Chicago Bears Infanity. A Look Into a "Not so Brilliant" Mind.

  I have 3 jerseys, several shirts and a poster and banner with all their championships. I also have a helmet my friends gave me that they bought at a flea market. It’s plastic and not meant for real football, even like pee wee. I have to wear my Cutler jersey on gameday. It used to be my Urlacher jersey but I changed it because my Urlacher one was getting rough and HoneyBear got me my Cutler stitched for my birthday last year. If they win, I wear my Kreutz jersey on Monday, if not I tend not to wear Bears stuff until the next Friday. I can’t think of any other traditions I have.
  Oh, I yell at the TV too. I try to control myself but I can’t do it. In fact the only sports I can watch without screaming at the TV are baseball and F1. Although I have been known to yell at those as well.
  I dig your routine though, I think that’s cool.

You know, being a regular soccer fan since i got out of my mother’s womb, The tradition of INSANE superstition runs WILD in me and my family.

And with my beloved Bears it’s not different. Mine aren’t as ritualistic as yours but there are a few quirks.
When football season starts i switch tons of things in my room to football mode. PCs, Cellphone. I change my whole online routine to football first. I have special orders to where to read things and how to do so.

My jersey ritual makes family kind of laugh at my sillyness.
First of all, when season starts, i take all of them from the closet. I don’t have many (just 3 =( will have more someday though). (It’s hard and expensive to get ahold of them here in Brazil).
I put them over my Work Chair. I rarely put them on during season because it’s in the middle of Brazlian spring and its HOT AS HELL in here during that time. So wearing my jerseys during the day would probably cook my ass.

But during some games i throw them on. Specially during prime-time games.
My dog also joins in and uses his Bears collar.

I usually drink FANTA orange soda during games. Or beer when i’m with my friends. (Though none of my friends are bears fans. (Chargers (younger brother), Colts (Best friend1, and cowboys(best friend2) We all love the GAME of football so we watch tons of games no matter which team is on the field.

And during superbowl i acquired the superstition that i believe the Bears will never win a superbowl in Blue Jerseys.

I’d be completely lost without my footballs to grab on to during INTENSE games. I have to grab something because i find it hard to stay still.

If something GOOD/SPECTACULAR happens during a game and i’m in a certain position i WONT change positions anymore, with fear of jynxing it

About paraphernalia i have a couple of bears themed footballs, a jay cutler figure (and i have a brian urlacher one on the mail) 3 jerseys, a couple of pennants and a longneck beer jersey i got from my brother-in-law who went to chicago.
I’d have A LOT more if i lived in the US.

is a glass tile mural of Payton that sits in the window of my office.

As you can see, it’s not the only piece of Bears paraphernalia being represented. Also, in the office, I have a four foot logo flag, a Bears helmet, some McFarlane action figures (not dolls) of Hester, Urlacher and Payton, a mini jersey and mini helmet, and a magnetic door logo sign on the front of my office. It’s all a tad overkill, but someone’s gotta fly some real colors in SC.

Tell me something, to give me some perspective.
Do you guys also feel that 250-300 bucks for an authentic jersey is kind of…MIND BOGGLING EXPENSIVE ?

Or am i a cheapskate ?

and it’s a picture of grossman getting sacked with the caption “momentum can carry you backwards, too”

1. Throw on the Payton jersey, unless it’s one of those rare occasions when the Bears wear orange – then it’s Urlacher.

2. Bow to the Payton picture I’ve got hanging in my office/weight room (same picture as my icon here).

3. Pour the first batch of my “breakfast” into my 22-oz. Bears mug and proceed to shout at the TV for the next three hours, positively or negatively as appropriate.

My most prized Bears possession? When I was in elementary school and surrounded by idiot Niners fans, I wrote to Ditka to tell him that the Super Bowl win was awesome and that I would always root for the Bears. He sent me an autographed photo in return. That’s #1. #2 is my copy of Never Say Die.

hopped on my lap and faced north, the Bears won. Always. She was a great fan and a good luck charm. Ok. I lied. She could care less about the Bears or football but she was a great lap kitty. R.I.P.

That garden gnome is awesome! Hopefully this isn’t an inappropriate use of a rec but I am doing so just as props for having that and your other Bears schwag. I smell an early Xmas present to myself…

Other than when I immediately wake up on Sunday I throw on a jersey. If the game’s on T.V. then it’s off to the store to buy some booze and brats. If the game’s not on T.V. then it’s off to Baumhowers.

