The 1985 Bears are arguably the best team in pro football history. A 15-1 regular-season record. A team rife with Hall of Famers like Mike Singletary, Dan Hampton, and Walter Payton. A blowout in Super Bowl XX. They did it all.
But one black mark has followed the memory of perhaps the NFL’s most legendary team: Payton never got to score a touchdown in the title game.
It was lost in the shuffle of a 46-10 blowout, but indeed, the Bears’ best running back/player/human ever did not cross the goal line with the ball in his hands on that fateful January 1986 day in the Superdome.
