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Monsters: the 1985 Chicago Bears and the wild heart of football / Rich Cohen.

by Cohen, Rich.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2013]

796.33263 C678m

Chicago Bears (Football team) -- History.

National Football League.

Football teams -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.

9780374298685 (hc.)

0374298688 (hc.)

338 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Super Bowl shuffle -- The war room -- The old zipperoo -- Leather heads -- The eye in the sky -- The quarterback -- Mike Disco -- Sucking in the seventies -- Ready, fire, aim -- The Fridge -- A race to the quarterback -- Shane comes to the Metrodome -- Star-crossed in Miami -- The Ferguson hit -- The year without a winter -- A bunch of crybabies -- What went wrong -- Much later -- Road trip to Canton -- I did it my (fucking) way.

"The gripping account of the Chicago Bears 1985 championship season. The 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever -- a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city. A city and a game: its history, its future, its fallen men, its immortal heroes. Mostly it's about being a fan -- about loving too much. A book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, and joyful"--Provided by publisher.

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