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- Chicago Bears (10-2) at San Francisco 49ers (10-2)
December 14, 1987
Weather: 47 degrees, relative humidity 42%, wind 15 mph
Line: San Francisco
Over/Under: 45.5
Network: ABC
Announcers: Al Michaels, Frank Gifford, Dan Dierdorf
Starting QBs: Mike Tomczak (Chi), Joe Montana (SF)
Message for those claiming this game would've been been a different outcome if McMahon played: The 49ers still punched the Bears in the face the following season in the 88 NFC Championship Game 28-3 against the Jim McMahon-Bears.
49ers came to frigid Soldier Field and put a beat down. Bears actually beat them during the regular season.
@@retiredstalker
The '88 reg season game was something like a final score of 9-3 (yawns...)
Yes because comparing one years team to the next team makes sense
That was the game Ditka told McMahin if he audibles, he's pulled. So we had Ditkas awful play calling.
Well it would most likely not have been 41-0 because McMahon wouldn’t throw 4 (could have been 6) interceptions in the game. McMahon was never healthy after 1986. He was a good thrower on the move, could run, but after that season he was kind of inflexible, almost fossilized from the hits.
How cool was this era!! Love it
Candlestick Park was always a house of horrors for the Bears.
41-0 in this game.
23-0 in the 1984 NFCCG.
26-0 in 89.
52-14 in 91.
44-15 in the 94 playoffs.
17-0 in 2000
49-7 in 2003
32-7 in 2012
It was an odd phenomenon. A similar thing happens to the 49ers in Arrowhead stadium. Thank God they rarely play there.
Soldier Field 1988 NFC championship horror. 49ers 28-3.
That's how you knew the 85 team was special...beating up on the champion 49ers 26-10 the way they did.
@Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot Montana had a better than average day in passing and completions in that 26 to 10 loss in '85
I'd go so far as to say, that the only other player that had a better game, was Butler, kicking 5 or 6 field goals...
Which is not exactly being beaten up.
Remember, it was week 5 and didn't mean anything to anyone but Ditka.
@@kidmack3556 NFL players don't think like that. Every game on the schedule means something. 49ers lost the division by 1 game in 1985. This game you suggest they supposedly didn't care about made the difference between winning the division and settling for a wild card spot.
@@coreyrowe4119
This was week 6 Quiz Kid, nobody cared about the playoffs at least until after the field at Candlestick was fully sodded and the landlord Giants have gone home.
The must win game was week 14 MNF against the Rams for the NFC West, which "we" lost 27-20
Please don't try to tell someone who was actually around then and eating, drinking and sleeping Forty Niner FOOTBALL.
I remember this game. I was working as an Assistant Manager at a Popeye's Chicken in Chicago. There was a toll free number to the Chicago Tribune; I was able to get updates to this game. Not only did the Bears get pounded in this game, Chicago was hit with a snowstorm. Then, on the way home, I hit a snowdrift that tore my muffler off!!! Very bad night!!!!!
You got your muffler torn off and the Bears got their doors blown off.
@@vincedidiana5781 Haaaaa!!! Agreed 100%!!!
I loved those 1-800 sports score services!
I was like you, but for round by round reports for the biggest fights.
Times change...
Now we have these personalized devices, and now I couldn't name one champion in any weight class in any of the multitudes of governing bodies.
I remember this game and how bad the bears got beat but didn't realize it was 1987. I enjoyed watching the bears get beat up real bad like that.
I remember it was 1987 only because I was in the army and knew an obnoxious Bears fan who also had premadonna issues. Back then i wasn't dedicated to any one team, as i only rooted for California teams since some people at school had problems with ex-Californians. Anyways he overheard someone else who wanted to see about betting me on this game, and demanded that he get in on the action. No problem.
I was sky high when i heard on the radio the 49ers pummeling his team so bad. It was all the more sweeter during the next game when the Hawks (my team since 1991) nearly gave the Bears another beat-down, winning 33-24 (i think).
I love Steve Young’s run vs the Vikings in 88 but the first play from scrimmage since replacing Joe is probably my all time favorite Young play. How he lowers the shoulder on the safety and drives him back. It was known the. Young wasn’t there to fuck around in SF and immediately pressured the greatest QB of all time the very next season for the starting job.
