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49ers disrespected
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00:00I think the reason why people love the 80s is that we weren't self-referential yet.
00:05So people were just doing weird, funny things for the fun of it.
00:08No one was doing their version of the icky shuffle to make fun of the icky shuffle, except for icky
00:14woods.
00:15So now Gastineau would dance, and you just got the feeling like, you're so white.
00:20Yeah.
00:21Just stop.
00:22Stop doing what you do.
00:23Or keep doing it, because it's funny.
00:25Ha!
00:30Oh, the 80s.
00:33Who doesn't love the 80s?
00:35You had parachute pants, the Rubik's Cube, people were dancing like Egyptians.
00:39Cheers on NBC, videos on MTV, Montana on the 49ers, Don Johnson wearing pastels.
00:46Those pretty and pink, those 16 candles movies.
00:49That was the heyday of hip-hop.
00:50Rap came out in the 80s.
00:52I urge you to revisit the 80s.
00:55Our countdown will do just that, and lift the NFL up where it belongs.
01:01Football in the 80s perfectly personified the decade.
01:05You had stars that were larger than life, teams that were larger than life, records being shattered, flashy uniforms, flashy
01:13styles.
01:14A lot of people reflect back in the 80s as a golden era for the NFL.
01:23Oh, Mickey, you're so fine, but you're not our Top Gun.
01:28There's always something there to remind us when Jerry met Nancy, or that little ditty about John and Pat.
01:36Do American men talking the best they can?
01:39We'll pour some sugar on hair and pump up the jam with Jim.
01:44Celebrate good times when the league didn't need to blind us with science, when players decided to fight for their
01:52right to play ball.
01:55Coaches told people to beat it, and Joe played on a field of dreams.
02:00This list is, like, totally rad.
02:08The number 10 reason we love the 80s, Tecmo Bowl.
02:12I'm a shameless Tecmo Bowl defender.
02:16So, yes, this is far too low.
02:18It's the seminal video game of any child.
02:22My dad, 80s baby all the way, he still has Tecmo Bowl somewhere, buried in the closet.
02:28How's life growing up?
02:29Me and my buddies used to get blisters on our thumbs, so we'd sit there and play for hours upon
02:33hours.
02:35I still have it in my garage.
02:37I may even pull it out when I get it back home just to bring back a little bit of
02:39nostalgia.
02:41Tecmo Bowl, great video game of all time.
02:43You got hut, hut, hut.
02:44Hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut, hut.
02:46They're just hutting forever.
02:48You've got the zigzag move, right?
02:50As long as you zigzag, like, in a wave, you're going to score a touchdown.
02:53Touchdown!
02:54How is Tecmo Bowl not number one?
02:56My sweet idea.
02:57Whoever made this list should be flogged.
03:00You can't show Emmitt Smith on an 80s show.
03:03He debuted in 1990.
03:06Guys like us who grew up when we did in the 80s going to Tecmo, it was like a whole
03:12new world opened up.
03:13You got to take Tecmo higher on that list.
03:15That's Christine Aaron and Razor!
03:1729,700!
03:18Tecmo Bowl scored with us because it ignited the football video game revolution.
03:24That was our Madden back in the day.
03:27Tecmo Bowl was great when it came out.
03:29This was it.
03:30This was the digital version of the NFL.
03:34Even today, tournaments attract the next generation of fans.
03:38I have Tecmo Bowl right now.
03:40I was able to, that was a Christmas gift this year.
03:44They were so simple, yet so awesome.
03:48I do remember those four plays that you had on Tecmo Bowl and hopefully you didn't pick the same play
03:53as me because all our blitz were coming if you did.
04:00I have a lot of people who come up to me and say, I know you, you're the guy who
04:05used to play on Tecmo Bowl.
04:07By far.
04:20You're right, I remember that.
04:22I think he's a Plastic Man.
04:23While Cunningham shunned the video spotlight, another player shone as the game's undisputed star.
04:30I remember Bo Jackson being unstoppable.
04:33Unstoppable.
04:34You can pitch it to Bo Jackson and you sweep left and you spin him around and run.
04:41Wait, it's unstoppable.
04:43You're telling me that doesn't perfectly encapsulate the decade of the 80s?
04:47I think it's the very definition of it.
04:49People, thank you.
04:51Honestly, without Tecmo Bowl, I wouldn't be the man today.
04:56The 80s was a decade.
04:57For the nine reason we love the 80s.
04:59The NFL Today on CBS.
05:03It's all black up on 2Q.
05:05Way too low.
05:06Because my entire imagery of football in the 80s is revolving around that set.
05:11Last night I went to my TV guide with that cast, that music.
05:21Musburger, George, Cross.
05:25The NFL Today was the greatest thing ever invented.
05:29More important to the fabric of America than the automobile.
05:33And that show was simply unequaled.
05:38The two teams with the best records in football get ready for the game's biggest day.
05:42The NFL Today is number nine on our list because it reached its creative and influential peak in the 80s
05:50where it stood alone.
