[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Sports
- From: Marilyn Beasley <mmbeagle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 21:42:01 -0400
Submitted, Nonfiction, Sports
Title: Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
by Rich Cohen
305 pages
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Synopsis: Payton. Hampton. McMahon. Ditka. Even the casual football fan
recognizes these names, the pillars of the 1985 Chicago Bears. Walter
"Sweetness" Payton, the fleet-footed running back. Dan Hampton, the
hard-charging defensive tackle known as the "Danimal". Jim McMahon, the punky
quarterback, changing plays on the fly. And Mike Ditka, the hotheaded,
mustachioed head coach. They were a scrappy team: they played rough; they had
heart; they recorded "The Super Bowl Shuffle." In the winter of 1985, they were
the team Chicago needed-a team to believe in and rally around: champions for a
city all too accustomed to losing. Rich Cohen was seventeen years old when the
Bears won their first and only Super Bowl; he was in the Super Dome when they
defeated the New England Patriots 46-10. In Monsters, he breathlessly recounts
the thrilling narrative of their championship season. It's a story filled with
outsized characters and unbelievable-but-true anecdotes gleaned from extensive
interviews with the players themselves. It's a story about fathers and sons,
love and loyalty, hope and redemption, pain and joy. It's a story about
football, in all its beauty and all its brutality-the uniquely American sport.
These are the 1985 Chicago Bears as only Rich Cohen could describe them.
Marilyn
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