Chicago Bears

My dad took me to opening day in like 92 or so. Bears vs Vikings. Bears won. I miss you dad. RIP.

Mike Ditka

Marty booker and Mike brown 2001

Getting throttled by the Giants in the 1990 divisional round. Mike Tomzack....what a QB. :/

Three distinct ones. Jim Miller raising his hands after a victory, and my dad saying “I hope this one sticks around. I like him.” Oof

Second was Kordell Stewart doing a play action pass against the saints where the announcer said “this is what Kordell needs to do more.”

When we drafted Brian Urlacher. Dang that was a lifetime ago.

Honestly mine isn't as positive, but its Jim Miller getting injured in the 2001 Divisional Playoffs and losing that game in part due to not having your starting QB. Very unfair for 7 year old me

Payton doing the jump over the goaline. As a kid, that was the most amazing thing ever. Been a Cali bear fan ever since.

Beating the Panthers in 2005 in the regular season.

Not my first one, but the 2 walk off INT's in back to back weeks by Mike Brown will always be my favorite.

Calvin Johnson catch game week 1 2010

Thomas Jones running his shit on defenses

I won a bears winter coat when I was about 6 years old. I had to name everyone on the bears 85 bears’ o-line… luckily my dad was feeding me the answers. The coat was like a XXXL and I’m 33 now…still don’t fit in the coat lol

Raymont Harris carrying the ball for 3 yards at a time on a SUPER cold November afternoon.

Going to the only regular season game I’ve ever been to, in 1984. I was 7. That’s what got me really into the Bears, which was a pretty good time to start caring about the Bears…

I had a very 70's yellow sweatshirt with the number 275 on the chest and Sweetness running. Sick af.

Or, when my Dad would just "go to the garage for a bit" during games.

Super Bowl Shuffle. Learned all the lyrics and could probably still do the entire thing. Just your average 4 year old on the playground singing, “They call me sweetness cuz I like to dance. Running the ball’s like making romance”.

Erik Kramer throwing tuddies while I froze my ass off in old soldier while my friends dad cursed out wannie the whole game.

He said watching the bears would help us get better at pop Warner ball… turns out it didn’t.

Seeing the Cardinals blow us out

Jared Allen was WAYYYYYYYY out of his prime

The Superbowl Shuffle. I had a 45 vinyl on my Fisher Price record player.

1994 season, wild card game against Minnesota

It's oddly the '87 strike season for me. I have fleeting memories of '85 and '86, but '87 is first season I remember actually gathering around and watching games and following the team week to week.

Meeting Chris Zorich at Platteville training camp.

My father swearing at the television.

85 Bears, I was 4, had all my stuffed bears lined up to watch the game. Also, remember my dad bringing home a recording, on betamax, of the super bowl shuffle. 😁

The Bears losing to the Eagles in 2001. It was my first year of watching football and I cried when I realized we weren't coming back.

First game at Soldier Field was game Butkus made game winning diving catch for 2 point conversion (Douglas fumbled snap for extra point). Bears won by 1 point. Butkus said was his most memorable play of his career.

Superbowl shuffle

My Dad taking me to a Bears Rams game in the early 1980’s. We didn’t have much money growing up so it was a rare treat.

I'm old so I'm going to go with the original 'Flu game' (before MJ). Walter Payton rushing for 275 yards against the Vikings in 1977.

Not a specific memory but Urlacher.

I’m an Eagles fan second, because I’m from eastern PA, but holy shit I never saw a player like him. In my 11 year old mind, he had to be the greatest football player ever.

One play is a devastating tackle, the next an acrobatic interception. Dude was unreal. It made me a Bears fan.

February 4th 2007

Me (very young) "Did we win?"

My mother (exasperated): "does it look like we did, The bears players aren't hugging and cheering on the field. No its payton manning and the colts"

A-Train and Mike Brown. Dick Juron.

Also must say, great post. Far above the constant prattling on this sub about which QB to draft in 2024.

Doing a version of the Super Bowl shuffle with my friends from cub scouts.

Fog bowl

Jim Miller coming in as a back up and lighting it up. I don't know who we were playing lol but for some reason this sticks in my mind.

While I was growing up, my father was a racist. However, he refrained from referring to Walter Payton as the "N" word. At 10 years old, I asked him why. As he stammered on about how much of an upstanding man and hard worker Walter Payton was, I realized that Sweetness was a man of enough character to make a racist aware of his own bigotry and hypocrisy. I learned a lot that day. I learned a lot about what it was to be a man. I loved Walter Payton for changing and softening the heart of my father. The Bears won the Superbowl that year and I danced the superbowl shuffle with my dad. Bear down.

Watching the 1986 Super Bowl at grandmas and playing pong at halftime with my cousins in the basement. (Pong was outdated at that time which is why it resided in my grandmas basement)