’85 at 40/Bear & Balanced: Breaking Down Super Bowl XX

This is the 40th anniversary of the Chicago Bears’ only Super Bowl championship, so we’ve been celebrating that great team on our 2nd City Gridiron channels in a limited series called ‘85 at 40. In case you missed it, Bill Zimmerman interviewed legendary journalist and reporter Dan Pompei, who covered that fantastic team. Bill and Jeff Berckes interviewed Hall of Fame left tackle Jimbo Covert and also defensive captain Gary Fencik.

There are several other interviews lined up, so stay tuned!

We wanted to give our Bear & Balanced spin on our own episode celebrating the 1985 Bears, so we put the 46-10 Super Bowl XX win over the New England Patriots through our day-after-cooled-down review.

We both watched the game over the weekend — it was JB’s first time, and my first since the original airing — and it was a fun way to spend the bye week.

Check out JB and me on our latest Bear & Balanced/’85 at 40 crossover podcast right here.

Video version right here:

Here’s our bullet point outline of this special Bear & Balanced for SBXX.

• Intro: We’ll both share some general thoughts about the game and about the broadcast..
• Trench Tribute: This is our weekly pick for the best Bears lineman.
• Caught up in a numbers game: This segment highlights one interesting statistic from the Super Bowl.
• Sweet Tweets: We’re both active on social media — so be sure to follow us at @gridironborn & @wiltfongjr — and we highlight one Twitter interaction/Tweet each week. We’re both also on the Bluesky here and here.
• The McMahon Moment: We talk about quarterback Jim McMahon before we take our commercial break.
• The 3 Bears: You all know the story of the Three Bears, don’t you? In this porridge-themed portion of the show, we give our picks for the Bear that was hot, the Bear that was cold, and the Bear that was just right in Super Bowl XX.

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If you haven’t seen the game, or haven’t seen the game in 40 years, you can see the whole thing on YouTube here.