The Super Bowl Shuffle (1985)

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<v Speaker 2>are sick with football fever. So even though we are
<v Speaker 2>between seasons, we wanted to share one of our most
<v Speaker 2>popular episodes celebrating a seminal event in football history.
<v Speaker 3>All right, everybody, welcome back today. We're going to have
<v Speaker 3>a mini episode. D It's going to be an interesting one.
<v Speaker 3>It is a cultural phenomenon. When you look back on it,
<v Speaker 3>it's a little bit painful, but it's interesting.
<v Speaker 1>We're going to talk about it.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, we are coming up on the thirty fifth anniversary
<v Speaker 3>of the Super Bowl Shuffle.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's iconic. That is Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I was in fourth grade and I can remember going
<v Speaker 4>to the front of the class and like me and
<v Speaker 4>six of my friends wrapping the Super.
<v Speaker 1>Bowl shovel is like our show and tell.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, absolutely, show and tell. So this song came out
<v Speaker 3>was released December third, nineteen eighty five, had a music
<v Speaker 3>video with it. It included some famous bears like Richard
<v Speaker 3>Dents in the video, Otis Wilson's in the video, Mike Singletary,
<v Speaker 3>Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, very famous bears, and of course
<v Speaker 3>that eighty five Bears team has looked at as one
<v Speaker 3>of the greatest teams of all time. They only had
<v Speaker 3>one loss that whole year. That video was shot the
<v Speaker 3>day after that lost to the Miami Dolphins on Monday
<v Speaker 3>Night football. I can't stay up late and watch that game.
<v Speaker 3>But anyway, so they come in the Tuesday after that
<v Speaker 3>Monday night game to film the video. They had one
<v Speaker 3>guy on the team, Dan Hampton, who was there, a
<v Speaker 3>defensive tackle. He thought it was in bad taste and
<v Speaker 3>he thought it might Jason and he said, no freaking way,
<v Speaker 3>I'm doing that song. So the way it started was
<v Speaker 3>Willie Galt, who I didn't mention earlier. Willi Galt was
<v Speaker 3>a wide receiver eighty three and at one point in
<v Speaker 3>his life he was actually, I think considered the fastest
<v Speaker 3>man in the world.
<v Speaker 1>Uh women and that world class.
<v Speaker 5>I like world but I love it at the past
<v Speaker 5>a practice all day and dance all night.
<v Speaker 3>I gotta get ready for a Sunday fight. Now. He
<v Speaker 3>was a guy who was interested in maybe singing a
<v Speaker 3>little bit or rapping and acting and had some interest
<v Speaker 3>in entertainment.
<v Speaker 4>So Courtney Larson was a cheerleader for the team. Yes,
<v Speaker 4>and her boyfriend had this idea that we should have
<v Speaker 4>a music video. And he was a diehard Bears fan obviously,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, can you be in Chicago and not be
<v Speaker 4>a Bears fan?
<v Speaker 1>I don't think that. I don't think so. I don't
<v Speaker 1>think that's allowed. Dad Bears, Double Bears.
<v Speaker 4>And so she yeah, she introduced him to Willie Gould,
<v Speaker 4>and Willie Gault.
<v Speaker 3>Was like, yeah, let's make this happen. So he kicked
<v Speaker 3>it around the locker room with a few of the guys. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and I mean, you have some all time grades, right,
<v Speaker 3>you have Walter Bay, Richard Dent, Mike Singletary, Hall of Fame,
<v Speaker 3>Guy Refrigerator Perry, William Refrigerator Perry. How can I forget him?
<v Speaker 3>And hey, guys, what.
<v Speaker 6>Do you think?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well, let's do this video. This would be a
<v Speaker 3>lot of fun and and so it got some momentum,
<v Speaker 3>and so they decided to record the song. Of course,
<v Speaker 3>all the Chicago radio stations started playing it. Willie Gold
<v Speaker 3>is actually very quick to defend the idea that they
<v Speaker 3>declare that they're going to win the super Bowl, and
<v Speaker 3>I'll never say that. Basically, I'm just here to do
<v Speaker 3>the super Bowl shuffle, basically meaning We're gonna go and
<v Speaker 3>do our best to play in the Super Bowl.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 3>So two months later they go to Super Bowl twenty
<v Speaker 3>and they beat the crap out of the New England
<v Speaker 3>Patriots forty six to ten in one of the most
<v Speaker 3>dominant seasons in NFL history.
<v Speaker 6>Shade not here.
<v Speaker 3>After that Super Bowl victory. Yeah, this song peaked at
<v Speaker 3>number forty one on the Hot one hundred in February
<v Speaker 3>of nineteen eighty six.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it actually was nominated. Do you know.
<v Speaker 3>This, This was nominated for a Grammy.
<v Speaker 1>You know who it lost to.
<v Speaker 3>This song barely lost to Kiss by Prince.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, it is high back in Baby.
<v Speaker 3>Catch our Side of the Times episode either before or
<v Speaker 3>after on this podcast.
