I just came back from the grocery store. where every shelf seemed to have some kind of Chicago Bears trinkets. And half the people in the store had Chicago Bears apparel. Where was all this crap when the Bears were losers?
I wore my jersey through the hard years as well as the good ones!
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I just came back from the grocery store. where every shelf seemed to have some kind of Chicago Bears trinkets. And half the people in the store had Chicago Bears apparel. Where was all this crap when the Bears were losers?
I wore my jersey through the hard years as well as the good ones!
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I wore my shot through bad years, too. I just wear alot more **** now.
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That **** falls on deaf ears with me. I was a kid when the Bears were dominant in the 80s and towards the end in the early 90s. By the time I started watching football and actually knowing what was going on, we were in the Wannstedt era. That's right, I became a hard-core Bears fan during the Wannstedt era, at the beginning of this team's ****ty reign in the cellar, and I stayed. I'm numb to the bandwagon trash talk.
And since you live in Chicago you should know as well as anyone else how crazy (and bipolar) the city is about the Bears. Bears fever hits full-blown when they start to sniff the playoffs. Super Bowl makes it 10 times that.
The Bears do have an embarrassing number of posers and bandwagoners though, I admit. But I think there's as many real fans as any of the other big teams.
Last year the Steelers had a ridiculous number that just vanished mysteriously. The Cowboys and 49ers have quite a few stragglers that embarass the real fan base as well. I think it's between the Steelers, Cowboys, and Bears for which team attracts the most bandwagoners while they're winning.
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