Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!dday From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Playoff experience and Bears in '86 Message-ID: <472@gymble.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 11:21:28 EST Article-I.D.: gymble.472 Posted: Thu Jan 16 11:21:28 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 07:32:06 EST References: <468@tekchips.UUCP> <885@cybvax0.UUCP> Reply-To: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 39 Summary: 1986 should be another good year for the Bears >In article <468@tekchips.UUCP> stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) writes: >>This will be only the fourth Super Bowl in history in which neither team >>has been to a Super Bowl before. The others were Packers-Chiefs >>(obviously) in '67, Jets-Colts in '69 and 49ers-Bengals in '82. Can >>anyone shed some light on what players and coaches from either team >>have Super Bowl experience? For the Bears, Mike Ditka has been to the Super Bowl as both player and assistant coach the Dallas Cowboys. I can't think of any Bear players who have been. Remember, they're the youngest team in the NFL! I think that is astounding!! Remarkably, although the Bears were 3-6 in 1982, the strike season, over half the current Bears have never played on a losing Bears team. Ditka's record in 4 years as coach: 3-6, 8-8, 11-7, 17-1 (so far this year). Next year?? 19-0 ?? Don't laugh, it could happen! Because of the quirky nature of the NFL's "parity" scheduling, the Bears of 1986 play only three teams that made the playoffs in 1985: Cleveland, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Based on their 1985 meetings, the Bears should have no trouble beating Dallas and L.A. again, and the Bears stuff running teams like the Browns. The Bears play 8 against their own mediocre division, 4 against the less than mediocre AFC Central, L.A. and Atlanta (1st and 4th in NFC West), and Dallas and Philadelphia (1st and 4th in NFC East). Should be a another good year for us Bear fans! But, sorry, I'm getting ahead of things. Let's watch the Bears stuff the Patriots and hopefully pitch their third shutout in a row on Jan. 26!! (However, I never predict scores when my team is in a crucial game. I believe in jinxes. That's because I'm a Cub fan. In June, when the Cubs were 34-19 and leading the NL East, I foolishly said to a friend, "I don't see how they can lose with that pitching staff." THE NEXT DAY, they started a 13-game losing streak. All their starting pitchers got injured. I will NEVER do that again.) -- UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!dday Dennis Doubleday CSNet: dday@umcp-cs University of Maryland ARPA: dday@gymble.umd.edu College Park, MD 20742 Fan of: Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, OU Sooners (301) 454-6154