Thursday marks the anniversary of the Chicago Bears' 1986 win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. See more coverage from the Tribune archives here:
Bears head coach Mike Ditka and defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan are carried around the field after they defeated New England 46-10 to win Super Bowl XX in New Orleans.NEW ORLEANS — It is a good thing Chicago is the city of the big shoulders. How else could it Bear up to the task of carrying an entire football team in a victory parade from here to eternity?Sporting immortality is where the Chicago Bears are headed. They proved you can get there from New Orleans in a day trip.
With only a few minutes — but no doubt — left in the game, the bitterly cold streets up north in Chicago began to fill with warm bodies and the sound of car horns. Fans across the city gravitated toward the Rush Street area, and once the game was over, auto traffic on the Near North Side was at a standstill. Pedestrian traffic was little better.
The Bears, once hoisted aloft, can simply put one foot on the Picasso, another on the Sears Tower and step right up to the Chicago cloud, where team founder George Halas will be waiting. Or they can go the route linebacker Mike Singletary has mapped out.Chicago can jump for joy, knowing the only thing that risks being overturned is the applecart that said professional football was supposed to be a serious game.
"Pluto" read one of the headbands McMahon wore, to honor a friend with that nickname. Moving the proceedings to outer space seemed only fitting, because this football team is plainly out of this world.
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