Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome back today. We're going to have
a mini episode d It's going to be an interesting one.
It is a cultural phenomenon. When you look back on it,
it's a little bit painful, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, we are coming up on the thirty fifth anniversary
of the Super Bowl Shuffle.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's iconic. That is Yeah. I was in
fourth grade and I can remember going to.
Speaker 3: The front of the class and like me and six
of my friends wrapping the Super Bowl Shuffle.
Speaker 1: It is like our show and Tell. Yeah, absolutely, show
and Tell. So this song came out was released December third,
nineteen eighty five, had a music video with it. It
included some famous Bears like Richard Dents in the video,
Otis Wilson's in the video, Mike Singletary, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon,
very famous Bears, and of course that eighty five Bears
teams looked at as one of the greatest teams of
all time.
Speaker 2: They only had one loss that whole year.
Speaker 1: That video was shot the day after that loss to
the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night football. But I can
stay up late and watch that game. But anyway, so
they come in the Tuesday after that Monday night game
to film the video. They had one guy on the team,
Dan Hampton, who was there a defensive tackle. He thought
it was in bad taste and he thought it might
jinx him, and he said, no, freaking away, I'm doing
that song. So the way it started was Willie Galt,
who I didn't mention earlier. Willi Galt was a wide
receiver of Ready three, and at one point in his
life he was actually, I think, considered the fastest man
in the world.
Speaker 2: He will and that world class. I liked, but I
love it.
Speaker 3: Get the past a practice all day, at dance all night.
Speaker 2: I gotta get rid for a Sunday fight. Now.
Speaker 1: He was a guy who was interested in maybe singing
a little bit or rap and acting and had some
interest in entertainment.
Speaker 3: So Courtney Larson was a cheerleader for the team. Yes,
and her boyfriend had this idea that we should have
a music video. And he was a diehard Bears fan. Obviously,
I mean, can you be in Chicago and not be
a Bears fan?
Speaker 2: I don't think that.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think that's allowed. Dad Bears,
Double Bears, and so she yeah, she introduced him to
Willy Gould, and Willie Gault.
Speaker 2: Was like, yeah, let's make this happen.
Speaker 1: So he kicked it around the locker room with a
few of the guys. Yeah, and I mean, you have
some all time greats, right, you have Walter Payton, Richard Dent,
Mike Singletary, Hall of Fame Guy Refrigerator Perry, William Refrigerator Perry.
How can I forget him? And hey, guys, what do
you think You know, well, let's do this video. This
would be a lot of fun. And so it got
some momentum, and so they decided to record the song.
Of course, all the Chicago radio stations started playing it.
Willie Gold is actually very quick to find the idea
that they declare that they're going to win the Super Bowl,
and I'll never say that basically, I'm just here to
do the Super Bowl shuffle, basically meaning we're gonna go
and do our best to play in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So two months later they go to Super Bowl twenty
and they beat the crap out of the New England
Patriots forty six to ten in one of the most
dominant seasons in NFL history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so bad. Don't you know? Rich were here Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: After that Super Bowl victory, this song peaked at number
forty one on the Hot one hundred in.
Speaker 3: February of nineteen eighty six. Yeah, it actually was nominated.
Do you know this?
Speaker 1: This was nominated for a Grammy.
Speaker 2: You know who it lost to?
Speaker 1: This song barely lost to Kiss by Prince.
Speaker 2: All right, it is tie back in baby.
Speaker 1: Catch our Side of the Times episode either before or
after on this podcast.
Speaker 3: Catch our Sign of the Times episode right after this podcast.
Speaker 1: This single sold seven hundred thousand copies and one hundred
and seventy thousand VHS tapes.
Speaker 3: So the team that they beat that year was the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Yes, who my gosh.
Speaker 3: Since that time has been the dominant team as far
as Super Bowls are concerned. Right, right, But they did
their Oh did you know this that the Patriots did
their own song?
Speaker 1: Okay, well tell me, well, if you didn't know it,
I don't think you're going to be an already on
that one.
Speaker 3: Okay, most people. It was called New England the Patriots and.
Speaker 5: We it was done by the New England Patriots fans.
They made a video to it, and so MTV has
a tie into the Super Bowl, played both videos back
to back and had the viewers vote for the winner,
and apparently the results were even more lopsided than the
actual game was.
Speaker 2: It obviously did not farewell against the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: If you've got a copy of New England, we the Patriots,
and we the Patriots and we we would love for
you to tag us on Twitter with that.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: Hey, this is it's it's interesting. They were far from
the only people who tried this right right. So during
the eighty five season you had the Seattle Seahawks who
did one the Blue Wave is on a roll, and
then you have the La Raiders did one in eighty six.
In nineteen eighty six, the New York Giants released a
song called Walk Like a Giant, based on Walk Like
an Egyptian by The Bangles.
Speaker 2: By the Mangles, that one of their biggest hits, written.
Speaker 1: By Prince so interestingly Walter Payton, who sings in the song,
they call me Sweetness and I'm like the Dance running
the ball.
Speaker 2: It's like Mickey mole Mance.
Speaker 1: We had the Goals this train in camp, the Gifts
Chica go the Bowl Champ and we're not doing this
because we're greeting.
Speaker 2: The bears are doing it.
Speaker 1: We didn't come here look for truck. We was in
such a bad mood after losing to the Dolphins that
he refused to come to the video.
