Da Bears featuring Sweetness and Mike Singletary were an awesome team. Sweetness (Walter Payton), considered the greatest running back in the NFL and Singletary, considered one of the best middle linebackers in the NFL, were not only great football players but also outstanding members of their communities.
The current Bears are not as dominating as the '86 Bears but they play with the same spirit and confidence as the former Super Bowl champions.
Below is a link to the '86 Bears doing the Super Bowl Shuffle. Hopefully the current Bears will have their own Super Bowl shuffle this Sunday.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/69344/super_bowl_shuffle
Go Bears!!!
It was the '85 Bears that won the Super Bowl.
You are right, they were the '85 Bears who won the Super Bowl in '86.
LOL... did the 86 bears make the playoffs????
victory engineer Wrote:LOL... did the 86 bears make the playoffs????
Actually, the 86 Bears went 14-2 and many say the defense was even BETTER that year. Amazingly, the lost at home in the playoffs to the Giants I believe.
niubrad00 Wrote:victory engineer Wrote:LOL... did the 86 bears make the playoffs????
Actually, the 86 Bears went 14-2 and many say the defense was even BETTER that year. Amazingly, the lost at home in the playoffs to the Giants I believe.
I think it was the Redskins.
NIU02 Wrote:niubrad00 Wrote:victory engineer Wrote:LOL... did the 86 bears make the playoffs????
Actually, the 86 Bears went 14-2 and many say the defense was even BETTER that year. Amazingly, the lost at home in the playoffs to the Giants I believe.
I think it was the Redskins.
I think that year it was to the Giants (who won the SB). They lost to the Redskins in the 88-89 season. But, I'm going from memory too.
Ditka wasn't that great of a coach. Finks put together a great team, but other coaches figured out how to get around Ditka.
DrTorch Wrote:NIU02 Wrote:niubrad00 Wrote:victory engineer Wrote:LOL... did the 86 bears make the playoffs????
Actually, the 86 Bears went 14-2 and many say the defense was even BETTER that year. Amazingly, the lost at home in the playoffs to the Giants I believe.
I think it was the Redskins.
I think that year it was to the Giants (who won the SB). They lost to the Redskins in the 88-89 season. But, I'm going from memory too.
Ditka wasn't that great of a coach. Finks put together a great team, but other coaches figured out how to get around Ditka.
It was the Redskins, they lost 27-13. They also lost to the Redskins the next season in the playoffs 21-17, both at home. They lost to the Giants in 91, when the Giants when their second Super Bowl.
http://assets.chicagobears.com/assets/tr...es2006.pdf
The Bears went 14-2 in '86 and lost to the Redskins in the Divisional Playoff round. Jim McMahon had his collarbone broken late in the regular season on one of the worst cheap shots in NFL history.
(Green Bay DT Charles Martin body-slammed him from the blind side a full five seconds after McMahon threw the ball. The whistle was blowing downfield and McMahon was starting to jog over to the huddle when Martin picked him up from behind and pile-drove him into the astroturf, shoulder-first. Many of the tight roughing-the-passer calls and fines you see today were put in by the NFL after this incident to prevent teams not headed to the playoffs from unleashing the cheap shots on key players for playoff-bound teams at the end of the regular season).
The Bears were forced to start a rookie QB, Doug Flutie, in the playoffs, and he gave the Redskins short fields all day, which they capitalized on.
The Bears would have had to go through the Meadowlands that year to reach the Super Bowl, but the '86 Bears were still a damned good team, probably among the best single-season teams that didn't reach the big game.