In the annals of football time, no rivalry has produced more material for football science fiction than Washington versus Chicago. There are whammy games galore for both sides that would produce superstitional hexing of profound proportions.
The Bears favorite whammy game is of course the 73-0 game from the NFL's Prehistoric era. That game was strangely enough evoked by the Bears Owner in 1985 in an interview on Football Television shortly before the Bears annihilated Joey T and the Redskins, 45-10.
Jackass.
The second most hexed game is the 1984 playoff game as the Chicago Cubs (the not yet mature 1985 Bears) upset Joey T's Skins in the Playoffs.
Washington has had a few magical games to its credit. The 1986 Skins upset the heavily favored Bears at Soldier's Field in the Playoffs. The 1987 Skins did the same thing behind Doug Williams and Darrell Green.
I'm going to pick a 1999 Game featuring Norv Turner's Brad Johnson squad as it seems analogous to the present predicament, so to speak. The year 1999 was the year Eric Bieniemy and Ron Rivera crossed paths.
Commanders Receivers Coach Bobby Engram played in that game. Shane Matthews, future QB for the Skins, started the game for the Bears. The game featured iconic performances from Dan Wilkinson, Darrell Green, and Stephen Davis. The game also featured future Skin Walt Harris who played for Joe Gibbs and Gregg Williams on that gritty 2005 Washington team.
The 2005 squad, which went 10-6, beat the Bears 9-7 in the season opener going without a touchdown. They would not score a TD until the fourth quarter of the game the next week, a miraculous 14-13 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
The Defensive Coordinator for that Lovie Smith Coached Bears Squad was none other than Ron Rivera.
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