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Chicago Tribune: Decades Later, '85 Bears Get White House Visit

About effin’ time, huh?

I suppose this means I can finally stop wearing my commemorative Bears Super Bowl tube socks and wash burn them. Would’ve been sweet to see Payton and Duerson there. Such is the slow damage of time on all of us.

Members of the 1985 Super Champion Chicago Bears team visiting native-Chicagoan, President Barack Obama, at the White House on 10.7.11. Obama holds an "85" Bears jersey. (Photo: Jason Reed/Reuters)
(Image: Jason Reed/Reuters)

Did not miss Dan Hampton’s self-induced political absence in the least. Dick.

I’m just going to come out and say it. This hurts a little bit. This is a hard thing for a Bears fan to do… You guys come into my house to rub it in.
U.S. President Barack Obama, welcoming the 2011 Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers to the White House, on 8.12.11

2010 NFL Season Standings, Week 15: Buffalo Bills 4-10, Chicago Bears 10-4
Talkin’ (some) Proudness. Sealing up an improbable NFC North Division title while introducing Favre to another kind of frozen tundra and an early earlier retirement.

2010 NFL Season Standings, Wekk 13: Buffalo Bills 2-10, Chicago Bears 9-3
The whiteout continues, while the tension builds.

2010 NFL Season Standings: Buffalo Bills 2-9, Chicago Bears 8-3
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in WNY. Top of the world divisional heap, Ma.

2010 NFL Season Standings - Week 11: Buffalo Bills 2-8, Chicago Bears 7-3
Two wins in a row? Somebody break up these Bills. Bears shoot depleted Fish in a barrel.

2010 NFL Season Standings, Week 10: Buffalo Bills 1-8, Chicago Bears 6-3
Finally off the schneid (thank you, hapless Lions!).

Bears and Packers tied atop their division restores the natural order of football things in the midwest.

2010 NFL Season Standings Week 9 - Buffalo Bills: 0-8, Chicago Bears 5-3
The head-to-head matchup was going to be a mish-mash of happysad, no matter who won or lost. The positive spin…? The Bears stay division-competitive.

This game photo sums up the Bills’ season, no spin needed.
Chicago Bears Running Back Chester Taylor mid-tackle, while a Buffalo BIlls helmet flies unattached in the frame. (Photo by Scott /Chicago Tribune)
(Photo: Scott Trazzante/Chicago Tribune)

2010 NFL Season Standings, Week 8: Buffalo Bills 0-7, Chicago Bears 4-3 (Bye)
Close (again) but no cigar, and now a waste of a perfectly good paper bag of shame. In Chicago, no news is good still bad news.

2010 NFL Season Standings - Week 7: Buffalo Bills, 0-6; Chicago Bears 4-3
A valiant effort against Baltimore comes up one bad officiating call short, while the Jay Cutler/Mike Martz experiment provides more anti-dividends.