morning after the Bears' only loss of the 1985 season, 38-24 to the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night Football on December 2, 1985. Jim McMahon and Walter Payton refused to participate in the video shoot, thinking it would be better to release the song and video after the season was complete. However, the team was insistent on releasing the song and video shortly after the shoot, so the video was filmed with the remaining players. Payton and McMahon both filmed their segments separately a week later at the Bears' practice facility after practice and these segments were interspersed in the video prior to release. Performers The lyrics were written by Richard E. Meyer and Melvin Owens. The music was composed by Bobby Daniels and Lloyd Barry. The "Referee" in the video was portrayed by Julia Kallish. Bears defensive end Dan Hampton declined involvement with the Shuffle, thinking it may have been too arrogant. Other personnel Executive Producers: Richard E. Meyer, William D. Neal, James J. Hurley III, Barbara Supeter Director: Dave Thompson Associate Producer: Richard A. Tufo Technical Director: Darryl Crawl Editor: John Anderson Coordinating Producer: Kim Alan Bigelow Technical Coordinator: Dave Sorensen Lighting Designer: Hugh Gallagher Assistant Director: Johanna K. Hull Sound Engineer: Fred Breitberg Cameras: Bill DeMarco, Eric Chelstorp, Dennis Jackson, Jon Vandruska Assistant Cameras: Wendy Zauss, Tom Kruc Video: Mike Fayette, Steve Cardwell, Jim Keen, Jerry Wehland Location and Editing Facilities: Post Effects Park West Crew: Gregg Kincaid, Charles Mack, James Nudd, Dan Narducy, Michael Reed Make Up: Venus Vargas Precedents The 1985 Bears were not the first pro football team with a group song. The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team (1869–1870), sang a song to the spectators prior to some of their games: "We are a band of baseball players / From Cincinnati city..." However, no means to record it existed until 1877, after the team disbanded, and it thus was never recorded. Since the 1970s, some English soccer teams have celebrated qualifying for the FA Cup Final each year by recording a song for the occasion. The "cup final record", as it was known, became a tradition, with many of the songs being top ten successes in the UK music charts. The songs are occasionally original recordings but more often reworkings of recent chart successes with lyrics edited for the occasion. They often included the original artist singing along, especially when they