I started watching the Bears in the 80's when I still lived in Chicago. Radio jocks, Steve Dahl and Garry Mier did a lot to make that team more human. They'd have Thayer on at least once a week and talk to him about everything other that football and he was really open about things. I remember them doing the George Halas coffin phone. I remember them getting Otis Wilson to tell them who had the biggest dick on the Bears on the air. I remember them eviscerating Packer fans,, those were good times. Then Buddy left, QB's got hurt, and Wilbur got traded.. whole team went to shit. The team has been shit ever since, with occasional signs for hope, but nothing sustained. This team is a soap opera of mistakes and I only wait to see with morbid curiosity on what and how they'll fuck up next. Lovie gets them to the Superbowl, but can never get a Superbowl offense going, so they fire him on a 10-6 season, and Emery brings in worse coach of all time, they fire both and bring in some GM who just crawled out of his mom's vagina who hires the poster boy for mediocrity for a head coach who also can't get any Offense going but at least brings a good D coach. The GM fucks us for the foreseeable future by thinking he's smart and brings in Glennon and picks Justin Timberlake look a-like for our QB of the future, basically based on his looks. I wouldn't be surprised if we find out in later years that Pace asked his daughters to make the pick. To make sure all hope is lost, he brings in a coach with about as much experience as the QB. A coach who's O blew a 21-3 lead in the most important game of their season, but we were told not to worry about that. The new coach implements a O based on a Sonic drive up menu and of course does well his first year, as opposing D's don't know what to expect, but still in typical fashion, the most important game of his season comes down to a field goal which is missed twice. The next year, opposing D's figure out that the QB can't read D's and can barely throw to his left. For some reason the majority of the meat heads think the Bears are going to the SB, but the Realist expect no better than 8 - 8. The realist won. They'll win again next year too as the GM has failed to bring in bonified QB talent, and the HC is still blowing smoke and our D coach is as aggressive as cold oatmeal. To be a Bear's fan is like being a battered wife. It is to suspend belief and deny reality. I can't wait for the next fuck up.