celebrating the apparently inevitable title for one of the losing-ist franchises and fanbases in history. Even one whose club is just in third place in their division.

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m-I-c-k the miller, not nut.

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Come on, you just KNOW that was just a weak offering trying to suppress the inevitable Cubbie karma/loss. We know what he, nay, what you all want so desperately want to really say.

I wish all you Cubbie fans would grow some stones, own up to it. You all now are starting to believe it, but the cowardice built after generations of Cubbie futility has you all on the precipice of being actual sports fans, and still won't allow you to say it. If for no other reason, you all fear the absolute hazing you're all going to get when your season ends at the conclusion of game 163.

Weak sisters, the lot of you.

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Regular Reader: Wrong on Bart Starr and libertarians, right on everything else.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

like Rozner discounting things as "a year early still" after the Reds series

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

Nah

They will have as good a chance as all the teams in the playoffs, imo

Anyone who ever guarantees a World Series winner doesnt know anything about baseball.

2005

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Marino beat them and would have done it again if they would have played in SB. Just did not happen.

Awful post.

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