Walter: 'Super Bowl Shuffle' Strikes Sour Note
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Good News Bears: The Super Bowl Bears. Bad News Bears: "The Super Bowl Shuffle," the popular song-and-dance written and produced back in 1985 by Richard Meyer, a Chicago Bears fan who bequeathed it to his widow Julia.
She wants to reprise it for this 25th anniversary but cannot because the owners of the Bears and the NFL won't permit it. Those jerseys the players are wearing -- they belong to the Bears and the NFL.
So, hands off, Julia Meyer. You dare sell a tape of your shuffle with a Bear jersey in it, you could be smacked with a lawsuit for violating a copyright.
The Bad News Bears and the NFL don't want Julia to move in on even a little bit of their money. Why so greedy? Maybe it's because the Bears need more money to hire an offensive coordinator who knows how to call a play.
For me to avoid a lawsuit, the most I can show you of the "Super Bowl Shuffle" is a few seconds. A wonderful memory, don't you think? A memory we can use right now in Chicago. The way the Bears put together an offense, who knows for how long we'll never again see a Super Bowl.
