NFL MONDAY NIGHTS
1985 - Bears vs Dolphins
The Bears play the Lions
tonight. I usually am not a big fan of
watching the Bears play. It is a matter
of style of play. However, whenever the
Bears play on Monday night I think back to one of the best Monday night games
ever.
In week 13 of the 1985 NFL
season the 12-0 Bears went to Miami to play the 8-4 Dolphins. The Bears were on the doorstep of matching
the perfect season of the 1972 Dolphins. They had outscored their last three
opponents by a combined score of 104-3.
The Dolphins were in a
dogfight to make the playoffs. The Miami
crowd was frenzied. You don't get many
regular season games where two teams are fighting each other not just in the
present, but for history as well. The
Dolphins were the last team that had a realistic chance to end Chicago's
perfect run. They were protecting their
own legacy.
Steve Fuller started at QB
for Chicago in place of an injured Jim McMahon.
Carried by the crowd the Dolphins stormed the Bears early and jumped to a
31-10 halftime lead. The Bears closed
the gap to 38-24 entering the fourth quarter.
Neither team scored in the fourth.
The emotion of the night seemed to have taken all the energy from both
teams. The Dolphins had preserved their
place in history.
As soon as the game ended football fans across the nation began to fantasize about a Super Bowl rematch
between these two teams. But that is a
story for another day.
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