The Start of a Historic Campaign! (Buccaneers vs. Bears 1985, Week 1) 

The Chicago Bears of the 1980’s were a NFL Classic.

Crazy thing bout that '85 season, while the Bears dominated just about everyone the Bucs gave them a helluva time in both their meetings.

The Bears allowed 28 points in this game. After this, they played 9 more home games (7 regular season plus 2 in the postseason), where they allowed a grand total of 49 points, or an average of just over 5 points per game. And in their final 6 home games, the Bears allowed one touchdown Just goes to show how dominant that defense was

The ‘85 Bears were one of the greatest teams of all time!!

"Were not here to start no trouble we just came to the Superbowl Shuffle"🎺

Steve DeBerg started this game? I can only guess that his backup was a Hall of Famer who succeeded another Hall of Famer who used to be DeBerg's backup...

Just know that this was Walter Payton’s ELEVENTH season in the league, and he had over 2000 total yards. 5’10” 200 pounds, which is honestly generous when you see him in person. He wasn’t very big, but he played like he was. How many RB’s play 13 full seasons now, and are still at the top of the league in production, all the way through their career. He was a special player.

1:39 The first drive of the most infamous defense in football was involved in resulted in an offensive touchdown? Wow, you learn something new every day.

I remember listening to this game on the radio driving to college from home in 1985. Oh, the memories. Go Bears!

The Buccaneers had some good players despite being mostly a lackluster squad. James Wilder, Kevin House, and Jimmie Giles were some playmakers.

‘85 Bears D just dominated throughout the season all the way to their Super Bowl XX victory.

Honestly wasn't that impressed.... I bet this Bears team flames out🙄.

I love this channel, man. I so enjoy watching these old games partly because they remind me of my late father. We often watched games together and there's a good chance he was watching this one (I was 7 at the time). Thanks for the upload.

Bears defense as great as it was. Some people forget we stumbled on defense out the gate. And very unbearlike..we scored points. Tampa gave us all we could handle twice. Steve DeBerg always played well against the Bears. And James Wilder ran wild in this one. 27 carries 166 yds and a TD. Thankfully the Bears Defense was great when it had to be in this game. I sometimes wonder what the season would have been had the Bears lost this game.

James Wilder was a Beast. The Bucs ran him into the ground in the mid-eighties, wish he would have been on a better team and had a chance to take a breather every so often, easily could have been a 12,000-13,000 yards from scrimmage guy.

These should be Tampa Bay's uniforms today. Also, CBS should use that opening today.

And it all ended in the superdome.... crazy how my favorite teams stadium was host to such an amazing teams final game of their amazing season!

Walter Payton is the second greatest running backs of all time in my opinion Who miss Walter Payton

You know your season's going to be a great one when you trail by 14 at the start and go on to win by 10.

You're watching the OG NFL on CBS!

Ahh I love old Bears games..I also enjoyed the Steve Young mention.

Jim McMahon is an underrated quarterback

Jimmy Mac, NFC Offensive Player of the Week😎😎😎

The start of a great defense

One of the best 2-14 teams ever: Tampa Bay battled the 15-1 Bears hard. 38-28 loss and 27-19 loss. The Bucs lost a last-second heartbreaker to the 12-4 Dolphins at Miami 41-38. They nearly beat the 11-5 Rams but fell 31-27. The Bucs also lost to the 11-5 Pats 32-14. The Bears played the Rams for the NFC Championship. The Dolphins played the Pats for the AFC Championship. TB also lost to the 11-5 Jets and the 10-6 Giants (22-20 narrow defeat). Those two teams would be eliminated by NE and Chi respectively in the playoffs.

James Wilder: glaring Ring of Honor omission.

The 85 bears were the greatest team of all time, they for sure had the best defense in history.

‘85 Bears fans were like “our defense blows” halfway through this game lol.

Walter Payton what a legend

Great quality video!!

35 Years Ago

Nice clear video. Wish you could post the whole game in HD.

A lot of people trash the old Creamsicle Bucs unis but I love them. Not even a bucs fan

While I love the 85 Bears it always makes me sad knowing the issues Jim McMahon has today. I'm so glad players today realize the totality of the risks and get out when they know something is wrong or know that if they continue playing they will have severe health issues.

I like you showing the intro, good stuff

James Wilder had a beast day ( fantasy wise ) 27 rushes for 166 and a tug. Not too shabby

92 degrees! The game was in Chicago but played in Tampa like heat.

DeBerg was one of the best play action QBs of all time

Wilder was a load at running back

Nothing says Creamsicle like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 😆😆😆

SWEETNESS

Classic!

