I'm a Packers fan (fair disclosure). I went to this game to see the Raiders play not realizing what a legendary hard-hitting game this would grow to be in NFL lore. I then went to see Jethro Tull play that night at the UIC Pavillion. It made for a great day.
Honestly, I think this is what sunk the Bears more than anything else. Pride and arrogance will ruin you if you aren't careful. Both Ryan and Ditka, as well as several players on the team, thought they were the "bee's knees" and it really hurt them after 1985. If they had kept their heads on straight, they might have done better than what they did. Oh well, at least we have this. A lot of fans of other teams would love to have memories of their favorite team like these!
@@scottbrown7497 I appreciate the response. And it's good to find fans who can be objective while still rooting for their favorite. I will never pull for the Packers but I have always had a lot of respect for their organization. And I wager that Rodgers and Co still havr something in the tank before it all over.
As many players from then keep saying Ditka just was always out coached and most players did not respect him. They won in 85 because Ryan ran the defense and McMahon changed the play calls on the offense so both sides ignored Ditka. After Ryan was gone and Jim hurt Ditka now was fully in charge and they never won again
That’s an interesting hypothetical, as I usually think “what if Bears canned Ditka and kept Buddy?” I think you are on to something with pride doing both in, as each struggled on their own, although Buddy was loved by his players on Bears and Eagles. I saw an interview with Mcmichael where he commented on Ditka that the approach of “You’re nothing-prove to me you’re something!”. wore off after the Superbowl and most of the veterans tuned him out. Ditka not adapting and Ditka supporting the replacement players during the strike season really doomed Ditka as a coach. Overall, I doubt anyone succeeds as coach of Bears after free agency started as the organization was too cheap, let players go, and the front office talent was dimished such that they started making poor drafts choices with their top 3 picks. Finally, Buddy was a better coach in terms of game plan and loyalty to players, and that he had many players go on to be head coaches. Ditka was the right guy at the right time, but proved to be a terrible talent evaluator, and his only approach to motivation was fine for young players but quickly wore off, and I don’t recall anyone under him going on to do anything in the NFL.
@@jamesvangurpan1959 The only reason Marc Wilson and Jamarcus Russell were there as long as they were is because Al Davis' ego was too big to admit that they were both flops. Jay Schroeder was garbage too. He had a strong arm but there was a reason Joe Gibbs dumped him in Washington...Schroeder had a piss poor attitude and was a whiner. Really Rich Gannon and Jeff Hostetler were the only decent QB's the Raiders ever had between Jim Plunkett and Derek Carr. The Snake is definitely the greatest Raider QB of all time though. But Daryl Lamonica and George Blanda could definitely play too. Blanda is in the HOF. I think he played to the age of 48. Thats insane back in that era. Blanda took a beating but he was tough as nails
If Jim McMahon doesn't get hurt in this game, Bears might have had two Lombardi trophies, maybe three if Charles Martin doesn't bodyslam McMahon in '86.
@@jamesvangurpan1959 I never respected Jim especially after he finally admitted he could have won the game in Miami but decided not to try to go for the perfect season and handed the ball to Walter instead even though Ditka told him to pass for TDs to try and win
Sorry even with an healthy Jim McMahon the CHICAGO BEARS wouldn't have beaten the SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS in 1984 the 49ERS already knew how to win the BEARS were learning how to win now 1985 was a different story the BEARS couldn't be stopped in 1985
It's a shame they played hardball with Todd Bell and he never received a ring. He was one of the hardest hitters at safety I have ever seen. Otis and Wilbur were brutal at linebacker. Dent was mean as well.
Yeah, one of the main reasons the Bears never repeated is the organization’s approach. Even if you don’t want to pay Bell and Harris, you trade them before the 85 season for draft picks (or players). Instead, egotistical McKaskey must show all the players who is boss. Who needs talented players, anyway? Wilbur Marshall? He’s a bum, we can win without him, too.
LMFAO....the "legend" of the 85 Bears was born way before this day!! Actually goes back to a game in '81 against the Chargers when Buddy Ryan modified the defense after a blowout loss to Detroit to the week before.
@@leogetz3570 I understand your reasoning here. Maybe it would have been better for Chris to have said that this was the "coming of age" game for Chicago?
Mike Ditka said this was the hardest hitting game he'd ever seen. After the game Howie Long told Lyle Alzado that he hadn't had his butt kicked like that since Highschool! Lol. This was the game that ended Jim McMahon's season with a laceration to his kidney! Hated seeing my guy Dan Hampton go down in the second quarter, but still one of my favorite games ever! Thanks for this one!
Mike Singletary, Richard Dent, Gary Fencik, Todd Bell, Dave Duerson, Otis Wilson, Dan Hampton, Steve McMichael...I feel sorry for any team that had the misfortune to face that group.
Dave Duerson was a really underrated player on that defense. Most people can name the whole front seven but can't remember the DB's.Duerson also went on to be a key player on the 90 Giants team that beat the Bills in SB25. Gary Fencik was a big hitter at the other Safety spot. Leslie Frazier was on his way to becoming one of the best CB's in the NFL but suffered a career ending knee injury in SB20 against the Patriots. He is now the DC for the Buffalo Bills and has that defense playing at a very high level. Mike Richardson was a good CB too. Him and Frazier had to play alot of man to man coverage in the Bears 46 Defense and did a great job of it
@@jeremythompson9122 LA Mike Richardson was quietly one of the best corners to ever play the game. Great cover corner and not afraid to stick his nose in and tackle someone. These qualities don't often come together at the position, even then when men were real men. Frazier was clearly a quality all around corner too, and just versatile player on defense. A dude that's always in the right place it seems, which means high IQ. That injury was so unfortunate, and bittersweet I bet on the eve of a Superbowl victory. When guys like Marshall and Rivera are 4, 5 on your depth chart at LB you're probably pretty loaded.
I remember watching this game on the day it was played. I am a Raiders fan but was already aware this game was going to be rough but nothing prepared me for the brutality of this game. You truly could hear it on the telecast. Hell Ray Guy almost had to go in as Qb. The Oakland Raiders Assistant Medical guy wrote a huge chapter in his book on this game
Somebody gave my brother tickets the night before, it ended up being the only Bears game I went to with my brother and father. Payton was such a treat to watch
Raiders were a punishing, physical defense, too, “The other teams QB must go down, and he must go down hard!” But when you watch many of these 1984 season games, you see the overall beating Mcmahon is taking and why his body was unable to hold up for a full season, or a career.
After the 8-4 Bears beat the 11-1 Rams this past Sunday, I kept thinking back to this game that really showed everyone they were for real and had arrived.
Watched this game while living in Kadena AB, Okinawa. Left an impression that football was for the toughest athletes. Today both teams would have multiple ejections and fines.