05:52Before you could get 42 pre-game shows, there was one pre-game show.
05:56Take your mouth.
05:56It's a cold and windy day at Shea Stadium in New York.
06:00Outside, there's lots of soul.
06:02Inside, there isn't.
06:02They set the stage so extremely well by telling you what the storyline was of that game going in.
06:09And the play that caused an NFL coach to lose his job.
06:12Brent Musburger is still the standard by which all pre-game show hosts are measured.
06:18The guy was unflappable.
06:20Simply sensational.
06:22Music.
06:22Effect.
06:23Go, Brent.
06:23You are looking live.
06:25When Brent Musburger at the beginning of the show says,
06:28You are looking live.
06:29You are looking live.
06:31You are looking live.
06:33It's sold out at Bush Memorial Stadium.
06:35It still sends chills down my spine.
06:41Not only did our number nine take viewers to stadiums across the country,
06:46it also connected them to the players, creating the NFL's first global village.
06:52It suddenly brought football into the whole living room.
06:57Wives and daughters would sit and watch to see what Phyllis George had to say.
07:02I said,
07:02You are looking live.
07:04Your image, Roger.
07:05And he said,
07:06Let me tell you something, Phyllis.
07:08You know, I enjoy sex as much as your name is.
07:11Only I do it with one girl, you know.
07:13His wife, Marianne, hit the floor running down the street.
07:16We never saw her again that afternoon.
07:20So I'll have an inside look at a team that's beginning to doubt its own ability to win.
07:24Irv Kross was solid.
07:26He just was a solid.
07:27He played in the NFL for Philadelphia.
07:29Giving you the X's and O's talking esoterica, but in lay language so that you could understand it.
07:34And my boy, Jimmy the Greek.
07:36Jimmy the Greek.
07:37He's got style.
07:38I'll have some inside information that nowhere else you'll find and a choice that may just boggle your mind.
07:45You had Jimmy the Greek there for one reason, one reason is it only.
07:48To tell you who he liked in the game on the betting line.
07:50But they didn't want to say, I'll take the four points.
07:54Jimmy would just tell you which of the two sides he liked.
07:56And it was for you to figure out.
07:57It was almost like a game show.
07:59And they would remove one panel, you know, offense.
08:01And there'd be a check.
08:02And then we'd go down to defense and check.
08:04That ain't a big check.
08:06It's a very small check.
08:07It was so primitive.
08:08But we thought it was cool.
08:09Whoa, look at that.
08:10Probably didn't make the NFL terribly comfortable at the time that he was involved.
08:14But still, nobody did anything about this.
08:16He had his place.
08:18And he had to love the NFL today.
08:20They've never been able to top that group.
08:23All that and more coming up on the NFL Today.
08:26Program.
08:27Yeah, replacement team programs here.
08:30You really need one today.
08:31The number eight reason we love the 80s.
08:35Stabs.
08:41Oh, scab players.
08:44That's, that's number eight.
08:46That's recent, right?
08:48Yeah, I'm not sure I love scabs.
08:50I don't like work stoppages.
08:52Weird.
08:53Didn't know how to process that as a football fan.
08:55It was, it was probably the darkest three weeks in a chapter in NFL history.
09:00As of midnight tonight, the players in the National Football League will be on strike.
09:04So while players literally picketed, the games went on and weeks four through six of 1987 were played by replacement
09:13players.
09:15If you could call those three real NFL games, that would be a liberal interpretation.
09:21Okay, uh, professional football.
09:23Scav games.
09:26The thing I remember is thinking, wait, they're going to count these games?
09:31Rick Neuheisel, I think, still owns a San Diego Charger passing record of some sort, which is a total embarrassment.
09:37Playing in front of half full stadiums at best with guys you've never heard of.
09:42You're looking at the TV and you're thinking, I'm watching the Eagles play the Giants, except for you weren't.
09:47You were watching some guy who was like a high school math teacher play some guy who, you know, just
09:52got out of the doctor's office.
09:53It was kind of entertaining because it could have been your neighbor out there.
09:57Like, you didn't know who was out there.
09:58Maybe I got a shot.
10:00Are you ready to play?
10:03That's the ultimate underdog story.
10:05Here's a guy that came in and just wanted to play while all these other rich guys were out on
10:11strike.
10:12So we got to start something.
10:13I'm just out here doing a job trying to make a living.
10:16Why has reality TV worked?
10:18Why do people want to see America's top chef?
10:20Because we want to see people out of their element.
10:23It was giving guys an opportunity, but it was not entertaining to me at all.
10:28When you buy NFL football, you buy prime rib.
10:32You don't expect to be served hot dogs.
10:37Mike Ditka took the replacement games very seriously.
10:41He said, of the scabs, these are my guys.
10:44I had a very good situation.
10:45You made the best of them.
10:47One of the games was against Philadelphia, and Buddy Ryan hated his scabs.
10:51It showed in how the game was played.
10:53I remember walking to Veterans Stadium when the Eagles were playing a scab game.
10:58It was ugly.
10:59The trucks outside the stadium, they were screaming at the fans going in.
