Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football by Rich Cohen (E

Description: Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football by Rich Cohen An "account of the 1985 Chicago Bears and the authors personal relationship with the football team"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football is the New York Times bestselling gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime team and their lone Super Bowl season. For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever--a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city. It was not just that the Monsters of the Midway won, but how they did it. On offense, there was high-stepping running back Walter Payton and Punky QB Jim McMahon, who had a knack for pissing off Coach Mike Ditka as he made his way to the end zone. On defense, there was the 46: a revolutionary, quarterback-concussing scheme cooked up by Buddy Ryan and ruthlessly implemented by Hall of Famers such as Dan "Danimal" Hampton and "Samurai" Mike Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and in bars, there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the quarterback bickering on TV, Ditka and Ryan nearly coming to blows in the Orange Bowl, the players recording the "Super Bowl Shuffle" video the morning after the seasons only loss. Cohen tracked down the coaches and players from this iconic team and asked them everything he has always wanted to know: Whats it like to win? Whats it like to lose? Do you really hate the guys on the other side? Were you ever scared? What do you think as you lie broken on the field? How do you go on after you have lived your dream but life has not ended? The result is Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, a portrait not merely of a team but of a city and a game: its history, its future, its fallen men, its immortal heroes. But mostly its about being a fan--about loving too much. This is a book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, and joyful. Author Biography Rich Cohen is the New York Times-bestselling author of Tough Jews, Monsters, Sweet and Low, The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, The Chicago Cubs, and The Last Pirate of New York, and, with Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, Youll Know Im Dead. He is the cocreator of the HBO series Vinyl, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and a writer at large for Air Mail. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harpers Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Librarys 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Connecticut. Review "Every year brings a Super Bowl, World Series, NBA, and Stanley Cup champion. All are duly noted and celebrated. But a memorable few have greater and more lasting resonance, a standing that excellence alone cannot explain. The 1985 Chicago Bears were such a team, a mélange of talents and outsize personalities that captivated and embodied a city. Rich Cohen experienced it as an obsessed seventeen-year-old. Almost three decades on, he remains obsessed--entertainingly and insightfully so, but obsessed nonetheless. His combination of reporting and remembrance is by turns evocative, revealing, quirky, and funny as hell--or at least as funny as Gary Fencik doing the Super Bowl Shuffle." --Bob Costas "For anyone from Chicago, or anyone with any sense, the 85 Bears are the best team there ever was, and Rich Cohen has written the book weve always wanted. Its got all the people you want to hear from: Ditka, McMahon, Singletary, Wilson, Fencik, and, thank God, the incomparable and too-often-forgotten Doug Plank. This book--full of soul and searching, and also knock-you-down funny--is not just a great sports book, not just a great Chicago book, but a great book, period." --Dave Eggers, who grew up two miles from the Bears practice facility "Rich Cohens Monsters is the best book on professional football I know--the best because the most truthful." --Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal "A riveting account of one of footballs most iconic teams, the 1985 Chicago Bears, features frank interviews with the players and coaches." --People Magazine "As much as it is about the 85 Bears, Monsters is an emotional education of football and the Stone Age pleasure of watching large men battle to the point of exhaustion. At one point, Cohen attributes Halas for the development of footballs emphasis on the passing game: It was Halas, as much as anyone, who invented the modern NFL offense and lifted the game from the ground into the air." --Kevin Nguyen, Grantland "Entire forests have given their lives to the pursuit of the truth about Mongo, the Fridge, Danimal and other larger-than-life characters on Da Coachs rambunctious squad. The search ends with Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football . . . Author Rich Cohen was a 17-year-old New Trier High School senior as the Bears were laying waste to the NFL in 1985 . . . his quest to understand the attraction 28 years later makes for a story that reflects Chicago--rough, tough and defiant to a man, the 85 Bears are the embodiment of this citys self-image." --Dan McGrath, The Chicago Sun-Times "Rich Cohen writes the best stuff--people, scenes, sentences, drunks, big men, fine women, jokes, impressions, secrets--in America." --David Lipsky, author of Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself "The Chicago Bears are one of the most fascinating franchises and compelling stories in football. From Mr. Halas to Mr. Ditka, from the Fridge to McMahon, its been one of the wild rides of the NFL. Rich Cohen has captured the spirit of a team and an era, its heart and mind, its great triumphs. Its a wonderful story filled with characters with character. It doesnt get any better." --Joe Theismann, Super Bowl-winning quarterback, Washington Redskins "Monsters is a remarkable book, beautifully written, but thats beside the point. You think youre going to read a football book but you wind up reading about America, about who we are--you and me--and even why. And Rich Cohen has accomplished this feat through portraits of some of the greatest characters ever to have charged onto a football field and then left it." --Ira Berkow, winner of the Pulitzer Prize "Rich Cohen wrote it his own bleeping way and the result is a monster of a book. Im a Packers guy, but I respect the Bears, our oldest rivals, and loved this book." --David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered "The triumphant and tragic saga of the 1985 Chicago Bears and the aftermath of their historic championship season is a subject worthy of epic poetry. In Rich Cohen, the Monsters of the Midway have found their bard. Joyous yet mournful, inspirational yet irreverent, celebratory yet unsparing, Cohens Monsters is an Aeneid for football lovers, blowin our minds just like we knew it would." --Adam Langer, author of Crossing California, The Thieves of Manhattan, and The Salinger Contract "A fans engaging yet ultimately melancholy love letter to his beloved team and his hometown. Pick your team carefully, because your team is your destiny. Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone contributor Cohens fathers solemn advice can be easily understood by sports fans. However, other readers will enjoy this entertaining, if profane, history of the 1985 NFL champion Chicago Bears." --Kirkus "I just finished a book [Monsters] I thought was pretty close to perfect. Which simply means Rich Cohen picked a subject that matters to me and wrote exactly the book I wanted to read about it . . . Cohen writes one strong, creative sentence after another . . . Because the author understands football, he asks the former Bears intelligent questions and they open up to him." --Michael Miner, The Chicago Reader "Whether youre a Bears fan or not, [Monsters] will entertain you a great deal. Cohen is an interesting writer, and the 85 Bears were a very interesting team. Sports fans will really enjoy it, but even those who dont much care about the NFL will similarly find it unputdownable." --John Tamny, Forbes Review Quote This book--full of soul and searching, and also knock-you-down funny--is not just a great sports book, not just a great Chicago book, but a great book, period. Details ISBN1250056047 Author Rich Cohen Pages 352 Publisher Picador USA Language English ISBN-10 1250056047 ISBN-13 9781250056047 Media Book Format Paperback Residence New York, NY, US Short Title MONSTERS Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-10-14 Imprint Picador USA DEWEY 796.33264097 Illustrations Illustrations Audience General UK Release Date 2014-10-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:86766547;

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