I watched this live on tv when I was 12 yrs old. I was actually afraid for Humm. I miss this NFL. Brutal hitting without flags. And very few missed tackles unlike today’s NFL. At the beginning they highlighted the 11sacks of Archie Manning the week prior. I watched that on tv as I grew up 1 hr north of Chicago. It was Archie’s last season. He was old and they beat the snot out of him. It was BRUTAL
Archie Manning was 35 (in 1984), that's still a good thirteen (13) years younger than me today (48). I have more strength and energy now at 48 than I had at 35. Dick Sleyster!
As a Raiders fan I have to admit the bears defense was devastating. Maximum respect to Marc Wilson and what a player Marcus Allen. I would like to see the match replayed with Jim Plunkett as starting QB
@@jamespeterson5444 Yeah why would having a 2 time Superbowl winning qb in over a bust and another guy who wasn't even on the team at the beginning of the season make a difference. Lol.
@@stephenleonard2449 Yes... but not before trying to come back into the game again after pissing blood during halftime. Afterall, it's just a little "whiplash". Or he "had his bell rung", lol. It's cringey hearing how ignorant and dismissive these announcers are to what are obviously serious injuries, severe concussions, etc... Like just sitting out a few plays then going back in and your head will be "cleared up". This game probably contributed to more future CTE than any other in league history. A near death, and several blown out knees.
I was fortunate to start following football in 1975. Saw all of Paytons games live except 2 that were blacked out...if they didn t sell out homefield they would blackout game in Chicago. If u ever want to see another great Bears/Raiders game checkout the 76 match... Raiders won Superbowl and Payton almost beat them. 47 seasons l ve watched the NFL and today it s kinda a joke, nothing like ot was.
i think that term gets loosely thrown around....i find it hard to believe the defending SB champion Raiders with a bunch of future hall of famers were "intimidated"....they just got beat by a Bears team who were the eventual SB champs the following season...no biggie
You don't think the Bills didn't intimidate the Raiders in the 1990 AFC title game? Especially their offense. The O line destroyed the Raiders defense. That game was over by halftime.
@@mm-gl7sz Intimidate defensively. I've never seen a game that was more hard-hitting (by one side) in my life. The bears defense didn't just tackle the Raiders, they seemed to hit through them. You could tell the Raiders offensive players were intimidated. More than a few teeth had been knocked out in that game. Loved the Bills defense back in the early 90's too.
Watching backup quarterbacks (fresh meat) timidly come into a game never got old. Those Bears linebackers could really hit...especially in an era when real hitting was allowed.
They'd rack up 200 yards of penalties a game in the charmin soft modern NFL. And at the time they weren't considered a dirty team. Hard hitting yes but not dirty.
Mr. Beau Bear, we corresponded briefly before. I wanted to thank you once again. This is my all-time favorite video uploaded by you. The hits in this game are UNREAL! Plus you have two of the greatest commentators of the era--Dick Enberg and Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen. What a great game this is! 👌👏😁
As a Lions fan, every time I hear the name Matt Millen, my blood boils. So many 1st round draft busts selected by that man. You can’t recover from that,
What an iconic game! The current champs who faced a team that would become the new champs by the end of that season. Truly words alone couldn't express the importance of this game at that time. Thank you so much for sharing this. *UPDATE* Whoops thanks to @John Re for the reply. It was an honest error. It wasn't till next year. I was a kid growing up during this NFL era and got my years screwed up of when the Bears went to to Super Bowl. Still quite an accomplishment for the Bears on this day in 1984 NFL history. :D Thanks again for your time.
The bears lost to the 49ers in the nfc championship that year and won the super bowl the next year in 85. But I get your point. The bears were on the verge of something special.
This is a great game! Thanks for posting all of these classic Bears games, it reminds me of my childhood, watching these with my Grandparents on Sunday afternoons!
That terrible chicago 80's astroturf was like playing on a damn rock hard tennis field. That's why so many people got hurt that turf was like carpet on concrete it was horrible.
It was also the NFL Films Game Of The Week from Week 10, 1984 (Los Angeles Raiders at Chicago Bears). Harry Kalas (NFL Films): "It's The Raiders and the Bears in a war on the NFL Game Of The Week".
This Chicago Bears team should have at list 3 or 4 Superbowls , they were scary. They still have 9 NFL Championships last one in 1985 & they looking good 2018 with a good Defense again.
If we had a real coach in the 80s we would have won more. Pathetic that tons of teams have 3, 4, 5 , 6 Super Bowls and we only have one and that will never change
Nah the 2018 Bears crapped out against the then Super Bowl champion Eagles and the Patriots played and won their (hopefully) last Super Bowl ever. Then this year TB12 took his act to Tampa but I don't think he's winning it this year and the Patriots definitely aren't winning it this year. Neither are the Bears who are wasting a great defense because they don't have a qb
This is one of the games that has forever been seared into my mind!! I love that you included the commercials! Nostalgic blast from the past. This is when football was football! R.I.P. Lyle Alzado. Raider fan since conception RaiderNation4Life thanks for the post!
You're damn right this was when football was football and not only in the bigger picture America was America we didn't play these racial games nobody was a victim you didn't have to watch every word you said to worry about being canceled because of canceled culture people just loved each other we were Americans and it was a hard-hitting football and this was for real The racial politics of the day have destroyed sports it's made me not even watch them and I'm a sports junkie but everything is teetered on race All the black athletes now pretend like they're victims like they're somehow getting discriminated against as they make $50 million dollars a year give me a break these were real men back then
@@BruceWayne-ri4wr THANK YOU!! You summed everything up, perfectly!! I was 12 years old when this game aired and it certainly was a different and better time back then. No one kneeling during the national anthem instead of placing their hand over their heart and being PROUD to be an American! This was the 30-some years prior to the effing WOKE era. SMH....By the way, I love your screen name! I have a cat named Batman because it looks like he has a mask on his face! 🤣😉
@@crmay72 thank you brother thank you That's awesome about your cat too lol yeah I love my screen name I'm a huge Batman fan so I own every Batman comic that's come out since 1984 that's why I use the name Bruce Wayne lol
I remember this one, and I'm actually surprised David Humm walked off the field because later in the season when the Raiders went to Miami they mentioned Plunkett had to come back from injured reserve early because Humm broke his jaw and leg in this game.
I don't get why the Raiders are complaining about the Bears hitting hard,thats part of the game. Also,if the Raiders had the team the Bears have,they wouldn't be complaining so much. The Raiders have had some teams like the Bears but I guess they forget all that though...🙄
I remember watching this live.... I was a teen and had my Atari 600 on another tv... playing a game at the same time watching/listening to the game. The vibe was that the Bears were the team to root for that year as they were getting better but it would still be a year away ..
Kelvin Hutcherson - yep! I say it ALL the time! In '84 they broke a still standing record of 72 QB sacks. In '86 they allowed only 187 pts. which was an NFL record low for a 16 game season. The 2000 Ravens have since beated that, but no one else. In 1987 they had another 70 sacks in 15 games! 3 of those games were played with "Spare Bears" due to the strike, but 70 sacks in 15 games is pretty good. They may have broken thier own record had they played 16 games.