Nothing new here to see! The 49ers smacking the Da Da Da Bears around as usual!
Lol Harbaugh getting chewed out by Ditka
This is my all-time favorite Steve Young stat line: 9-19 100 yards 4 TDs, Passer Rating of 103.1
Phil Simms had the same stat line against the 49ers in the 1986 playoff game. 9-19 4 TDs
Dwight Clarks last TD catch. RIP.
Dwight Clark...never heard of that guy
49ers-Bears were clash of the titans in the 80's. One of the best games ever was '84 Championship game played in Jan 1985. That game featured Buddy Ryan's '85 defense vs one of Walsh's best offensive units ever led my Montana.
Best game what are you smoking it was 23-0
The game was closer than the score with hall of gamers on both sides, hits were ferocious, it was a battle! This was the ‘85 Bears defense vs Bill Walsh’s greatest offense.
The Bears embarrassed themselves on national television. They couldn't blame Doug Flutie or throw him under the bus for this debacle.
Highest rated 49ers team by DVOA. Can't believe they lost to Minnesota.
I remember that game. I have no idea what happened to them that day, but they didn't stand a chance against Minnesota.
@@MikeyStoneking Anthony Carter happened, and Montana was drunk.
+@@astrostar49 Won next 2 consecutive Superbowls.
I know….they would have annihilated Washington
@@astrostar49 🤣🤣🤣 you made me think Joe was drunk foreal 🤣🤣🤣
18:41 Steve Young takes over
After this performance, the Bears should've joined me in Witness Protection!
My auntie was holding the “Go Red. Cream the Bears!” Sign.
Oh my, they did cream then. Lol!
This was Steve Young's first real game as a 49er. I was at this game, Super Bowl hopes were high for the 49ers and it was sickening when Montana went down with what appeared to be a serious knee injury. Turned out to be just hyperextension.
I remember the gum thing.
I think the next week or two, Jim McMahon was getting asked questions by a reporter and after being asked something somewhat controversial- Jim (being the jokester he always was) took out his gum and pretended to throw it at the reporter.
The room erupted with laughter.
I was asked if I wanted to sell my ticket to this game that Monday by a couple of people that day at work and I think I remember that someone that I didn't even know called me that day to ask to buy it.
Lots of people wanted to be there...
After Ditka had gone on HBO's "Inside The NFL" right after the '85 game and seemed to be trying to rub in a week 6 26-10 victory that seemed to mean nothing to the Forty Niners, I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen when it did matter, like homefield for at least one playoff game hanging in the balance.
AND...
After all that foolishness I went through buying those tickets, with the strike and some games being canceled, some games being refunded and some not etc. etc.
No way was I selling my precious ticket!
I could see the Faithful giving him and the Bears the business from my seat, which was behind the closed end goalposts above the Niner's entrance and looking towards the field, to the left of the visitor's entrance which passed between and underneath two stands of bleachers.
The "buzz" immediately made its way around the stands that he was yelling back at the hecklers and had thrown something at them.
What a great time.
R.I.P. Candlestick Park.
@@kidmack3556 Awesome! I was in 9th grade, my math teacher, Mrs. Matutsi, gave me 2 tickets for me and my dad to go. I was right behind TV Camera on 2nd level of closed end zone directly across from jumbo tron. Really disappointing when Joe hyperextended his knee. Steve Young’s 1st TD pass as a 49er went to Dwight Clark in our end zone. That was a beat down and we owed the Bears a beat down and the Giants at that time. Ditka never forgot Walsh putting Bubba Paris in at running back in the ‘84 championship game, so he was looking for revenge and that ‘85 game was first appearance of the fridge in the backfield. Great rivalry.
@@hardtimesbbq5265
Yeah, you were probably a couple of rows in front of where I sat that season.
I have to look on my old stubs.
It was the first row of seating just in front of the first walkway you'd come to if you were walking up from the front row and where your seats probably were.
That's the walkway that went almost all the way around and where all the off duty cops in the yellow windbreakers stationed themselves.