11:03And it was just a very ugly situation.
11:09The Redskins did pretty well with it.
11:12I was one of the people in charge of bringing the players in.
11:15We're going in to play Dallas, and we have no chance to win this game.
11:19I mean, it's Monday night.
11:20We're playing for first place, and they've got all these big-name players out there.
11:25Randy White, Too Tall Jones, Tony Dorsett.
11:28And we're playing with a bunch of guys that were going to be out of work the next day.
11:31We got one guy from being a guard at a 7-Eleven.
11:34We got four guys out of a halfway house, and we upset them, and it was a heck of a
11:38game.
11:39I don't know if the scabs for the Redskins got a cut of the Super Bowl money or got rings,
11:44but they should have.
11:46With all due respect to Redskins fans everywhere, 87 remains kind of an asterisk year to me.
11:51You know, it's like, that was a weird year.
11:53If you won the...
11:5482 also.
11:56...Super Bowl that year, it just wasn't a real year.
11:58These days, you've got around-the-clock sports channels everywhere,
12:03and when something big happens in a football game, you see it over and over and over and over again.
12:08Back then...
12:09...the reason we love the 80s.
12:12Alcoa Fantastic Finishes.
12:14Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da...
12:17Alcoa presents...
12:19Fantastic Finishes.
12:24Alcoa presents...
12:25Fantastic Finishes.
12:26You would stay tuned just to watch the Alcoa Fantastic Finish.
12:30Fantastic Finishes was always on at the two-minute warning, so that meant the game was almost over.
12:35You knew it was crunch time.
12:37Come on in!
12:38End of the game.
12:39Chargers-Raiders.
12:40Sudden death at San Diego as the Raiders' Marcus Allen spots a crack in the Charger defense at the 30.
12:45Harry Callis with the quick, rapid-fire delivery.
12:49Awesome.
12:50Four o'clock game.
12:51Your weekend's winding down.
12:53You know you're gonna get called to dinner and have to do your homework soon.
12:57You'd hear that music.
12:59Oh, no, school's almost here.
13:01And watching as they showed Mike Quick go 99 yards to win a game.
13:05And there goes Mike Quick, which he is indeed.
13:09Fantastic Finishes was the greatest thing ever.
13:14What does that have to do with anything?
13:15It's just another commercial that I don't need to see, you know, when there's too many commercials already.
13:20So, you know, please.
13:23Alcoa, I think, was one of the first to attach their name or brand to something during NFL games.
13:29I don't even know what Alcoa is.
13:30What is Alcoa?
13:31It was a tinfoil or a woman company.
13:33The fact that I knew as a child what Alcoa was, because of the Alcoa fantastic finish, is remarkable.
13:41I mean, that's great marketing.
13:42I think it promoted the beverage industry to a certain extent, but the plays made it.
13:47Hold it.
13:47The punt is blocked.
13:49Tate Randall spiked it.
13:50It's bouncing back to the 15.
13:52Eugene Daniels scoops it up and trots home.
13:55Colts win.
13:56Finally.
13:57I mean, I remember thinking there were like 50 of these things.
14:00I mean, there was a very, very small number.
14:03Even in a number of shows, we'll never tell.
14:06After all, Alcoa's raid of the NFL film's vault is what landed them on our list.
14:13It seemed like once every...
14:15In the 70s, you can't show them.
14:18Every three weeks, I saw the holy roller from the Chargers-Raiders game or that Minnesota Hail Mary to Ahmad
14:25Rashad
14:26or Dick Vermeel looking up at the sky like, how the heck are we going to win this one?
14:34Those her mad words.
14:36Touchdown Eagles!
14:37I don't believe it!
14:39I don't believe it!
14:40And you had the original Hail Mary.
14:43The Drew Pearson touchdown.
14:44But still, I just like the song.
14:48Alcoa's Fantastic Finishes is what makes me...
14:56...and fantastic finishes.
14:57You had a great double play combination.
15:01Okay, so we didn't put ourselves...
15:05...the 49ers.
15:06I mean, I think we were the team of the decade.
15:08That was their golden era.
15:09They went four Super Bowls in the 80s.
15:11Why, you know, why shouldn't they be on the list?
15:13They are the list.
15:16They are the list.
15:17They had the best defensive player in the league, the best offensive player in the league.
15:22Everywhere they went, it was an event.
15:24It was the Beatles on road trips.
15:26My three favorite football players are Dwight Clark from the San Francisco 49ers.
15:31Dwight Clark and Dwight Clark.
15:36They had everything.
15:37They had the star power with Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Tom Rathman, John Taylor, Roger Craig, Ronnie Lott on the
15:46defense.
15:46Axel Reynolds was there for a while.
15:48Great offensive line, Randy Cross.
15:51The list goes on and on.
15:53Bill Walsh built it.
15:55Charles Haley, Keena Turner, Eric Wright.
15:58No, not Eric Wright.
16:01Yeah, Eric Wright.
16:05Tim McHire.
16:07Terrific team.