Because of Al Harris and Todd Bell, if they hadn't held out in 1985, they would have utterly killed EVERY team they played and might have even beaten Miami on Monday night. Bell was the hardest hitting safety I have ever seen. He was a monster and ridiculously fast.
@Bob Gavigan That's a good point. People concentrate so much on Ryan's decision to have Marshall be a cover for a Miami WR (I can't remember which one), and that wasn't a good move, but if Ditka would have had a better offensive game plan and actually play to the strengths of the Bears' offense, things might have been different. Then again, if the Bears had to lose one game, I am glad they lost to the Dolphins and not to either the Giants, Rams, or Patriots. If you catch my drift... LOL
I haven't watched this entire clip yet but I remember watching it on television. Seemed like a war: two top-notch teams with incredible athletes, going full tilt at each other. A very hard-hitting game. It felt like this was not an average game. The crowd was very loud. One of the best regular season games played that year. And, an advertisement for Lincoln cars. The American cars were sharp looking in the 80s.
I was in-utero during this game and season, as my introduction to the world began in 85, but this is cool because half the players in this game ended up coaching. Even Jeff Fisher broke off a tackle on a punt return! And Leslie Frazier is a CB. Matt Millen Is out due to injury! What a game of legends!
An awesome time in which to live and watch the REAL NFL! We Boomers were everywhere, even the commercials were geared to Boomers! Now it's all gloom and doom, death and zombies. Football isn't football any longer, it's a ladies game now. No matter, after the rule changes and then the ignorant NFL politically 'Woke' BS I haven't watched even one game. RIP NFL.
This game has so many massive hits that underscore the poor TV production quality, as the crew has either no replays or some of the worst replays imaginable of interesting plays. For NBC having their marquee broadcasting team for the game, the production quality is abysmal.
Wow, at 14 yrs old in 1984 and now in 2019 I still have that admiration for Walter Payton for how I separate him from today s greats is simply how he moved as in a faster dimension of raw physics around everyone else on field. The way he can zip straight then turn upfield( like the cyclebike from Tron the movie) like turning on a dime as he picks up electrical static that seems to give his runs that Electrifying look to him. Bo was fast, Cambell was solid, Barry was dynamic, Emmit had the yards and Ladanion Tomilison was the closest resemblance to his kind of style but truly Payton was a God Like Type of Athlete referring to his skills. His motions was beyond everyone else that was on the field...
You know, I was around 13 when this game was played. I was much more of a baseball fan than a football fan at that age (I used to carry a Neft and Cohen Baseball Encyclopedia under my arm just so I could look at the stats and numbers for each player and each team. Yeah, I needed a life. LOL), and one consequence of that is that I didn't get the chance to appreciate Walter Payton at that time. But that's the great thing about UA-cam, isn't it? Guys like me get a chance to see just how much of a joy it was to watch him play. He really was a spectacular player, athlete, and person.
Emmit Smith played for Dallas who had great offensive lines to play for in the 90's. I thought that Dallas won 3 super bowls in 90's. Dallas line kept Emmit healthy so he could play many seasons. Just imagine if Bears had O line to protect Payton in 70's! BEARS had no offensive line, no offense, no quarter ack in 70's. It was Walter Payton left, Walter right, Walter up the middle. He got hit so much, yet he endured, played 13 seasons.
@@pdgutierrez8784 If memory serves, the Bears during the Payton era didn't have a Pro-Bowl offensive lineman until 1985. And he still ran for over 16,000 yards. We will never see another one like Walter.
This was when Walter Peyton was GREAT! I think he's the G.O.A.T. of running backs. He could run you OVER, or run you around! He was AMAZING! Unfortunately, they beat us in the SB. We got SMASHED 😢😢. BUT HEY, WE GOT SIX NOW, GOING ON SEVEN!
Nope. Not without Brady. Unless you can somehow swing a trade to draft Trevor Lawrence. But even then you still need receivers. The main reason along with the warm weather that Brady left. Money had something to do with it too. But Brady just said this week he would never live in New England again
Walter Payton was best 🏈plyr ever period. No effn discussion. He was 3rd string QB, backup kicker & punter, could catch the ball & returned kicks early in career. Ppl say Jerry Rice? Plz.
i see why many never get int hall of fame cause dirty play and intent , helmet to chin shots regular .. i like wilbur marshal though .. wilson looks good have em clean up those hits . haha . . jim payed for it though .
Totally felt like 1984 all over again but ironically I didn't see this game because in New Orleans this game was blacked out because the saints game was on CBS, really pissed me off. Great stuff beau bear especially including all commercials and the halftime show, awesome!
Wow, a tremendous game and a time capsule. I was only seven at the time, but I'm sure me an my dad were watching this game. So many great players in one game.
Pride gets you no where. Take it from Todd Bell(RIP) and Al Harris. That was holding out for more money, the Bears Super Bowl year, the next season. Then when they didn't get more money and lost. Pride wouldn't them come back. They would have made more money or about the same, in the playoffs and Super Bowl bonus. Plus the song. Stupid.
So looking back this is probably the game that made the 85 bears the GOAT. I love studying the previous and post seasons of championship teams. It's always fun for me to see what they learned and then what they may have missed or gained the years before and after they won...
I remember my grandad having this game on tape,he always said american football was like being on the frontline in the middle of a war but with people using thier body as weapons.easily the most brutal game i have ever watched and thats in any sport
Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon and Steve Young three of the greatest quarterbacks in Brigham Young Cougars history, all in succession becoming NFL gold! (Well, there's a little silver and bronze mixed in there too)
No, Marc Wilson wasn’t professional gold. He was an unstable, unsettling presence as a starter. He left MANY Raider fans frustrated. I remember Payton’s last game at the Coliseum vs the Raiders. The Bears won it 6-3. After that game, I never saw so many people, children, men and females, walking out of a stadium clicking their teeth saying, “Man, he’s (Marc Wilson) SORRY!!” That was what you heard walking down the street. And they were right… He was hard to watch and even harder to rally around around over time because you saw the critical mistakes at the most inopportune times. But, Al Davis loved him…
Emmitt played 15 season & the cowboys o-line was dominant for only a couple of seasons 92-95!! He still put up good numbers outside of them seasons . That's the reason he's the all time leading rusher
At 2:08:52 Payton gestures to the sideline for smelling salts for what I thought was for the Raiders player lying concussed on the field. A few seconds later you see Payton crack it open and use it on himself!
In 2018 this was voted as *"The Most Violent Game in NFL History!"* It was indeed violent, but isn't that what American Football is suppose to be? The game they call 'football' today is more akin to flag football than the game we use to play back in the 20th century!
That's why on my Madden 25 I asked all my players up to 99 and made them big hitters even the running backs and qbs. Gets extra yardage when they are hit, on defense I play the 46 with supermen and it is a way more brutal defense than even this one. I get around 20 sacks on the opposing qb every game and very few possessions by the opposing offense get beyond 3 and out and when they get lucky and get a first down they usually go nowhere after that. That's how I like football played. Viciously and with total devastating brutality. The normal Madden settings just don't offer that. All sliders turned to Max levels(all Madden) for both teams on the game in this link. All of my defensive line and linebackers have Bruce Smith's spin move. See this link for what I'm talking about ua-cam.com/video/o3vIkBkdMCM/v-deo.html
At 1:14:05 the Raiders check Humm’s teeth on the sideline, after huge hit from Dent. Nowadays, Humm would have been admitted to hospital, and perhaps rightly so, and Dent penalized at a minimum, maybe ejected.
