The last time the Bears won a Super Bowl.......

[onebud34]

McDLT

 

[vinson555]

I am one of the oldest people at age 36 that can say I have never seen the Bears win a superbowl... But you could get a bag of cheetos (snack size) for a quarter and a 2 liter of pop for maybe 75 cents when I was able to walk.

I wish I was born a few years earlier, just to know there was the ultimate joy as a Bears fan...

 

[jive]

The Atari 2600 was the shit!
I was 12.

I still remember the day I got the Atari as one my the happiest days of my life

 

[abegibronreborn]

For the old timers.......

I watched the game on a TV with a cathode ray tube.
We didn't use the phone during a game, because the cord wouldn't reach the TV
No way to look up stats until the newspaper published them the next day
If you didn't record the game with a VCR, there was no way to replay it. DVDs weren't invented yet
I recorded the Super Bowl Shuffle on cassette from the radio to play on my boom box
Big hair was in, and the mall was full
Gas and cigs were under a buck, and a kid like me could buy them from a machine
Computers were expensive as ****, and couldn't do shit
Chevy Camaro. Pontiac Firebird, and Mustang GT were the coolest cars
You could get a big ass pizza for under $10

What else ya got?

Average price of gas was $1,12

Ronald Reagan was President.

No one have ever heard of Osama Bin Laden or Covid-19 of Taylor Swift or Brett Favre.

 

[UChiLAbear]

Sad to say, this was also the last time we had such a dominant offensive line.

dominant is the perfect adjective to describe the O-line back then......sorry to say that probably half the posters have never seen that on a Bears team.

 

[UChiLAbear]

It's wild when I'm around there now and see how much it's changed. I was hanging with friend in West Garfield Park walking around at night like it's nothing. I'd at least have to carry a shank back in the day to do that.

The improvement of the city is pretty amazing, IMO. You'll see drunk coeds walking alone on streets where you'd once find dead hookers. There's now coffee shops in neighborhoods that were once overrun by gangs.

It truly is amazing how that part of the city has been cleaned up. I hadn't been in that part of the city for a couple decades, and in '94 I went to a Bulls game. I was astonished at what I saw! I could not believe I was in the same neighborhood! I had no idea it was cleaned up. Of course, that's a good thing. People and fans who don't remember that neighborhood, 'back in the day', probably can never believe what it used to be, no matter how many times one explains it. It had to have been the ugliest & most dangerous part of the city. Life's journey is so unpredictable in what will occur.

 

[UChiLAbear]

how much were condoms back then?!

A quarter in machines in a few public places. Mainly in not so good restaurants. Probably to bring in customers.......lol.......Put in the quarter and turn the handle one full turn, and it dropped down. In a wrapping of course.....lol..

 

[UChiLAbear]

And free agency was in it's infancy. I remember Wilbur Marshall leaving for Washington and thinking....Hey you can't do that. You belong to the Bears

I was sorry to see him leave, but Rivera was a great replacement. So da Bears didn't lose much. If anything.

 

[jive]

It truly is amazing how that part of the city has been cleaned up. I hadn't been in that part of the city for a couple decades, and in '94 I went to a Bulls game. I was astonished at what I saw! I could not believe I was in the same neighborhood! I had no idea it was cleaned up. Of course, that's a good thing. People and fans who don't remember that neighborhood, 'back in the day', probably can never believe what it used to be, no matter how many times one explains it. It had to have been the ugliest & most dangerous part of the city. Life's journey is so unpredictable in what will occur.

Indeed. Everything around there has changed. The Circle campus and the area around it is very much improved.
Wicker Park and Humboldt Park are now hip, when it used to be run by gangs. Same for Pilsen.
Even my old neighborhood on the South Side has become a desirable bedroom community.
The river used to be nothing but pollution, and now it's a tourist attraction.

I would have never thought it back in the day, but I'm loving it now.

 

[jive]

dominant is the perfect adjective to describe the O-line back then......sorry to say that probably half the posters have never seen that on a Bears team.

Could you imagine Fuller, Tomczack, or Flutie playing behind this line?
McMahon would be in a wheelchair by mid season.

 

[Chicago Staleys]

Just to keep it football related

Back then it was a 16 game season, no bye weeks
The draft was 12 rounds
No 2 point conversions
Play clock was 30 seconds

And the Bears played in the NFC Central with Tampa Bay in the division. There was only 28 teams and Seattle played in the AFC.

 

[jive]

And the Bears played in the NFC Central with Tampa Bay in the division. There was only 28 teams and Seattle played in the AFC.

The good old days when there were 3 trash teams in the division

 

[UChiLAbear]

Could you imagine Fuller, Tomczack, or Flutie playing behind this line?
McMahon would be in a wheelchair by mid season.

Fuller....lol.....forgot all about him...for good reason......literally a statue AND he wasn't any good by any stretch of the imagination.....he was a 1st Rd pick by KC, believe it or not.

 

[jive]

Back then you could talk smack within the division so easily being the most dominant team, and GB, TB, and DET being total trash.

 

[UChiLAbear]

And the Bears played in the NFC Central with Tampa Bay in the division. There was only 28 teams and Seattle played in the AFC.

Tampa Bay also played in the AFC for 1 year...I believe. They switched Seattle and TB for some reason. Twice I believe. Very strange.

 

[jive]

Fuller....lol.....forgot all about him...for good reason......literally a statue AND he wasn't any good by any stretch of the imagination.....he was a 1st Rd pick by KC, believe it or not.

We won 4 games with him throwing 1 TD and 5 INTs.

 

[jsu34]

I could literally eat 4 whoppers, 2 large McDonald's fries, and super big gulp from 7/11.

I wasn't in Chicagoland as I hadn't graduated from college yet and I bet my brother. He felt the bears wouldn't give up any points in the playoffs and he was nearly a winner until the Super Bowl.

 

[UChiLAbear]

We won 4 games with him throwing 1 TD and 5 INTs.

No way? but I believe you. I must have been drunk as a skunk during those games.....lol....

 

[jive]

I could literally eat 4 whoppers, 2 large McDonald's fries, and super big gulp from 7/11.

And all of it cost less than $12

 

[Madisoncubaholic]

For the old timers.......

I watched the game on a TV with a cathode ray tube.
We didn't use the phone during a game, because the cord wouldn't reach the TV
No way to look up stats until the newspaper published them the next day
If you didn't record the game with a VCR, there was no way to replay it. DVDs weren't invented yet
I recorded the Super Bowl Shuffle on cassette from the radio to play on my boom box
Big hair was in, and the mall was full
Gas and cigs were under a buck, and a kid like me could buy them from a machine
Computers were expensive as ****, and couldn't do shit
Chevy Camaro. Pontiac Firebird, and Mustang GT were the coolest cars
You could get a big ass pizza for under $10

What else ya got?

The salesman at the Tandy store told me I could add a20 MB external hard drive to my Radio Shack computer that would be sufficient to “run a small business “!
Not to mention…..A girl with telekinetic powers named eleven was on the run from a guy named Papa and in a season ending fiery display of focused energy sent Henry Creel to the upside down world resulting in a bizarre reversal of normal Bears mojo causing a time - space rift and a bizarro world Super Bowl victory when suddenly a demagorgon accompanied the newly reconstituted Vecna to the bears board room and threatened to suspend their bonus checks if they ever won another Super Bowl again. Michael McCaskey sealed the deal as well as the rift. The END. Good night boardroom, good night balloon, good night brush and a bowl full of mush. good night Virginia and good night BEARS fans everywhere.