Random thought #1: I was as impressed as anybody during the regular season, and I was rooting for the Pats to win because the Giants bore the crap out me. But now that the Super Bowl is over, can we dispense with the idea that this year's Pats team was the best ever? If the Giants did that to them, what would the '85 Bears have done? The real question is, would Brady have been KILLED? You beat the Pats by running on their undersized defense, and pressuring Brady. That is precisely what the Bears could do. (BTW, I was going to link to a vicious, vicious hit by Wilber Marshall, but the NFL has taken it down. Punks.)
Random thought #2: In the last fifteen years, how I'd always planned to earn my living--stringing together amusing words--has been rendered almost worthless by the internet. With a practically limitless amount of funny writing now available at the click of a mouse, how will people like me--people with the ability and desire to make people laugh, but who aren't Will Ferrell--modify what they do to make money? This blog provides some interesting theories as to what will sell on the internet, and why.
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I do have to chime in on that. The Bears of 85 were the best NFL team ever. No team, not even the '72 Dolphins obliterated their opponents so entirely. (I'm still enraged that they somehow lost to the Dolphins giving them their only loss. And, after that loss, it was as if nothing happened, the Bears bounced right back and started beting everyone 84-0, 94-2, scores like that again all the way through the Super Bowl.)
ReplyDeletePreach it, brother.
ReplyDeleteI actually think the '72 Dolphins are quite a bit like the '07 Pats. Not the greatest or loaded with stars, just solidly better--more efficient, smarter, more disciplined--than their competition.
But the more I think about it, the '85 Bears whoop both the '07 Pats and the '72 Dolphins. Anybody watching then saw that the '85 Bears represented a whole new level of dominance. The '46' was an entirely new paradigm. The only defense I've seen that was anywhere close was that Ravens team--but the Bears' offense was incomparably better.
The '07 Pats are not a paradigm shift--they do the same things every team does, only better; they're a great version of a normal team. Same with those Cowboys teams from the 90s. Walsh's Niners were a similar paradigm shift, with the West Coast offense. But the '85 Bears beat them in Week Six of that year, 26-10.
The '72 Dolphins are dismissed easily, with just one fact: In 1972, the Dolphins opponents combined W-L record was 51-86.