I can't remember who it was but some sports writers some this game up on one single afternoon you got to see two franchises heading in different directions
After the game, as Howie Long painfully inched his way to his car, he told teammates that "THAT was the worst beating I ever took...since as a grade school kid, I played in a game against a team of high school guys. Another one like today's & I quit !" Ray Guy who refused orders to play QB, said "My position, that I was hired for, is kicker. I get paid for that...NOT anything else !"
This video has so many nostalgic/cultural treasures: the Zentih console and first apartment commercial brings back a lot of memories. Also, too bad our wallets lost to Simon.
The real Soldier Field not the one they play in today which holds no more fans than the original. Only thing left if the original which was on the national register of historic places is the 2 large column structures which you can't even see from the inside. Would have been cool to have the air raid siren on defense they have now in 84 or 85 though
The air raid siren on defense is cool though. What happened to the touchdown siren you had the last Superbowl year (the one against Peyton Manning)? They don't seem to use that anymore. They should use both
Jim McMahon might have been the toughest qb ever. I'd love to hear who was/is tougher. He just seemed to have a meanness that I'm not accustomed to seeing in a qb. Of course, I was only five when this game was played, so I didn't get to see too many QBs prior to him.
No, he was a pretty tough character. I took the photo of him for the BYU paper when he signed up to come in 1977 - at Roy HS. His coach (mcmahon not there for a few minutes) was absolutely effusive about the kid...
46 MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS, 3rd and 7 BALL AT 8 YARD LINE, if this was 2k era the offensive coach would get fired if he chose to call a run play but with the 80S Bears , they would just line up their formation straight up Pro set showing opposing Defense RUN PLAY, besides they had Walter...
grown man football. between this one and the bodybag game- i dont know which one was more brutal. seems like the bears were in one of these every week back then...
I'm a Packers fan (fair disclosure). I went to this game to see the Raiders play not realizing what a legendary hard-hitting game this would grow to be in NFL lore. I then went to see Jethro Tull play that night at the UIC Pavillion. It made for a great day.
Man Wish i was older to see the Jethro Tull show that night i was only 10.
I was 18 and had to go to work when a few my friends got to see that Tull show.
that sounds sublime lol
@@igorslocks me
Wow what a day you had.
I'm not a big Wilson fan but he took a hell of a beating and kept coming back into the game even when he shouldn't have.
One of the nicer guys you'll meet in person.
After the game, several Raiders complained of Chicago "cheap shots," but Lyle Alzado just said, "They played like us."
Wise statement by Lyle Alzado
back when the nfl and America wasn't soft. Michelob beer that wasn't ultralight How far we've fallen
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If Ryan and Ditka could have held their egos in check they would have challenged the 49ers as the team of the 80s In my humble opinion
Honestly, I think this is what sunk the Bears more than anything else. Pride and arrogance will ruin you if you aren't careful. Both Ryan and Ditka, as well as several players on the team, thought they were the "bee's knees" and it really hurt them after 1985. If they had kept their heads on straight, they might have done better than what they did.
Oh well, at least we have this. A lot of fans of other teams would love to have memories of their favorite team like these!
@@lonniecraig5186 I'm Green Bay Packers fan also a fan of football to it was my observation as a non fan of the Chicago Bears
@@scottbrown7497 I appreciate the response. And it's good to find fans who can be objective while still rooting for their favorite. I will never pull for the Packers but I have always had a lot of respect for their organization. And I wager that Rodgers and Co still havr something in the tank before it all over.
As many players from then keep saying Ditka just was always out coached and most players did not respect him. They won in 85 because Ryan ran the defense and McMahon changed the play calls on the offense so both sides ignored Ditka. After Ryan was gone and Jim hurt Ditka now was fully in charge and they never won again
That’s an interesting hypothetical, as I usually think “what if Bears canned Ditka and kept Buddy?”
I think you are on to something with pride doing both in, as each struggled on their own, although Buddy was loved by his players on Bears and Eagles.
I saw an interview with Mcmichael where he commented on Ditka that the approach of “You’re nothing-prove to me you’re something!”. wore off after the Superbowl and most of the veterans tuned him out. Ditka not adapting and Ditka supporting the replacement players during the strike season really doomed Ditka as a coach.
Overall, I doubt anyone succeeds as coach of Bears after free agency started as the organization was too cheap, let players go, and the front office talent was dimished such that they started making poor drafts choices with their top 3 picks.
Finally, Buddy was a better coach in terms of game plan and loyalty to players, and that he had many players go on to be head coaches. Ditka was the right guy at the right time, but proved to be a terrible talent evaluator, and his only approach to motivation was fine for young players but quickly wore off, and I don’t recall anyone under him going on to do anything in the NFL.
If these two teams had met in Super Bowl XX, following the 1985 season they would of had to back up the ambulances down in New Orleans.
Facts!!!!
Thank God for Marc Wilson!
@@chadwest5299 Plunkett was ready to go....I still dont know why they went with Wilson...he is the second worst Raider qb...next to Jacarcass Russell
No doubt!
@@jamesvangurpan1959 The only reason Marc Wilson and Jamarcus Russell were there as long as they were is because Al Davis' ego was too big to admit that they were both flops. Jay Schroeder was garbage too. He had a strong arm but there was a reason Joe Gibbs dumped him in Washington...Schroeder had a piss poor attitude and was a whiner. Really Rich Gannon and Jeff Hostetler were the only decent QB's the Raiders ever had between Jim Plunkett and Derek Carr. The Snake is definitely the greatest Raider QB of all time though. But Daryl Lamonica and George Blanda could definitely play too. Blanda is in the HOF. I think he played to the age of 48. Thats insane back in that era. Blanda took a beating but he was tough as nails
If Jim McMahon doesn't get hurt in this game, Bears might have had two Lombardi trophies, maybe three if Charles Martin doesn't bodyslam McMahon in '86.
McMahon never impressed me...he was not a factor in the Bear's win....their defense and Payton won that championship....not McMahon..
@@jamesvangurpan1959 I never respected Jim especially after he finally admitted he could have won the game in Miami but decided not to try to go for the perfect season and handed the ball to Walter instead even though Ditka told him to pass for TDs to try and win
@@PRHILL9696 Fuller started that game at Miami because McMahon was still hurt.
@@bildo1977 Mcmahon went in and lost on purpose his own words
Sorry even with an healthy Jim McMahon the CHICAGO BEARS wouldn't have beaten the SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS in 1984 the 49ERS already knew how to win the BEARS were learning how to win now 1985 was a different story the BEARS couldn't be stopped in 1985
My favorite Raider of all time(Marcus Allen) vs the greatest running back of all time(Walter Payton)
Oh man, nothing like a commercial for GTE telemail and the KITT vs KARR episode of Knight Rider!!
