Every year brings a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and Stanley Cup champion. All are duly noted and celebrated. But a memorable few have greater and more lasting resonance, a standing that excellence alone cannot explain. The 1985 Chicago Bears were such a team, a melange of talents and outsize personalities that captivated and embodied a city. Rich Cohen experienced it as an obsessed seventeen-year-old. Almost three decades on, he remains obsessed--entertainingly and insightfully so, but obsessed nonetheless. His ...
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Every year brings a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and Stanley Cup champion. All are duly noted and celebrated. But a memorable few have greater and more lasting resonance, a standing that excellence alone cannot explain. The 1985 Chicago Bears were such a team, a melange of talents and outsize personalities that captivated and embodied a city. Rich Cohen experienced it as an obsessed seventeen-year-old. Almost three decades on, he remains obsessed--entertainingly and insightfully so, but obsessed nonetheless. His combination of reporting and remembrance is by turns evocative, revealing, quirky, and funny as hell--or at least as funny as Gary Fencik doing the Super Bowl Shuffle. Bob Costas For anyone from Chicago, or anyone with any sense, the '85 Bears are the best team there ever was, and Rich Cohen has written the book we've always wanted. It's got all the people you want to hear from: Ditka, McMahon, Singletary, Wilson, Fencik, and, thank God, the incomparable and too-often-forgotten Doug Plank. This book--full of soul and searching, and also knock-you-down funny--is not just a great sports book, not just a great Chicago book, but a great book, period. Dave Eggers, who grew up two miles from the Bears practice facility Rich Cohen's Monsters is the best book on professional football I know--the best because the most truthful. Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal A riveting account of one of football's most iconic teams, the 1985 Chicago Bears, features frank interviews with the players and coaches. People Magazine As much as it is about the '85 Bears, Monsters is an emotional education of football and the Stone Age pleasure of watching large men battle to the point of exhaustion.' At one point, Cohen attributes Halas for the development of football's emphasis on the passing game: It was Halas, as much as anyone, who invented the modern NFL offense and lifted the game from the ground into the air.' You can't help but think that Cohen's doing the same thing here for sports narratives. Kevin Nguyen, Grantland Entire forests have given their lives to the pursuit of the truth about Mongo, the Fridge, Danimal and other larger-than-life characters on Da Coach's rambunctious squad. The search ends with Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football , out this week . . . Author Rich Cohen was a 17-year-old New Trier High School senior as the Bears were laying waste to the NFL in 1985 . . . his quest to understand the attraction 28 years later makes for a story that reflects Chicago--rough, tough and defiant to a man, the '85 Bears are the embodiment of this city's self-image . . . It is Cohen's skillful compilation and shrewd interpretation of the total package that make the book work. He combines intelligence and insight with a reporter's eye for detail and a novelist's writing chops . . . What Cohen's book does better than its predecessors is transform its subjects from cartoon characters--think Mongo McMichael's boozy gentlemen's club commercials--into real people with talents, flaws, loves, hates, fears, pleasures, anxieties, joys .?.?. human beings, just like the rest of us, only bigger, faster, stronger, tougher, braver, etc. Dan McGrath, The Chicago Sun-Times Rich Cohen writes the best stuff--people, scenes, sentences, drunks, big men, fine women, jokes, impressions, secrets--in America. David Lipsky, author of Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself The Chicago Bears are one of the most fascinating franchises and compelling stories in football. From Mr. Halas to Mr. Ditka, from the Fridge to McMahon, it's been one of the wild rides of the NFL. Rich Cohen has captured the spirit of a team and an era, its heart and mind, its great triumphs. It's a wonderful story filled with characters with character. It doesn't get any better. Joe Theismann, Super Bowl winning quarterback, Wa
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