The DUMBEST Story in NFL HISTORY | Bears @ Cowboys (1985)

While covering a 1985 NFL game between the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Sun-Times reporter Wade Roberts decided to do a human-interest piece on a bar in the small town of Eden, Texas, where men would gather and watch the Cowboys play. The only problem? The entire thing was a bizarrely made-up lie that just kept getting crazier and crazier with each passing second. Buckle up for one of the weirdest stories and lies you're ever going to see regarding the NFL, and one of the strangest bits of fake news ever
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Members of the 1985 Bears:
Steve Fuller
Kevin Butler
Maury Buford
Jim McMahon
Mike Tomczak
Thomas Sanders
Leslie Frazier
Dave Duerson
Shaun Gayle
Matt Suhey
Mike Richardson
Dennis Gentry
Ken Taylor
Calvin Thomas
Walter Payton
Gary Fencik
Reggie Phillips
Mike Singletary
Jim Morrissey
Cliff Thrift
Brian Cabral
Otis Wilson
Tom Thayer
Wilber Marshall
Ron Rivera
Tom Andrews
Mark Bortz
Jay Hilgenberg
Henry Waechter
Andy Frederick
William Perry (The Fridge)
Mike Hartenstine
Jimbo Covert
Stefan Humphries
Steve McMichael
Keith Van Horne
Kurt Becker
Tim Wrightman
James Maness
Ken Margerum
Willie Gault
Dennis McKinnon
Brad Anderson
Emery Moorehead
Keith Ortego
Richard Dent
Tyrone Keys
Dan Hampton
Mike Ditka (head coach)
Buddy Ryan (defensive coordinator)
Member of the 1985 Cowboys:
Rafael Septien
Mike Saxon
Danny White
Gary Hogeboom
Steve Pelluer
Victor Scott
James Jones
Everson Walls
Michael Downs
Ron Fellows
Robert Lavette
Timmy Newsome
Dennis Thurman
Tony Dorsett
Vince Albritton
John Williams
Bill Bates
Ricky Easmon
Todd Fowler
Dextor Clinkscale
Jeff Rohrer
Randy White
Steve DeOssie
Eugene Lockhart
Mike Hegman
Jesse Penn
Don Smerek
Jim Cooper
Glen Titensor
Tom Rafferty
Kurt Petersen
Chris Schultz
Broderick Thompson
Crawford Ker
Howard Richards
Mark Tuinei
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
Phil Pozderac
Jim Jeffcoat
John Dutton
Tony Hill
Karl Powe
Mike Renfro
Leon Gonzalez
Doug Cosbie
Fred Cornwell
Kenny Duckett
Gordon Banks
Brian Salonen
David Ponder
Kevin Brooks
Tom Landry (head coach)

[@pullt]

The sad part is you could have driven to any town in Central Texas and found an equivalent bar, restaurant, diner, etc. with equivalent stories.

[@mrmonty86]

Wade Roberts gives a whole new meaning for "fake news".

[@derekbrown2215]

On a separate but related note, that mural is pretty cool!

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

Clearly Da Bears' victory had been so resounding that the patrons tore down the place where they witnessed it and changed their names to avoid ever having to acknowledge what happened. It's like an advanced case of amnesia brought on by trauma.

[@jeffanderson3962]

I assume this guy is a high ranking reporter at CNN now...

[@walterlv01]

I wonder where the guy even went that weekend - sounds like he had probably already written most of the story beforehand and just filled in the game details after. Probably took a vacation somewhere else while telling everyone he was in rural Texas.

[@pronkb000]

That return trip to Eden to find the bar brings to mind George Costanza's long, painful insistence on showing Susan's parents his second home in the Hamptons.

[@DolFan316]

Any Seinfeld reference gets an instant like from me. 👏👏👏

[@peacefrog0521]

“it’s not a lie if you believe it.”

[@anonymoususer450]

A reporter making up something? Never heard that one before

[@chicagojeff]

Outstanding. I had totally forgotten about this. RIP Mike Royko. He was that dude...

[@tookmyjob]

Singletary yelling at the Dallas crowd leaving early, something like: “Where are you going? We want witnesses!” If you’ve never watched that game, I would highly recommend it.

[@thunderlightning1980]

Singletary said that while playing NFL Football '95 (1994-1995 season), he tackles Steve Young and look down at him saying, "Where you going?"