Jeez Tampa! You may want to find someone to spell James Wilder. 407 carries in a season is insane!

Tampa Bay looked pretty good for a 2-14 team.

Loved the ‘85 bears

Please NFL! Upload highlights of that whole season including the playoffs

This is good campaign for the 85 bears

These Chicago bears were the 86 nets of the nfl where they were one of the best single season teams in NFL history and even though the next year they set the record for points given up until the 2000 ravens broke it under Vince Tobin in the year after this one but once buddy ryan left as coordinator these bears were never the same but much respect

Stephen A. Smith on the morning of September 9th 1985: “ We have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat-out DECEIVED! The Bears defense is in SERIOUS trouble!!!” Max Kellerman responds: “The Bears are overrated and their defense is about to fall off a cliff this season”.

McMahon had some great games against the Bucs, like the 20 point comeback in '87.

Who the hell is James Wilder? 💪🏽💪🏽put him on your fantasy Team lol

NFL Throwback, can you do an in-depth highlight like this of the Divisional playoff game from that season against the New York Giants? PLEASE?

You notice most of the game it was sunny and then it became cloudy. A thunderstorm rolled in after the game.

The reason the 46 worked so well for the bears was it was Taylor made for the personnel they had

nice intro.

14:21 that fake by payton is just pure effort, didnt need to do it but that effort is just amazing

15:20 is an intersting stat that we don't normally get nowadays.

Leslie Frazier From Columbus, MS

Np rpo's with these QBs? :)

Incredible how the bucs manger to put tons of points in both meetings against the 85 bears

crazy how big Wilder was, even for the time

What a pass play by Jim McMahon 2:37-2:57 Touchdown Bears !

The Bears with a good offense ... now I see why they were so good

Was Steve Young part of the Tampa Bay roster that season? Classic Game! Bad News Bears!

85' Bears is the greatest team ever!! No excuses.

Watching only this game, you'd think Wilder was a first ballot HOF'er lol

Anybody got any insight into why McMahon gave the ball to #79 to spike it after that touchdown at 14:30? I thought that was nice, haha.

Man Wilder was busting there ass 🤣

Is it just me or are these bears uniforms darker, almost black compared to the navy blue they wear currently?

If the 85 Dolphins had not blown it in the AFC championship game against NE, would we even be talking about the 85 Bears? Miami gave them their only loss and exposed them. I have no doubt that a rematch would have been a blow out the other way and they would be forgotten to history like the Gritz Blitz which inspired Buddy Ryan in the first place.

ridiculous number of ads

From 2nd Street to Bourbon Street.

Really surprised that they didn't go undefeated that year but of course coming from a Patriots fan they had to annihilate them in the Super Bowl

Even if the Bills and Chiefs get moved to a non-prime time game in week 6 you still gotta do a throwback for them

7:20 Look how many shirtless dudes are in the stands 😂

I like the Chicago bears 🐻 and 2nd Carolina panthers

Hard to imagine the legendary 85 Bears defense surrendered 28 points at home to the sad sack 2-14 laughing stock bucs

The Bucs should have those as a throwback

How many fantasy points did wilder score? Might want to pick him up off waivers. 😜

How did this team not win another title? Buddy Ryan becoming the Eagles head coach doomed this dynasty.

The 1986 mets of nfl history

Notice the celebrations. This was a better time.

The dark days of Buccaneers football smh (I blame ownership/management).

That first quarter dont really look good for the bears. Was wondering what happened to their defense.

Is this the same Bears team that won the Super Bowl?

BRADY going to torch that over rated defense tonight.

Mike Ditka.

Steve DeBerg 4 life.

make a walter payton GOAT highlight reel

The bucs put up a fight against the 85 bears opening day

The ‘85 Bears were a great team. But let’s not forget that they were the class of a very bad, very crowded NFC Central Division. The Yucks, Packers, Vikings, and Lions had a combined record of 24-40 in 1985, and none of them even came close to a playoff berth that season. Again, I’m not trying to take anything away from the Bears, but timing had a lot to do with the magnitude of their success. The 46 Defense took the league by storm in 1985. But by ‘86, it was pretty much obsolete. Their back to back shutouts in the NFC playoffs were impressive. But if New England hadn’t upset Miami in the AFC Championship, Super Bowl XX might’ve had a much different outcome.

Bandwagon Fans be like who’s #17 that’s not TB12 lol 😂

What the hell was the Bears excuse for having astroturf, they didn't share the field with a baseball team?

When Packers are trash...

I feel like the 07 patriots would destroy this team they had to play much better teams.

I hate these games where they don't show the score, the down or the time.