<v Speaker 4>Catch our Sign of the Times episode right after this podcast.
<v Speaker 3>This single sold seven hundred thousand copies and one hundred
<v Speaker 3>and seventy thousand VHS tapes. All right, guys, let's take
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<v Speaker 1>So the team that they beat that year was the Patriots.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, who my gosh since that time has been the
<v Speaker 4>dominant team as far as Super Bowls are concerned, right right,
<v Speaker 4>But they did their Oh did you know this that
<v Speaker 4>the Patriots did their own song?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, tell me we'll do well.
<v Speaker 4>If you didn't know it, I don't think you're going
<v Speaker 4>to be an already on that one.
<v Speaker 1>Okay most people.
<v Speaker 4>It was called New England, the Patriots and We. It
<v Speaker 4>was done by the New England Patriots fam. They made
<v Speaker 4>a video to it, and so MTV has a tie
<v Speaker 4>into the Super Bowl, played both videos back to back
<v Speaker 4>and had the viewers vote for the winner, and apparently
<v Speaker 4>the results were even more lopsided than the actual game was.
<v Speaker 1>It obviously did not farewell against the Super Bowl.
<v Speaker 3>If you've got a copy of New England, we the
<v Speaker 3>Patriots and We the Patriots and We, we would love
<v Speaker 3>for you to tag us on Twitter with that.
<v Speaker 1>That's great.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, this is it's interesting. They were far from the
<v Speaker 3>only people who tried this, right right. So during the
<v Speaker 3>eighty five season, you had the Seattle Seahawks who did
<v Speaker 3>one the Blue Wave is on a Roll, and then
<v Speaker 3>you have the La Raiders did one in eighty six.
<v Speaker 3>In nineteen eighty six, the New York Giants released a
<v Speaker 3>song called Walk Like a Giant, based on Walk Like
<v Speaker 3>an Egyptian by The Bangles.
<v Speaker 1>By the Angles, who had one of their biggest hits written.
<v Speaker 3>By Prince so interestingly Walter Payton, who sings in the.
<v Speaker 5>Song, they call me Sweetness and I like the dance
<v Speaker 5>running the ball. It's like Mickey mole Mance. We had
<v Speaker 5>to go with this train in camp to give chicag
<v Speaker 5>the foot pole champ. And we're not doing this because
<v Speaker 5>we're greening. The Bears are doing.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't.
<v Speaker 3>We didn't come here look for Trull. Were just in
<v Speaker 3>such a bad mood after losing to the Dolphins that
<v Speaker 3>he refused to come to the video.
<v Speaker 1>Shoot. Oh yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>So they had to fill his part later and splice
<v Speaker 3>it in. If you actually watch the video, you can
<v Speaker 3>clearly tell he's bought.
<v Speaker 4>He's in front of a green or blue it was
<v Speaker 4>probably blue screen at that time, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Him and Jim McMahon are spliced in later, and then
<v Speaker 3>the front row you start looking and you counting names.
<v Speaker 3>You're like, there's no McMahon, there's no Walter Payton there. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>who is the samurai like singletary?
<v Speaker 1>Why did he have the classic child in Lester glasses On?
<v Speaker 1>That was his thing? Man, Oh my god, that was
<v Speaker 1>his thing.
<v Speaker 6>I'm from right, Mike. I shot the cold part of
<v Speaker 6>the Deacon and Bold.
<v Speaker 3>I've been gemming for quite a while doing what you write.
<v Speaker 3>So in the lyrics of the song, it mentions we're
<v Speaker 3>not here to be greedy, We're just here to feed
<v Speaker 3>the needy whatever.
<v Speaker 1>Walter Payton's yeah, one of the first parts of the song, right.
<v Speaker 3>So they forgot to check with the Bears team office
<v Speaker 3>to see if it was okay that they did this.
<v Speaker 3>Oh and when they after they made this video, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they're like, hey, is it okay if we do this?
<v Speaker 3>And the Bears were like, what they thought it was
<v Speaker 3>an incredibly bad taste.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So once they had talked to the Bears, they had
<v Speaker 3>to sort of get the Super Bowl shuffle blessing.
<v Speaker 1>They got the whole team together for this video. Shoot. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they did the whole song. I just had to take
<v Speaker 1>multiple texts.
<v Speaker 4>These guys are not professional singers, and they look ridiculous
<v Speaker 4>playing those instruments that they're not actually playing, and they
<v Speaker 4>did all of that without the home office knowing that
<v Speaker 4>what was going on.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the Tuesday after a loss, Oh my god, like
<v Speaker 3>you cut like Mike Dicka, Mike Dick is not not
<v Speaker 3>They're going, where's refrigerator, Mike?