[@Unknown-bq9id]

"Drama on the field." The only drama on the field was HOW badly the Bears would beat the shit out of the Cowboys at Texas Stadium, in large part because of Buddy Ryan--his son Rex said that Buddy HATED Dallas, and that's why he had the defense beat the shit out of the Cowboys (and look at what Ryan did when he was HC of the Eagles in the 1980s)...

[@MarquisdeSuave]

"And then when Walter Payton got tackled by Randy White to stop the Bears for a 1st down all the guys took out their six shooters and in unison let out a big Texas YAAAHHOOO and emptied their firearms into the air. Clyde 'Big Tex' Wilson then went outside to find a dead cow and butchered it right there on the street. They then took the meat outside and grilled it." - part of Roberts story that got cut (probably).

[@miketemple7686]

Now that’s pure quality.🤣👍

[@nasetvideos]

Well, this one is for sure a story I never heard of--Wow, just wow. Talk about fake news. Unreal. What's so impressive is the way you not only find these stories but how well you explain them. Best channel on KZbin for NFL history for sure...and congratulations on 23,000 subscribers. That's awesome. Keep the great videos coming--Great story-telling today, as always.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

Well it IS a good channel for NFL HISTORY BUT I STILL think Dave Demasheck's N "IF" L is COOLER.

[@82dorrin]

If this happened today, the reporter would make up some BS about the fictional bar patrons screaming racial slurs at them and being transphobic.

[@TPTGopher]

You know it's bad when you're exposed by a newspaper most famous for someone's reaction to its fake news...

[@DolFan316]

@@82dorrin And he'd actually be taken seriously by at least half the nation.

[@82dorrin]

At least Eden Texas is a real place. If this happened today, the reporter would make up some BS about the fictional bar patrons screaming racial slurs at them and being transphobic.

[@DwayneIsKing]

I mean, did he NOT think that someone, at least 1 damn person would go to that bar and see if it was real?

[@DMS-pq8]

Have to wonder what Roberts was thinking while flying down to Texas with his boss to find a bar and people who didn't exist

[@meatwad42069]

me hearing the names jefferson davis bonner and monroe boudreaux: no fucking way me 4 minutes later: ok

[@peytondoss7200]

It sounds like a twilight zone episode

[@jbratt]

Now a days a “journalist” can make up a story and literally get a Pulitzer. When the story gets found out nothing happens and is swept under the carpet.

[@recklssabndon]

In Eden everyone knows about this - they knew a newspaper man from Chicago was coming down that Sunday and a few of the guys got together to punk him: using fake names. Surprising that it’s worked so well that still nobody has figured it out 😂

[@TPTGopher]

Given that the city's other major newspaper is best known for the image of its fake headline (which wasn't even the biggest lie on the front page) being laughed at by the subject of it, they figured that a reporter from Chicago would be an easy mark.

[@johannasperski9838]

Is it really THAT unfathomable that a report would make something up? Sounds like he's qualified for and editorial department head at CNN

[@TPTGopher]

Or the New York Times

[@ppj0241]

@@TPTGopher Or FOX.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@ppj0241 give me one lie that Fox ever told. Just 1 would do. And I'm talking about the actual news and not an opinion show.

[@ppj0241]

@@Rockhound6165 Claiming that the election was rigged even after Trump appointed judges say it wasn't.

[@OJspencer22]

@@Rockhound6165 cable news is 90 percent opinion shows whether it's CNN or Fox, don't know why you'd use that qualifier, but Fox is notorious for undermining their actual journalists who tend to do real journalism with their opinion shows

[@JDnFL]

Reporters lying isn't shocking, never has been, never will be shocking.

[@angelomercado9293]

Was this an episode on the twilight zone ???

[@tookmyjob]

I'm from Chicago and never heard that tale. Awesome.

[@TimEric4d3d3d3]

same

[@rx2z14]

Crazy… been through eden many times.

[@christopherhanley4807]

Here's where yer breathalyzer comes in handy.

[@rowdycmoore]

Okay, mad props on this video just for mentioning Phineas & Ferb.

[@matthewdaley746]

Ashley Tisdale cries herself to sleep realizing Candace Flynn is the peak of her career, Christy Carlson Romano can, also, relate, too.

