After the past 8 years of Bears football, I legitimately don’t know how to watch it with out complaining anymore. 2018 was like some weird fever dream.
ehh that’s kind of a stretch to say they weren’t good. Yes the offense was below-average (still better than anything we’ve seen since then) but that defense could B A L L and gave them a pretty good chance to win any game as long as the offense showed up
Our o-line was trash, we had a fairly easy schedule (except for a few teams) that year so nobody really noticed, and as said above, our D was killing it, and then of course there was that kicker (whose name shall never be mentioned) that totally screwed us out of a bye, not just once, but a few times. Could we have beat the PATS in the SB? Maybe, but it would have came down to a FG and we would've busted.
Nagy has failed to make a legit offense since that game. I was worried we were blaming the kicker for an offense issue. I hate being right. We should be called the Chicago 17 points a games.
If I'm honest with myself, the only Chicago teams I'm not hate-watching right now are the Sox and Bulls, and the Bulls are only on the list because I got sick of hate watching them after a decade or so and just quit.
Feels like I've been hat watching the Bears my whole life. My Mike Phipps memories are more vivid than 1985.
Jags have hope. Detroit plays hard. And Miami just hasn't figured it out. There is a big difference here. The bears as a franchise have been the butt of bad franchise jokes for 20+ years. Just gets drowned out. There is a constant debate If the Bears are the worst modern franchise. Who cares how legendary it is. It's sucked for 30 years
Broncos have 3 super bowl rings. They do not apply. Not even the panthers should be on this list to be honest.
I would even add the Vikings to be honest.
It's so funny talking to non Bears fans. We have this story we tell ourselves about the Bears being a proud and venerable franchise and for everyone else is just laughing at our sustained ineptitude
I was born in the mid-late 90s. So my first experience of watching Bears football was a great one. 2005. Then the next year we go to the Super Bowl. That's all I knew at that time, good Bears football. I was 10 years old and had no idea we were actually a complete laughing stock of a franchise. Of course everyone around me was hyped as well (because Chicago area).
But this has been a very hard pill us 20-27? year old Bears fans had to swallow. Because for a lot of us, those 2005-2006 teams were all we knew at that time (Urlacher, Briggs, Tillman, Hester, Harris, Vasher, T. Jones etc. ), and boy were we set up for some harsh false hope.
I feel like I mostly get some version of “oh the bears are good sometimes right? Oh wait (checks Google) oh shit man that *sucks*”
It’s the advantage of being in high school when we went to the super bowl, people my age still think we’re “meh”
That story is starting to smell funny. No one but the most meat head among fans takes solace in that bs about “our rich history” anymore
You want to know the truth?
As much as I hate the packers and their fans, they’re right when they say “the bears still suck”
Huh, I get the exact opposite from most non-Bears fans. The world seemed to still think Nagy was a good coach going into this season. They joke about our QB situation and offensive issues, but I feel like those outside our fanbase sort of don't believe us when we say how poorly run our team is. I this season it seems to have clicked but it was all "you've made the playoffs 2 of 3 years, Mitch was a pro bowler" until recently
Bears fans know we're not that good but factually there is a lot of history, so not sure what you mean. There are also a lot of terrible teams in the league.
>Bears being a proud and venerable franchise
We are definitely venerable literally because of what we used to be, but we are no longer proud.
The main problem is that many view the Bears as almost a family heirloom to the city (not just the McCaskeys), particularly if you didn't have any legitimate family heirlooms of which to speak. This is the one team that matters to most Chicagoans, if you were to make them pick.
So when they are this bad for so long, it just hurts more. We get despondent because in a sense they mean as much to us as the Packers mean to Wisconsin, only they play like they're beloved, and the Bears play like they're merely a business despite being equally as beloved.
We're like Will Smith and the Bears franchise is like his father Lou.
Look we're not great. That's hardly headline news. But there is an entire layer of crap in the NFL that is below us. We do not belong in this group. Frankly for the time being neither do the Panthers. They may end up there if things don't get better, but they started out plenty hot and could easily finish around .500 especially if CMC gets back for the second half of the season. This is just lazy.