16:08The depth on this football team is just indescribable.
16:13When you talk dynasties, the 80s were sort of a faux sleek decade.
16:17I mean, now we look back on it and laugh at the technology, but at the time, it seemed sleek
16:20and futuristic.
16:21Don Johnson are the theme music synthesizers.
16:25And the 49ers kind of fit that because they were, like, sophisticated.
16:28You know, their offense was sophisticated.
16:30They were, like, the next generation, the future.
16:33You know, plus they're on the West Coast.
16:34Apple computers starting on the West Coast out there, then.
16:45You have to include the catch in all this.
16:47It was, like, the signature moment that started everything.
16:56Bill Walsh and Joe Montana, Blake Clark.
17:00That really summarized that decade.
17:04They were so good, it was almost criminal.
17:07And yet there were no bad guys on the 1980s Niner squad.
17:13It was not a team that drew out much ire in people.
17:18They were sort of universally liked and respected.
17:21We had a class organization.
17:23More guys getting in trouble.
17:25And you had Joe Montana, who was one of the most marketable stars.
17:29And then you had Jerry Rice, who's arguably the greatest football player ever.
17:45Bill Walsh, just this bright, well-spoken guy, had a picture of class and grace and elegance.
17:52I just can't say enough about the resourcefulness of all 49 players, because all of them contributed.
18:02The 49ers were the best team of the 80s.
18:04There's no question.
18:05They get number one.
18:06We know we're the best team!
18:08The main thing is, I don't like to lose.
18:11They should be number one.
18:13As the 49ers, you got them way in the back of the bus.
18:17It's professional football.
18:18I mean, the team of the 80s isn't number one.
18:23I mean, come on.
18:24They had things that we love about the 70s.
18:27Would the Steelers be number one?
18:28Absolutely.
18:29So the 49ers should be number one.
18:31So I don't know who's doing the ranking here, but they've got it screwed up.
18:35The number five reason we love the 80s.
18:39Reagan calling the locker room.
18:42President's calling locker room beats the 49ers?
18:44This supersedes the actual team of the decade?
18:47Did a Giants fan do this?
18:50How did we create this list?
18:53Well, I thought it might be.
18:54That's what the 80s were.
18:56The 80s were fun.
18:57God, it was wonderful.
18:58He didn't call losing teams.
18:59We're going to hook you up live right now with President Reagan.
19:02When I see the President of the United States on the phone, I think the same thing I think
19:06about whether God cares about football.
19:08Get off the phone and do something.
19:10Okay?
19:11You do it on your own time.
19:21It made the list because it gave events in the 80s a new sense of occasion.
19:26This is Air Force One.
19:28Head by for the President, please.
19:29You can very desperately just congratulate me again.
19:32Well, thank you.
19:33Give my best to Nancy.
19:35Presidents calling the locker room.
19:37What was that all about?
19:40It was purely political.
19:42It had to be.
19:43Week from Sunday, America's going to come to a stop.
19:46The Super Bowl.
19:46Where's Ricky Sanders?
19:48America is a football-mad country.
19:51Any politician will take something that is enormously loved, like football, and try to
19:56use it for his own purposes.
19:57That is what politicians do.
20:00I don't suppose you'd like to win one for the Gipper.
20:03My favorite President calling the locker room moment was Ronald Reagan calling Bill Walsh.
20:08Ronald Reagan, as he tended to do, came up with the whale bill.
20:13You might tell Joe Montana maybe they really didn't win one.
20:16It's not a Gipper.
20:17Awkward.
20:19I can't hear.
20:20You remind me of me in high school trying to call a girl out for a date.
20:23Huh?
20:23Huh?
20:24What?
20:24Hello?
20:24I can't hear you.
20:25What?
20:29Far too high.
20:31Far too corny.
20:32Oh, damn it!
20:34And it's so 80s to think of.
20:36Hello?
20:36Oh, yes.
20:37This is the President.
20:38Oh, sure.
20:38Who are you looking for?
20:39Joe Gibbs.
20:40Yeah, hang on.
20:40Joe, it's for you.
20:42The way you dropped those plays, I might have to bring you into the water.
20:46The White House to help.
20:47Maybe now that they've won the championship, they'd like to help me up on Capitol Hill with
20:51some of the congressmen.
20:53You know, Reagan's going to.
20:54It'd be a short ride from his house to the White House.
21:00Because they were actually in Washington then.
21:02Take the one-liner.
21:04What do you say?
21:04It's the President.
21:05We're going to come back and try and help you put together the budget and a few other things.
21:11That was a wonderful win tonight.
21:13They have a camera in the locker room.
21:15They have a camera with the President.
21:16So staged.
21:17I hate it.
21:18The most vivid one-hour member is the Marcus Allen one.
21:21After the 74-yard run against the Redskins.
21:24I just think you ought to know, though, that you've given me some problems.
21:27I have already had a call from Moscow.
21:30They think that Marcus Allen is a new secret weapon, and they insist that we dismantle it.
21:35You're our new secret weapon.
21:37That's the gold standard of presidential phone calls.