[@tigercap100]

CNN would love him

[@RicoBurghFan]

How do people like this think they're gonna get away with it. The arrogance and laziness to attempt something like this is unreal 😳

[@DolFan316]

Except that these das media members get away with it all the time. It doesn't even matter if people know it's a lie.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

The best part is that he wasted two days afterward trying to prove to his boss that the story was legit.

[@americankulak2294]

JaguarGatorFan: "Obviously when you run a major newspaper you can't have someone making stuff up". New York Times: "Hold My Beer". Side note: after writing this article Wade Roberts got promoted and he's currently working as the White House Correspondent for CNN covering the 2020 Election, which was the most fair and honest election in history.

[@d0nKsTaH]

What ?? All these years and that story was BS? Figures

[@jamesjames6601]

This should've been an Unsolved Mysteries episode. What if it was a ghost bar he walked into and when he walked out it vanished in thin air!

[@jlh4jc]

This gives me a brilliant idea. How about I, a reporter from Texas go to a random town in Illinois to do a feel good story on Bears fans? I'll head over to Waukegan and go to this bar called Bundy's. The owner is Al and he's a retired shoe salesman. I see 4 of his regular patrons all with walrus mustaches, deep Chicahgo accents, and plates of brats. One guy I talk to is Bill Swerski. Every Sunday after services at the St. Ignatius Catholic Church, he goes to Bundys and washes down those brats with Old Style along with his friends Todd O'Connor and Carl Witkowski.

[@DMS-pq8]

Don't forget the big guy whose always talking about Da Bears

[@matthewdaley746]

Ed O'Neill's truly a great actor, unfortunate, that his tombstone will read, AL Bundy, that's it.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@DMS-pq8 At the totally opposite end of the spectrum you have George Wendt, who lucked into Cheers, and, still acts, despite, no discernible talent, whatsoever.

[@jlh4jc]

@@matthewdaley746 Don't forget Ed O'Neill had an 11 year gig on Modern Family as Jay Pritchett. Not to mention being paired with Sofia Vergara. Not to shabby.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@jlh4jc No, it isn't, but, it's the same as Andy Griffith being remembered less for Matlock, despite, it being on longer.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Must have been a paranormal time slip. The bar and its patrons exist in an alternate reality. Mystery solved! Next…

[@leogetz3570]

Ah, the good old days when journalists could be fired for lying.....

[@matthewdaley746]

Terrible journalists still can.

[@darincornell5896]

1985 was the year Sidd Finch broke onto the scene with his 158-mph fastball at the Mets training camp. I wonder if Wade Roberts was inspired and then realized, "Oh crap, I can't just say this was an April Fools joke."

[@markbrian7179]

Wade Roberts should talk to Reggie Rucker.

[@trevorhembrough1290]

Umm, so I did a quick Google search to see what ole Wade’s been up to since turning down the Dean position 20 years ago…. He’s still a Professor at Columbia. In the Journalism department. He’s actually been continuously employed there since 1988. It’s on his LinkedIn page, and his Facebook profile (apparently, he’s also an amateur pilot). It’s also on the school’s website. You can’t make this shit up (at least not as easily as Wade can).

[@Rockhound6165]

Sounds about right. Only in liberalville do people like this advance. If someone along the lines of George Will did something like this, after they were sued into oblivion by the town, their career would have been over.

[@8644mec]

@@Rockhound6165 Jesus Chris dude, do you trump cult members have to bring politics into everything??? Funny you mention liberals lying to get ahead when politicians in your own damn republican party have literally made a living based on that stuff. You should donate more money to your cult leader. He needs it to "stop the steal". Nevermind that he's pocketing every single dollar from you idiots, you should just totally keep giving him your money.

[@8644mec]

@@Rockhound6165 Seriously, keep donating to your cult leader. He needs it more than you do. Drain that savings account!! Your country and Trump need you!!

[@johnhamilton9165]

@@Rockhound6165 Columbia university has some nut jobs for sure but kinda funny since aren’t they an IVY league school

[@DolFan316]

@@Rockhound6165 And you're surprised by this, knowing the world we live in?

[@82dorrin]

Wade Roberts was possibly bamboozled!

[@marcus813]

I was a mass communications major in college and I feel embarrassed for Roberts. He was dead-ass wrong for doing this. Building credibility is hard, but blowing it so easy.

