Chicago Bears

[Savage04]

Go Chicago Bears

[awnelson]

How 'bout go home empty handed, Chicago Bears. JK Best of luck to both teams.

[one85_db]

I guess i'm rooting for the bears. Thomas Jones is from my home town... i went to school with him..

[LD3Furious]

It's raining...Peyton won't win :P:P:P

[littlej72]

Im Redskins or Ravens fan, hometown boy. I really can't stand peyton though, I do enjoy watching him get hit, to bad it dosn't happen often. Remember any given sunday, with the rain it's anyone's game.

[Kronic]

did you know that every year on superbowl sunday crime drops by 70%? except after the bowl in the city when they have riots :)

oh ya im a packers fan. da bears still suck :D (we have a actual song on that which is played on the radio alot)

[awnelson]

Yep, that's why we're watching the Packers right now on T.V.?

[littlej72]

favre's coming back next year, it's hard to leave......

[awnelson]

I think I saw him , the 'Bowl... doing concessions. Yeah he's coming back alright. Clements came back too and he was too old and slow.

[Kuldeep]

Woop Wooooooop Bears!!!

[BTE214]

My favorite teams in order: The Packers, then whoever is playing the bears or vikings. Congrats to the Colts.

[awnelson]

Same here; whoever is playing our loser, can't stay out of the news Vikings.

Did you know that the reason Iowa doesn't have a Pro Football team is because...

Then Minnesota would be whining about getting one too!! HAHAHAHA

Actually, it's 'cause they can't get the cheerleaders to stop grazing on the field long enough to get a few plays in.

[Duster_360]

Now, maybe we can stop hearing about Payton not being able to win the big one.

The sportwriters/broadcasters will have to think of something else, finally.

[chestnut007]

sorry, they lost.. I feel your sadness

[Prelude14WRX]

I'm not really a football fan...but it was cool the Colts gave God the glory.

[NotWalkinBlind]

The Bears never had a chance... some drunk Bears fans screwed it up for 'em during the playoff game with the Saints... bad karma always comes home to roost.

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Jan 24, 2007 11:05 am US/Central

New Orleans Residents Upset With Unruly Bears Fans
Some Bears Fans Brought Sign Saying 'Bears: Finishing What Katrina Started'

(CBS) CHICAGO Fans of both the Bears and the New Orleans Saints are being called out for unruly behavior during the NFC Championship game.

But on Sunday night, some Bears fans took the rivalry too far. In one instance, a woman being interviewed by a New Orleans TV reporter in front of Soldier Field was pushed out of the way by a man screaming, "Super Bowl, Super Bears."

Saints fans and New Orleans residents are especially upset by one sign that says "Bears: Finishing What Katrina Started."

"(It's) very, very disappointing that there are people that will take something that's happened so bad to our city and try to turn it around over a football game," one woman said.

Another woman added, "A man lost his wife and child in Katrina and they were ragging him over that, and it was just terrible."

A Louisiana resident wrote to CBS 2: "I have visited your city many times but never will again. I pray to God no catastrophic event ever occurs that will force your entire city out of their homes."

In New Orleans, some Saints fans showed their team spirit by running over a stuffed toy bear again and again.

(© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Chicago Bears: Awful Winners

By Mike Bayham

DANTE’S INFERNO (CHICAGO)- The stands at Soldier Field Sunday afternoon would have been a paradise for Karl Marx as there was no evidence of class to be found anywhere in the stadium.

Going into the NFC championship game, I planned on being the subject of many, many barbs. And some of them were amusing, like one fan’s cry for some more "fumba-laya" in response to the Saints’ inability to hold on to the ball in the first half.

But it wasn’t long before things got "battery in the snowball" ugly, a reference to Bears fans’ treatment of Saints fans in the 1991 wild-card playoff.

Take for example one fan sporting a bear mask on his head and a placard strapped to his shoulders that read: "Bears finishing what Katrina started".

