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The Rise And Self-Destruction Of The Greatest Football Team In History: The Chicago Bears And Super Bowl XX |  | Author: John Mullin
Creator: John Madden
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 521055
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 245
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1572437901
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332640977311
EAN: 9781572437906
ASIN: 1572437901
Publication Date: September 30, 2005
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The 1985 Bears, with their explosive concoction of talent, personality, eccentricity, and ego, were unlike any other collection of professional athletes that came before them. They changed the way Americans view their sports teams, and no other team since has even approached the phenomenon that swept the nation during the Bears run to Super Bowl glory. But the volatility that helped make the 1985 Bears the greatest football team on the planet also contributed to their inevitable implosion. This is the real story of one unique teams rise to glory and a behind-the-scenes look at their fall from grace.
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 A Super Nova rise and fall October 21, 2009
D. Kuball Jr. (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great reading. I couldn't put it down. Anyone who remembers that '85 season (the 'Fridge, Ditka, Buddy Ryan and the 46 defense, the domination during the play-offs) will love the inside stories about how that season came to be and why that dominating ride ended way too soon.
 Really Bad Book March 30, 2009
Wilcy Moore
My one star review is not meant to convey any negative feelings toward the Chicago Bears in general. It is merely my opinion of the quality of THIS particular book, which is bad.
Take an interesting, if not fascinating, sports subject and grant unfettered access to the participants, and one usually expects a relatively coherent summary account filled with interesting insights not available in other forums. At least that's what I usually expect. What the author delivers here is a disjointed commentary that floats from one topic to the next, with no transition or resolution to the schizophrenic anecdotes that are hurled at the reader. The author routinely introduces a subject in one paragraph and then jumps to another subject in the next paragraph without finishing the original thought.
Then there are the quotes. The pages are littered with quotes from the players and other personnel that may or may not be related to one of the topics in the general area of the quote. However, the author never indicates where you should stop reading and jump to the quote, so the reader is constantly being interrupted. It's an unbelievably annoying style that I've fortunately never encountered before. And to say that the quotes are relevant or interesting would be extremely generous.
I was excited to read this account of the great 1985 Chicago Bears. I bought the DVD set of games that is also available and watched a few of them while I was reading this book. Suffice it to say that this particular book adds nothing to the enjoyment of reliving that glorious season. I strongly recommend looking at one of the other alternatives that is available simply because nothing can possibly be as annoying as the writing "style" of this particular author.
Super! September 18, 2008
Darth Shaak
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There were plenty of tidbits here and there throughout the book to keep me interested. There were some things in here I didnt know about and I felt the book did its job adequately. It's worth a read.
Fell Way Short July 2, 2007
Brian Smith (Plainfield, IL United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for Mullin's book on the 1985 Bears, but I couldn't help but feel disappointed that the book failed to deliver much of anything that hadn't been reported during and following the 1985 season. Not only did this book fail to prove, unequivocally, that these Bears were the best team in professional football history, but also failed to thoroughly reveal the team's "self destruction" in any significant way. While there were a few of interesting behind-the-scenes stories, the book is dissatisfying in terms of being long on common knowledge about the team and short on inside information. John Mullin is a reporter with a major Chicago newspaper and should have more "reach" into the non-public happenings of the team than he demonstrated in the book. Maybe he wasn't able to publish his juiciest findings--did an overly cautious publishing company dump the good stuff? In any event, the book was dismally underachieving in terms of bringing any new information to light.
Additionally, and this is more a matter of personal taste, I found Mullin's style to be a little disjointed. His stories seem to end abruptly, and he jumps immediately into another topic without a decent segue. Some topics are dropped without conclusion and others appear intermittently throughout the book without any rhyme or reason. His writing style was more like reading 200+ pages of USA Today style "snippets" of information than a cohesive tale of a historically great football team.
In the hands of a more capable storyteller, this book may have been a winner, but the lack of new information and poor organization of the material made this one a loser for me. I kept reading in hopes of something to make the task of reading this book worthwhile, but such a moment never materialized.
Bears fans love this book January 10, 2007
A. DuFay (U.P., MI, USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
How could you go wrong for a Christmas present to a Bear's fan? My cousin loves this book and reads it when his beloved team isn't playing.
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