“New York has one foot in Europe. Los Angeles is a collection of suburbs. Miami is cafe con leche. New Orleans is drunk. Seattle wears flannel. San Francisco is beautiful vistas and empty streets. Boston is ancient. But Chicago is America. The ’85 Bears seemed to symbolize the city in its resurgence, the reawakening of the beast after a funkadelic slumber. It was not the fifteen wins–it was how they were achieved, the smash-mouth style that seemed to capture the spirit of the town” (Rich Cohen, Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, 227-228).