Wanting to capture that scene so the folks back home can have an idea of what the traveling Black and Gold faithful had to endure, I turned my Saints cap around while sporting a grin and asked to take his picture. He giddily obliged though his smile disappeared when I repositioned my hat so the fleur-de-lis faced him after his public obnoxiousness was digitally cataloged.

It’s been 16 years since I last threw a punch at anyone in self-defense and retaliation on my part would have meant a beat down by him, his cohorts and others wearing blue and orange clothing that don’t need much of an excuse to attack a visiting team’s fans.

So I summoned the strength of those other saints and just endured it, knowing that the first time he made contact I was going to start swinging away regardless of the consequences. Needless to say when Reggie Bush made his spectacular score, the cold war taking place in section 324, rows 15 and 16 began to teeter on going hot.

Shortly thereafter, the hothead asked if I got flooded out from Hurricane Katrina. Having been asked this question dozens of times on previous trips outside of New Orleans, I instinctively replied my house went under 11 feet of water but I had evacuated beforehand, to which this clown shot back, "too bad you didn’t drown."

I along with many other Saints fans hit the exits at the start of the fourth quarter figuring that the beating on the field was enough without being assaulted in the stands. But the hostile hospitality did not end with the game.

As I trudged across the tundra towards the elevated train station I witnessed a Bears fan throwing his beer at a New Orleans television reporter. A day later while riding an escalator from the train area I was being cursed at by someone sporting a Bears cap going down in the opposite direction.

If this is how Bears fans handle victory, then I don’t doubt that myself and others who "dared" cheer for their team would have had left some blood on the Chicago snow.

Chicago is one of America’s great cities in architecture, food, music, theater and industry. It’s also an outstanding museum city, only nosed out by Washington, DC as the best in this area. However, there’s no excuse for people visiting the city for a sporting event to be sneered at or have the collective misfortune of their home area mocked.

The Bears fans have proven themselves to be the most repugnant sports fans this side of England’s soccer hooligans. ATL Dirty Birds and Philly’s arrogant Eagles fans have nothing on these animals.

I’ve visited Chicago four times now and would be happy to never set foot nor spend another red cent in it ever again.

What galls me the most is how the Chicago Bears and the media have been whining about Reggie Bush’s taunt.

Let’s see here: a professional athlete does a flip in the endzone after executing a spectacular play versus an unruly mob making fun of the catastrophe that killed over a thousand people and made homeless in excess of a quarter of a million.

I’ll be sure to light a candle for Brian Urlacher the next time I go to church.

Let’s hope that New Orleans-native Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts can settle the score for us in the big game in two weeks since the Chicago Bears don’t need another Superbowl trophy as much as their fans need to get some class.
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Mike Bayham is a political consultant in south Louisiana and can be reached at mikebayham@yahoo.com
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A few selected reader comments...

I attend most Bear games at Soldier Field. In general, the behavior of Bear fans is appalling and I now give up my tickets more and more often. It seems that the better the Bears are, the more belligerent the fans become. I also have attended numerous games outside Chicago. Despite the rivalry, I find Green Bay fans to be quite classy as a whole. But the biggest eye opener occurred some years ago when I had a chance to visit Indianapolis when they were hosting the Packers. I was absolutely startled - and I talk about it often - how gracious the fans were towards one another. What an enjoyable day for all fans.
~Written by Lex Luthor on 1/26/2007

I am originally from Louisiana and have been in Chicago for about a year. Needless to say, I am disgusted by what I have seen and heard about the Chicago football fools. Any love that I may have had for this city is now officially dead. I'm not from New Orleans, but I'm just as offended as anyone who suffered through Katrina, and the fact that so many people are excusing their behavior is ridiculous. They may have been drunk when they made the comments, but they damn sure weren't drunk when they made the Katrina sign. I dare any of these people to take those signs with them to Miami and make those same ignorant comments. Yall need to remember that New Orleans and the state of Louisiana were not the only places affected by these hurricanes. We're talking Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida & Texas have all experienced this. We got the whole south on our back and that's real. Remeber that when your in Miami for the SuperBowl. And don't get all high and mighty with anybody because yall have never experienced a natural disaster in Chicago, just because you've never needed help from Louisiana don't mean that you never will. Karma is a b****.
~Written by Karmen on 1/26/2007

