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Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1985 season.
McMahon dives into the end zone to score a touchdown for the Chicago Bears during Super Bowl XX The 1985 Chicago Bears' visit to the White House in 2011. In 1985, the Bears had a tremendous season, later voted by Sports Illustrated magazine as the greatest of all time, winning their first 12 games and finishing at 15–1. McMahon became a media ...
Super Bowl III in January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games. [4] A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5]
Eight franchises have won consecutive Super Bowls: ... Super Bowl XX: Chicago Bears 46, New England Patriots 10. ... Chicago Bears (NFL), San Diego Chargers (AFL) 1962: Green Bay Packers (NFL ...
XX: Mike Ditka: Chicago Bears: New England Patriots: Raymond Berry: 46–10 Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana: January 25, 1987 XXI: Bill Parcells: New York Giants: Denver Broncos: Dan Reeves: 39–20 Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California: January 31, 1988 XXII: Joe Gibbs (2) Washington Redskins: Denver Broncos: Dan Reeves [2 ...
He played twelve seasons, eleven for the Chicago Bears (1984–1994), and one for the San Diego Chargers (1995). He attended Ohio State University and was drafted by the Bears in the tenth round of the 1984 NFL Draft. [1] He was a member of the Bears squad that won Super Bowl XX in 1985. [2]
Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are the only starting quarterbacks to have won Super Bowls for two NFL teams, while Craig Morton and Kurt Warner are the only other quarterbacks to have started for a second team. Jim McMahon won a second Super Bowl ring having been a backup on the Brett Favre-led Green Bay Packers team that won Super Bowl XXXI.
m The Bears win in Super Bowl XX, marked the franchise's first Super Bowl victory and their ninth league championship. n The strike of 1987 reduced the regular season schedule from 16 to 15 games. o The Divisional Playoff game against the Eagles was known as the Fog Bowl due to the heavy fog that covered the field for most of the game.