Are the 2005 Bears better than the 1985 Bears? What a silly question.
Everyone knows the ’85 Super Bowl champions were the greatest team in the history of mankind, let alone sports.
This team was better than any group of Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants or Miami Dolphins. Heck, you could pick an all-star team from those franchises and they couldn’t hold a candle to the ’85 team from Chicago. Only the ’84 or ’86 Bears could’ve come close.
Pick a professional sport–the Bulls with six championships, Celtics with 16 NBA crowns or Yankees with 26 World Series titles–and no team in history can match the Bears’ dynasty of ’85. You want total domination in the playoffs? Forget the 2005 White Sox.
This Bears’ team was so stupendous that I can’t believe the city of Chicago doesn’t hold a parade for them every year in the Loop.
Mike Ditka, the greatest coach in the history of athletics, should be inducted a second time in the Pro Football Hall of Fame just on the strength of that ’85 season and his team’s fantastic defense.
There should be statues–at least–of Jim McMahon, Richard Dent, Dan Hampton, Mike Singletary and Gary Fencik in Grant Park. Soldier Field should be renamed for Walter Payton. Streets should be named for Steve McMichael and Otis Wilson. These are just a few stars that should be honored from that ’85 team, the greatest group of human beings, as well as athletes, to ever walk the face of the planet.
What fool thinks the ’85 Bears weren’t the best team anywhere, anyplace or anytime, including past, present and future? It’s obvious the media needs to do a better job of telling this story and how great these players truly were.
Not enough is written or broadcast about the ’85 Bears. Where are the books, videos, TV documentaries, newspaper special sections and civic luncheons to continue celebrating this title?
Better yet: Where are the restaurants?
The problem, of course, is that the players from the ’85 Bears have been too shy about capitalizing on their success. They were too anxious to get on with their lives and build careers. They stopped living in the past.
I blame the McCaskeys. The Bears’ marketing department should have done a better job schooling the Super Bowl players on how to continue squeezing that championship season.
Maybe the ’85 Bears should do their own marketing, form a corporation and finally–at long last–reap the just benefits they are both due and so richly deserve.
We owe them our support. That’s the least we can do for their contribution in single-handedly making Chicago a world-class city.