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No other team quite like the '85 Bears

Iconic team joined elite fraternity of teams identified by masterful season

Updated: January 26, 2011, 1:49 PM ET
By Michael Wilbon | ESPNChicago.com

It's the most exclusive fraternity imaginable, the tiniest handful of teams that are so great, so memorable, so once-in-a-lifetime rare that they will be identified forever simply by the season they authored their masterpieces.

The '27 Yankees of Ruth and Gehrig.

The '72 Dolphins and their perfect season.

The '80 U.S. Olympic Hockey team and its Miracle on Ice.

The '85 Chicago Bears and their defensive savagery of the NFL.

It's a list that excludes Auerbach's ...

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