21:40You're not going to see what's going on in the world for a new call.
21:43We could be all about 80s without cell phone.
21:45For a reason we love the 80s.
21:47Outrageous head coaches.
21:49That was the golden era of coach speak.
21:53There's a gleam, men.
21:55There's a gleam.
21:57The 80s were a time when it's becoming, obviously, a tremendous television sport,
22:01and owners wanted personalities.
22:03I know I'm smarter than that.
22:05It was about excess.
22:07It was about, give me something different.
22:08Give me something extra.
22:09But it was a dumb play.
22:10They could be just a little flaky and do things that you just kind of went, huh?
22:16What I thought of the call last week on Frank Warren.
22:19Once a few started doing it and were outspoken, then none of them were afraid to do it.
22:25I love that.
22:25I wish we'd get more of that now.
22:28Hurry it up.
22:29Hurry it up.
22:29With so much of the decade to cover, who did we think are the top three outrageous coaches?
22:35This is why you do all that.
22:37What a goofy coach.
22:40Parcells, Dicta, Mora.
22:42It's Sam Weiss.
22:44Wait down.
22:45I'm going to King's Island.
22:47Take this thing off.
22:49And you wear your pants.
22:51Pretty decent way to make a living for you people.
22:54Weiss' most memorable outburst came at the expense of his conference rivals to the north.
23:00Well, the next person that sees anybody and throw anything on this field, point them out,
23:06or get them out of here, you're doing it in Cleveland.
23:10I'm like, what are you, like a half a yard away from Cleveland when it comes to crappy places?
23:18I guess I still like Buddy Ryan because he made a lot of proclamations.
23:22Buddy, was it fair enough to think that it was more important beating the Cowboys than just wanting to go
23:26into the playoffs?
23:27Oh, who in the hell are the Cowboys?
23:29He beat that every time he played.
23:30He was a carnival barker.
23:35How many damn times do I have to tell you that?
23:37And people in Philadelphia gave him a pass because he was such a huge personality.
23:44One coach who wouldn't give Buddy a pass was the Cowboys' Jimmy Johnson.
23:48He took exception to the Eagles' aggressive style of play.
23:52Who goes to the penalty box?
23:53Oh, I would have said something to Buddy, but he wouldn't stand on the field long enough.
23:57He put his big, fat rear end into the dressing room.
23:59I resent that.
24:00I've been on a diet.
24:01I lost a couple of pounds, and I thought I was looking good.
24:06Weiss is a mad scientist.
24:07Buddy is a blowhard, but Glanville left tickets for Elvis.
24:13So who's the most outrageous?
24:15He left tickets for a dead rock and roll star.
24:19He's not dead.
24:20He's alive.
24:21This isn't college.
24:22You're not at a home college.
24:23I understand.
24:24This is the NFL, which stands for not for long when you make them calls.
24:28I'll be selling groceries.
24:30For all the shenanigans that he's giving credit for,
24:34there was a method to his madness.
24:38Ah, there was genius.
24:40Take that blitz and stick it up your f***ing Jerry Glanville.
24:44Absolutely loved him and hated him.
24:45As a Steeler fan growing up, you hated Jerry Glanville.
24:48He and Chuck, no butted heads all the time.
24:51They didn't like each other.
24:52There's f***ing guys coming over jumping people.
24:55I'm kind of going to get Jerry f***ed.
24:56Just well done.
24:58I'm serious.
24:59The Houston Oilers are a dirty team.
25:02They're scum.
25:02They're dirty.
25:03They're really dirty.
25:04Everybody hates Jerry Glanville.
25:09I hate to say this about Kenny Roda,
25:12but he wasn't growing up when Jerry Glanville was the coach of the Oilers.
25:19He was well into his 20s.
25:27He's got to have policemen out there escorting him because of death threats.
25:32They don't make coaches like Jerry Glanville anymore.
25:34I think that added to the fun of the 1980s.
25:37It was the generation.
25:38It was the time.
25:39Those were the greatest coaches ever.
25:41Oh, look what he did.
25:43There's another three reasons we love the 80s.
25:45The Bears.
25:48Wait, wait, wait, wait.
25:50Hold on.
25:51Bears won one Super Bowl,
25:53went to one Super Bowl in a decade.
25:56Never beat the Niners in the playoffs.
25:58They got smoked twice.
26:02And the Niners are six in their third?
26:06No, no.
26:07I don't like that.
26:08Back in the 80s,
26:10I think you think 85 Bears.
26:12They were a cultural phenomenon.
26:14You know, kind of a party and show.
26:19Right?
26:19I mean, can you imagine, like,
26:20Tom Brady and the Patriots?
26:22After winning the Super Bowl,
26:23they're doing, like, a music video for MTV.
26:26MTV doesn't even have music videos anymore.
26:31Much like other fads of the 80s,
26:33number three on our list
26:35was an overnight sensation.
26:37The Bears really hadn't done anything.
26:40They had changed coaches.
26:41They had changed quarterbacks
26:43like people changed their socks.