So both of us were in what I think they call "The Lower Ring"
Jerry's TD's were on our end too, if I remember right.
Well, just remember that you and me, got to see the #1 rated NFL player of all time in person and setting the records.
I saw Mays, McCovey and Bonds and Clemente and his Pirates in '71-72 Pelé in '75, Joe, Jerry, Roger and Ronnie in '85-'87 Gretzky in '88 Lemieux, Coffey and Jagr in '91 and Makarov in '93-'96
Only GREAT that I wished that I had gotten to see live that I didn't was Muhammad Ali.
@@kidmack3556 Yeah and don’t forget Walter Peyton! He did fumble that game though!
"We didn't have any short routes. We didn't have any West Coast, long handoffs. I'd rather take a stick in the eye than watch Bill Walsh's offense." - Jerry Glanville
1:01:03
Mike Ditka calls a run play on a 3rd and long.
Da Coach
I'm a Bears fan but Ditka....was not a good coach, let alone a great one. In fact, that was one of the biggest reasons the 49ers, Giants, and Redskins took more rings than Chicago. It's about the coach. Ditka was no Joe Gibbs, Bill Walsh, or Bill Parcells.
@@bpo1975 so true. Neil Armstrong and Buddy Ryan built the Super-Bowl Bears --Ditka inherited the team. They won games despite Ditka, not because of him. The coach and McMahon were the biggest problems, and the reason McMahon was always injured is because he was always out-of-shape, overweight, etc.
Montana never fully recovered from this injury for the playoffs, big factor in Vikings playoff loss.
No way, Joe was recovered from the hyperextension. The Viking loss was a combination of factors. That elite 49er team often got caught flat in games where they underestimated the opponent. The 49ers got caught in that game just sleep walking, too bad too because it was a sad last game for the great Dwight Clark.
+@@hardtimesbbq5265 Won the next 2 Super bowls after crushing Vikes in divisional playoffs 2 yrs in a row. Vikes still have not reached Superbowl since 1976. Never won one either.
@@hardtimesbbq5265 As I posted under 2 other comments, the 49ers should have won 4 straight SB's from 87-90. They were the best team all 4 years.
Little did Jim Harbaugh know that one day he would be the head coach of the 49ers and taking them to the Superbowl only to be cheated by the Ravens
Chested? lol
@@thefrase7884 actually there was only one bad calll during that game. they were more cheated by the Chiefs or should I say Bill vinovich👍😏💩
Do u want some cheese with that whine?
They definitely got cheated by the Ravens no question
49ers came out and laid an egg for 3 quarters vs. a team they were more talented than.
Ditka was getting heckled at half-time making his way to the locker room and he took the chewing gum out of his mouth and threw it at the 49ers fans that were heckling him, classic! Ditka was great.
Funny I remember the same thing.
We thought it was hilarious that he got so mad, seeing as how he gloated so after their last trip to Candlestick.
But it wasn't funny that he threw it at and hit a female spectator.
No class...
Didn't the person who got hit with the gum try to sue Ditka?😂
There was nothing finesse about Roger Craig and Tom Rathman running. It was smash mouth, in your face football.
The Bears Dynasty that never was.
They are one of the great defensive teams of all time in 86 they were actually better than 85 on defense they broke all kinds of Records they just didn't have a quarterback to become a dynasty if McMahon stays healthy they probably win two or three Super Bowls more than likely when McMahon played you almost could not beat them it's not an excuse I'm not even a Bears fan but they were just almost unbeatable if he played good
@@BruceWayne-ri4wr 84-86 was the peak of the Bears defense. McMahon getting injured killed them in 84 and 86. Though SF was still the better team in 84.
McMahon was the Bert(Hurt) Jones of the 1980,s. Miracle he was there for Superbowl XX.
Hi,I was wondering if you have the 1990 Tampa Bay at San Francisco game? I have always wanted too see that game. Thanks for all your uploads,brings back a lot of memories.
Being a 49ers fan this game is a remembrance of the dominant 49ers. But also seeing Dwight playing one of his last games as a niner is sad.
Dwight should've played at least one more season and retired with three rings
I remember this game (still have it on tape). First play for Steve Young - NFL: welcome to Steve Young!
