In Chicago, It’s Da Bears
NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
Their Defense is unbelievable. They come at you eleven strong with an iron will and a desire to stomp on you, to smash you, to crush you. If needed, they will scream and grunt and cry out, just before attempting to rip your head off. Make sure you strap on your helmet and wear a face guard.
The middle linebacker wants to tear off your arm and use it to club you. The defensive end will stop to crush you and still get the quarterback. You have to be careful not to cry, because it is going to hurt. This team is a team of Destiny and their destiny was the Super Bowl! With an offense that ran and ran and a Defense that just shut people down, they were not to be denied…
Whoa there fellah, you saying the Chicago Bears are going to win it all this year?
No.
But you just said…
Don’t be telling the squibster what he said.
So, are they going to win or not?
What are you talking about? They already won the Super Bowl.
Huh?
The 1985 Chicago Bears, you know, its Da Bears! The Super Bowl champs coached by Iron Mike Ditka. You gotta love Ditka, if you love football. He is all about football. And how about Buddy Ryan and his famous 46 defense built to stop the run. They delivered two shutouts late in the season and two more in the playoffs before winning it all against the Patriots 46 - 10.
Just after the first playoff shutout and before the second playoff shutout, Mike Ditka delivered this famous quote
Coach Mike Ditka started the week off by telling the press that “In life, there are teams called Smith, and teams called “Grabowski”….We’re Grabowskis!” The term became a rallying cry for the Bears, who were proud of their blue-collar image in a blue-collar city. Source
Check these names and salaries out. Your intrepid writer can remember all these names. The amazing thing is that they stayed healthy all year.
Defense
Dan Hampton, Defensive End, $325,000
Steve McMichael, Defensive Tackle, $225,000
William Perry, Defensive Tackle, $138,250
Richard Dent, Defensive End, $90,000
Otis Wilson, Linebacker, $150,000
Mike Singletary, Linebacker, $200,000
Wilber Marshall, Linebacker, 250,000
Mike Richardson, Cornerback, $175,000
Leslie Frazier, Cornerback, $130,000
Dave Duerson, Strong Safety, $125,000
Gary Fencik, Free Safety, $275,000
Source
Dent, Duerson, Hampton, Singletary, and Wilson made the Pro Bowl on Defense that year.
There Offense was pretty good too, with Jim Covert, Jay Hilgenberg, Jim McMahon, and Walter Payton making the Pro Bowl. Payton rushed for over 1,500 yards as they led the league in rushing.
NFL Football Super Stat Mike Singletary was the Defensive Player of the Year and Richard Dent was the MVP of the Super Bowl and he was a Defensive End!
NFL Football Fan Question They crushed my Lions twice that year with ease. Fully destroying our quarterbacks. Do you remember the 1985 Chicago Bears?
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1 opinion for In Chicago, It’s Da Bears
Rockwell
Jun 19, 2007 at 11:13 am
This will go down as one of the great teams of all time. Too bad it was only for a year. The egos on the team tore it apart.
Even today’s Bears must measure themselves against this wrecking crew.
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