It's a shame they played hardball with Todd Bell and he never received a ring. He was one of the hardest hitters at safety I have ever seen. Otis and Wilbur were brutal at linebacker. Dent was mean as well.
Yeah, one of the main reasons the Bears never repeated is the organization’s approach. Even if you don’t want to pay Bell and Harris, you trade them before the 85 season for draft picks (or players). Instead, egotistical McKaskey must show all the players who is boss. Who needs talented players, anyway? Wilbur Marshall? He’s a bum, we can win without him, too.
@@CJinsoo George is a million times better.
This was 60 minutes of sheer brutality.
Is this the '85 Bears🐻❓
@@ckobo84 year before 1984
The legend of the 1985 Chicago Bears was born on this November day in 1984.
Agreed. To see Chicago do this to the defending Super Bowl champions at Soldier Field before a sold-out crowd...
Chris Kreager for sure, well put!!
LMFAO....the "legend" of the 85 Bears was born way before this day!! Actually goes back to a game in '81 against the Chargers when Buddy Ryan modified the defense after a blowout loss to Detroit to the week before.
@@leogetz3570 I understand your reasoning here. Maybe it would have been better for Chris to have said that this was the "coming of age" game for Chicago?
@@leogetz3570 yeah but it was in 1984 that things came together for the team and especially the defense and it got way better in 1985
Both Merlin Olsen & Mike Ditka said this was one of the hardest hitting games they ever saw. 2 hall of famers should know
Howie Long would say the same years later, too. Hardest hitting game ever. High praise.
@@jdoolsiu Giants Bears in the 1990 playoffs was very hard hitting although the final score didn't reflect that
Keep in mind all the hard hitting wasn't one sided. Raiders dealt out their fair share of hits too.
@@mm-gl7sz 1990 championship game was hard hitting too
Mike Ditka said this was the hardest hitting game he'd ever seen. After the game Howie Long told Lyle Alzado that he hadn't had his butt kicked like that since Highschool! Lol. This was the game that ended Jim McMahon's season with a laceration to his kidney! Hated seeing my guy Dan Hampton go down in the second quarter, but still one of my favorite games ever! Thanks for this one!
Very reminicent of the brutal 1968 Raiders/Jets AFL championship game.
All the quarterback injuries were described as "whiplash" by the commentators ! Brutal game that personified the Bears
The punter said no, I'm not going in at qb!
Mike Singletary, Richard Dent, Gary Fencik, Todd Bell, Dave Duerson, Otis Wilson, Dan Hampton, Steve McMichael...I feel sorry for any team that had the misfortune to face that group.
and then there's Wilber Marshall. Never afraid to lay out QBs in the same game.
Except Miami (1985) or Washington (1986, 1987)
No Todd Bell in '85/'86, but yes, a murderers row
Dave Duerson was a really underrated player on that defense. Most people can name the whole front seven but can't remember the DB's.Duerson also went on to be a key player on the 90 Giants team that beat the Bills in SB25. Gary Fencik was a big hitter at the other Safety spot. Leslie Frazier was on his way to becoming one of the best CB's in the NFL but suffered a career ending knee injury in SB20 against the Patriots. He is now the DC for the Buffalo Bills and has that defense playing at a very high level. Mike Richardson was a good CB too. Him and Frazier had to play alot of man to man coverage in the Bears 46 Defense and did a great job of it
@@jeremythompson9122 LA Mike Richardson was quietly one of the best corners to ever play the game. Great cover corner and not afraid to stick his nose in and tackle someone. These qualities don't often come together at the position, even then when men were real men. Frazier was clearly a quality all around corner too, and just versatile player on defense. A dude that's always in the right place it seems, which means high IQ. That injury was so unfortunate, and bittersweet I bet on the eve of a Superbowl victory.
When guys like Marshall and Rivera are 4, 5 on your depth chart at LB you're probably pretty loaded.
I remember watching this game on the day it was played. I am a Raiders fan but was already aware this game was going to be rough but nothing prepared me for the brutality of this game. You truly could hear it on the telecast. Hell Ray Guy almost had to go in as Qb. The Oakland Raiders Assistant Medical guy wrote a huge chapter in his book on this game
Ray Guy refused to go in as backup.😊
“You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise”
Somebody gave my brother tickets the night before, it ended up being the only Bears game I went to with my brother and father. Payton was such a treat to watch
Raiders were a punishing, physical defense, too, “The other teams QB must go down, and he must go down hard!” But when you watch many of these 1984 season games, you see the overall beating Mcmahon is taking and why his body was unable to hold up for a full season, or a career.
When football was great
Damn, take me back to the 80's when a boy could act like a man and women just loved being a woman.
Merlin Olsen and Dick Enberg were an awesome broadcast duo. On a side note what I wouldn’t give to go back to 84 lol.
Me too brother
I was born in 86 and I’ll pay to go back to 84 lol.today and all over the place and the people are different
@@Daveosbeatz Yeap it was a better time overall then.
@@eomyenom1 Yes. Back when real men played football and there was no entitlement, arrogance and $50-million paychecks a year for players. SMH.
@@crmay72 Man I know it and across all pro sports there was no entitlement. The athletes were relatable as well.
That Bears vs Raiders game was a hard ass hitting physical game for both team and that the type of football I remember when I was a little kid
I miss real football like this
I just killed a few hours reliving a great childhood memory.
After the 8-4 Bears beat the 11-1 Rams this past Sunday, I kept thinking back to this game that really showed everyone they were for real and had arrived.
Watched this game while living in Kadena AB, Okinawa. Left an impression that football was for the toughest athletes. Today both teams would have multiple ejections and fines.
This would be permanent bannings from the league and possible charges of felonious assault today.
Thank you for your service.
Roger G. would have publicly shamed every defensive player
Great game. Thanks for posting. The old show and commercials were a trip back in time.
Notice how you don't see a Toyota advertised. Back when America was America, football was football, and men were men..
I watched this live on tv when I was 12 yrs old. I was actually afraid for Humm. I miss this NFL. Brutal hitting without flags. And very few missed tackles unlike today’s NFL. At the beginning they highlighted the 11sacks of Archie Manning the week prior. I watched that on tv as I grew up 1 hr north of Chicago. It was Archie’s last season. He was old and they beat the snot out of him. It was BRUTAL
I take it you're from Racine County?
Archie Manning was 35 (in 1984), that's still a good thirteen (13) years younger than me today (48). I have more strength and energy now at 48 than I had at 35. Dick Sleyster!
From the comfort of your lazy boy
I was also 12 when this aired! Back when football was football!
Manning was a human Piñata in that game.
The original body bag game!
60's-90's NFL= Not For Ladies
As a Raiders fan I have to admit the bears defense was devastating. Maximum respect to Marc Wilson and what a player Marcus Allen. I would like to see the match replayed with Jim Plunkett as starting QB
Wouldn't have mattered !!!!!
