THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The 1985 Bears were America.  They were the team that America wanted, needed, and embraced at the time and for years afterward and to this day.  They were a collection of characters that reflected nothing less than the best — and worst — of a nation, a people, an era.  They were, for a brief, magical instant, a band of eccentrics and athletes who went from nobodies to rock stars, from country kids and city kids to cult figures, who took America on a wonderful, wild ride like nothing before or since.

Mullin/Bears, 2005