It’s been 29 years since that 1985 season… 29 years! The 1985 Bears season was the best time, even for a 9 year old kid. I do have sports memories prior to that, like the 1983 White Sox clinching the AL pennant and many parts of the 1984 Cubs season, but nothing is as vivid as that Bears year. I remember many details of that 1985 year, but there is one memory that gets me upset to this day.
Monday, December 2nd, 1985 in the Orange Bowl in front of about 76,000 fans the Miami Dolphins became the 2nd team to make me cry, and for that, I hate them.
It’s as good a time as any, bringing this hate file out for all to see, with the Bears hosting those Dolphins today at Soldier Field. What other memories do you have of the Dolphins, besides maybe that Thanksgiving game in the snow in Dallas where the missed FG turned into a win for the Dolphins. Or maybe you remember the Dolphins from the movie Ace Ventura, which involved another missed FG. The one memory that immediately comes to mind for me of the Dolphins remains that fateful night. That night when perfection was ruined by the team that owns the only undefeated record in NFL history, on a night when everything went wrong for the Bears.
Staying up way past my bedtime for a 9 year old, I remember watching in disbelief. I couldn’t believe this was happening to the Bears… to this team. It seemed like things snowballed that night. It didn’t help that we started the night with Jim McMahon on the sidelines, although Steve Fuller did a very good job that year in a backup role. I don’t think it would have mattered that night. For the Bears to give up 31 1st half points, the most in 13 years, something had to be up. This Bears defense, that dominated almost every other team that year, was torched that night by Marino. The one play I remember is the pass that deflected off Dan Hampton’s helmet into the hands of Mark Clayton for a TD. After that one, you just knew it wasn’t our night. As I got more tired and more tired, I got more and more upset at this turn of events. Our perfect season was over.
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And it had to be the Dolphins who did it, right? The same team who holds the only perfect record in NFL history. The same team who gets together to celebrate with champagne toasts each time the last undefeated team in the NFL goes down. They had to be pretty worried that year, which probably made that champagne taste that much sweeter. There was a chance for the Bears to get some payback that year, on the biggest stage, but the Dolphins failed to get past the Patriots; we all know what happened to those sorry ass saps. I remember rooting for the Dolphins so we could pay them back with a dish best served cold. There was no doubt in my mind that the Bears would have done the same thing or worse to the Dolphins had they made it to New Orleans that day. They didn’t, and we have to live with that defeat the rest of our lives.
I guess I should let it go, and I have for the most part. After all, the day after that loss, the Bears made the Super Bowl Shuffle. I guess they weren’t too worried about this bump in the road. Nothing was stopping that train that year. That had to be something, to make a song like that mid-year. That’s pretty cocky stuff, although according to Sweetness, the Bears weren’t doing it because they’re greedy, the Bears were doing it to feed the needy. With all proceeds going to charity, it made sense why Walter would agree to do it. I remember the cutout from the Chicago Sun Times hanging in my bedroom, as my brother and I recited these verses every night before bed. I remember having the album, and playing that song over and over the night of the Super Bowl victory, as we ran around the house. That was awesome!
Yet, looking back on that one year, there is one thing that bothers me, and it’s that night. It pales in comparison to the joy that year brought, and still brings via old YouTube videos and the complete DVD set of the 1985 season that I purchased, but it’s still there. It allows the 1972 Dolphins to be in the conversation as greatest NFL team ever. However, that’s the easy way out. Anybody who knows anything knows who the best NFL team of all time is, and that’s the 1985 Bears. Nobody can tell me anything else, and nothing can ruin that season, even some lucky ass team from Florida who I hate for what they did to my Bears that night.
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