I still have it on tape too. Lol
Didn't Young play for Tampa Bay prior to his time with the Niners?
Young played for Tampa Bay ever before he was with the Niners, numbnuts.
I always liked the look of that white towel hanging down from the back of Jerry Rice in his early seasons
Niners finished 13-2, and it was Dwight Clark's last season. The next season would be tougher, finishing at 10-6, before winning SB 23.
The more of these old games I go back and watch, the more I think, "Geez, was there ever a time McMahon wasn't hurt?"
He was lazy. He never worked out.
A complete asshole is what he is
It was a brutal era for QBs and the Bears defense drove a lot of teams to take cheap shots at McMahon.
17:20 Poor Richardson, he gets run over by Frank and then steamrolled by his own teammate Wilson.
Jim McMahon the Hurt Jones of the 1980s. It's amazing the Bears went to Superbowl XX. Bert Jones of the Baltimore Colts 70s was a great quarterback. When he wasn't on crutches.
Thank you for posting. Do you by any chance have the Steelers vs 49ers week 1 1987. Thank you in advance
Sorry, don't have it.
@@ilikesports No problem. Thank you for posting these videos. Brings back great memories of my childhood.
Do you have bears vs redskins 87 playoffs
@@zenbliss7336 That game has a copyright block so can't be uploaded.
In case you missed it, I did get a hold of that game and uploaded it recently.
I don't think Walsh was trying to run up the score on the Bears. Chicago didn't need any help beating themselves that night. Instead, with Montana injured, Walsh saw that Young was hungry for a chance to get some playing time and decided that maybe it was good to let Steve play all out because he might need him for the playoffs if Joe didn't recover. As it turned out in the playoffs, Walsh did need Young. As they say, Walsh always did things by design.
Montana 4-0 in Bowls, and Jim Kelly 0-4. Both had great careers and one is forgotten.
10:26 Rare footage of Montana completing a pass to The Fridge.
This game and tonight's shellacking of the Cowboys (42-10) has the same vibe for some reason.
Here is a little crazy history about this game. Young looked so much better than Joe in the last three games after the injury. He threw 9 TD and no picks. The 49ers won by scores of 41-0, 35-7, and 48-0 to end the season with Young as QB1. Then Joe played terrible against the Vikings in the upset loss, but Young played pretty good. Had Joe not come back, that team could have won the SB with Young. Walsh has said this was his best team.
The 87 bears went 11-4, despite a turnover differential of -20
1987 the Days when a Team could Afford to have Two Hall of fame QB,s
This era the only NFC team that could rival the 49ers was the Giants...people dont real7ze SF was a rough physical team on both sides...thier defense while not underatted was not talked about much...regardless they had some great defensive squads and would absolutely blast with any team...hence team of the decade...beat em all.
As a Bears fan, this team had way too much talent to only win one SB.
Long before "Beast Mode", there was Roger Craig!
Ditka should have been fired after the 1987 season. Back-to-back playoff losses vs. the Redskins (and the Bears were favored in both games). The team had sunk statistically by 87, and suffered blowout losses to the 49ers and Seahawks in weeks 14 & 15. There was lack-of-discipline in the squad at this point, and the 87 & 88 draft picks were garbage.
Wasn't this the Mike Ditka throwing chewing gum game?😂
6:09 Richard Dent Sack
This was a great team. Head scratcher that they got crushed by Minnesota in the playoffs.
It's because of the strike...
There were problems for many teams that season because of it.
The SB Champion giants missed the playoffs and finished at the bottom of their division. This was a team that was touted by some as "the greatest defense" in 1986.
It caused dissent among players and their respective owners, and it fostered distrust and hard feelings in the locker rooms between players that crossed the picket lines.
It also created a rift between the fans that supported the players and the fans who crossed the picket lines because they wanted to go and see the games that they had already paid for.
I had season tickets that year for the very first time and "took a bath" because of the strike. I was pro labor and pro union and still am, so I honored the striking players and therefore refused to attend the "replacement" games and didn't watch them on television either...
