• The Monsters of the Midway is most widely known as the nickname for the National Football League's Chicago Bears. The moniker initially belonged to the...
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    The Midway Plaisance, known locally as the Midway, is a public park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is one mile long by 220 yards wide and extends...
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    of the five NFL Championship Games in which they appeared. The team acquired the University of Chicago's discarded nickname "Monsters of the Midway"...
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  • Elvira and the Party Monsters is a 1989 pinball game designed by Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla and released by Midway (under the Bally label), featuring...
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  • a dynasty, earning the nickname of "Monsters of the Midway". In this span, the Bears went to five NFL Championships and won four of them, even as head...
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    Purple People Eaters (category Nicknamed groups of American football players)
    1980s, and the “Monsters of the Midway" of the Chicago Bears during the 1980s. Eller and Page were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Many people...
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    Mike Singletary (category NFL Defensive Player of the Year winners)
    Bears in the second round of the 1981 NFL draft and was known as "the Heart of the Defense" for their Monsters of the Midway defense in the mid-1980s...
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    Monsters of the Midway, Big Blue Wrecking Crew, Steel Curtain and the Doomsday Defense. The unit's aggressive nature was notable in an era where the NFL...
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  • Chicago. The song was written during the early stages of the "Monsters of the Midway" Era of the early 1940s, and was adopted the year after the Bears had...
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  • the Chaos Cup tournament in 2006 revealed that he had never seen Monsters of the Midway until after Blood Bowl was published and that the concept of a...
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    competed at SOM Live and the National Wrestling Alliance's Monsters of the Midway event on July 28, 2023. Golden retained the SOM Hybrid Championship against...
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  • produce four Hall of Famers. Monsters of the Midway: Originally applied to the Chicago Bears of the early 1940s, but revived for the 1980s Bears and subsequent...
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    machines, Monster Slots, with Hansen Beverage Co. for its Monster Energy drink, and the Chicago Bears, who use the nickname "Monsters of the Midway". Other...
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  • Midway Games Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known simply as Midway) was an American video game company that existed...
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    head coach George Halas. The Bears, which were dubbed The Monsters of the Midway, won four NFL championship games throughout the decade (1940, 1941, 1943...
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    south of the Midway). The university's football team, the Maroons, were the original "Monsters of the Midway." The exposition is mentioned in the university's...
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    helmet with the Monsters of the Midway throwbacks, with the helmets still being blue but with a gray facemask. In 1920, the Staleys introduced the official...
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    George Halas (category Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award)
    and the 1940s would be remembered as the era of the "Monsters of the Midway". Halas and Shaughnessy had created a revolutionary concept with the T-formation...
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    Julius Peppers (category NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year winners)
    the pivot point of the defense has been a significant addition, but Peppers has been the most important reason the Bears have become the Monsters of the...
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  • video game developed and published by Bally Midway. Inspired by monster films, players control a trio of monsters: George, Lizzie, and Ralph, humans transformed...
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  • Central Archived March 19, 2006, at the Wayback Machine "Monsters of the Midway". chicagobears.com. Archived from the original on June 24, 2012. Retrieved...
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    Crunch Bunch Monsters of the Midway Orange Crush Defense The 1987 NFL season was shortened by one game due to a players' strike by the NFLPA. "Pro-Football-Reference:...
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    at first, became the centerpiece of the Bears line for 12 years. One reason the Bears of that era were called "Monsters of the Midway" was their imposing...
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    Brandon Sklenar (category American people of Italian descent)
    1990) is an American actor best known for his roles in the films Mapplethorpe, Vice (both 2018), Midway (2019), It Ends with Us (2024) and Drop (2025). He...
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  • Laying it on the Line, self-published. In 2015, Coppock published his third book titled Buffone: Monster of the Midway: My 50 Years with the Chicago Bears...
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    Mike Ditka (category American people of German descent)
    Reflections on the 1985 Bears and Wisdom from Da Coach. Ditka has also been the subject of several books including Ditka: Monster of the Midway by Armen Keteyian...
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  • Rampage is a series of video games released by Midway (1986–2009) and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (2009–present) for arcades and consoles....
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  • Earl Leggett (category Players of American football from Jacksonville, Florida)
    positions. He was part of the famed "Monsters of the Midway" defense that led the Bears to the 1963 NFL championship. He was traded to the Los Angeles Rams...
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  • twice in 2018, and the team will use the navy blue "Monsters of the Midway" throwbacks for one game. Jacksonville Jaguars: On April 19, the Jaguars simplified...
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  • the park held its only Christmas in the Park. The Midway Carousel was open, a horse-drawn carriage gave behind-the-scenes tours of the park and the midway...
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