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  • Monsters

  • The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
  • Auteur(s): Rich Cohen
  • Narrateur(s): Tom Taylorson
  • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
  • 4,3 out of 5 stars (6 évaluations)

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Monsters

Auteur(s): Rich Cohen
Narrateur(s): Tom Taylorson
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The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season.

For Rich Cohen and 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 and 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 and 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 and ruthlessly implemented by Hall of Famers such as Dan "Danimal" Hampton and "Samurai" Mike Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and in bars, there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the quarterback bickering on television, Ditka and 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 and 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, and joyful.

©2013 Rich Cohen (P)2014 Blackstone Audio

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Nicely written

Original structure for a book like this.

Entertained throughout.

Personnel author journey mixed in with the evolution of Chicago and their football team.

It all started with idealism’s and passion both from the player and fan. Then turned into stark reality after time and perspective. Greed mixed with explotation mixed with ignorance. But after the reality sets in we are still fans and loved the game and our team. (Even though we now won’t let our sons play it.) So like Mike Ditka, we are all hypocrites too. And we have to figure out what that means to us.

Nicely job book.

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