Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
- ISBN-10
- 0374708959
- ISBN-13
- 9780374708955
- Series
- Monsters
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-29
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author
- Rich Cohen
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021-10-31
- - pages
- Ebook
- Aeon Books
Similar books
-
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
By Rich Cohen"A riveting account of the 1985 Chicago Bears and the author's personal relationship with the football team"--
-
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
By Rich CohenBut mostly it's about being a fan—about loving too much. This is a book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, and joyful
-
Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Bears Stories Ever Told
By Steve McMichael, John MullinDale Haupt was our defensive line coach. Usually he wasn't a wild man, but there was this one time in '84 he figured he needed to fire Dan and me up. He still has a scar on his bald head because of it. We were in warm ups before a game, ...
-
The '85 Bears: We Were the Greatest
By Mike Ditka, Rick TelanderAnd Wilber Marshall hits quarterback Joe Ferguson so hard right under the chin that you can see Ferguson is unconscious even before he hits the turf. When Wilber got fined later by the league, I thought it was bullcrap.
-
The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
By Rich CohenThat team will screw up your life." Here he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days-- not just what happened, but what it felt like and what it meant.
-
Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent
By Rich CohenA New York Times bestselling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey Rich Cohen, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears ...
-
Da Bears!: How the 1985 Monsters of the Midway Became the Greatest Team in NFL History
By Steve DelsohnAn acclaimed sports journalist and native Chicagoan tackles what many call the greatest team in NFL history. Da Bears! tells the full story of the ’85 legends—with all the controversy and excitement—on the field and off.
-
If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Bears: Stories from the Chicago Bears Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box
By Otis Wilson, Chet CoppockOtis Wilson, the Bears starting outside linebacker, was right in the center of the action, and in this book, Wilson provides a closer look at the great moments and personalities that made this era legendary.
-
The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the Fight for America's Soul
By Shawn Coyne, Chad MillmanOff to the side was Steelers linebacker Dennis Winston, who had been trailing on the play. “All of a sudden he drops to a knee and starts to dig through the pile,” remembers Stoudt. “And he's digging and digging,” says Petersen.
-
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi
By David Maraniss... 183–84, 186,419–20 Super Bowl I, 391–97,404,415 Super Bowl II, 429, 431–32, 435 Super Bowl III,452–53,496 Super Bown IV, 481 Surgeon, The (Heinz), 305, 306 Sutherland, Jock, 45, 55 Svare, Harland, 185,468 Svoboda, Bill, 188 Sweeney, ...