#1985 bears

This month 38 years ago, the Chicago Bears team recorded a video, "The Super Bowl Shuffle." Though the Bears did go on to win that year's SB XX, the video was recorded almost two months before the game -- before they even knew they'd be in it, much less who'd they be playing.

One of the NFL’s all time great three year runs of any defense

The 1984 Chicago Bears 🐻 finished the year with the NFL’s number one defense as well as an NFL record 72 sacks in a 16 game season

The 1985 bears 🐻 had the number one defense for a second consecutive year along the way destroying the New York Giants & Los Angeles Rams in back to back postseason shutouts and a championship W thanks to their 46-10 victory over the patriots in SBXX

The 86 bears 🐻 were ranked the NFL’s number one defense for a third year in a row with an all time record fewest points allowed in a 16 game season

Dutch Lion makes his annual NFL Playoffs Predictions, including Super Bowl 58.

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Chicago Bears Are Back In The Playoffs!

Chicago Bears Are Back In The Playoffs!

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Bears Stomped on by Giants, Return Home to Face Rams

Bears/Giants Recap & Bears/Rams Preview

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Hawk’s 2015 NFL Preview: NFC South Edition

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Atlanta Broncos

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With the Bears on their bye week and with their last two games being horribly depressing, let's take a look back at perhaps the greatest Bears team in history with the 1985 team.

For starters, the Bears were 15-1 in 1985, their best record in a 16 game schedule. They started off 12-0 before famously losing to the Miami Dolphins on "Monday Night Football."

That loss didn't hurt them obviously. The Bears handily won the NFC Central by seven games and locked it up after 12 games.

In the playoffs, the Bears blanked the Giants and Rams in consecutive weeks to become the first (and only) team to record back-to-back shutouts in the playoffs (winning both games by a combined score of 45-0). Including the playoffs, the Bears recorded four shutouts in the 1985 season, by far the most in the league.

Let's make a quick diversion to talk about that defense. The Bears allowed a staggeringly low 12.4 points per game in 1985. Only three teams since then posted a lower average in a season. The Bears allowed the fewest total yards, rushing yards, rushing touchdowns and first downs while forcing the most turnovers and interceptions. They were also in the top three in passing yards allowed, passing touchdowns allowed and sacks. So yeah, they were pretty good.

The Bears thrashed the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX, 46-10. At the time, it was the record for points scored in a Super Bowl by one team and largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl. It was a perfect ending to as perfect a season that most teams could dream of.

Nine Bears players were selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1985 season. Five were selected First Team All-Pro. Not counting head coach Mike Ditka, four members of the 85 Bears are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame- Richard Dent, Dan Hampton, Walter Payton and Mike Singletary.

Speaking of Ditka, by coaching the team to the Super Bowl, he made history himself. Ditka became the first person to win the Super Bowl as a player and a head coach (he had previously won as a member of the 1971 Dallas Cowboys).