Speaker 1: This is a podcast from Minute Media.
Speaker 2: Okay, everyone, we, like much of the world right now,
are sick with football fever. So even though we are
between seasons, we wanted to share one of our most
popular episodes celebrating a seminal event in football history.
Speaker 3: 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 1: We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Okay, we are coming up on the thirty fifth anniversary
of the Super Bowl Shuffle.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's iconic. That is Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was in fourth grade and I can remember going
to the front of the class and like me and
six of my friends wrapping the Super.
Speaker 1: Bowl shovel is like our show and tell.
Speaker 3: 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 team has looked at as one
of the greatest teams of all time. They only had
one loss that whole year. That video was shot the
day after that lost to the Miami Dolphins on Monday
Night football. I can't 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 Jason and he said, no freaking way,
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 eighty three and at one point in
his life he was actually, I think considered the fastest
man in the world.
Speaker 1: Uh women and that world class.
Speaker 5: I like world but I love it at the past
a practice all day and dance all night.
Speaker 3: I gotta get ready for a Sunday fight. Now. He
was a guy who was interested in maybe singing a
little bit or rapping and acting and had some interest
in entertainment.
Speaker 4: 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 1: I don't think that. I don't think so. I don't
think that's allowed. Dad Bears, Double Bears.
Speaker 4: And so she yeah, she introduced him to Willie Gould,
and Willie Gault.
Speaker 3: Was like, yeah, let's make this happen. So he kicked
it around the locker room with a few of the guys. Yeah,
and I mean, you have some all time grades, right,
you have Walter Bay, Richard Dent, Mike Singletary, Hall of Fame,
Guy Refrigerator Perry, William Refrigerator Perry. How can I forget him?
And hey, guys, what.
Speaker 6: Do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let's do this video. This would be a
lot of fun and 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 defend 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 1: Right.
Speaker 3: 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 6: Shade not here.
Speaker 3: After that Super Bowl victory. Yeah, this song peaked at
number forty one on the Hot one hundred in February
of nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it actually was nominated. Do you know.
Speaker 3: This, This was nominated for a Grammy.
Speaker 1: You know who it lost to.
Speaker 3: This song barely lost to Kiss by Prince.
Speaker 1: All Right, it is high back in Baby.
Speaker 3: Catch our Side of the Times episode either before or
after on this podcast.
Speaker 4: Catch our Sign of the Times episode right after this podcast.
Speaker 3: This single sold seven hundred thousand copies and one hundred
and seventy thousand VHS tapes. All right, guys, let's take
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Speaker 1: So the team that they beat that year was the Patriots.
Speaker 4: Yes, who my gosh 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, tell me we'll do well.
Speaker 4: If you didn't know it, I don't think you're going
to be an already on that one.
Speaker 1: Okay most people.
Speaker 4: It was called New England, the Patriots and We. It
was done by the New England Patriots fam. 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 1: It obviously did not farewell against the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: 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 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: Hey, this is 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 1: By the Angles, who had one of their biggest hits written.
Speaker 3: By Prince so interestingly Walter Payton, who sings in the.
Speaker 5: Song, they call me Sweetness and I like the dance
running the ball. It's like Mickey mole Mance. We had
to go with this train in camp to give chicag
the foot pole champ. And we're not doing this because
we're greening. The Bears are doing.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 3: We didn't come here look for Trull. Were just in
such a bad mood after losing to the Dolphins that
he refused to come to the video.
Speaker 1: Shoot. Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: So they had to fill his part later and splice
it in. If you actually watch the video, you can
clearly tell he's bought.
Speaker 4: He's in front of a green or blue it was
probably blue screen at that time, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: 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 McMahon, there's no Walter Payton there. Yeah,
who is the samurai like singletary?
Speaker 1: Why did he have the classic child in Lester glasses On?
That was his thing? Man, Oh my god, that was
his thing.
Speaker 6: I'm from right, Mike. I shot the cold part of
the Deacon and Bold.
Speaker 3: I've been gemming for quite a while doing what you write.
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 1: Walter Payton's yeah, one of the first parts of the song, right.
Speaker 3: 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, yeah,
they're like, hey, is it okay if we do this?
And the Bears were like, what they thought it was
an incredibly bad taste.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay.
Speaker 3: So once they had talked to the Bears, they had
to sort of get the Super Bowl shuffle blessing.
Speaker 1: They got the whole team together for this video. Shoot. Yeah,
they did the whole song. I just had to take
multiple texts.
Speaker 4: 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 3: Yeah, the Tuesday after a loss, Oh my god, like
you cut like Mike Dicka, Mike Dick is not not
They're going, where's refrigerator, Mike?
Speaker 1: Where is everybody? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: 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 they called an attorney
and they said, well, how about from the proceeds of
the song and the sales, which were turned out to
be very good, 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 it's all
owned by this, by this one girl. So they kind
intact 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, yes,
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.
To 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 hungred people. That was supposed to be
the idea. I thought it was clean cut, and it's taken.
Speaker 1: Over a year.
Speaker 3: Wow. 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 couldntinues to make
some money, but there is ongoing legal issues with who
that money goes to.
Speaker 1: Ongoing ongoing thirty five years later.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, if you.
Speaker 3: Haven't heard this song in a while, you're not alone it. Yeah,
it's five minutes and thirty nine seconds of eighties wrapping
by guys who are great football players but terrible musicians.
Speaker 4: 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 the Three Villains from Superman two.
Speaker 3: It's this was quite possibly edited with two Vcrso yeah. 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 4: 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.
Speaker 1: Of Janet Jackson, Yes, jan Jackson.
Speaker 4: You have Prince's performance at halftime, which I think he's
arguably the best half time performance of any Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: I'm with you.
Speaker 1: And then Shim McMahon is doing flip at the Amazona.
That was awesome.
Speaker 3: In that Super Bowl, William the Refrigerator Prairie scored on
a one yard touchdown on.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, I forgot, Oh, that's yeah.
Speaker 3: 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. You know who wasn't a
fan of that, Walter Payton. He did not score in
that Super Bowl and was very upset about it. Oh,
extremely disappointed.
Speaker 4: How did Walter Payton go for that entire Super Bowl
with that landslide of a victory was forty nine to ten.
Speaker 3: Six to ten, but didn't score, didn't score once, didn't
score And Mike Dick has talked about how that's one
of his greatest regrets.
Speaker 1: That's terrible.
Speaker 3: After the game, everybody is thrilled in a Bear's uniform.
One guy Wealt Peyton huh mega absent.
Speaker 1: That's tragic.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I hope you've enjoyed this little mini episode.
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Speaker 1: Jason d It's been fun.
Speaker 3: All right, man, have again We're not here to cause
any trouble.
Speaker 1: We're just here to do the surely puss.
Speaker 3: We're about as good rappers.
Speaker 1: As under Bears, maybe not even that good.
Speaker 3: Thanks guys, we're seeing
Speaker 6: I didn't come here looking for it, so I just
pretty good sort of both shoul