Training camp was longer and harder and tougher in the 1980s than it is now, and so it was that a beat-up, worn-out group of Chicago Bears, one night near the end of their summer in Platteville, Wis., some three hours from home, decided to cut loose a little.
Ron Rivera and a small group of young players were playing cards in a dorm room when Dan Hampton, Richard Dent and Steve McMichael stopped in to see if they wanted to come.