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

Very similar to the Reggie Rucker story. It’s so easy to make something up and not think through the potential consequences of it. I’m really glad I discovered this channel, there are so many interesting, lesser known stories out there. As a side note, since I’m still going through all your videos, have you ever done a breakdown of the Saints’ surprise onside kick against the Colts in the super bowl? Everyone called Sean Payton a genius for that, but if it hadn’t worked, and there was a real chance that it wouldn’t, he would’ve been the scapegoat of all scapegoats had the Saints lost. Very interesting decision.

[@matthewdaley746]

It only worked after the, "sure-handed," receiver just dropped it.

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Do a video on Barry Switzers time with the Cowboys

[@ricstormwolf]

A completely made up story? Sounds like Hulk Hogan was a freelance news writer, too 😂😂

[@scottconner7930]

36 Years Ago

[@bens5661]

This wouldn't be the last time the 1985 Bears got involved in a bogus story. Prior to Super Bowl XX, New Orleans sportscasting legend Buddy Diliberto claimed that Jim McMahon said "All the women of New Orleans are sluts." After some heat, Buddy D apologized and said that the interview never happened (he was briefly suspended).

[@tookmyjob]

Yup!

[@DolFan316]

McMahon wasn't wrong.

[@deanhagerman6843]

What a cluster fuck.....

[@67marlins]

Kind of sad that a professional would slide pure fiction into an assignment that assumes honesty......

[@TheMisanthropist69]

If this happened today, there'd be a bunch of people defending Roberts and claiming the town just vanished like magic. Or that the CIA did it or something stupid like that. And Roberts himself would probabpy get a pay raise for all the attention he brought the paper

[@DolFan316]

If he was a far leftist, absolutely.

[@BrendonChase2012]

I used to love drinking in Banner's mobile bar, back in the 80s, sad it only made it to Eden, Texas that one time back in '85. Funny, I remember that Chicago newspaper man. I do feel kinda bad though, I remember him writing Bonner's, and meant to say "no, it's Banner's". My bad.

[@samright4661]

Wade Roberts should apply at CNN he would fit in there 😂

[@8644mec]

You mean as opposed to OAN, FOX News or NewsMax, where they are literally telling you lies about how bad the vaccine is, yet every single one of them has had their shots. Like that???

[@8644mec]

You should totally donate more money to your cult leader. He needs it! Drain that savings account for Trump!!!

[@bkjbearcat78]

This story kind of reminds me of the New York Magazine article “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night.” The piece was the bases for Saturday Night Fever and brought disco to the mainstream. It wasn’t until 1996 that the writer admitted that most of not all of it was fabricated. Many of the people he wrote about he based it on guys in the English punk scene he new.

[@CTubeMan]

You’d think Wade Roberts would have learned from either Janet Cooke or Reggie Rucker. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about Rucker lying on air about a conversation he had with Bengals Coach Sam Wyche before a game in 1984.

[@xeroabyss9597]

Six minutes in, and I have no idea what this is about.

[@NickJaime]

If Miami went in 85 the bears would've lost that super bowl but the dolphins lost in the second round or something like that. They were the only team to beat the bears in 85 which was why they didn't go undefeated.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Memorably, I was at that MNF game at the Orange Bowl in ‘85. The crowd was wild with Dolphin fans… …and I was from out-of-town, rooting for the Bears.

[@deusfilius7]

Perhaps he got the wrong town? Texas is big, after all.

[@williamherman9065]

From early 1985 through the entire 1986 Season, John Madden and Pat Summerall did most of the Bears games. They were almost always the broadcast team for those incredible Bears teams of that era! I loved it. I will never forget those days!

[@abneralbertoarandanassar8520]

A man ahead of his time, he would make Adam Shefter proud

[@Rockhound6165]

Or Brian Williams.

[@GeeCoach35]

😂😂

[@tigercap100]

He'd be a star at CNN today

[@DolFan316]

I was LOOKING for a comment like this! And yes, it's absolutely true. You can't get hired as a "reporter" anywhere these days unless you lie 24/7.

[@TPTGopher]

@tigercap100 Not if MSNBC had anything to say about it...

[@Staceyatkinson4496]

Brilliant, where do you find these stories jg39

[@adamplace1414]

You've had a lot of great videos but this might be my favorite.

