It foolish to try to pick a single team. I like using the boxing analogy when it comes up. Hagler, Hearns and Leonard. Hagler, in my view was the best of the 3. Legendary career, 70 fights or so, three losses, and he could put the hurt on someone like few others. Herns was just a cut below. Just when you think you could hit him with your right... he’d lean back and you’d miss his jaw by 10 inches. Then of course, his left would come over the top and boom.
However, Sugar Ray Leonard is considered (maybe correctly) as the best of the three. He looked better doing it. Had a very impressive win loss record and had some style.
I think the 85 Bears and the 89 49ers were stand-ins for Hagler/Hearns (Bears) and Sugar Ray (49ers). There were times when the 49ers just made you look silly trying to defend them. And Da-Bearz made you cry. That 44-0 dismantling of the Cowboys was epic.
I don’t recall the full verbiage of the long-forgotten website but there used to be one about the “Dallas Cryboys”--his word not mine. The synopsis of the game on the site said something along the lines of...
“Mike Ditka, not wanting to embarrass his former mentor, put in the fourth string after building a substantial lead in the first two quarters. It was the only thing he tried all day that didn’t work.” Ouch!
Anyway...I like substance over style... I paid homage to the substance. Now I’ll admire the style. Joe Montana was asked by someone before the super bowl with the Broncos--I think it was one of the higher ups in the 49ers organization--“how many points do you think we can score”. Montana responded, “as many as we want.”
Hard to bet against the Montana era 49ers but if there is a better team, it’s the 85 bears.
