Jul 1, 2019 | Bears, Featured, NFL
And now, we get to the good stuff. After three articles making fun of the list of the 100 greatest Bears created in honor of the team’s 100th anniversary by big brained football guys Don Pierson and Dan Pompei, we’ve reached the final 25. Surely,...
Jun 20, 2019 | Bears, Featured, NFL
To celebrate their 100th anniversary, the Bears enlisted football big brains Don Pierson and Dan Pompei to rank the 100 greatest players in the franchise’s history. Was it a no-win proposition for them? Sure it was. So we’re making fun of it. Here are...
Jun 14, 2019 | Bears, Featured, NFL
My rundown of the thankless exercise the Chicago Bears paid Don Pierson and Dan Pompei to do, the ranking of 100 greatest Bears continues. If you missed 100-76, it’s here. 2 75. Akiem Hicks, DT, 2016 – present Akiem is pretty awesome, and the Bears got him...
Jun 12, 2019 | Bears, Featured, NFL
If you haven’t heard, this is the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Bears, or Decatur Staleys, or whatever they’ve ever been. They were “born” in 1919 when Vag McCaskey was a plucky little nine year old named Ginny Halas.4 To celebrate the...
Sep 19, 2018 | Bears, Featured, NFL
All offseason the Bears media and Bears fans were aligned in their proclamations to give Mitch Trubisky some time to settle into the quarterback job before they freaked out one way or the other. That was never going to be true, and sure enough panic buttons were...
Mar 6, 2018 | Bears, Featured, NFL, Oral Histories
Bears fans booed. Mike Glennon wept. John Fox looked confused. John Lynch’s CTE subsided just long enough for him to act smug and get kudos from the sycophantic NFL media. And that was just when they found out that Chris Berman wasn’t going to host the...