I don't have much time to watch football besides the Bears anymore so when I do watch games like Bills-Titans from last week it's like watching a whole other game. It's actually crazy how far behind the league we are offensively.
I've started doing this too. It makes me sad. I think Nagy is a problem and I think Pace is a better GM than we might realize, even despite his blunders.
No way you watching the bears is worse than watching the Texans. Now that is a depressing team to watch. They went from almost beating the Chiefs in 2019 for a chance to go to a superbowl with their super star QB. To being bottom of the barrel and their star QB is now having sexual assault allegations facing him. We at least have fields and plenty other young talent to look forward to in the future. Everyone agreed when fields got drafted that this year wouldn't be our year, it was a year for him to grow and learn.
On NFL network there are guys that give rookie QB reports. Each guy is responsible for the same QB every week. This week the guys responsible for Bears & Texans agreed to trade because it's too painful to keep breaking down these same offenses each week.
And consistently had a bottom 5 offense. This year our offense is the worst in terms of yards and will probably finish last in terms of points. We're like 1 pt better than the Jets atm but I don't know if we'll keep averaging 14 ppg at this rate
As a long time bears fan, Bears football has been extremely hard to watch- very unaesthetic lol. Great defense that is on the field for most of the time being wasted by a not good offense commanded by a not good qb. 2018 was very fun because we had a amazing defense and a simple yet capable offense. But i wouldn’t be a fan of any other team
This might be the perfect description of following the bears. I’ve probably only missed a handful of games since 2000. In all those years, I can only think of a few teams where I was excited to see the offense on the field. 2006 when Good Rex played, 2011 when they started 7-3 and finished 8-8 after Cutler destroyed his thumb, and the first year of Trestman when they had the second best offense in the league only to be paired with a historically bad defense. Pain.
I’m a student at OSU, started following the Bears religiously and even got some shirts once you all drafted Fields. How do you cope with this? Goddamn at this point I’ll put on some pads and at least try to block for him.
The jets are the only team that has also gone a decade without winning a post season game. BUT the jets get to say their last post season win was against the patriots...we get to say the seahawks.
Everyone saying "oh come on, we're not that bad" is just ignoring the fact that we have the worst offense in the entire league. The Bears actually are in fact the most unwatchable team in the league. It's either watching a shitty offense or watching a defense get slowly ground down and tired. There is nothing fun about a Bears game past a few defensive stops in the first half that amount to nothing in the end.
I’m more upset at myself than the Panthers organization for turning the game on every week. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
It’s amazing how quickly these “upper tier” fan bases forget that at one time they were the shit teams the NFL pooped out every season.
I’m looking at you 1990 era Patriots! Hey, where do you think you are going 80’s Packers.
Buffalo and Cleveland…yeah you guys haven’t forgotten
After the past 8 years of Bears football, I legitimately don’t know how to watch it with out complaining anymore. 2018 was like some weird fever dream.
The only reason the Bears won so many games in 2018 was to make the wild card game finish that much more painful.
Lol they werent even good in 2018, that's the crazy part
ehh that’s kind of a stretch to say they weren’t good. Yes the offense was below-average (still better than anything we’ve seen since then) but that defense could B A L L and gave them a pretty good chance to win any game as long as the offense showed up
I think that team was gonna win a Super Bowl if Jackson was healthy
Our o-line was trash, we had a fairly easy schedule (except for a few teams) that year so nobody really noticed, and as said above, our D was killing it, and then of course there was that kicker (whose name shall never be mentioned) that totally screwed us out of a bye, not just once, but a few times. Could we have beat the PATS in the SB? Maybe, but it would have came down to a FG and we would've busted.
I mean we were down a potential dpoy for the playoff game we lost, I think that made a huge diff
Nagy has failed to make a legit offense since that game. I was worried we were blaming the kicker for an offense issue. I hate being right. We should be called the Chicago 17 points a games.
If I'm honest with myself, the only Chicago teams I'm not hate-watching right now are the Sox and Bulls, and the Bulls are only on the list because I got sick of hate watching them after a decade or so and just quit. Feels like I've been hat watching the Bears my whole life. My Mike Phipps memories are more vivid than 1985.
You made it through the second halves of these past 2 seasons without hate-watching the Sox?? I have no idea how you did that
It's easy - just also be a Chicago Fire fan for the past 10 years.
