One team was reeling from a Super Bowl beatdown the season before. One team seemed destined to win it all that season. On a Monday night in the Orange Bowl in Miami, the 8-4 Miami Dolphins welcomed the 12-0 Chicago Bears to town. They would prove to be rude hosts.
Coming into the game, the Bears defense, designed by legendary coach Buddy Ryan, had not allowed a score in two games, shutting out the Dallas Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons in back-to-back weeks. The game before that, they held the Detroit Lions to just a field goal.
Over those same three weeks, the Chicago offense put up 104 points.