My brother kicking me for turning on Coleco like an hour before kickoff. He had a helmet on. I guess it was time to learn football season started and need to adjust accordingly.
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Myself at 8yo, Walter Payton “Human Catapulting” over the Vikings for a TD. My Dad being a lifelong Packers fan mumbled something to the effect; “GD that man is fucking unstoppable”. I instantly feel in love with Sweetness and by proxy Da Bears!
Watching Mike Ditka get showered in Gatorade.
My first game when I was eight which happened to be Mike Singletary‘s last game with the team. They trounced the Pittsburgh Steelers and my dad knew of a place where you could go after the game and wait at the end of a tunnel where all the players would run through to get to the locker room. Dad stood there, pretending to blow his nose next to the garbage can until the team came running through. Singletary was last with a bunch of press around him, and Dad told me “Reach out and touch him!” and I accidentally slapped his ass.
1999 season. They played the Seahawks and I wanted to be a butthead and cheer the Bears in a room full of Hawk fans. The next year they drafted Urlacher who I share a birthday with. 🐻 ⬇️
Walter Payton playing in the all whites in Tampa against the creamsicle expansion-era Bucs.
Eating teriyaki wings for the first time while watching Super Bowl XX at a superbowl party my parents took me to. I was 8.
I was 14 years old in 03. I’m from New Zealand so NFL football(at least at the time) wasn’t very popular at all. It’s rugby, rugby and more rugby. NBA was really the only sport we knew from the states. It’s school holidays and I’ve got nothing to do, so I flick on ESPN hoping for some NBA. Slightly disappointed to see its this NFL game instead but I give it a shot anyway coz I’m bored. I proceed to watch Brian Urlacher absolutely destroy some dude over the middle and it was love at first sight. Boy was the next decade as a bears fan fun. The last decade not so much. 🐻⬇️
Super Bowl, February 86
Bears beating the Giants in OT last game of the year to go to playoffs in 1977. We were watching at my grandparents house. Not enough chairs so us kids had to watch laying on the lime green shag carpeting lol
~1996 Bears vs Packers at Soldier Field. 8th row. Couldn’t see a fucking thing because 2 massive Packer fans were sitting directly in front of me.
Listening to the games on WBBM. Bob Parsons seemed to punt every 4 or 5 offensive plays. Gary Huff was the QB, Roland Harper, Cid Edwards, and some guy named Walter were the running backs. Bo Rather, Greg Latta, and Bob Grim were the receivers. Waymond Bryant, Doug Buffone, Allan Ellis, and Wally Chambers were the defensive players who were making plays.
Bobby Douglas running for almost 1,000 yards
Refrigerator Perry and Neal Anderson. Used my Fisher price tape record to pretend I was the field announcer for the bears in the late 80s. They always won, and every game was against the redskins.
All while wearing my Perry jersey. Store only had a xxl in stock. I was 7 and swam in it, but I loved it.
My dad buying me a Rashaan salaam jersey at sears when the bears drafted him in 95
Not my first memory but im gonna mention a name you almost never hear. Darnell Autry. After a magical season at northwestern, that ended in a rose bowl he did a meet and greet at local firefighters vs police basketball game. I met him and got his autograph. He was drafted by the bears and i thought that was the coolest thing ever. He never made it as a NFL RB, but as a young boy it was the coolest thing ever
Chuck Hughes.
Lions vs Bears
October 1971
Sweetness running for 275 in 1977😁
My earliest memory is of watching a game because it happened to be on and my dad wouldn’t let me change the channel. He had the TV on with the volume off, and had a radio with AM780 on. It was the 85 season, I was 13 and I got all caught up in Bears mania along with everyone else. I wrote in my diary that Gary Fencik was poetry in motion and his butt looked cute.
I think it was the 12 sack game in 1984.
Pain
4th and 8. 2013 Don't remember much prior.
Hanging out with Curtis Conway and big cat Williams at sports mart in Lombard, for some bears promo thing . Got to see Curtis run routes (very slowly) in the parking lot and we also got to run some.
I was probably 9.
I have others but this one stands out
The earliest I can remember is Bears Packers MNF 2010
The oldest one that has stuck is the classic Denny Green Cardinals game
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Deleted my first comment because I realized my answer was wrong. The correct answer is I remember Anthony Thomas scoring a touchdown at U of I’d stadium. 2002 is the first season I remember. So I thought the Bears and U of I were the same team for a short period of my childhood.
Desmond Clark.
It’s too long ago and hazy to remember more. I just know that 88 was the first jersey number I remember seeing tumbling down the middle of the field through would-be tacklers.
Brian Bashnagel gave me his wristband at camp in training camp Lake Forest
If I didn’t know any better I’d say that’s a made up name lol
Losing to the eagles by like 50 back in 2013.
Urlacher leading the comeback in AZ in 2006
The Curtis Conway wide receiver screens the year where he had some big plays doing that.
A close runner-up where those little bubble screens i think the oc was john schoop or something like that. I remember my dad throwing a pillow across the living room and hitting and breaking the ceiling fan that he just installed.
First year I watched the bears weekly (we usually got bears noon game everyweek) was the year mike brown walked off back to back
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Watching the 1986 Super Bowl with my dad and my brother in our super cold house out in the country in Illinois.
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Not necessarily first memory, but one of my earliest that stuck with me because it was the first time I was going all in as a fan.
13 years old maybe, watching the NFL Draft. I had our word processor out, tracking every teams pick line by line until we got to #21 and that's when I KNEW we were going to the '96 Super Bowl. That franchise RB was none other than Rashaan Salaam. I ended up printing that first page with all the Rd 1 selections. Even taped it to the inside of my locker at school. Sometimes I miss that ignorant enthusiasm.
Oddly enough, since we play the lions tomorrow, watching Berry Sanders destroy us his rookie year
Going to the Chicago Auto show with the family and getting to ask Sir . Walter Payton a couple of questions and him taking the time to answer this 7/8 year old .. than shaking my hand and singing me his autograph with the Buick cars he advertised for .. That there has Never ever left my memory . We went year after year . I had a lot of those Buick autographs . Along with many others of the Bears players . As well as my South Sider Chicago White Sox players , .. those were definitely the best days living in Cal City and worshipping all Chicago Sports .... Well except those cubbies .. .. Lol 😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 W. S. O. X. Only and B4 Harry Carry became a trader defecting to the cub holes ...
Ahhh yes those were the days ......
I remember a Packers player committing a very late hit on Jim McMahon. McMahon was injured and the player was kicked out go the game. It’s the first time I remember hearing my dad say the F word.
Keith Traylor interception return, I still remember the Pizzeria Unos going wild (I live in NC and it was the local bears spot)
My dad bought me a Cade Mcnown jersey.
In 1977 Walter needed 203 yds to break OJ’s single season record. They we’re playing the Giants and it was snowing and I asked my dad if they were going to postpone the game so Walter had a chance
Watching the Packers lose to John Elway and the Broncos.
Nathan Vasher FG return for TD
Bears losing to the Packers