Official Site of the Bears · Feb 16, 2018
Vietnam vets win Super Bowl trip from Bears
Jim Zwit and Randy Kusiak both grew up in the Chicago area and have been friends for nearly 50 years. But the two lifelong Bears fans met when they were more than 8,500 miles from home in a Vietnamese jungle.
"I was a young 19-year-old punk and I probably had four-and-a-half months of combat experience," Zwik said. "I get a call on the radio. They go, 'Hey Z, we've got a new guy from Chi-town in the unit. We're going to send him out to the field.' I said, 'Wait a minute, ask him Cubs [or] Sox?' The radio guy goes, 'Cubs, over.' I went, 'Forget it. I can't trust him! Don't send him out here!'"