Of course, New Orleans has the classiest fans in the world. Like the time I came down to the Sugar Bowl in 2002, wearing my Illinois jacket on Bourbon St., and having LSU fans throw their drinks at me from the balconies. That was fun. And also the reason I've never, and will never, go back to New Orleans.
~Written by Jeremy on 1/25/2007

I completely disagree with what that particular fan did and said, but i am a little insulted that everyone is lumping all Chicago Bears fans together. I work for the Governor in Illinois and i have been yelled at now for 2 days about our behavior. I was disgusted in the way he acted but i am even more disgusted in the way that everyone is making Illinois into this horrible place. Every state has bad apples and i apologize that one of ours was so terrible to another person but we dont call out every single one we find elsewhere. I have been in other states and treated like an alien. I dont make an ordeal out of it. Its free speech although a poor form of it.
~Written by Megan Hunsley on 1/24/2007

Signed up to Nola.Com the other night. Other Bear Fans did to. Tried apoligizing to Saints Fans, and we were told never to come to New Orleans, because when they heard our Chicago Accent, we'd be shot. So this is the saintly saint fans. Threating violence when people try to apoligize?
~Written by Anonymous on 1/24/2007

My son in law went to the Bears game. In addition to being constantly pelted with obscenities and snowballs throughout the game, he was punched in the stomach in the mens' room in the midst of a group of drunken Bears fans. Obviously, there was no way he could defend himself in theIr midst. I believe that our mayor should demand an apology from the mayor of Chicago and that WE SHOULD STRENGTHEN OUR OWN RESOLVE NOT TO TREAT OPPOSING FANS THAT WAY WHEN THEY COME TO NEW ORLEANS, IN THE NAME OF GOD AND CIVILIZATION.
~Written by Sally Reeves on 1/23/2007

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the Chicago playoff game. However, I have attended the majority of the Saints home games for over 30 years. I have also traveled with the team to a few road games over the years including Miami, Houston and Atlanta. There is always a lot of good natured ribbing, comments and trust me, I give as much as I get. At no time have I ever felt physically threatened or needed to seek assistance from the athorities. I am a 6'2 275 black man, so drunk or not, most people think twice before approaching me. You never know, I may be the "stereotype." I have also traveled to SEC road games with the LSU Tigers with no problems. Based on the stories that I am hearing from friends, and others who did attend the game, they were constantly harrassed from the moment they got to the game. I've traveled to Chicago on business on several occassions and would not say the entire City of Chicago is full of jerks and a-holes,quite the opposite. Apparently, when Chicagoans walk into "Soldier Field", many of them transform into jerks and a-holes. You are what you are. The fact that the authorities looked the other way when they knew what was going on is a good indication of how you treat guest. Regardless of who you are, that behavior is not acceptable. By the way, several thousands "Who Dats" traveled to Dallas, New York and Pittsburg this season. We won 2 out of 3 of those games and no one complained about hostility in the stands. By the way, the excuse that recent losing seasons is a reason to get overly excited is hogwash. If that were the case, Saints fans would be a wild mob! By the way, ask the Philadelphia fans what a great time they had during the divisonal playoffs a few weeks ago. I am sure a few of them may have bumped into our local jerks and a-holes. But I know that for everyone of unsolicited problem they encountered, several others intervened and apologized for them. Bottomline, New Orleans has a lot of issues, but we do know how to treat guest. When you visit New Orleans, we welcome you to the city, invite you to have a great time and spend lots of money. If following your team brings you to town, great! We would just appreciate it if you would extend us the same courtesy if we visit your town. I believe the Bears are on the schedule next year. Come on down, pass a good time and spend lots of money! Who Dat!
~Written by Black and Gold Rod on 1/23/2007

[trxcrazy345]

thats long any way no one has to worry the colts won

[spiderwc]

how bout them COLT"S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TSR6]

Yep, that's why we're watching the Packers right now on T.V.?

Remember New Years Eve? :wave: