Why the hell are you a bears fan?

[melm]

I'm a Bears fan because the Cardinals left town.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I'm a Bears fan because the Cardinals left town.

My grandpa (Big sky point to you, Pop-Pop) was a Cardinals fan and absolutely hated Halas for running the Cardinals out of town. It's also why he was a White Sox fan, because as most real Chicagoans (read: NOT @Montucky) know the Cardinals were more aligned with the south side and the White Sox. While the Bears were aligned with the Cubs.

"Cubs grow into Bears," is what he would say.

 

[Montucky]

You know the Bears got their name from the Cubs, right?

If you truly want to put yourself in the mindset of fifties Chicago then yes by all means please root for the Arizona Cardinals.

 

[melm]

My gramps went to the cardinals championship winning game in LA on his honeymoon.

Bitched a little bit about the bears, but didn't want to ruin my healthy obsession with Walter Payton and Doug Plank.

Family lived in South shore until 1964, then move to The Burbs.

 

[msadows]

Cause I grew up in Chicago?

Also, Rex Grossman.

 

[Butkus34]

It was the late 70's and I watched a game where Payton ran all over the Vikings and was hooked.

 

[Dejo]

Character flaw on my end, picked them after my DL coach showed us some tapes of Da Bears, I stick with my choices.

 

[circusboy666]

DEFENSE

 

[Biscuit]

Concannon to Gordon, Butkus catching a PAT

Haha Jack Concannon, another in a long line of mediocre/bad Bears QBs. Best remembered for a small part in the movie M*A*S*H and beating the rap for possession of a kilo of coke.

 

[Pegger]

Disclaimer - I'm not a Bears fan.

With that being said, I always liked them. It started with Tecmo Bowl. Walter Payton was awesome and that defense was still top tier. I don't know why, but I liked Payton better than Bo. Maybe I just didn't like the Raiders much?

 

[Penny Traitor]

I've probably said this before, but it's at the point that I don't know if I am still a fan of the team or is watching them play on Sundays just become a habit I am getting too old to break.

 

[gallagher]

As a child, my dad said I was allowed to cuss only when we were watching the bears game, and even then only if my mom wasn't in the room.

Then my mom was all about us having father - son time and was always scheduling things around the bears game so we would always be able to watch.

Pretty sweet deal. Sucks about all the shitty seasons in my lifetime though.

 

[mcbear34]

My Dad was a Cowboys fan (boo) and my Mom a Bears fan. Walter Payton sealed the deal.

 

[discplayer]

It was the day I saw Walter Payton get ejected from a football game against Atlanta

Ha! I remember that game like it was yesterday! Walter was stopped just short of the goal line (a TD would put CHI up 24-14) and was down when the ball was jarred loose, Falcons recovering. When Payton ran to the official to protest he kinda lost his footing and stumbled into him. The ref immediately threw the flag and tossed him, and upheld the ATL recovery. Instead of retaining possession and scoring 7, or at least 3, Bartkowski and the Falcons go onto win 24-17.

As much as we leaned on Walter as our offense back then, losing him then actually DID cost us the game.

I became a fan when we moved to Chicago heading into the ‘70 season. Watching Butkus and Sayers still playing, and playing their hearts out hooked me. Then Payton’s rookie year sealed the deal!

 

[modo]

Ha! I remember that game like it was yesterday! Walter was stopped just short of the goal line (a TD would put CHI up 24-14) and was down when the ball was jarred loose, Falcons recovering. When Payton ran to the official to protest he kinda lost his footing and stumbled into him. The ref immediately threw the flag and tossed him, and upheld the ATL recovery. Instead of retaining possession and scoring 7, or at least 3, Bartkowski and the Falcons go onto win 24-17.

As much as we leaned on Walter as our offense back then, losing him then actually DID cost us the game.

I became a fan when we moved to Chicago heading into the ‘70 season. Watching Butkus and Sayers still playing, and playing their hearts out hooked me. Then Payton’s rookie year sealed the deal!

I was just a small kid back then but I remember being pissed off enough to become a life long fan.

 

[DC]

Didn't grow up in Chicago or Illinois, as my parents moved the family to Las Vegas two years before I was born because my older brother had bad Asthma. Or so they say. They also were gambling addicts and wanted to move as far away from family and the City of West Chicago as possible.

Grew up without a team in Las Vegas then Tucson. Brothers and distant cousins sent VHS tapes of the Bears and it was a part of me. A part of my past and connection to a place I never really knew or understood. It makes no sense but the Bears are my team. Haven't missed a game in 2+ decades and I rocked the shit out of Bears gear in Tucson and El Paso in the 80s and 90s.

 

[chitown2387]

Let me get drunk & I'll tell you how I made such a stupid decision.

 

[WindyCity]

I hate myself and I am addicted to one sided relationships.

 

[Bear Nation]

Growing up in CA in the 80s surrounded by 49ers and Raiders fans I learned that Jim McMahon was my aunt’s cousin. Around that same time the Bears were in the media everywhere you looked and capped it off by winning the Super Bowl. After that I was hooked and the rest is history.

 

[ThatGuyRyan]

I was a Steelers fan as a kid and obviously, like 95% of my life choices, I made a bad decision and started watching the bears in the early 80s.