The sports world’s longest winning streak shows no sign of ending anytime soon. For the 30th straight year, the 1985 Chicago Bears have won Super Bowl XX, and our town has gone a little bit crazy. The Sun-Times wrapped its Tuesday paper in a “30th Anniversary Commemorative Cover Edition” fronted by a reprint of its front page on January 27, 1986, the one with the banner headline that screamed NUMBER 1!
Sherman points out that HBO looked at the ’85 Bears just last year. And let me add that just two years ago I was touting Rich Cohen’s Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football as “pretty close to perfect.”