I’ve been slowly getting my collection built up. I’ve got a couple jerseys, and Urlacher and a new Peppers one my girlfriend got me (I’m slowly getting her turned from a Brewers and Packers fan to a Cubs and Bears fan), a framed Payton collage I bought at a auction, a few shirts and posters. Next on the list of things I need is a Bears flag I can proudly fly in Platteville Wisconsin to bug the neighbors.

… but on game day I wear one of my jerseys (usually my Forte one that GG bought me – Forte’s my fave!) but I also have a Hester (my Colts friend dated a Bears fan and bought it for her – they broke up, she gave it back, and he gave it to me – cha ching! Haha). I wear Bears stuff the day after a win as well, but usually just one of my Bears shirts. I also go over to GG’s every Sunday for the game.

I’m still acquiring a collection, since I am relatively new (2 seasons) as an official fan, but I have my autographed pics from Maynard and Forte, a football w/ sigs from TC in ‘09, other random memorabilia from TC, and a Bears pennant. I just bought a Bears fleece the other day and can’t wait for it to get chilly so that I can wear it!

When I was younger my dad and I collected ballcards. He liked the Browns and I the Bears. I have team sets of the Bears from 1967 – 2000. I am proud of them as it is something I got to do with my Dad for many years.

away games are left to me in my man cave where I yell at two tv’s. The main one for the bear game and the one over my bar for fantasy purposes..I have multiple jerseys, 2 paytons, sayers, samurai, hampton, McMahon. I also am surrounded my a bunch of framed autographed bear jerseys on the wall, Hamp, Coach, Butkus, Sayers, Samurai, McMahon, Dent and a beautifully framed picture to the man we owe all of this to..Papa Bear. Oh and a Chris Williams autographed helmut I won at the bears luncheon..

Saturday, watch the Illini, once that ends check the fantasy team(s) to make sure everything’s set, then don’t touch football until the next day. Wake up Sunday, make coffee at 9:30~10, watch pregame, shower at 11, throw on a thin, worn out Bears hoodie I’ve had since junior year of high school (now two years removed from college and the thing still fits, thank Ditka), and even in the summer it’s comfortable enough to wear. Put a jersey on over it. Check one last time on the fantasy football team(s), make sure there’s no last-minute injury news, then be ready for noon Football Day kickoff.

I guess there is one ritual/thing I did. After every Bears touchdown, I had this Bears woven throw blanket, and I’d wrap it around myself and run up and down the halls of my dorm yelling “TOUCHDOWN BEARS!” (Which annoyed my Packer fan roommate to no end, but he got a kick out of it) Now that I’m not in a dorm anymore, don’t exactly have a cause to do that, but I still use the blanket every now and then, lol.

many jerseys, hats and a leather coaches jacket. Moves on to a fairly large collection of bobble heads. Have the McFarlane Urlacher vs Favre figure, along with figures for Payton, Butkus, Hester, Urlacher, Cutler, McMahon, Forte, A-Train and Benson and the ‘07 mini team offense set. I have a Build-a-Bear that my wife made me that’s wearing a Bears Uniform. I have a collection of cups and mugs ranging from Super Bowl XX collectors memorabilia mug to soem more modern coffee cups and beer steins. I have Bears pillows, key chains, a psp cover, placards, playing cards, mousepad, numerous pennants and flags and a Bears blanket that my wife made for me. I also have a Bears license plate and Bears seat covers in my Jeep.

Everyone knows that I love the Bears, so everyone buys me Bears stuff. The only things that I bought myself were a couple of the jerseys and the Payton and Butkus figures.

I’ve had several jerseys over the years, but I’ve gotten rid of them as they’ve worn out or, uhh, as they’ve gotten smaller. I’ve only got my Urlacher jersey now. I’ve got my ball that I had signed by Hampton and Trace Armstrong. On my walls, I’ve got a full size print of Ditkas retirement portrait (which creeps out my girlfriend for some reason), a full size print of the old “One Great City” photo with the Art Institute lion w/ a Bears helmet on, an 8×10 of the Ditka Salute at Lambeau, a few plaques, portraits, pennants and murals of Payton, Ditka (from his playing days), Singletary, and Urlacher, and the usual assortment of towels, blankets, cups, license plates, etc.
  I’m kinda hard to buy for at the holidays and such, so luckily my old lady uses Bears paraphernalia as her fallback plan. Believe it or not, she’s lived with me for well over 6 years, and all that stuff is still on the bedroom wall.