So would I. He had the capability to make some plays downfield and scramble in worst case scenarios.
@@jamespeterson5444 Yeah why would having a 2 time Superbowl winning qb in over a bust and another guy who wasn't even on the team at the beginning of the season make a difference. Lol.
Is this the game where Jim McMahon basically almost died? His Kidney was stuck in his rib cage
He was literally pissing blood!
Christian Boddie Wow 😮 I forgot that incident .. then he was out the rest of the year, I believe!?!?
@@stephenleonard2449 Yes... but not before trying to come back into the game again after pissing blood during halftime. Afterall, it's just a little "whiplash". Or he "had his bell rung", lol. It's cringey hearing how ignorant and dismissive these announcers are to what are obviously serious injuries, severe concussions, etc... Like just sitting out a few plays then going back in and your head will be "cleared up". This game probably contributed to more future CTE than any other in league history. A near death, and several blown out knees.
@Kris Wit it These old timers calling the game played when no one gave a shit about players injuries. Need to cut them some slack.
I notice Walter didn't do any stupid dance when he scored.
I miss those days, when players had class.
amanda davis Right! Check out Walter when he breaks the all time rushing TD record... ua-cam.com/video/gcJsEXs3NJc/v-deo.html
In another video, you’re gonna tell everyone how much you used to love Billy “White Shoes” Johnson’s celebrations.
Back when football.....was.....football.
I was fortunate to start following football in 1975. Saw all of Paytons games live except 2 that were blacked out...if they didn t sell out homefield they would blackout game in Chicago. If u ever want to see another great Bears/Raiders game checkout the 76 match...
Raiders won Superbowl and Payton almost beat them. 47 seasons l ve watched the NFL and today it s kinda a joke, nothing like ot was.
This was a game to remember....Also,... the Dodge Aries K car was not a great value or a good car.
And the players would but for the concussions on seemingly every play.
Totally agree on the Aires K car-total garbage. Also agree on most violent game ever.
One and only time I've seen a team intimidate the Raiders. They were flat out intimidated in this game which was unheard of especially for this time.
i think that term gets loosely thrown around....i find it hard to believe the defending SB champion Raiders with a bunch of future hall of famers were "intimidated"....they just got beat by a Bears team who were the eventual SB champs the following season...no biggie
You don't think the Bills didn't intimidate the Raiders in the 1990 AFC title game? Especially their offense. The O line destroyed the Raiders defense. That game was over by halftime.
@@mm-gl7sz Intimidate defensively. I've never seen a game that was more hard-hitting (by one side) in my life. The bears defense didn't just tackle the Raiders, they seemed to hit through them. You could tell the Raiders offensive players were intimidated. More than a few teeth had been knocked out in that game. Loved the Bills defense back in the early 90's too.
Watching backup quarterbacks (fresh meat) timidly come into a game never got old. Those Bears linebackers could really hit...especially in an era when real hitting was allowed.
The Raiders should have started Ray Guy. He was not only a back up QB, he was also one of their best athletes.
@@jadentrez he was too scared to play. Otis Wilson tried waving him on. He flat refused to play
They'd rack up 200 yards of penalties a game in the charmin soft modern NFL. And at the time they weren't considered a dirty team. Hard hitting yes but not dirty.
The hit by Otis Wilson at 15:22. Damn that’s brutal.
Jesus, I watched just to see that hit. I been in car accidents that weren't that violent. Wilson and Marshall used to kill QB's on the blitz.
@Mickey Lynch What's makes it even more vicious is that they are playing on astroturf.
The two teams Khalil Mack has played for...
Mack sucks compared to the players from back them
Also the two teams Willie Gault played for
@@mm-gl7sz what about Vince Evans?
@@igorslocks Yup. Vince Evans too. Played in that 1990 AFC Championship blowout for the Raiders. Played for the Bears before the Raiders.
Mr. Beau Bear, we corresponded briefly before. I wanted to thank you once again. This is my all-time favorite video uploaded by you. The hits in this game are UNREAL! Plus you have two of the greatest commentators of the era--Dick Enberg and Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen. What a great game this is! 👌👏😁
As a Lions fan, every time I hear the name Matt Millen, my blood boils. So many 1st round draft busts selected by that man. You can’t recover from that,
Just because someone is popular does not make them right, whether it be in politics, a relationship or even a Manager.
What an iconic game! The current champs who faced a team that would become the new champs by the end of that season. Truly words alone couldn't express the importance of this game at that time. Thank you so much for sharing this.
*UPDATE* Whoops thanks to @John Re for the reply. It was an honest error. It wasn't till next year. I was a kid growing up during this NFL era and got my years screwed up of when the Bears went to to Super Bowl. Still quite an accomplishment for the Bears on this day in 1984 NFL history. :D Thanks again for your time.
The bears lost to the 49ers in the nfc championship that year and won the super bowl the next year in 85. But I get your point. The bears were on the verge of something special.
I'm really enjoying the commercials. The Dodge Shitboxes. And a Bill Cosby sighting, Golden!!
The KITT vs KARR episode of Knight Rider commercial, and GTE Telemail commercial!!!
Thomas Whitmore the Dodge Shitboxes. Love it! And so true!
Brutal battle between the upstart Bears and the last of the great Raiders teams '65 - '85!
Raiders had one last competitive season with this roster the following year...Marcus Allen was the league MVP in 1985
Raiders took an L on riding with Marc wilson.
This is a great game! Thanks for posting all of these classic Bears games, it reminds me of my childhood, watching these with my Grandparents on Sunday afternoons!
They would have needed backups for the ambulances!!!
That terrible chicago 80's astroturf was like playing on a damn rock hard tennis field. That's why so many people got hurt that turf was like carpet on concrete it was horrible.
It was also the NFL Films Game Of The Week from Week 10, 1984 (Los Angeles Raiders at Chicago Bears). Harry Kalas (NFL Films): "It's The Raiders and the Bears in a war on the NFL Game Of The Week".
ua-cam.com/video/HaTwFoXbIo8/v-deo.html
Oh, I have to find that one.
This Chicago Bears team should have at list 3 or 4 Superbowls , they were scary. They still have 9 NFL Championships last one in 1985 & they looking good 2018 with a good Defense again.
Couldn't beat the 49ers when it counted
If we had a real coach in the 80s we would have won more. Pathetic that tons of teams have 3, 4, 5 , 6 Super Bowls and we only have one and that will never change
yeah, but Joe Gibbs and Bill Walsh, two hall of fame coaches , put an end to the Bears SB dreams the following seasons...sorry pal
Nah the 2018 Bears crapped out against the then Super Bowl champion Eagles and the Patriots played and won their (hopefully) last Super Bowl ever. Then this year TB12 took his act to Tampa but I don't think he's winning it this year and the Patriots definitely aren't winning it this year. Neither are the Bears who are wasting a great defense because they don't have a qb
Sweetness the nicest Athlete I have met in my life.
You actually met the GREATEST athlete EVER!!!