<v Speaker 1>Where is everybody? Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 3>So the proclamation in the song that they were going
<v Speaker 3>to feed the needy, they had no real plan in
<v Speaker 3>place to do that. They had no idea what that
<v Speaker 3>was going to do. So they they called an attorney
<v Speaker 3>and they said, well, how about from the proceeds of
<v Speaker 3>the song and the sales, which were turned out to
<v Speaker 3>be very good, how about fifty to fifty And they're like, well,
<v Speaker 3>the law says seventy five twenty five. And the players
<v Speaker 3>that were in the video, they were paid six thousand
<v Speaker 3>dollars to be in the video. But since that point,
<v Speaker 3>the legacy of the Super Bowl Shuffle it's it's all
<v Speaker 3>owned by this, by this one girl. So they kind
<v Speaker 3>intact an Illinois attorney named Neil Hartigan and asked if
<v Speaker 3>fifty percent would be permissible, and he said, no, it
<v Speaker 3>needs to be seventy five percent, And so the record
<v Speaker 3>company was thinking more along the lines of fifteen percent, yes,
<v Speaker 3>so everybody had a different opinion of what should go
<v Speaker 3>to the needy, but they dragged out the accounting until
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty seven, which is way after the peak popularity.
<v Speaker 3>To Super Bowl Shuffle, Mike Singletary got so mad that
<v Speaker 3>he threw his gold record in the trash. His quote was,
<v Speaker 3>it doesn't represent an accomplishment, doesn't mean anything unless we
<v Speaker 3>get food to hungred people. That was supposed to be
<v Speaker 3>the idea. I thought it was clean cut, and it's taken.
<v Speaker 1>Over a year.
<v Speaker 3>Wow. So eventually three hundred and thirty one thousand was
<v Speaker 3>sent to a Chicago community trust for distribution. The players
<v Speaker 3>all contributed their salaries and since that time, based on
<v Speaker 3>the song's popularity and its legacy, it couldntinues to make
<v Speaker 3>some money, but there is ongoing legal issues with who
<v Speaker 3>that money goes to.
<v Speaker 1>Ongoing ongoing thirty five years later.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, if you.
<v Speaker 3>Haven't heard this song in a while, you're not alone it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's five minutes and thirty nine seconds of eighties wrapping
<v Speaker 3>by guys who are great football players but terrible musicians.
<v Speaker 4>And it's so it's such an eighties style of video,
<v Speaker 4>so wonderfully wonderful eighties with the with the film edits
<v Speaker 4>that they do where the picture pulls back and twists
<v Speaker 4>at an angle as though it's part of the encryption
<v Speaker 4>of the Three Villains from Superman two.
<v Speaker 3>It's this was quite possibly edited with two Vcrso yeah. Anyway,
<v Speaker 3>the song itself, I remember at the time having a
<v Speaker 3>ton of fun with it, and of course the Bears
<v Speaker 3>were an amazing team to watch and they backed it up.
<v Speaker 3>But looking at it now, it's painful.
<v Speaker 4>You remember remember the Super Bowl where McMahon does the
<v Speaker 4>flip into the end zone. Yes, such a stellar There
<v Speaker 4>are not many super Bowl memories that I have wardrobe malfunction.
<v Speaker 1>Of Janet Jackson, Yes, jan Jackson.
<v Speaker 4>You have Prince's performance at halftime, which I think he's
<v Speaker 4>arguably the best half time performance of any Super Bowl.
<v Speaker 6>I'm with you.
<v Speaker 1>And then Shim McMahon is doing flip at the Amazona.
<v Speaker 1>That was awesome.
<v Speaker 3>In that Super Bowl, William the Refrigerator Prairie scored on
<v Speaker 3>a one yard touchdown on.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, that's right, I forgot, Oh, that's yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Which the entire world loved, right because the Fridge was
<v Speaker 3>this huge celebrity at the time, and he's three hundred
<v Speaker 3>and fifty pounds. Yeah, Hicky, hand the ball off to him,
<v Speaker 3>let him run it in. You know who wasn't a
<v Speaker 3>fan of that, Walter Payton. He did not score in
<v Speaker 3>that Super Bowl and was very upset about it. Oh,
<v Speaker 3>extremely disappointed.
<v Speaker 4>How did Walter Payton go for that entire Super Bowl
<v Speaker 4>with that landslide of a victory was forty nine to ten.
<v Speaker 3>Six to ten, but didn't score, didn't score once, didn't
<v Speaker 3>score And Mike Dick has talked about how that's one
<v Speaker 3>of his greatest regrets.
<v Speaker 1>That's terrible.
<v Speaker 3>After the game, everybody is thrilled in a Bear's uniform.
<v Speaker 3>One guy Wealt Peyton huh mega absent.
<v Speaker 1>That's tragic.
<v Speaker 3>So anyway, I hope you've enjoyed this little mini episode.
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<v Speaker 1>Jason d It's been fun.
<v Speaker 3>All right, man, have again We're not here to cause
<v Speaker 3>any trouble.
<v Speaker 1>We're just here to do the surely puss.
<v Speaker 3>We're about as good rappers.
<v Speaker 1>As under Bears, maybe not even that good.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks guys, we're seeing
<v Speaker 6>I didn't come here looking for it, so I just
<v Speaker 6>pretty good sort of both shoul