After starting 12-0, the only blemish on the 1985 regular season was a heartbreaking 38-24 “Monday Night Football” loss to the Dolphins in Miami. Rather than fall apart, the Bears returned to Chicago ...
CHICAGO — Don Pierson called 1985 the “most memorable season” not just for the Chicago Bears, but for any NFL team. The personalities, the injuries, the swagger, the statistics — all of the season’s ...
1934: Chicago Bears rookie Beattie Feathers became the first professional to rush for 1,000 yards in a season (1,004), leading the NFL. 1942: Italian physicist and Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi and ...
The year was 1985. Ronald Reagan was inaugurated for a second term as president; Michael Jordan earned NBA Rookie of the Year honors and “Back to the Future” was the most popular movie of the year. In ...