This was football hardest hitting game ever
This is one of the games that has forever been seared into my mind!! I love that you included the commercials! Nostalgic blast from the past. This is when football was football! R.I.P. Lyle Alzado. Raider fan since conception RaiderNation4Life thanks for the post!
YEAH, Dave Casper
You're damn right this was when football was football and not only in the bigger picture America was America we didn't play these racial games nobody was a victim you didn't have to watch every word you said to worry about being canceled because of canceled culture people just loved each other we were Americans and it was a hard-hitting football and this was for real The racial politics of the day have destroyed sports it's made me not even watch them and I'm a sports junkie but everything is teetered on race All the black athletes now pretend like they're victims like they're somehow getting discriminated against as they make $50 million dollars a year give me a break these were real men back then
@@BruceWayne-ri4wr THANK YOU!! You summed everything up, perfectly!! I was 12 years old when this game aired and it certainly was a different and better time back then. No one kneeling during the national anthem instead of placing their hand over their heart and being PROUD to be an American! This was the 30-some years prior to the effing WOKE era. SMH....By the way, I love your screen name! I have a cat named Batman because it looks like he has a mask on his face! 🤣😉
@@crmay72 thank you brother thank you That's awesome about your cat too lol yeah I love my screen name I'm a huge Batman fan so I own every Batman comic that's come out since 1984 that's why I use the name Bruce Wayne lol
I remember this one, and I'm actually surprised David Humm walked off the field because later in the season when the Raiders went to Miami they mentioned Plunkett had to come back from injured reserve early because Humm broke his jaw and leg in this game.
Love the old commercials
I don't get why the Raiders are complaining about the Bears hitting hard,thats part of the game. Also,if the Raiders had the team the Bears have,they wouldn't be complaining so much. The Raiders have had some teams like the Bears but I guess they forget all that though...🙄
Great post!!! Especially like the old commercials! They had great jingles.
Oh, the commercials! Great stuff, great game. Makes me feel 14 again.
I remember watching this live....
I was a teen and had my Atari 600 on another tv... playing a game at the same time watching/listening to the game.
The vibe was that the Bears were the team to root for that year as they were getting better but it would still be a year away ..
Wilson and Humm wished that one of those Atari shimmering refrigerator players could have stepped in and played QB for the Raiders that day.
Actually this 1984 Bears defense put up better statistic numbers than the 85 Bears defense
Kelvin Hutcherson - yep! I say it ALL the time! In '84 they broke a still standing record of 72 QB sacks. In '86 they allowed only 187 pts. which was an NFL record low for a 16 game season. The 2000 Ravens have since beated that, but no one else. In 1987 they had another 70 sacks in 15 games! 3 of those games were played with "Spare Bears" due to the strike, but 70 sacks in 15 games is pretty good. They may have broken thier own record had they played 16 games.
Because of Al Harris and Todd Bell, if they hadn't held out in 1985, they would have utterly killed EVERY team they played and might have even beaten Miami on Monday night. Bell was the hardest hitting safety I have ever seen. He was a monster and ridiculously fast.
The BEARS would've had a better chance at defeating the 49ERS with a healthy Jim McMahon not Steve Fullet
Kelvin Hutcherson wow...didn't know that.
@Bob Gavigan That's a good point. People concentrate so much on Ryan's decision to have Marshall be a cover for a Miami WR (I can't remember which one), and that wasn't a good move, but if Ditka would have had a better offensive game plan and actually play to the strengths of the Bears' offense, things might have been different.
Then again, if the Bears had to lose one game, I am glad they lost to the Dolphins and not to either the Giants, Rams, or Patriots. If you catch my drift... LOL
I like when the original commercials are kept for these old NFL game uploads
I haven't watched this entire clip yet but I remember watching it on television.
Seemed like a war: two top-notch teams with incredible athletes, going full tilt at each other. A very hard-hitting game. It felt like this was not an average game. The crowd was very loud. One of the best regular season games played that year.
And, an advertisement for Lincoln cars. The American cars were sharp looking in the 80s.
New fans: Oh my god!... they were savages!!!...
Old fans. Oh no!... they were really men!!!...
I was in-utero during this game and season, as my introduction to the world began in 85, but this is cool because half the players in this game ended up coaching. Even Jeff Fisher broke off a tackle on a punt return! And Leslie Frazier is a CB. Matt Millen Is out due to injury! What a game of legends!
An awesome time in which to live and watch the REAL NFL! We Boomers were everywhere, even the commercials were geared to Boomers! Now it's all gloom and doom, death and zombies. Football isn't football any longer, it's a ladies game now. No matter, after the rule changes and then the ignorant NFL politically 'Woke' BS I haven't watched even one game. RIP NFL.
Im watching this during MNF
Wow time warp, back to my youth. Straight outta VHS. This is the best pregame sunday fun ever!!! Go Bears and Go Raiders.. lol I'm a fan of both
This game has so many massive hits that underscore the poor TV production quality, as the crew has either no replays or some of the worst replays imaginable of interesting plays. For NBC having their marquee broadcasting team for the game, the production quality is abysmal.
Wow this is a gem. A piece of nfl history 🤘
Wow, at 14 yrs old in 1984 and now in 2019 I still have that admiration for Walter Payton for how I separate him from today s greats is simply how he moved as in a faster dimension of raw physics around everyone else on field. The way he can zip straight then turn upfield( like the cyclebike from Tron the movie) like turning on a dime as he picks up electrical static that seems to give his runs that Electrifying look to him. Bo was fast, Cambell was solid, Barry was dynamic, Emmit had the yards and Ladanion Tomilison was the closest resemblance to his kind of style but truly Payton was a God Like Type of Athlete referring to his skills. His motions was beyond everyone else that was on the field...
You know, I was around 13 when this game was played. I was much more of a baseball fan than a football fan at that age (I used to carry a Neft and Cohen Baseball Encyclopedia under my arm just so I could look at the stats and numbers for each player and each team. Yeah, I needed a life. LOL), and one consequence of that is that I didn't get the chance to appreciate Walter Payton at that time. But that's the great thing about UA-cam, isn't it? Guys like me get a chance to see just how much of a joy it was to watch him play. He really was a spectacular player, athlete, and person.
I agree....Walter had a cold running style.....
Emmit Smith played for Dallas who had great offensive lines to play for in the 90's.
I thought that Dallas won 3 super bowls in 90's.
Dallas line kept Emmit healthy so he could play many seasons.
Just imagine if Bears had O line to protect Payton in 70's!
BEARS had no offensive line, no offense, no quarter ack in 70's.
It was Walter Payton left, Walter right, Walter up the middle.
He got hit so much, yet he endured, played 13 seasons.
@@pdgutierrez8784 If memory serves, the Bears during the Payton era didn't have a Pro-Bowl offensive lineman until 1985. And he still ran for over 16,000 yards.
We will never see another one like Walter.
Most violent football game ever. Period.
This was when Walter Peyton was GREAT! I think he's the G.O.A.T. of running backs. He could run you OVER, or run you around! He was AMAZING! Unfortunately, they beat us in the SB. We got SMASHED 😢😢. BUT HEY, WE GOT SIX NOW, GOING ON SEVEN!