26:45All of a sudden,
26:46Mike Dick is the head coach,
26:48the big tough guy,
26:49and it was going to be the Bears.
26:51The Bears.
26:52They get rolling on a season
26:53that's almost undefeated.
26:55And it was more than just
26:57a sporting event.
26:59It almost became a civic thing
27:01in the city of Chicago
27:02that all of a sudden,
27:03the Bears were relevant again.
27:06Well, it goes nothing, nothing.
27:09The story of their season
27:10unfolded as expected,
27:12but there was one surprise ending.
27:15That Super Bowl twin victory
27:19celebrations will probably never be repeated
27:21with Buddy being carried off by his team
27:25and Mike Ditka being carried off by his team
27:28all happened to be in the same uniform.
27:30There was dysfunction with the Bears.
27:33See that?
27:33That's your IQ, Buddy.
27:35Zero.
27:35The defense completely hated the head coach
27:38to the point where I'm still even shocked
27:40to this day
27:42that Richard Depp did not mention Mike Ditka
27:44in his Hall of Fame speech.
27:47Joe Adam, John Smith, Dan Hampton,
27:50Tyrone Keyes, Mike Richardson,
27:52Steve McMichael.
27:56Steve McMichael, a defensive lineman,
27:58was giving an interview
27:59and he had his jersey and pants on,
28:03but he had his shoes off
28:04and started picking his toenails.
28:06And I thought, I love this guy.
28:09These are the Chicago Bears.
28:11They had so many colorful characters,
28:13starting with the head coach, Mike Ditka.
28:16Then you had the rebel quarterback
28:18in Jim McMahon.
28:19And then you had the legend
28:21that was Walter Payne.
28:22And it was like, where does he fit
28:25with these misfits of football?
28:28Science.
28:29Then the fat guy running the ball
28:31in the fridge, fella.
28:32The refrigerator.
28:34Hot dog, milkshakes, french fries, a dollar.
28:37All for refrigerator, stand out and holler.
28:40When they went to London in 1986,
28:43they discovered that William Perry
28:45was an international phenomenon.
28:48The thing I remember,
28:49and this may not be the same eras,
28:51the huge football player,
28:53was called the refrigerator?
28:54He made huge press in England.
28:56A lot is made of, you know, fridge
28:58and what he was able to do,
29:00barreling through to get himself
29:02three yards in the red zone.
29:04But to me, that defense,
29:05huge, they smothered you.
29:08What are they, unblockable?
29:09Is that the 85 Bears over there?
29:11For one year,
29:12most dominant defense
29:14and football team in the game.
29:16No question.
29:17There are, however,
29:21many questioning their spot on our list.
29:24It was a great year,
29:25but they did it for one year.
29:27Really, the Chicago Bears
29:29of the 80s underachieved.
29:30Are they ranked higher than the 49ers?
29:32This is unbelievable.
29:33They can't compete with the 49ers
29:35in terms of what they accomplished,
29:37you know, during the course
29:38of that decade.
29:39The 49ers won four Super Bowls.
29:40Why did the Bears become
29:42the iconic team of the 80s?
29:45No.
29:46People talk about them
29:47like they were the greatest
29:48dynasty on the planet.
29:49They had one year.
29:50This is an outrage.
29:51They had the headband.
29:52The headband's lower than the 49ers.
29:54I think the Bears represented
29:56a fashion that quickly
29:59became out of style.
30:01Basically, the Bears
30:02were like Cabbage Patch Kids.
30:04And there were soccer moms
30:06just flooding into malls
30:08and toy stores
30:09having to get their Cabbage Patch Kid.
30:11Ten years later,
30:12we were looking back going,
30:13and, you know,
30:16it's a doll with a signature
30:17tattooed on its butt.
30:22Holy tomato!
30:23With so much talent,
30:25there were other
30:27hair and fashion.
30:29It was so bad,
30:31it was good.
30:32You either look back
30:32in shame and embarrassment
30:34at the bad choices,
30:36or you just say,
30:37you know what?
30:37You embrace it.
30:38And I say,
30:39let's embrace it.
30:41Yes, the closet was filled
30:43with neon clothing.
30:44Yes, the vanity was filled
30:45with, you know,
30:46cans of hairspray
30:47that had to shellac
30:48your hair in place.
30:49The absolute worst thing
30:50in the 80s
30:51was the firm hair.
30:52Everybody had it,
30:53and it went bigger and bigger.
30:55The hairstyles of the 80s,
30:56I mean, they were really,
30:57a lot of the rockers
30:58had them all glammed out,
30:59very feminine.
31:00There was a certain
31:01embodiment of feminine qualities
31:03by men in the 80s.
31:05They all look like women,
31:06and people were, like,
31:06freaking out.
31:07Like, it looks like
31:07a woman on stage.
31:08Like, where's the men?
31:10I remember even Ozzy,
31:11who I love, in, uh,
31:1284,
31:13I look like Bette Midler.
31:1980s hair and fashion
31:20begins and ends
31:22with Mark Gaston's hair,
31:23really.