"There are a million and one stories in the City" and that '87 players strike (Primarily the demands for free agency, COLA, and the use of instant replay and some other concerns) and it's short term affect on that season and it's long term effect on how teams build champions is a story that many people have either forgotten about or never heard of.
1:12:00 Debartolo Jr.... in better times... For himself & 9er fans.
McMahon looks like the Terminator.
Bears unbelievably inept-it’s the NFL-they should have fired Ditka after this game. Of course, he’d blame everyone else.
At 2:45 Joe is 10 feet out of bound and he gets a helmet slap and no call.
I'm a 49ers fan now but after this game I hated the 49ers cause they humiliated my hometown squad.
1:05:00
Yeah, that was a bad call on Mike Tomczak, not that it would have mattered: 1) the 49ers would have won anyways, 2) I bet on the 49ers to win, 3) won the bet, and 4) that douchebag from Chicago that bet me never did pay off his debt (Bamberg, W. Germany).
30yrs later... this game Never Gets Old.
yea and Washington won Superbowl beating Bears on the road and Vikings on the road .. Vikings stunned 49 ers at candle stick in playoffs where Montana got benched ....
FERNANDO VON ROSSUM HOF
6:39 Bears stop Roger Craig
Bears were doing a good job against Montana....then they knocked him out of the game and Young was awesome
jojopuppyfish young did nothing the defense was in complete control of this game plus montana only played 1 complete series
The Bears did NOT knock Montana out of the game. Montana tripped pver his OWN mam, Roger Craig.
Love Dierdorf but he’s grasping at straws trying to make it sound like the Bears’ backup QB, TZack, has the advantage over the 49er backup QB because of TZack experience. Ummm, experience does count, but a career of sucking and no talent cannot compare against the talent and play of Young. Let’s put it this way, to translate to experience, it looks like Young is the 10 year veteran compared to TZack.
If jimmy Mac plays this game it would be a much different kind of game
Only time they beat San Francisco in Candlestick was with McMahon. I also love how Dan Hampton rips Mcahon every chance he gets but this was his time to step up and play well in a Monday night game and he in the whole defense lay an egg.
Oh yeah, like McMahon would have been able to make up for a 41-point deficit!!! 🤷🏻♂️🙄🤦🏻♂️
6 turnovers by half time. Imagine if they had a healthy McMahon. At least one more title?
No McMahon was a media hyped moron & the most overrated QB in history. Never had more than 15 TDs in a season. Never reached 2500 yards in a season. Finished his career with 100 TDs & 90 INTs. Harbaugh was better. & the 5 years they were elite (84-88) was because of Sweetness & an all time great defense.
Also those Bears were competing with dynasties in NY, WASH & SF who aside from 85 were just better.
You could have stuck Dan Marino in there and it would not have made a difference
At least 1 more turnover🤣🤣
A straight up 🍩 burger
Typical Joe….a stiff breeze injures this guy.
He’s lucky Walsh didn’t start Young earlier otherwise Young would be considered greatest Niner QB of all time.
Dude was probably 170-175 pounds for much of this career. They listed him at 195 but there's no way.
What a luxury that must of been for the 49ers to have Steve Young as your backup.
True but why couldn't Young just be satisfied being Montana's backup?
@DeplorableJaredBrodersen Steve Young won 2 mvps(92 and 94) plus won a Super Bowl and Super Bowl mvp. He is also in the hall of fame. None of those happen if he would have just stayed Montanas back up. Plus back ups make way less money and I'm sure he wanted to be paid like a starter. Just to good to ride the bench.
41-0 Niners, the Bears were no pushovers with a 10-3 record up to this game.
Both teams were 10-2 heading into the game.
I remember this game way too well. I remember people saying that the game was not as close as the score would indicate.
18:30 ….and the greatest Quarterback controversy in NFL history was born.
It was big controversy, but I remember the Gilliam or Bradshaw, Hogeboom or White, Schoeder or Williams being much bigger.
I remember that just before the beginning of the '88 season, the gossip around the watercooler being about Young replacing Montana, and me saying that if I had still been a season ticket holder, I would sell my tickets if Joe Montana wasn't the starter.
Good thing for the Forty Niner Faithful that it was just gossip.
