Reply #6: The '85 Bears are the massive loser if NE wins tomorrow

[Awsi Dooger]

I posted a thread about that maybe a month ago. Bears fans will be shocked how much that team will fade into obscurity, once a 19-0 team from this generation pulls the spotlight away as greatest ever. Particularly since those '85 Bears had nothing to fall back on. One in a row. Wow. Anyone who tries to knock the '72 Dolphins has to deal with the 15-2 dominance that followed, including playoff wins by 18, 17 and 17.

In one of those "greatest QB ever" threads a week or two ago I posted a Miami Herald link with a similar theme, how the oldtimer Dolphins thought they would fare against current New England. Many of them said the Pats would win in a rout due to size and athletic ability. But primarily, and correctly, the focus was on the rules changes. I don't think younger fans realize how much the game has changed, and dramatically for the worse, IMO. I would sit in the Orange Bowl at those Dolphin games and watch CBs Curtis Johnson and Tim Foley literally eliminate the WRs as soon as the ball was snapped. Then I'd shift attention to see the great safety duo of Dick Anderson and Jake Scott take care of any receiver who had managed to run the pattern. It was brilliant to watch, every bit as skilled and fascinating as watching Brady pick apart a hamstrung secondary.

BTW, there's supposed to be a clever Reebok commercial on Super Bowl Sunday, featuring many members of the '72 Dolphins as the only current residents of Perfectville.