Nope. Not without Brady. Unless you can somehow swing a trade to draft Trevor Lawrence. But even then you still need receivers. The main reason along with the warm weather that Brady left. Money had something to do with it too. But Brady just said this week he would never live in New England again
Walter Payton was best 🏈plyr ever period. No effn discussion. He was 3rd string QB, backup kicker & punter, could catch the ball & returned kicks early in career. Ppl say Jerry Rice? Plz.
i see why many never get int hall of fame cause dirty play and intent , helmet to chin shots regular .. i like wilbur marshal though .. wilson looks good have em clean up those hits . haha . . jim payed for it though .
As a Raiders fan part of me wonders how Plunkett would have done, but its probably better he didnt play he might have been seriously injured
Totally felt like 1984 all over again but ironically I didn't see this game because in New Orleans this game was blacked out because the saints game was on CBS, really pissed me off. Great stuff beau bear especially including all commercials and the halftime show, awesome!
Wow, a tremendous game and a time capsule. I was only seven at the time, but I'm sure me an my dad were watching this game. So many great players in one game.
Pride gets you no where. Take it from Todd Bell(RIP) and Al Harris. That was holding out for more money, the Bears Super Bowl year, the next season. Then when they didn't get more money and lost. Pride wouldn't them come back. They would have made more money or about the same, in the playoffs and Super Bowl bonus. Plus the song. Stupid.
Video has better quality than any recent "real" alien footage!
That Topaz is looking might fine, I am going to get one right after I stop at K’s Merchandise!
I was 2years and change when this game was played. Awesomeness watching my 2 absolutely Favorite Teams play Old School.
So looking back this is probably the game that made the 85 bears the GOAT. I love studying the previous and post seasons of championship teams. It's always fun for me to see what they learned and then what they may have missed or gained the years before and after they won...
I remember my grandad having this game on tape,he always said american football was like being on the frontline in the middle of a war but with people using thier body as weapons.easily the most brutal game i have ever watched and thats in any sport
If you can come across the 1985 wk 10 vs Detroit Lions or any other games from '84 threw '88 would be awesome! Only games Da Bears win though! Lol
Halfway through 4th quarter, a gutsy performance by Marc Wilson.
Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon and Steve Young three of the greatest quarterbacks in Brigham Young Cougars history, all in succession becoming NFL gold! (Well, there's a little silver and bronze mixed in there too)
No, Marc Wilson wasn’t professional gold. He was an unstable, unsettling presence as a starter. He left MANY Raider fans frustrated. I remember Payton’s last game at the Coliseum vs the Raiders. The Bears won it 6-3. After that game, I never saw so many people, children, men and females, walking out of a stadium clicking their teeth saying, “Man, he’s (Marc Wilson) SORRY!!” That was what you heard walking down the street. And they were right…
He was hard to watch and even harder to rally around around over time because you saw the critical mistakes at the most inopportune times. But, Al Davis loved him…
Sweetness and Sanders did it without a special offensive line. Emmitt Smith's offensive line is STILL probably the best ever.
Emmitt played 15 season & the cowboys o-line was dominant for only a couple of seasons 92-95!! He still put up good numbers outside of them seasons . That's the reason he's the all time leading rusher
Wow the commercials were so short and few. I have to have the remote ready now to mute the TV from the non stop commercial assault.
At 2:08:52 Payton gestures to the sideline for smelling salts for what I thought was for the Raiders player lying concussed on the field. A few seconds later you see Payton crack it open and use it on himself!
In 2018 this was voted as *"The Most Violent Game in NFL History!"* It was indeed violent, but isn't that what American Football is suppose to be? The game they call 'football' today is more akin to flag football than the game we use to play back in the 20th century!
That's why on my Madden 25 I asked all my players up to 99 and made them big hitters even the running backs and qbs. Gets extra yardage when they are hit, on defense I play the 46 with supermen and it is a way more brutal defense than even this one. I get around 20 sacks on the opposing qb every game and very few possessions by the opposing offense get beyond 3 and out and when they get lucky and get a first down they usually go nowhere after that. That's how I like football played. Viciously and with total devastating brutality. The normal Madden settings just don't offer that. All sliders turned to Max levels(all Madden) for both teams on the game in this link. All of my defensive line and linebackers have Bruce Smith's spin move. See this link for what I'm talking about
ua-cam.com/video/o3vIkBkdMCM/v-deo.html
At 1:14:05 the Raiders check Humm’s teeth on the sideline, after huge hit from Dent. Nowadays, Humm would have been admitted to hospital, and perhaps rightly so, and Dent penalized at a minimum, maybe ejected.
Who told the networks to take the crowd noise out??? This played like a college game
I can't remember who it was but some sports writers some this game up on one single afternoon you got to see two franchises heading in different directions
2:10:40 = Merlin Olsen “This is probably as physical of a game as I’ve ever seen.”
1:55:47 Halftime raiders roster does NOT look good...
After the game, as Howie Long painfully inched his way to his car, he told teammates that "THAT was the worst beating I ever took...since as a grade school kid, I played in a game against a team of high school guys. Another one like today's & I quit !"
Ray Guy who refused orders to play QB, said "My position, that I was hired for, is kicker. I get paid for that...NOT anything else !"
thats because jumbo covert single handedly destroyed howie long
This video has so many nostalgic/cultural treasures: the Zentih console and first apartment commercial brings back a lot of memories. Also, too bad our wallets lost to Simon.
The real Soldier Field not the one they play in today which holds no more fans than the original. Only thing left if the original which was on the national register of historic places is the 2 large column structures which you can't even see from the inside. Would have been cool to have the air raid siren on defense they have now in 84 or 85 though
It's crazy being a younger fan and seeing how historic and intimate soldier field used to look now it just looks like a generic ufo
The air raid siren on defense is cool though. What happened to the touchdown siren you had the last Superbowl year (the one against Peyton Manning)? They don't seem to use that anymore. They should use both
Jim McMahon might have been the toughest qb ever. I'd love to hear who was/is tougher. He just seemed to have a meanness that I'm not accustomed to seeing in a qb. Of course, I was only five when this game was played, so I didn't get to see too many QBs prior to him.
No, he was a pretty tough character. I took the photo of him for the BYU paper when he signed up to come in 1977 - at Roy HS. His coach (mcmahon not there for a few minutes) was absolutely effusive about the kid...
Im ready to buy a Mercury
60s 70s 80s we owned all Mercurys..
Today l drive a '95 Couger...still floats down the road. In 2021
46 MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS, 3rd and 7 BALL AT 8 YARD LINE, if this was 2k era the offensive coach would get fired if he chose to call a run play but with the 80S Bears , they would just line up their formation straight up Pro set showing opposing Defense RUN PLAY, besides they had Walter...
Great game. Glad I got an opportunity to view it. !!
grown man football. between this one and the bodybag game- i dont know which one was more brutal. seems like the bears were in one of these every week back then...