How about those ’85 Bears!
Sweetness and Da Coach. Danimal and Mongo. The Super Bowl Shuffle. Buddy Ryan’s 46 Defense. Oh, man, those were good times.
I used to make fun of our attachment to that team, used to see the decades-long fascination with it as an indictment of a franchise that had forgotten how to win, but I see now that I had it all wrong. Never leave us, Fridge! If my instinct is correct, there’s a 20-part newspaper series on the 1985 Bears in our very near future. I wouldn’t rule out a “4 Takeaways from Jim McMahon’s Putting Lesson’’ feature, either.