August 31, 1986
Calvin Thomas missed a four-player pile-up by inches Saturday. If he had been in the same collision on the toll road from Chicago as he was in the second quarter against Buffalo, the Bears fullback would have had to hire a tow truck to get him home. But Thomas did his own truckin` when he caught a Jim McMahon pass and spotted a defender racing at him head-on. He went at him, bounced off and ran on just as two more Bills arrived to finish him off. They hit each other instead.
January 17, 1986
Even the press can show sympathy once in a while. A reporter actually started to feel sorry for Bears` middle linebacker Mike Singletary during an interview session Thursday. As usual, Singletary sat patiently and answered questions from a swarming pack of reporters for more than 30 minutes. Singletary tried to leave a couple of times, but the pack wouldn`t relent. Finally the sympathetic reporter asked, "Where do you get the energy for all this?" "This is just something we have to do," Singletary sighed.