The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and
their lone championship season
For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago
Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest
football team ever--a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding
their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city.
It was not just that the Monsters of the Midway won, but how
they did it. On offense, there was high-stepping running back
Walter Payton and Punky QB Jim McMahon, who had a knack for pissing
off Coach Mike Ditka as he made his way to the end zone. On
defense, there was the 46: a revolutionary, quarterback-concussing
scheme cooked up by Buddy Ryan and ruthlessly implemented by Hall
of Famers such as Dan "Danimal" Hampton and "Samurai" Mike
Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and in bars,
there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the
quarterback bickering on TV, Ditka and Ryan nearly coming to blows
in the Orange Bowl, the players recording the "Super Bowl Shuffle"
video the morning after the season's only loss.
Cohen tracked down the coaches and players from this iconic team
and asked them everything he has always wanted to know: What's it
like to win? What's it like to lose? Do you really hate the guys on
the other side? Were you ever scared? What do you think as you lie
broken on the field? How do you go on after you have lived your
dream but life has not ended?
The result is "Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild
Heart of Football," a portrait not merely of a""team but of a city
and a game: its history, its future, its""fallen men, its immortal
heroes. But mostly it's about""being a fan--about loving too much.
This is a book""about America at its most nonsensical, delirious,
and""joyful.""
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