A few months before I was born, the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl. In doing so, they put a cherry atop their most exciting, storied season ever. It was such a big deal that in my toddler years, a Richard Dent action figure was just one piece of the ubiquitous ‘86 Bears mythology in my household—a totem object for the beginning of my life—and one of my very first news memories is of what the Chicago Tribune looked like on the day, years later, that head coach Mike Ditka was fired.
Millions of Chicagolanders my age can tell similar stories; those of living through a fandom most defined by
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