Sneak preview of the 1988 NFC Championship Game
The 1987 49ers were one of the best teams to not win a super bowl. Right up there with the 2007 Patriots. Bill Walsh even said this was his best team.
It's crazy how the mind and memory work. For some reason, I distinctly remember watching this game upstairs in a part of the house we normally didn't watch. I remember struggling to stay up and being saddened tremendously as a 7 year old would when his team gets destroyed. Great channel!!
This was supposed to be a huge match up and most people had the Bears on top but 9ers destroyed them. This was actually one of the 49ers best seasons but surprisingly lost in the playoffs
SF should have won 4 straight SB's from 87-90. They were the best team all 4 years.
It's disgraceful that Roger Craig isn't in the hall of fame.
Still cant believe this 49er team lost to a much weaker MN team at home in the playoffs. Biggest upset in NFL history.
That happened because of the strike...
There were problems for many teams that season because of it.
The SB Champion giants not only missed the playoffs but finished at the bottom of their division. And that was a team that many toute as "the greatest defense" in 1986.
It also caused dissent among players and their respective owners, and it fostered distrust and hard feelings in the locker rooms between players that crossed the picket lines and the players who didn't.
It also created a rift between the fans that supported the NFLPA and the fans who crossed the picket lines because they wanted to go and see the games that they had already paid for.
I had season tickets that year for the very first time and "took a bath" because of the strike. I was pro labor and pro union and still am, so I honored the wishes of the striking players and therefore refused to attend the "replacement" games and didn't watch them on television either...
"There are a million and one stories in the City" and that '87 players strike (Primarily the demands for free agency, COLA, and the use of instant replay and some other concerns) and it's short term affect on that season and it's long term effect on how teams build champions is a story that many people have either forgotten about or never heard of.
Their records weren’t that far apart when you took out the strike games. 8-4 vs 10-2. Add to the fact that the Vikings had beat the 49ers in 85 and 86, so they had confidence, and was a team on the up.
49ers always owned the bears
Not true. Bears beat them in 85 and 88
@@jojopuppyfish That was like the only two times lol 😂
@christiansoldier77 The Bears beat them in 83, 85, and 88. But they could only beat them with a healthy Jim McMahon running the offense.
Monday Night Massacre
I love how all these 49er fans are so boastfull. As if they had something to do with the outcome of this game and the 4 or 5 titles.
I'm gonna bet the UNDER
I also predict the Vikes beating the Niners 36-24 in the Divisional Round.......
Ditka never stops spitting, lol i dotn remember that.
What we witness here, is a harbinger of things to come, regarding one of the most prolific QB-WR duos in NFL history
I remember this horrific game as a 14 year old kid & Bears fan 🐻
Bears SS
I wonder if the poster of this video intentionally left in the moment starting at 1:12:03, seeing as how two of this game's participants, 49ers WR Dwight Clark and Bears DT Steve McMichael, eventually came down with ALS, with Clark passing away from it in 2018.
BTW the man in the middle of the picture, then-49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo, has a spot in his Montana (the state, not Joe) ranch where he had erected the goalposts from the end zone where Dwight made his iconic catch,. On the spot where Clark made the catch relative to the goal posts is a grave stone that has some of his ashes buried under it.
I remember this game as A bears fan. I remember on the bus the next day saying that Steve Young looked good. Everyone game me the brush off. History proved me right. When Young was on the Bucs, he looked terrible.
1:20:10 As the seconds tick away, the camera didn't catch Ditka's famous gum-throwing incident!
My 1987 niners broke my heart losing to Minnesota in the playoffs but we came back after that and won back to back Superbowls and was a Roger Craig fumble from going for the three peat
The wierd thing is these 2 teams looked like the best 2 best teams in the NFC in 1987, they both lost in the divisional rounf that yr, they of course would meet the next yr
This is the game where Mike Ditka threw the big wad of gum he was chewing into the stands at halftime! 😂
"Twisted knee" as a diagnosis🤣
This game haunts me. Joe’s ridiculous and awkward injury that year never really got better. The playoff game vs the Vikings on a wet ugly day was the Joe’s undoing. The next two playoff seasons the 49ers trounced the Vikings on their way to back to back Super Bowl championships.