[@diaz5292]

Great story. Perhaps your best ever. Thanks👍

[@Rantman9]

Imagine if you will, you have just entered a small unheard-of town. Your surroundings are unfamiliar yet friendly. You write of your findings only to find the people never existed... You've just entered... The "Bono Zone" (theme music starts)

[@igorslocks]

Real Bear fans will tell you - SBXX wasn't the highlight. 44-0 was. Believe that.

[@bridesblade5307]

That Bears defense though!

[@matthewdaley746]

Offense, not, as, good.

[@EdBurke37]

"The dumbest lie in NFL history." Aaron Rogers: Hold mah beer. Edit: The better joke of course would've been "Hold mah horse paste".

[@kzamart]

no lies detected there

[@EdBurke37]

@@kzamart I regret not going with "Hold mah horse paste' instead.

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

The Aaron Rodgers soap opera (not just this latest episode, but the whole spat with McCarthy etc.) deserves a deep breakdown on this channel.

[@Rockhound6165]

You do realize that Ivermectin is prescribed to people, right? So, in your own right, stop going with the leftist lie that people are taking horse dewormer. Hell, even Sanjay Gupta thinks that claim is ridiculous. It's discovery that it works in humans won a Nobel Prize. But you keep taking the thousand booster shots for the useless vaccine.

[@kennyj204]

@@Rockhound6165 Thank you for correcting his information. It’s so frustrating when people just regurgitate what they hear on the news without having any understanding of the science or facts.

[@67marlins]

A side conversation...but did Mike Ditka really consider Tom Landry a mentor? I respect both of them, but always thought Ditka considered himself kind of a maverick- one of-a-kind....and just don't remember him saying much about influences of his coaching career & philosophy. Maybe some die-hard Bears fans can fill me in...

[@matthewdaley746]

Yes, he brought him over from the Eagles, and, he kept him, with, the Cowboys for many years, after that, as an assistant coach, firmly trusting.

[@KT72273]

"They say we haven't played anybody. I guess you could say we still haven't." -- Chicago Bears linebacker Otis Wilson, following his team's 44-0 win at the NFC East-leading Cowboys. I think Everson Walls said that about Da Bears!

[@matthewdaley746]

As great as the 1985 Bears were, that Game really said way more about the Cowboys.

[@peytondoss7200]

And then they played Miami lol

[@matthewdaley746]

​@peytondoss7200 Years, were, nastily, horrific.

[@jasonoverbeck5042]

Decades later this same reporter completely changed his identity and "misheard" the phrase "Let's go Brandon" while reporting.....live

[@kevinmoore2929]

In small town Central Texas back then, the bar would more than likely been a private club. A lot of towns and counties were dry back then or all you could buy was beer, no hard liquor. Just ask anyone you know from Abilene about Impact.

[@anthony0358]

I love this channel! I am sharing all the videos on my Twitter.

[@luisfrau9810]

The super bowl that year was great for us Bear fans, but it was a rout that easily could have rivaled the 1940 championship game. (Bears won 73-0). The greatest super bowl was the one that never happened. The Pats backed into the playoffs and then, the super bowl. It was supposed to be the Miami Dolphins, the only team to beat the Bears that year.

[@matthewdaley746]

Lacked defense, really bad.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Backed into it??? The Pats played magnificently through three games in the AFC playoffs. They took the Dolphins down in Miami … which the Bears did not do. New England got it done, Chicago choked.

[@luisfrau9810]

@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 …… and then the Super Bowl happened.

[@luisfrau9810]

@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 did the Pats even win their division that year? And when, while the Bears shut out both playoff teams and won the super bowl, did the bears choke?

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

@@luisfrau9810 Oh come on! You gotta expect me to push back when you announce that the Pats “backed into it”. Yeah, the Bears were great that year, probably one of the greatest of all time. Truth be told, I really liked that team; but you’ve got to give credit where it’s due. The Patriots had a marvelous playoff run in ‘85. They won three road games against tough opponents (yeah, that comes with being a wild card) so I’m gonna call you out for disrespecting them. The Dolphins had their chance to get to the Super Bowl that year. They were at home for the AFC championship game and were heavily favored. Everyone in Miami was looking for a chance to beat the Bears again and everyone in Chicago was looking for a chance to even the score from that MNF game (which I actually attended, by the way, and rooted for the Bears). Didn’t happen. Dolphins had every advantage but the Pats wanted it more. That day, New England was better than Miami and certainly deserved a Super Bowl berth. Please don’t go off and say they “backed into” anything. As the saying goes, “That’s why they play the games.” And you gotta admit, both the Bears and Pats had “big games” in Miami and only one of them emerged victorious. Bears we’re clearly the better team that year, but the Pats get a consolation prize for that one accomplishment.