31:26The 80s hair
31:27is that Todd Christensen's,
31:29like, pulled-over perm.
31:31Jerry Rice with his,
31:32um, I don't know
31:34what that thing was.
31:35It looked like a,
31:35a ski ramp.
31:37Some of them had stuff
31:38shaved on the sides
31:39of their head.
31:40There's Marino's
31:41Miami perm.
31:42Especially when there's
31:43the backwards cap on.
31:44It's pretty amazing.
31:45You had the mullets.
31:47Business in the front,
31:48party in the back.
31:49Yeah.
31:50Hair spilling out
31:51of the backs of helmets
31:52was a common sight
31:54during the 1980s.
31:57I just liked
31:58the blonde hair
31:59out of the back
32:00of my uniform.
32:01I thought it looked
32:03heroic or
32:04like a titan.
32:05I mean,
32:05the Bosworth Mohawk
32:06made its way
32:07into football
32:08and action films.
32:09Thank you very much.
32:11I thought that was
32:11a big thing.
32:12I can't believe
32:12that hasn't come back yet.
32:14He was like a
32:14white Mr. T.
32:16With
32:17less jewelry
32:18and better acting skills.
32:19Yep.
32:21Even now,
32:22you're like,
32:22what was the
32:23boss doing?
32:25Flat top bleach
32:26with the mullet
32:29and the lightning bolts
32:30in his side?
32:31That's pushing the boundaries
32:32even for the 80s.
32:34Last we forget,
32:36the ever popular
32:371980s
32:38Jerry Curl.
32:39Yeah, sir.
32:41Dickerson had the
32:42top one.
32:43Oh,
32:44Lester A's.
32:44Lester A's.
32:45Lester A's.
32:47Not people
32:47know how hard
32:49it was to wear
32:49a Jerry Curl
32:50playing in cold weather,
32:51right?
32:52Walter Payton
32:53played in cold weather
32:54with a Jerry Curl.
32:55Jerry Curl juice
32:55would naturally
32:57freeze
32:57at low temperatures.
32:59You better believe
33:00when that man
33:00got tackled,
33:01he heard crackling.
33:02His hair would crackle
33:03because he knew
33:05it was frozen
33:05under that helmet.
33:06He couldn't even
33:06pull his helmet off,
33:07I heard,
33:07until he got in the locker room
33:08and warmed up a little bit,
33:10right?
33:10Because he didn't
33:11want to pull his helmet off
33:12while it was frozen
33:12so he'd rip his hair out.
33:16You know,
33:17the only
33:20shorts.
33:23If you ever go back
33:24and you look at practices
33:25from the 80s,
33:26the shorts were
33:27really super small.
33:29They're like hot pants.
33:30The coaches had
33:31super short,
33:32tight,
33:33they had pockets.
33:34Why they had pockets,
33:35I don't know how they
33:35could ever get their hands
33:36in them,
33:37but they were really
33:38up high,
33:38like basically
33:39ball huggers.
33:41Parachute pants,
33:42I mean,
33:43those weren't just
33:43comfortable,
33:44but they were functional.
33:45Why are they not
33:45still around?
33:46They had pockets
33:47everywhere,
33:47zippers,
33:48right?
33:49Michael Jackson
33:50knew what he was doing,
33:51at least on that front.
33:52Not all fronts.
33:53The fashion now
33:55is like very subtle,
33:56right?
33:56You wear your jeans,
33:57you wear your jersey,
33:59but in the 80s,
34:00it was like,
34:01make me as loud
34:02as possible.
34:03I want big,
34:05loud colors
34:06on my top,
34:07and then I want
34:07my pants
34:08to look like
34:09pajama bottoms
34:10that got dipped
34:11in watercolor.
34:12Can you do that
34:13for me?
34:14Now I'm ready
34:15to go to the
34:15football game.
34:18Oh,
34:18Zubac's pants
34:19is terrific,
34:20yeah.
34:20There were a couple
34:21of teams that
34:21really did Zubac's.
34:24The Dolphins were...
34:24Remember one reason
34:25we love the 80s,
34:26our team of the decade,
34:28Madden and Summerall.
34:30I think of that era,
34:32Madden and Summerall
34:32doesn't get any bigger
34:34than that.
34:34This is a football
34:35of the 80s.
34:36I like Madden and Summerall,
34:38but number one
34:39on the list,
34:40they were the best
34:41that ever did
34:42what they did.
34:43Boom,
34:43they're going deep up,
34:44making big plays.
34:45They don't mind
34:46throwing it.
34:47Wide open
34:48is Sullivan.
34:49The same way
34:49that Summer smells
34:50like fresh cut grass,
34:52that's what football
34:53sounds like,
34:53Summerall and Madden.
34:55Montana kept
34:55the quarterback's stake,
34:56and he got in.
34:57Maybe that's why
34:58Joe Montana's smiling,
35:00huh?
35:00You couldn't have
35:01a better blend
35:02than what those two guys
35:03brought to the game.
