# Anyone else think a Bears / Patriots Superbowl would be awesomely reminiscent? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839 "2007-01-21T15:30:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/1 "2007-01-21T15:30:54Z")
First I must say - **GO BEARS!** Secondly, I would love to see the Bears and Patriots go to the bowl this year, I love old rivalries duking it out on national television. And third, I would love to see the Pats spanked by the Bears in a 4th quarter nail biter… Anyone else? Predictions for todays matchups? ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/2 "2007-01-21T16:09:21Z")
First I must say **GO PATS!** 😛 Secondly, if there is to be another Pats/Bears matchup I really need an important question answered beforehand… Everyone seems to remember the Bears’ lovely contribution to music history - The Superbowl Shuffle, but I also remember the Patriots having a song as well. Am I misremembering? If anyone else remembers this, do you remember the name of the song, and do you have any idea where I could obtain a legal copy of it? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nuggets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Mr.Nuggets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nuggets)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/3 "2007-01-21T16:12:31Z")
Gee, both teams I’m rooting against today going to the Super Bowl, my blood boils thinking about it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/4 "2007-01-21T16:23:00Z")
I’m kind of pulling for the Saints. I’m originally from La. and the 'Aints are my #2 team after the Purple. Plus there are just the obvious other sympathetic angles for N.O. Plus I hate the Bears. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/5 "2007-01-21T16:48:44Z")
Lord Forbid. NE already has 3 partially luck-induced championships and they certainly don’t need a 4th one… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/6 "2007-01-21T16:57:14Z")
\*What \* “old rivalry”? Both 1985 teams were flukes - if the Bears had actually been as good as their subsequent years of SNL/Ditka hype, they’d have actually, you know, made it back to the SB maybe once or twice, ya know? Sports rule #245: It isn’t a rivalry unless the \*other \* team says it is, too. The Pats have already beaten the toughest opponent in the playoffs, and are playing the second-toughest today. It just doesn’t matter who the NFC champ is. ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/7 "2007-01-21T16:58:07Z")
I would love to see the Bears make it back to the SuperBowl, plus I don’t think I could endure another several weeks of “the Saints deserve to win because of Katrina” claptrap… ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/8 "2007-01-21T17:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Lord Forbid. NE already has 3 partially luck-induced championships and they certainly don’t need a 4th one… [/QUOTE] Ah, accusing the Pats of winning due to luck. All teams get lucky breaks, the question is are you prepared to take advantage of them. Maybe, if a mediocre team won a single Super Bowl you’d have a point. But 3 Super Bowls in 5 years?! You’d really have to redefine “luck” at that point. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/9 "2007-01-21T21:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark] But 3 Super Bowls in 5 years?! You’d really have to redefine “luck” at that point. [/QUOTE] Don’t you mean 4 Super Bowls in 6 years? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/10 "2007-01-21T21:50:51Z")
I’d love to see a Bears/Patriots Super Bowl. I definitely want to see Tom Brady, the coolest customer in the league, up against Rex Grossman and his frequent flirtations with the lower end of the quarterback rating scale. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/11 "2007-01-21T23:04:59Z")
As of Late in the 4th Quarter **DA BEARS** are trouncing the Saints. Life is good!! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/12 "2007-01-22T01:28:14Z")
And at halftime, the Pats are stuffing the Colts 21-6. The Manning “They can’t \*do \* that! Waaah! Mommeeee!!” face is in full display - and what a beautiful sight it is, as always. 😃 Oh, btw, on 11/26, the final score was NE 17, Chi 13. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/13 "2007-01-22T01:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=Motorgirl] First I must say **GO PATS!** 😛 Secondly, if there is to be another Pats/Bears matchup I really need an important question answered beforehand… Everyone seems to remember the Bears’ lovely contribution to music history - The Superbowl Shuffle, but I also remember the Patriots having a song as well. Am I misremembering? If anyone else remembers this, do you remember the name of the song, and do you have any idea where I could obtain a legal copy of it? [/QUOTE] Ah, a question I actually happen to know the answer to! In fact, just earlier this afternoon I was going around with it stuck in my head. (Pity me.) I believe you are talking about the dreadful tune, “New England, The Patriots, and We”. And you can see it in all its 1980s glory [here](http://www.yourbestguess.com/hmuse/2006/10/just-let-us-state-for-record-theres-no.html). Hmmm…Googling that title shows that there was also another song that I didn’t recall called “Raymond Berry’s Pats”, set to the tune of MacNamara’s Band. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/14 "2007-01-22T02:47:07Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] \*What \* “old rivalry”? Both 1985 teams were flukes - if the Bears had actually been as good as their subsequent years of SNL/Ditka hype, they’d have actually, you know, made it back to the SB maybe once or twice, ya know? [/QUOTE] On top of that, Super Bowl XX was, at the time, the worst blowout in Super Bowl history (later eclipsed.) If it was the game of the century of something, a 37-35 hair-whitening affair ended by a last-second TD pass, maybe it’d mean something. As it happens, the Colts are roaring back; 31-28 Patriots and the Colts are hot on the move, already in long FG range. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/15 "2007-01-22T03:09:53Z")
2:00 warning. Pats fans have to be somewhat nervous at this point, given Indy’s propensity to win at the last minute. As a Bears fan, I’d rather face the Colts’ defense in the big game. Plus, I know too many New Englanders, and losing to the Pats at this point would not bode well for me. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/16 "2007-01-22T03:12:20Z")
… and there’s the TD with 1:00 remaining. You just knew it would happen. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/17 "2007-01-22T03:16:23Z")
I am loving this game now. To think, I turned it off at 21-3 Pats. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/18 "2007-01-22T03:18:49Z")
Bears v. Colts it is. Oh - and I’d stay off of I94 and/or I65 this evening. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/19 "2007-01-22T03:27:32Z")
And so, no matter the outcome of the Super Bowl, (barring something bizarre happening), for the first time the Super Bowl will be won by a team with an African-American coach, which is good since 70 % of the players are minorities. No African-American Head coach has ever gotten his team to the Super Bowl before. All facts in this post either gleaned from NPR this morning, or from watching the tail end of the Colts/Patriots game. (I tuned out at 21-3, tuned in at 28-21, and paid just enough attention to be driven crazy by the remainder of the game. ) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839/20 "2007-01-22T03:53:22Z")
I would have loved to have seen a Bears-Patriots matchup. I was in high school in the Chicago area (Chicagoland?) in 1986, and I jumped on the whole Superbowl shufflin’ bandwagon. I was only vaguely aware of who the Pats even were at the time. They were just a speed bump at the end of a great season for the Bears. Skip forward 21 years, I find myself settled in New England, of all places, as an adult, and a Patriots fan for over a decade now. It would have been kind of karmic, for me personally, to have seen the Pats blow out the Bears this year. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-a-bears-patriots-superbowl-would-be-awesomely-reminiscent/388839.md?page=2)