On a frigid, overcast winter day, twenty-five members of the ’85 Chicago Bears entered a concert hall in the Windy City to tape a music video about winning the Super Bowl. It was Week 14 of the NFL season. The Big Game was still 54 days away. Even more galling: It was the day after the team experienced its first loss of the season—on Monday Night Football, in front of a national audience.

The hubris of these guys to record a song called “The Super Bowl Shuffle”!

The circumstances of the track are the subject of a new HBO documentary , The Shuffle , which debuts on HBO Max tonight at 9 p.m. ET. It’s a delicious, forty-minute ride to the mid-‘80s, when one of the most dominant teams in NFL history took an enormous risk on a project that was unthinkable at the time. Buried inside the do

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