[@troyc4250]

There’s an episode of WKRP where Bailey fabricated a story about a sick child. It was a good episode.

[@CTubeMan]

I think that was a take off on the Janet Cooke kerfuffle I alluded to in my post.

[@ryanmiller6398]

If told slightly differently this could be a mr ballen story lol

[@Backpackfiles]

I absolutely forgot about this and did NOT know that he was offered a Columbia College gig.

[@raymondsolisjr.1262]

We still are America's team

[@jayjackson597]

"outside of Dallas" 245 miles!

[@matthewdaley746]

Yeah, but, you have to remember, how, massive Texas is, kind of, like, how, Calgary, is, "outside," of, Edmonton, by Canadian standards, they're, next-door.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@matthewdaley746however, by "outside" Dallas we're talking Farmers Branch, Carrollton, or Irving. Not a town 4 hours away. Hell, Eden is more "outside" Austin than it would be Dallas.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@Rockhound6165 Yeah, but, most non-natives simply forgot about the rest of Texas, especially, Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S., the recent fatal concert reminded people that it isn't just sports.

[@DolFan316]

@@matthewdaley746 If there's a pandemic still going on, then why are so many people being allowed to attend concerts? It can't be because vaxxed people never get infected or infect others, because that's not true.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@DolFan316 Rockers gotta rock, apparently.

[@prairiehawker]

Oh yeah this was a big shit show in Chicago. The drama was huge.

[@rustyshackleford1114]

A reporter lied ? No way.

[@msarzo]

This dude was Jayson Blair before Jayson Blair was. P.S. I actually met Jayson Blair when I worked at The Diamondback years ago. This fabrication was worse than if Roberts did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play.

[@MikeHL78]

Yes. Or Stephen Glass. I still offer the movie "Shattered Glass" to people as evidence that Hayden Christiansen actually can act, so long as it's not a Star Wars movie with George Lucas writing his dialogue.

[@matthewdaley746]

Pretty execrable, very bad.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@MikeHL78 Life As A House.

[@TPTGopher]

@MikeHL78 And even those performances look better with the hindsight/lore that the "wooden" nature of his character really makes sense in-universe.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@TPTGopher Looking, like, absolute, masterpieces.

[@johnmiller5679]

Most journalist lie but not to this extent and if you don’t believe that you just are not looking close enough. I grew up on Long Island there was ruins at called Oak Beach Inn. Hears after I left Long Island I googled the OBI and found. Story talking about it. The story was out of a LI magazine and was talking about bar which was the birth place of the LI Ice Tea. It said the bar was on Fire Island which was not at all true it was on Oak Beach Island. Then a few paragraphs down it said patrons who Missed the last ferry back to the main land would sometimes sleep on the beach. Problem was Oak Beach had no ferry and a picture of the bar for the story showed the bars parking lot with it’s hundreds of 1970’s cars from the two. I wrote an email to the magazine with no replay. It was obvious the writer of the story was not from LI nor did she do any research into the OBI but unlike this story nobody cared and let it go unchecked.

[@denisceballos9745]

Back then it was a big deal to report false stories. Today - not so much.

[@keithboyd9582]

I was actually at that game with my mom. That game was an embarrassment for the Cowboys.

[@matthewdaley746]

That Game was the beginning of the end for Tom Landry, really sad that he stayed for far too long.

[@feltij5245]

Need to give CNN this advice.

[@jewsco]

Wow I am from chicago and I was 12 in 1985 but don’t remember this at all good pull

[@DolFan316]

I was 12 in '85 too! Seriously.

[@richardisner4030]

The Cowboys

[@WCEndZone]

The Bears organization DID NOT disband the "Honey Bears" when Halas died. They were with the team thru the 1985 season.

[@matthewdaley746]

Another Crime Against Humanity by Virginia McCaskey, although, the greatest is living completely out of, spite.

[@jlh4jc]

So they still existed? Unlike the people and the bar in Eden!

