“The Super Bowl Shuffle” lives in infamy as both the finest rap song to ever be recorded by a professional football team and easily the most embarrassing Grammy nomination of all time. However, there’s more to “The Super Bowl Shuffle” than just awkward rapping and dancing by the likes of quarterback Jim McMahon, defensive end Richard Dent and select "shufflin' crew" from the '85 Bears. In honor of this Sunday’s matchup between the Giants and the Patriots -- two teams deeply unlikely to rap -- here's five things to dazzle your friends and family with regarding the 1985 Chicago Bears most celebrated musical achievement. Because wherever you are, it's almost guaranteed to come up in conversation. It always does.

1. “The Super Bowl Shuffle” was nominated for a Grammy in 1987

The Chicago Bears Shuffling Crew were nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group,” which just goes to show that the Grammys were either desperate, on drugs, or both. Back in the '80s, before the awards ceremony had assessed whether hip-hop was a passing fad or actually, like, music, rap songs got grouped in there: which meant that Run DMC’s "Raising Hell" was nominated against “Kiss” by Prince & the Revolution, both of whom had to suffer the indignity of competing against “The Super Bowl Shuffle.” And if the dates up there don’t make sense to you -- these were the ’85 Bears who recorded it -- it’s because songs recorded late in 1985 are considered, for awards purposes, to be from 1986, which means that Steve Fuller was already off the team by awards time.

2. Believe it or not, this wasn’t the first rap song recorded by a football team

The San Francisco 49ers, a year earlier, had recorded a less ostentatious (and less celebrated) song called “We are the 49ers.” If you can believe it, the rapping on “We Are The 49ers” is even more awkward than on “The Super Bowl Shuffle” – on that one, instead of solos from guys like Jim McMahon, the entire team raps together in unison, a style we can’t believe didn’t catch on.

3. It sparked a nutty trend.

“The Super Bowl Shuffle,” as a commercial and (sigh) critical success inspired a host of imitators. Some, like the L.A. Rams' “Let’s Ram It,” are so hilariously, embarrassingly terrible that they are downright mesmerizing. It got to the point that Walter Payton himself, the Bears’ star tailback, went on SNL to mock the trend.

4. The Bears raised over $300,000 for needy families in Chicago.

“We’re not doing this because we’re greedy / the Bears are doing it to feed the needy,” Payton rapped, and he wasn’t lying -- the song, as a huge hit, sold a ton of records, and they did donate the proceeds to the Chicago Community Trust.

5. In 2010, the players were lured back to the site of their great embarrassment at the promise of a buck.

The 1985 Bears Shufflin’ Crew members do not seem particularly proud of the song -- all of the ones who Hive contacted declined to participate in this retrospective -- but that didn’t stop them from recording an updated version for the 25th anniversary of the song in 2010. McMahon, Otis Wilson, Willie Gault, Richard Dent, Steve Fuller, and Maury Buford reunited as the Boost Shuffling Crew in a commercial for Boost Mobile. Yet the 30th anniversary is right around the corner ...