Monsters The 1985 Chicago Bears And The Wild Heart Of Football 1st Edition Rich Cohen by Rich Cohen 9780374298685, 9780374708955, 0374298688, 0374708959 instant download after payment.

For Rich Cohen & millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever—a gang of colorful nuts, dancing & pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city.
It was not just that the Monsters of the Midway won, but how they did it. On offense, there was high-stepping running back Walter Payton & Punky QB Jim McMahon, who had a knack for pissing off Coach Mike Ditka as he made his way to the end zone. On defense, there was the 46: a revolutionary, quarterback-concussing scheme cooked up by Buddy Ryan & ruthlessly implemented by Hall of Famers such as Dan “Danimal” Hampton & “Samurai” Mike Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, & in bars, there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the quarterback bickering on TV, Ditka & Ryan nearly coming to blows in the Orange Bowl, the players recording the “Super Bowl Shuffle” video the morning after the season’s only loss.
Cohen tracked down the coaches & players from this iconic team and asked them everything he has always wanted to know: What’s it like to win? What’s it like to lose? Do you really hate the guys on the other side? Were you ever scared? What do you think as you lie broken on the field? How do you go on after you have lived your dream but life has not ended?

The result is Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, a portrait not merely of a team but of a city and a game: its history, its future, its fallen men, its immortal heroes. But mostly it’s about being a fan—about loving too much. This is a book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, & joyful.

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Rich Cohen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse, & Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, among other books.