Jim McMahon Shows Shades of Sid Vicious, Sid Luckman

Jim McMahon walks into an interview wearing a fur-lined leather jacket over a white T-shirt, red tights, white tennis shoes and black-and-white wraparound sunglasses with polka-dot glass.

With all this, plus a do-it-yourself punk haircut now grown out, he looks more like Sid Vicious than Sid Luckman.

It’s a good thing for the Chicago Bears he plays more like Luckman.

For the jacket and tights, there’s no explanation. But he has to wear the shades. When he was 6, he tried to untie a knot in a shoelace with a fork. The fork got caught and flew into his right eye. Surgeons were able to restore his vision to 20-200, but he still has a black spot in his iris, which makes him very sensitive to bright light.