You know what we folks don’t do often enough around here?
Reminisce about the 1985 Bears.
Those conquering heroes of the gridiron. Those strapping, valiant, indomitable warriors of yore. Those …
OK, that’s enough.
Look, we love the ’85 Bears. Maybe too much. So much, we’ve allowed them to become a punch line of sorts, a collection of old jocks who, like the former sitcom character Al Bundy, never stop living in their football past. The Super Bowl champion Bears are the exemplars of “glory days.”
It’s not all their fault, though. No Bears team has come along since and given the rest of us reason to forget the Shufflin’ Crew.