35:04Man,
35:04they were a beautiful pair.
35:05They were magical.
35:06I felt like running
35:07down and playing.
35:09I have goosebumps
35:10all over.
35:12You've just witnessed
35:13the longest run
35:14in the Super Bowl history.
35:16You don't teach that.
35:17You don't practice that.
35:18You don't see that
35:19on film.
35:20Madden and Summerall
35:21are our number one team
35:23because for everything
35:24we loved about the 80s,
35:26they were there
35:27to bring it to us.
35:28I'll tell you,
35:29he got the big one there.
35:31Did he ever?
35:32That looked like
35:32he was going
35:33on a honeymoon somewhere.
35:34And John Madden,
35:36there was never
35:36anybody like him.
35:38How about Jim Burt
35:38bringing his son
35:39out there,
35:40giving him five kisses
35:41in a row.
35:42That's a Super Bowl record.
35:44He put a face
35:45on these brisly characters,
35:46and it spawned
35:48a whole new era
35:49of what pro football
35:50was really all about.
35:57And in Summerall,
35:58you just talk about
35:59the gold standards,
36:00the chops,
36:01the pipes.
36:04It was almost like
36:07you had the Ivy League
36:09of broadcasting
36:09partnering with a guy
36:12from Home Depot.
36:15and it worked.
36:18This is the Super Bowl
36:20winning coach
36:21of number 11,
36:22John Madden.
36:23When CBS teamed up
36:24the two in 1981,
36:26Summerall was the
36:27established star.
36:29Muir's only knew
36:30Madden from his
36:31on-field tirade
36:33with the Raiders.
36:36What a passionate coach
36:37he was.
36:38He was so funny,
36:39all fat on the sidelines
36:40and crazy
36:40and rabid
36:41and insane.
36:46This is why
36:47John Madden
36:47was so great,
36:48because his personality
36:49was real.
36:50He was flawed.
36:54He liked the big,
36:58rough guys.
36:59Probably, you know,
37:00didn't wipe their hands
37:00after they ate
37:01and farted a lot.
37:04That was a
37:05bad-sized spike.
37:07It made Madden
37:08a distant star.
37:09Now watch
37:09Freddie Solomon here.
37:11He could show you
37:12something that happened
37:13in a game
37:13that you,
37:15one,
37:15didn't see
37:16and two,
37:17didn't understand
37:18and three,
37:19didn't appreciate
37:20until he showed it to you.
37:22Even if you don't
37:23complete it.
37:23That's right.
37:24That's the best thing
37:25you can do early
37:25is sweep
37:26and throw deep.
37:37With Madden,
37:38Summerall evolved
37:39to keep up
37:40with this new force
37:41of nature.
37:42What Summerall learned
37:43was, you know,
37:44I don't need to
37:45say everything.
37:46I just need to say
37:47the important things.
37:49And Anderson is
37:50going to throw
37:50and does.
37:51Ross, touchdown!
37:52Summerall just
37:53served it up
37:54like Magic Johnson
37:55on the break
37:56and Madden
37:57like Worthy
37:57would jam it home.
37:59He makes a little
37:59basketball twist
38:00there and pivot
38:01and boom,
38:02the ball's there.
38:03Pat was the
38:05sort of the pause
38:06button for John Madden.
38:08I'll let you go there.
38:09Boom!
38:10Right to the ground.
38:11He could just
38:11tuck John down
38:12from the cliff.
38:13He did cut him.
38:14Plus, what's a Sunday
38:15in the 1980s
38:16without hearing
38:16past summer
38:17I'll tell you
38:17that tonight
38:18on CBS
38:19Murder,
38:21she wrote.
38:27It was just
38:28so enjoyable
38:29in the 1980s
38:30and knew
38:31they were there.
38:32It was just
38:32like having
38:33your favorite
38:33uncle around
38:34you at all
38:35times.
38:36I don't know,
38:36they just remind
38:36you of childhood.
38:37They just remind
38:38you of growing
38:38up and listening
38:39and that was
38:40what football
38:40sounded like.
38:41Weisman doesn't
38:41see him,
38:42hear him or
38:42feel him.
38:43Boom!
38:43Here he comes.
38:44I can't begin
38:45to tell you
38:46how many times
38:46I had dinner
38:47with my mom
38:48and my dad
38:48in the living
38:49room with our
38:50little TV trays
38:51out watching
38:51Pat Summerall
38:52and John Madden
38:53call a football game.
38:54Montana has
38:55been magnificent.
38:56Listening to them,
38:58it meant it was
38:59the game.
38:59Those are the
39:00voices for me
39:01that will last
39:02a lifetime.
39:03How does he feel,
39:04John?
39:05Doesn't get any
39:05better than this.
39:06And the great
39:07thing about it,
39:08it lasts forever.
39:09For us,
39:10memories of the
39:101980s will last
39:12forever.
39:14Whether it began
39:15with a game,
39:17a show,
39:17a team,
39:19or a coach,
39:21a lifelong passion
39:22for many was
39:23born in one
39:24unforgettable decade.
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