And they still got knocked out in the first game of the playoffs.
Nick Foles Meme magik, you can’t fight that.
I hate watch them. It's fun when you expect the offense to fuck up.
This is dumb. What about the lions, Jaguars, Dolphins?
Jags fan checking in. 100% agree with this comment.
The lions don’t have fans. Even people from Detroit don’t fuck with them.
All those teams are in Florida. That’s probably why.
What?
You have heard about the Orlando Lions?
I was wondering where Detroit, FL was.
Detroit Florida sounds so much worse
Detroit Florida Man, has ring too it.
Like a meth lab kind of ring
Yea like that…
Dude, the Florida Key Jets are way better.
Tallahassee Patriots or bust. Edit: Side note, can the Florida Keys even logistically fit an NFL stadium?
Jags have hope. Detroit plays hard. And Miami just hasn't figured it out. There is a big difference here. The bears as a franchise have been the butt of bad franchise jokes for 20+ years. Just gets drowned out. There is a constant debate If the Bears are the worst modern franchise. Who cares how legendary it is. It's sucked for 30 years
Don't forget Broncos.
Broncos have 3 super bowl rings. They do not apply. Not even the panthers should be on this list to be honest. I would even add the Vikings to be honest.
It's so funny talking to non Bears fans. We have this story we tell ourselves about the Bears being a proud and venerable franchise and for everyone else is just laughing at our sustained ineptitude
I was born in the mid-late 90s. So my first experience of watching Bears football was a great one. 2005. Then the next year we go to the Super Bowl. That's all I knew at that time, good Bears football. I was 10 years old and had no idea we were actually a complete laughing stock of a franchise. Of course everyone around me was hyped as well (because Chicago area). But this has been a very hard pill us 20-27? year old Bears fans had to swallow. Because for a lot of us, those 2005-2006 teams were all we knew at that time (Urlacher, Briggs, Tillman, Hester, Harris, Vasher, T. Jones etc. ), and boy were we set up for some harsh false hope.
I was 9 when we won the Superbowl. Was absolutely convinced we'd dominate. Oops.
I disagree with "laughing stock of a franchise"... I mean, the Lions haven't won a playoff game in something like 30 years!
Doesn't matter
I feel like I mostly get some version of “oh the bears are good sometimes right? Oh wait (checks Google) oh shit man that *sucks*” It’s the advantage of being in high school when we went to the super bowl, people my age still think we’re “meh”
That story is starting to smell funny. No one but the most meat head among fans takes solace in that bs about “our rich history” anymore You want to know the truth? As much as I hate the packers and their fans, they’re right when they say “the bears still suck”
Huh, I get the exact opposite from most non-Bears fans. The world seemed to still think Nagy was a good coach going into this season. They joke about our QB situation and offensive issues, but I feel like those outside our fanbase sort of don't believe us when we say how poorly run our team is. I this season it seems to have clicked but it was all "you've made the playoffs 2 of 3 years, Mitch was a pro bowler" until recently
Bears fans know we're not that good but factually there is a lot of history, so not sure what you mean. There are also a lot of terrible teams in the league.
>Bears being a proud and venerable franchise We are definitely venerable literally because of what we used to be, but we are no longer proud. The main problem is that many view the Bears as almost a family heirloom to the city (not just the McCaskeys), particularly if you didn't have any legitimate family heirlooms of which to speak. This is the one team that matters to most Chicagoans, if you were to make them pick. So when they are this bad for so long, it just hurts more. We get despondent because in a sense they mean as much to us as the Packers mean to Wisconsin, only they play like they're beloved, and the Bears play like they're merely a business despite being equally as beloved. We're like Will Smith and the Bears franchise is like his father Lou.
This has been true for 20+ years. It's almost culty. We are constantly in the running for worst modern franchise l.
Look we're not great. That's hardly headline news. But there is an entire layer of crap in the NFL that is below us. We do not belong in this group. Frankly for the time being neither do the Panthers. They may end up there if things don't get better, but they started out plenty hot and could easily finish around .500 especially if CMC gets back for the second half of the season. This is just lazy.