[@matthewdaley746]

@@jlh4jc Yeah, until, The, Wicked Witch Of, The, Windy City, snuffed them entirely, awful event.

[@2cool4fluoride]

Hank Hill writes Fear and Loathing

[@diaz5292]

What audacity! And by audacity I mean hubris, overweening pride!...lol

[@dallrevenge9256]

Meanwhile back at the ranch

[@ScootyPuffSr7]

Stephen Glass immediately comes to mind.

[@puglife8946]

Too many adds

[@stevenbauer4799]

that was the 45-0 ass whoopin' the to be s b champ bears put on landry's boys that season. A game that was so lopsided ditka actually apologized for it after the game not wanting to embarrass his mentor landry in that fashion. And that boys team actually won the nfc east that year only to get routed by rams in the dickerson 230 rushing yards-a record for a playoff game-performance. It was also the beginning of the sad end of the landy era for boys that ended in '88.

[@matthewdaley746]

For extra bite, that Game, likely, hastened Buddy Ryan's departure, when he didn't call off the dogs, said before, bears repeating, Tom Landry should have retired when Roger Staubach did.

[@majorcoleman7356]

I remember watching this game i'm a big Bears fan and I loved watching them destroy the Cowboys I hated the Cowboys since they beat the brakes off of Chicago in the 77 playoff's , thanks for bringing back those great memeriors of when the Bears where good , because they are not good now, and I never ever heard anything about this story

[@miketemple7686]

BREAKING NEW: Wade Roberts leaving his post at Columbia University to accept the position as chief operations officer at CNN. At least that’s what Wade said🙄

[@deansch6089]

I'm surprised they didn't just put him on the political beat. Truth doesn't matter there as long as you can push the agenda.

[@reluctantfrench8161]

This is the best video on this channel and it has nothing to do with football

[@DMS-pq8]

I was a huge Cowboys fan under Landry and this had to be the most depressing game I ever saw

[@matthewdaley746]

It truly broke Mike Ditka's heart, this was his nadir after Roger Staubach retired, his departure was only a matter of time.

[@DMS-pq8]

@@matthewdaley746 Yeah it was really the beginning of the end for Landry

[@matthewdaley746]

@@DMS-pq8 Amazing how controversial many still felt that his dismissal was.

[@DMS-pq8]

@@matthewdaley746 It was the way it happened that got Cowboy fans upset

[@matthewdaley746]

@@DMS-pq8 Tom Landry could have stopped it by retiring, alas, he, unfortunately, didn't.

[@luisreyes1963]

It's high time i heard a story from the golden age of the Chicago Bears that was the '85 season. BEAR DOWN! 🐻

[@daBEAGLE1017]

Even though Chicago isnt where we want them......BEAR DOWN!!

[@jimroscovius]

The Bears Still Suck!!

[@daBEAGLE1017]

@@jimroscovius lol they do indeed. At least were not jumping band wagon like Packer fans did in the 80s.

[@jimroscovius]

@@daBEAGLE1017 I was born in Wisconsin, so I've been a Packer fan for 63 years. Yup, even through the tough times of the '70s and '80s. 26 years of futility, but at least it's not 35 years 🤣

[@daBEAGLE1017]

@@jimroscovius i too was born in Wisconsin and seeing how true Packer fans treated their team when they were losers made me the Bears fan i am today. I guess thats why i stick by my team. Its kinda sad that the Packers took away the 4 Milwaukee games from the 414 fans when they realized they didnt need the financial help any longer because they were selling out Lambeau after the mid 80s. Maybe we can get the Milwaukee Badgers back as a team.

[@parttimepreppers9907]

I think he Ended up getting a Job with MSNBC or was it CNN!🤤

[@zigwald]

he now works for CNN?

[@johnhardman825]

I am a longtime Cowboy fan, my brother and I went to that game and we were laughing by the 3rd quarter. The game wasn't even that close, the Bears could have put up 60 or 70 points if they wanted too! That was the start of the end for Coach Landry, the lack talent of the Cowboys showed that day.

[@matthewdaley746]

Mike Ditka's immense hatred at Buddy Ryan truly boiled over that day, when he insisted on running up the score, just to, spite, him.

[@luisfrau9810]

After the first quarter, nobody wanted to be a Cowboy QB.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@luisfrau9810 Can't be too shocked.

[@sparkyfister]

You're a good story teller, not as good Roberts.