Speaker 2: Shoot. Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: So they had to fill his part later and splice
it in. If you actually watch the video, you can
clearly tell he's he's.
Speaker 3: In front of a green or blue. It's probably a
blue screen at that time, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Him and Jim McMahon are spliced in later, and then
the front row. You start looking and you counting names.
You're like, there's no mcman there's no Walter Payton there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who is the samurai like singletary?
Speaker 3: Why did he have the classic child in Lester glasses On?
Speaker 1: That was his say man, oh my god, that was
his thing. Mike got the cold part of the deacon,
big and bold. I've been gemming for quite a while
doing what right, So in the lyrics of the song,
it mentions we're not here to be greedy, We're just
here to feed the needy whatever.
Speaker 2: Walter Payton's one of the first parts.
Speaker 1: Of the song, right, So they forgot to check with
the Bears team office to see if it was okay
that they did this. Oh, and when they after they
made this video, they're like, hey, is it okay if
we do this? And the Bears are like, what they
thought it was an incredibly bad taste.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay.
Speaker 1: So once they had talked to the Bears, they had
to sort of get the Super Bowl shuffle blessing.
Speaker 2: They got the whole together for this video. Shoot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did the whole song. I mean I just
had to take multiple takes. These guys are not professional singers,
and they look ridiculous playing those instruments that they're not
actually playing. And they did all of that without the
home office knowing that what was going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Tuesday after a loss, Oh my god, like
you cut like Mike Dicka, Mike Dick is not out.
Speaker 2: They're going, where's refrigerator, Mike? Where is everybody? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So the proclamation in the song that they were going
to feed the needy, they had no real plan in
place to do that. They had no idea what that
was going to do. So they called an attorney and
they said, well, how about from the proceeds of the
song and this and the sales, which were turned out
to be very good, huge, How about fifty to fifty
And they're like, well, the law says seventy five twenty five.
And the players that were in the video, they were
paid six thousand dollars to be in the video. But
since that point, the legacy of the Super Bowl Shuffle,
it's all owned by this by this one girl. So
they contact an Illinois attorney named Neil Hartigan and asked
if fifty percent would be permissible, and he said no,
it needs to be seventy five percent, and so the
record company was thinking more along the lines of fifteen percent.
Speaker 2: Yees.
Speaker 1: So everybody had a different opinion of what should go
to the needy, but they dragged out the accounting until
nineteen eighty seven, which is way after the peak popularity
of Super Bowl Shuffle. Mike Singletary got so mad that
he threw his gold record in the trash. His quote was,
it doesn't represent an accomplishment, doesn't mean anything unless we
get food to hungry people. That was supposed to be
the idea. I thought it was clean cut, and it's
taken over a year.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So eventually three hundred and thirty one thousand was sent
to a Chicago community trust for distribution. The players all
contributed their salaries and since that time, based on the
song's popularity and its legacy, it continues to make some money,
but there is ongoing legal issues with.
Speaker 2: Who that money goes to. Ongoing, ongoing, thirty five years later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, if you haven't heard this song in a while,
you're not alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's five minutes and thirty nine seconds of eighties wrapping
by guys who are great football players but terrible musicians.
Speaker 3: And it's so it's such an eighties style of video,
so wonderfully wonderful eighties with the with the film edits
that they do where the picture pulls back and twists
at an angle as though it's part of the encryption of.
Speaker 2: The three Villains from Superman two.
Speaker 1: It's this was quite possibly edited with two VCRs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the song itself, I remember at the time having
a ton of fun with it, and of course the
Bears were an amazing team to watch and they backed
it up. But looking at it now, it's painful.
Speaker 3: Do you remember remember the Super Bowl where McMahon does
the flip into the end zone? Yes, such a stellar
There are not many Super Bowl memories that I have
wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson, Yes, jan Jackson.
Speaker 2: You have Prince's performance at.
Speaker 3: Halftime, which I think is arguably the best half time
performance of any Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. And then Shim McMahon's doing flip at the Amazona.
That's awesome.
Speaker 1: In that Super Bowl, William the Refrigerator Prairie scored on
a one yard touchdown.
Speaker 2: All that's right, that's right. I forgot.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's yeah, which the entire world loved, right because
the Fridge was this huge celebrity at the time, and
he's three hundred and fifty pounds. Yeah, Hicky, hand the
ball off to him, let him run it in.
Speaker 2: You know who wasn't a fan of that.
Speaker 1: Walter Payton. He did not score in that and was
very upset about it. Oh, extremely disappointed.
Speaker 3: How did Walter Payton go for that entire Super Bowl
with that landslide of a victory?
Speaker 2: Was it forty nine to ten? Six to ten? But
didn't score?
Speaker 1: Didn't score once, didn't score And Mike Dick has talked
about how that's one of his greatest regrets.
Speaker 2: That's terrible.
Speaker 1: After the game, everybody is thrilled in a bear's uniform.
One guy Walter Payton. Huh mega absent. That's tragic. So anyway,
I hope you've enjoyed this little mini episode on the
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Speaker 2: Jason D. It's been fun, all right, man, have again.
We're not here to cause any trouble.
Speaker 1: We're just here to do the silly puss. We're about
as good rappers as Lily underwear, so.
Speaker 2: Maybe not even that good.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, we'll see you next time. I didn't come
up here looking forward trouble, just sho