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Authors: Rich Cohen
Sutcliffe, Rick
Sweetness
(Pearlman)
Swiatek, Max
Tapper, Jake
Taylor, Lawrence
Tebow, Tim
Telander, Rick; on Ditka
T-formation
Thayer, Tom
Theismann, Joe
“Then Ditka Said to Payton…”
(Jiggetts)
They Call It a Game
(Parrish)
Thomas, Clendon
Thorpe, Jim; background of; Halas and
Thrower, Willie
Time
Tip Top
Tittle, Y. A.
Tobin, Bill; on McMahon
Tobin, Vince
Tomczak, Mike
Tonelli, Mario
Trafton, George
Twain, Mark
Tyson, Mike
Udall, Stewart
Unitas, Johnny
Vainisi, Jerry
Van Horne, Keith
Veeck, Bill, Sr.
Vick, Michael
Wade, Bill
Walls, Everson
Walsh, Bill
Walter & Me: Standing in the Shadow of Sweetness
(Payton)
Warner, Pop
Washington, Harold
Washington, Kenny
Washington Redskins vs. Chicago Bears
Waters, Andre
Watts, Ricky
Webster, Mike
Welker, Wes
When Pride Still Mattered
(Maraniss)
White, Danny
Wilson, George
Wilson, Marc
Wilson, Otis; Bears left by; on Ditka; in Super Bowl; in “The Super Bowl Shuffle”; White House visit and
Wilson, Wade
Winder, Sammy
Wood, Bob
Woods, Ickey
Woolf, Bob
Wooten, Ron
World War II
World Wrestling Federation
Wrightman, Tim; on McMahon
Wrigley Field
Yang, Marni
Youngblood, Jack
Zucker, Steve
Zuppke, Robert
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Photograph courtesy of Mark Varouxakis, constraint programmer, modern voyeur, neo-Darwinist
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-DIG-ds-03728
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-DIG-hec-13257
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF33-020793-M2 (P&P)
Hand-drawn diagram of the 46 defense courtesy of Doug Plank
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-DIG-hec-29340
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rich Cohen, a
New York Times
bestselling author, grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, where he died with the Cubs and was reborn with the Bears. He has written ten books and a host of magazine articles for, among others,
The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine,
and
Vanity Fair,
where he’s a contributing editor. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award and the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and his essays have been included in
The Best American Essays
and
The Best American Travel Writing
. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three sons, but is plotting his return to Chicagoland.
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Copyright © 2013 by Rich Cohen
All rights reserved
First edition, 2013
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cohen, Rich.
Monsters: the 1985 Chicago Bears and the wild heart of football / Rich Cohen.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-29868-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-70895-5 (ebook)
1. Chicago Bears (Football team)—History. I. Title.
GV956.C5 C65 2013
796.332'640977311—dc23
2013021701
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