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The scene was remarkable not only because it was moving, but also because it is very rare. 1985 Chicago Bears to win just a deconstruction of the New England Patriots 46-10, the old Super Bowl XX at the Louisiana Superdome, and the vertigo celebrations began in the area. Chicago coach Mike Ditka loved these bears, pink on the shoulders of some of their players - it came as no surprise. But the strangest thing happened: Suddenly there were bears defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan of linebacker Otis Wilson and defensive end Richard Dent, Ryan right leg pad on the left shoulder of Wilson and the left leg pad on the right side of Dent, two men and laugh will be hoisted during the wrinkled old coach, relying on his sweater for bears, clumsy attempts to maintain balance. A defensive coordinator for a walk in the victory?
Only once in those years as a Super Bowl was so convincing, based on the defense (in 2000 Baltimore Ravens). But the '85 Bears were more than his defense. They had become a pop culture phenomenon, with celebrity coach, Ditka, a quarter of fame, Jim McMahon, and was a celebrity nosetackle Broker, William (Refrigerator) Perry. They had issued a video kitsch, funky - The Super Bowl Shuffle - which before the end of the season was recorded and was always a success. And for the rest of glory against the frivolous, the bear, the administration had serious Walter Payton, perhaps the best driver in the history of the game.
But what it has brought to all the football victory was a defense that has redefined all the essential elements: strategy, speed and size, and by intimidation.
The '85 Bears were 15-1 in the regular season and only lost against the Miami Dolphins in the night the first Monday in December.
Eleven times in 16 games of the regular season instead of opponents 10 points or less. Statistics only tell a story, these lawyers were a harbinger of good Oso, fear putting opponents. In the series, which still proved difficult. The Bears hidden the New York Giants (21-0) and Los Angeles Rams (24-0) in consecutive weekends through the ice age winds to Soldier Field. The Giants and the Rams have combined for a total of 311 yards of offensive in eight quarters, with four turnovers to one of the bears. It was a demonstration of dominance rarely seen at the highest level of all major sports, and it fits perfectly with the city of hard-ass self-image of Chicago.
Behind this success, a prisoner for life of 51 years of football, was the only break of players and coaches, I learned the game growing up in Oklahoma was serving as a sergeant in the army during the war, Korea. David James (Buddy) Ryan had been coaching football since taken foot in Gainesville (Texas) High in 1957, but nearly three decades later, in Chicago has created the perfect fusion of the coach and the personnel system. Ryan was hired by the Bears head coach Neil Armstrong in 1978, and be so excited when Armstrong was fired after three seasons fielders, George Halas has applied owners to keep Ryan in his place.
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Ryan arrived in Chicago early in his tenure there, while in the midst of frustration, as his unit was conducting was. Ryan came up with a defense, the moving balls-out safety Doug Plank was linebacker. Ryan as 46 , because it was the jersey number plate, and called into question, the development of the offenses in the NFL, and no plea was entered.
The night before the Super Bowl in the team hotel in New Orleans bears the defense came together, and on the eve of every game for the perspective of a ritual game-inspired movie role. First, Ryan gave a speech, were the players aware of rumors that Ryan would leave the team after the game (which he did well to head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles) are. Trembling of the lips, tears, very moving, recalls Gary Fencik, safety and veteran defensive captain of the team.
Less than 24 hours later, they crushed the Patriots. And received a total of 46 points of karma.
Shelbyville, Kentucky
It must be for a month in the spring calendar, but it is winter in the air in the Horse Country of Kentucky. Dark clouds spit periodic snow squalls. The Kentucky Derby will take in less than two weeks, but warm sun, elegant hats and mint juleps seems impossible to achieve. In the late afternoon Buddy Ryan came in a van next to a dusty barn, where he rents space to stop. He was born 16 horses - four mares, four calves in the spring and only eight foals. They are winning the way of the horse, the Triple Crown, but a very busy man in the same manner to maintain.
Ryan is wearing a Jets jacket (in honor of her son Rex recent appointment as head coach - and their own work for the first time in the NFL) and drag a limp because a horse stepped on his right foot around day earlier. As a full take of plastic food in a January foal is informally called the Embarcadero.
In the winter of 2005, Buddy fought a case of encephalitis. (Rex was Louisville, and armed personnel of the hospital with the words: This is not Johnny --- paperwork is dealt with here. ) The disease has some holes in the memory of Buddy, and not when this is football.
Ryan falls on a couch in a crowded room next to the tack shedrow. Two cats conservative run to kiss the feet. Well, you know what to do about the 46? She asked. It was not much that at the beginning. He laughed because, of course, was much more to do. Raised in Oklahoma Panhandle town Frederick, Ryan lineman for the team from the local high school, but after graduation, rather than his play on the University, s' is inscribed in the National Guard. I was when I was 16 years, Ryan told Sports Illustrated in 1986. No one had money back to Frederick, is a group of us as the National Guard, you get $ 40 more per month. Then there was the sumbitch and mobilize.
At 18 he was a sergeant leading a train in Korea. Ryan went home before the age of nfl jerseys authentic
19 years, an educated man, and a lineman at Oklahoma A & M, later Oklahoma. There he met his future wife back, Doris, and married the queen still in college. Ami began coaching, first in various high school and college, 12 years in six directions.