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A team picture from around 1986 features players and coaches from the 2024 Chicago Bears football team, who won Super Bowl XX.
A team picture from around 1986 features players and coaches from the 2024 Chicago Bears football team, who won Super Bowl XX.
Walter Payton, Mike Singletary, Kevin Butler, and William “Refrigerator” Perry were among the Chicago Bears who were on the 1985 squad, and you can probably recall at least one thing about them. However, after they and their coaches prevailed in Super Bowl XX on January 26, 1986, what transpired?
Due to injuries sustained during their playing career, some people are living with incapacitating conditions. To relieve his chronic pain, one person has turned to medicinal marijuana. Another has consented to give his brain to science upon passing away. One went on to become a physician with a focus on rehabilitative care, and he has provided advice on the treatment of his former teammates. Many former players have gone on to become coaches; Jeff Fisher, who spent the entire 1985 season on injured reserve, was the most surprising of them all. There was another Super Bowl 50 coach. And what became of the team’s less well-known players from that season? In Dallas, one rebuilds bridges, while in Grapevine, Texas, another fixes roofs.
He was cut by the Bears during training camp in 1986. He joined the commercial real estate industry after moving back to the Phoenix area, where he was raised and had played collegiately at the University of Arizona. He currently serves as CBRE’s executive vice president. Anderson was also a member of the 2015 Super Bowl Host Committee for Arizona. He resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona, with his wife, Michelle, and their three daughters.
He was re-signed and participated in 13 games in the 1985 season after being waived following the third preseason game. He was mostly used as a special teams and offensive line substitute.
Andrews worked as a commercial aluminum salesman for a St. Charles company following his NFL career. A pizza startup at the time called Papa John’s recruited him after he went back to Louisville to play college football. He rose through the ranks to become Papa John’s senior director of development, bringing the brand to Saudi Arabia, England, Ireland, and South America.
spent 1985 on the sidelines due to injury. He caught Walter Payton’s first touchdown pass, a 54-yard pass that was thrown on October 21, 1979, during a game against the Minnesota Vikings.
After the Bears, his life:
Even though he left North American Corp. as vice president of corporate sales in 2012, he continues to work at Soldier Field as a uniform inspector on game days. In 1993, he was elected to the Glenbrook school board, and in 1998, he served as the honorary coach for the Special Olympics. Before the game, Baschnagel is in charge of inspecting and alerting players to any possible infractions. He has three children with his wife, Mindy.
He ran a business that sold vending machines and rented out darts, pool tables, jukeboxes, and other coin-operated games after he finished his football career. After restoring an Aurora diner from the 1960s, Becker was honored with the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. He is now the head coach of his hometown’s East Aurora High School’s varsity football team. After Becker’s Tomcats team lost a game 40-6, a veteran referee nominated the team for an Illinois High School Association “Sport a Winning Attitude” award. Becker was a driving force behind the passage and signing of Illinois’s juvenile concussion legislation. Becker and Gloria, his spouse, are parents to two kids.
Bortz, an offensive lineman for the Bears, was selected twice for the Big Ten team while playing defensive tackle at Iowa. He was selected in the eighth round of the 1983 NFL Draft. During his twelve seasons with the Bears, he started 155 games, made two trips to the Pro Bowl, and played in a record 13 playoff games.
had a punt blocked that resulted in a touchdown against the Miami Dolphins on December 2, 1985. That season, the Dolphins handed the Bears their lone defeat. Buford and his teammates met up the following morning at Park West in Chicago to film the “Super Bowl Shuffle” video.
After the Bears, his life:
In Grapevine, Texas, Buford and his spouse, Dana, run Buford General Contractors. Together, they are parents to four kids. Speaking to the Catholic Sports Association in 2013, he discussed the important role his faith played during his NFL career and how, when the team traveled to a game, teammates would find a church and a priest to celebrate Mass for the team.
With his wife, Cathy, and three kids, Butler, who made three field goals in Super Bowl XX, resides in his native Georgia. He coaches kicks and serves as a leadership consultant at the University of Georgia. He is the host of a University of Georgia pregame radio show during the football season.
Butler was selected by the Football Writers Association of America for its 75th anniversary All-America first team in August 2015, along with 25 other players. Son Drew, who signed a reserve/futures contract with the Bears in December 2013, was a punter for the Arizona Cardinals. Butler recalled his initial meeting with Bears defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan in a June 28, 2016, Chicago
Previously an associate head coach and defensive coordinator at Indiana State, Cabral is now the character coach at his alma mater, the University of Colorado. The first Hawaiian student-athlete to compete for Notre Dame was his father. With his spouse, Becky, he has three adult children. In addition, he is the author of “Second String Champion.”
