Chicago Bears

Drafting Rashaan Salaam

A girl, since as a 6 year old Gale was a girl’s name, scored 6 touchdowns on a radio broadcast , while my father test drove cars at the dealership.

Getting “drafted” for my towns little league “Chicago Bears” football team. We won the Super Bowl 2 years straight.

Jay cutler memes

Honestly lol, the Double Doink. I was just getting into football with some friends from another province (Canada) to play madden and fantasy and needed a team to root for. I was watching the bears game and after the double doink I said that’s my team they’re not too band wagon-y and I love pizza. So here I am miserable 5 years later. Wouldn’t change a thing.

Seeing my dad cry a little bit when Walter Payton died. Cade McNown draft.

Growing up my dad had the bears superbowl win on vhs. Watching that was when I became a fan

In person: 2006 NFC Championship Game

At home: Losing my virginity during halftime of SBXX

My first game I watched was the titans bears game in ‘04 I believe. Safety with Urlacher and I think Briggs throwing up the sign. I was about 12 or so. My dad was a Chicago fan but extremely casually. I have been obsessive (and maybe depressive) ever since. I remember my social studies teacher had a thing called ‘face of the day’ where he’d put a picture of random figures in popular culture on his board and whoever answered it first got extra credit. I remember getting the Cedric Benson one the day after he was drafted and being so proud of myself lol.

Superbowl 85, my family are all Patriots fans, my dad bet 5 year old me $1 that the Pats would win. Little did I know, that was the last taste of Bears winning and any money I've made betting on them since.

The Super Bowl shuffle

Playing the superbowl suffle on my fisher price record player. Was only 2 years old win they won it(dont remeber that). But i remember burining a whole through that record dancing to that song when i was about 4 or 5. lol

I have a nostalgic feel for that mid 2000s Fox scorebug and hearing Kenny Albert’s voice while seeing Urlacher, Briggs murder people. Those were my earliest memories. I’d say 2005

Ted Washington INT against the jags, I believe? I was over at grandmas house watching it on a big screen box tv.

Jerry azumah taking a kick back for like 60 yards vs packers. Not sure why or what year but it’s burned in the memory bank

The Fridge catching a TD in the Superbowl

Tampa Bay game, eating subway in the stands, being a beer mule at age 6.

After yet another failed 3rd down conversion attempt, Bobby Douglass walks dejectedly off the field, only to have Abe Gibron grab him on the sidelines and spin him around - pointing at the punting team excitedly. For that reason, the fake punt fooled no one.

Winning the Super Bowl.

Bears fan living in CT. My other teams are all east coast, I took them and nobody else with me, because of that SB. It’s also probably one of my top 5 most vivid memories of early life period

Mike brown pick 6 against Cleveland to win it

2005 when vasher took the missed field goal to the house against the 9ers. That is still the sickest spin move I've ever seen.

2014 season when Rodgers came into soldier field and beat the Bears 17-38 lol… that was a messy season to get into football when I was younger considering Trestman is considered as one of the worst coaches the bears have had

The "They are who we thought they were" game

Halloween I want to say 93 asking my dad who this ironhead guy was the tv kept talking about

Not a particular memory but, watching Walter Payton on Sunday's and then going outside to emulate him.

It was one of Mike Brown's interceptions during the 2001 season. My roommate in college was a huge Bears fan, I wasn't a football fan, but listening to him get so hyped up made me interested. Been a fan since

Sitting on a bench seat in Soldier Field and watching Walter Payton run all over the Saints.

David Terrell flipping off the crowd

I have a very random one. I was 8 or 9 years old, but remember Mark Carrier having 3 ints in a game.

Sweetness walked the trophy out at the ten year anniversary

First memory as in memorable would be the only one staying up to watch the Cardinals game because my dad thought the game was over.

Became a fan in 2001, Mike Brown interception against Cleveland

Brian Urlacher completely taking over the game in Arizona for us that was crazy

I want to say it was R.W McQuarters returning an INT for a touchdown on Thanksgiving in 2004..

Listening to the San Francisco 49ers on the radio in the 1990s, last week of the season, we needed them to win to make the playoffs, I didn't think there was any way they would lose because they were always good. They lost.

I don't know what year it was but I remember as a kid watching with my dad the Bears blocked a FG to beat Green Bay.

Little did I know that would be one of the few and far between wins against the Pack I've seen in my life

Watching the game at my grandparents house with brothers and cousins. Eating frozen pizzas. Watching the comeback against Arizona just being shocked they came back. “They are who we thought they were”!

Bears comeback against Arizona 2006. Family were Bear fans. We heard they were 5-0 and we wanted to watch the team. Tuned into a shitshow but remembered an Urlacher game for the ages and Devin Hester in the final moments. Watched every game since

Riding in a limo to my first bears game (preseason) to watch the bears beat the Dan Marino lead dolphins. What a great day.

Big Cat Williams at training camp. I forget how young I was, but the man was a giant amongst already big men.

Super Bowl 41

Watching the Fog Bowl at my grandparents house

Super Bowl Shuffle

The Butkus extra point.

Being a Bears fan in New York is weird. I saw maybe two Bears broadcasts in six years before Sweetness came along.

The other game I saw involved Bobby Douglass hitting a Bears receiver right between the numbers. In the back.

Kevin Butler kicking a FG v. the Vikings, just before Halloween 1985. CBS-15 out of Fort Wayne Indiana.

Moved to a suburb here in early '22 and quit Browns fandom after the Watson trade. Chose the Bears as a matter of convenience for the over the air broadcast. Fields and the gang beat SF in monsoon conditions in week 1. What a game.

Aside from the Super Bowl shuffle, I remember the first game I actually had tickets to was for the September 15th 2001 game that was rescheduled due to 9/11. It was against the Jags and ended up being the last game they played before the remodel of Soldier Field. I remember Keith Traylor taking one to the house.

Not my first but a vivid memory. Got my grandfather's hand me down television. The old black and white kind with a turn knob to change the channel. UHF was the lower dial. Playoff game in my own room as a 10 year old. Had snacks I rationed and my Syracuse University shirt on because they had similar colors. Bears stuff was hard to find in NY then for less than middle class living, could afford. Got to see some of the game before the fog really rolled. Ended up disappointed and staring out my little window because I really couldn't see a damn thing on that black white TV during the fog bowl.

Watching Walter fake going outa bounds only to run over a would be tackler and score . That was it for me sweetness was a god....

Bears losing to the Packers