Super Bowl Shuffle 1985 - 35th Anniversary

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