NFL Hard Knocks on HBO Presents: Your 2024 Chicago Bears Season Preview / Bye Week / Whatever Update (and Tuesday Night Open Thread)

Banner Photo Credit Interior, vape filled room of indeterminate location. Could be Hollywood, Bristol, Lake Forest, or an underground bunker in the UP. All we know is that these folks are grizzled, unchiseled, and confident they made something that sizzled.  Executive Producer: We fucking did it. Magic in a fucking bottle. EVERYONE

Your 2023-2024 Chicago Bears Preview

Banner photo from here. 3 posts from me in one week? You're fucking welcome. What's that? You have a complaint? What do you mean the NFL season has already started and this preview is late?  The Bears haven't started their season yet, have they? So then it isn't late. Suck it. Anyway,

Cheers to the Centenarian Club!

Interior, a sitting room decorated like your grandmother's living room in 1989 (except no plastic covers on the couch). Orange and blue crepe paper streamers and similar regalia are scattered across the room, and two men are hanging up additional decorations. Guy 1: So...what's the haps? Guy 2: We're celebrating the old

Bears at the Bye: 2022 Boogaloo

Honestly, I thought about having the whole post be the banner image/gif.  Then I thought about bringing back my other kind of bear gimmick (not that one).  Then I took a nap.  Then I decided I would just say the following: We knew this team would suck.  In the season preview,

Your “Here We Go Again” 2022-2023 Chicago Bears Preview

Banner Photo Credit: DrawPlayDave Yes, I know the season is well underway, but hey, I didn't post last year's preview until the Bears' bye week, so let's call this a win. I guess we can start with this season's most famous Bears fan, this guy who is probably single now-- https://twitter.com/SuperBookUnit/status/1571953208767160323?s=20&t=R4nosHifaZXjthbw_aRIhA Look, I don't

Tales from the Kicked

Exterior, an old and rickety mansion. Cobwebs cling to crevices that cover creaking corners. Of course, the night is dark and stormy. Lightning cracks through the air, breaking through the darkness to reveal glimpses of prying eyes from fauna and who knows what else.  On the front stoop, a slight

2019 Chicago Bears at the Bye

As I write this, the Bears have just finished choking away a game in London, like Theresa May but with none of the charm. They only had a lead at all due to a fantastic second half comeback, and then the last few drives were marred by incompetence and malfeasance,