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30 Day Challenge: Most Hated Opposing Player of All Time

Related Topics: 1986 NFL season, Jim McMahon

Football is unquestionably a team game but occasionally a single player can alter the course of a franchise's destiny. Sometimes they decide their own team's fortune and other times it's their opponent's path that is forever changed. Bears fans who followed the team in the mid 1980's know of just such a moment, when an opposing player irreconcilably tilted Chicago's football fortunes in a very negative direction.

The Monster of the Midway marched into the 1986 NFL season as conquerors. Reigning Super Bowl champs who had absolutely dismantled the rest of the league in historic fashion.