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| The Rise And Self-Destruction Of The Greatest Football Team In History: The Chicago Bears And Super Bowl XX | 
 enlarge | Author: John Mullin
Creator: John Madden
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 182528
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 245
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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 Why is greatness so hard to maintain? Find out here.. January 5, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This story of a football team illustrates a much more profound element of human psychology - how to handle success. Whether success is a relationship, career, business, or any other endeavor, the lessons here are to be heeded or the result will invariably be the same.
To put this in context, the 1985 Chicago Bears football team is arguably the best ever assembled in the modern era. While other teams may have had more success over time, or had 1 less loss, this team is widely regarded as the most dominating. In addition to the on-the-field success, the team created media stars like Mike Ditka, Jim McMahan and "The Fridge", along with established all time greats like Walter Payton, Mike Singletary and Dan Hampton.
So what happened? How did it blow up so fast? A classic tale of forgetting to continue what made you successful in the first place.
The players and the team became successful by playing harder, and using an almost desperate intensity to how they played the game from a play design perspective to personal and individual motivation. At first this focus (the 46 defense, the frenetic play style) took the league by surprise and gave them a decided advantage, but like most of us with any kind of success, once it was achieved they forgot to keep changing to adapt to the world they created. In addition, they succumbed to the temptation of starting to believe their own press, and became infatuated with their own greatness. Once that happens, it slips away quickly. The detail behind the strategy success and infighting that eroded the spirit of the team, are depicted clearly.
After reading this book, which is full of delicious insights and salacious comments amongst the team about each other, it is hard to find where to place the blame. Everyone seemed so wrapped up in the media circus that they all seemed to drift away from the mission.
For the football fan, this is a great book, full of strategic detail and player reactions. For the person who wants to better understand the dynamics of how to keep themselves or their organization from getting too full of themselves and their success, the lessons here are easy to see, though often difficult to avoid.
The book is written exceptionally well, in that it flows easily, is always interesting, follows a nice chronological progressions, and does what it intends - describe the amazing success and quick burn out of perhaps the greatest football team ever assembled.
 Look at da Standings - Quick! November 19, 2005
9 out of 39 found this review helpful
Due to defense and da self-destruction, so far dis season, of da rest of da NFC North, Da hapless, Halas-less, Bears find demselves in 1st place! First da White Sox win the World Series and now THIS? Be Afraid. Be very Afraid that the Earth has tilted off its axis, and shall soon stop revolving, spinning, in its former fashion, that gravity shall then cease to work its magic, and that all of us, Monsters of the Midway et. al., will be thrown off into the far flung reaches of the Milky Way!
This book is a dandy retrospective of the fun, the games, what went right, and then wrong - so very, very wrong - with Da 1985 Bears, complete with color glossy photos - although not including my favorite: da one of Da Coach flipping off da media as he's walking off da field - and index in da back.
So what about this year? Could be, might be ... Look at da Standings - Quick! Before Da Bears realize dey ain't playin' like Da Bears and revert to deir usual hibernation. /TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer, Diasporaic Bear Fan.
P.S. OhMyGosh! Now we have an offense our defense can be proud of! Stay tuned for SuperBowl Shuffle II at SuperBowl XL? /TV, 12/25/05
Or Not /TV, 1/1/06
Happy Hibernation! See ya next season! /TV, 1/15/06
4/0!!!!!!!!!!! /TV, 10/1/06
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