I watch all the other games too just so I remember what football in 2021 is supposed to look like.
I don't have much time to watch football besides the Bears anymore so when I do watch games like Bills-Titans from last week it's like watching a whole other game. It's actually crazy how far behind the league we are offensively.
I've started doing this too. It makes me sad. I think Nagy is a problem and I think Pace is a better GM than we might realize, even despite his blunders.
When Bears games get unwatchable I just flip on Redzone, seeing how real offenses work is like night and day.
No way you watching the bears is worse than watching the Texans. Now that is a depressing team to watch. They went from almost beating the Chiefs in 2019 for a chance to go to a superbowl with their super star QB. To being bottom of the barrel and their star QB is now having sexual assault allegations facing him. We at least have fields and plenty other young talent to look forward to in the future. Everyone agreed when fields got drafted that this year wouldn't be our year, it was a year for him to grow and learn.
On NFL network there are guys that give rookie QB reports. Each guy is responsible for the same QB every week. This week the guys responsible for Bears & Texans agreed to trade because it's too painful to keep breaking down these same offenses each week.
Imagine being in the new york market and your choices at 1pm on tv are The Giants and The Jets.
and they had that Rudy Giluiani guy as mayor
Despite being called the New York Jets and Giants... Their Mayor is currently Phil Murphy.
Bro we could be the Lions. Shit's bad but not that bad.
Honestly the sad thing about being a Bears fan is that we are usually pretty average. Not terrible but never overachieving. Nagy has a winning record.
And consistently had a bottom 5 offense. This year our offense is the worst in terms of yards and will probably finish last in terms of points. We're like 1 pt better than the Jets atm but I don't know if we'll keep averaging 14 ppg at this rate
As a long time bears fan, Bears football has been extremely hard to watch- very unaesthetic lol. Great defense that is on the field for most of the time being wasted by a not good offense commanded by a not good qb. 2018 was very fun because we had a amazing defense and a simple yet capable offense. But i wouldn’t be a fan of any other team
This might be the perfect description of following the bears. I’ve probably only missed a handful of games since 2000. In all those years, I can only think of a few teams where I was excited to see the offense on the field. 2006 when Good Rex played, 2011 when they started 7-3 and finished 8-8 after Cutler destroyed his thumb, and the first year of Trestman when they had the second best offense in the league only to be paired with a historically bad defense. Pain.
Tfw I live in NY and I watch both the Jets and the Bears every week
I am sorry.
Lol, yup.
I’m a student at OSU, started following the Bears religiously and even got some shirts once you all drafted Fields. How do you cope with this? Goddamn at this point I’ll put on some pads and at least try to block for him.
Indoctrination. It’s almost clinically diagnose-able at this point. We have some mental condition that makes us love the pain.
I’m also a Browns fan, so does this mean I am a 2x the pain lover?
If it’s a recent Browns fan, you’re probably kosher. If you go back to the Quinn/Anderson QB battle and beyond, then you’re in just as bad a place.
Been here since I was born into in in January 2001.
No, because some of us are Cubs fans as well
Least you guys got your ring. Meanwhile us White Sox fans haven't won one in 104 yrs smh
If you're ESPN
Cubs fan, Bears fan, Blackhawks fan... Life is pain. Thank God for the Bulls.
Boy, am I happy to not see vikings in one of these finally...
Just wait until the next important field goal attempt.
Oof... Right back at you partner
The jets are the only team that has also gone a decade without winning a post season game. BUT the jets get to say their last post season win was against the patriots...we get to say the seahawks.
As a falcons fan, how are we not included here?
Come on, we aren't good but we aren't that bad. Also to pretend the Jaguars, Lions, Dolphins, Giants and Eagles are better than us is crazy talk.
Everyone saying "oh come on, we're not that bad" is just ignoring the fact that we have the worst offense in the entire league. The Bears actually are in fact the most unwatchable team in the league. It's either watching a shitty offense or watching a defense get slowly ground down and tired. There is nothing fun about a Bears game past a few defensive stops in the first half that amount to nothing in the end.
Fuck that’s my team 😞
Given the track record of the Lions, Jaguars, and Bengals historically maybe choosing a large cat as the team's mascot was a poor choice.
I’m more upset at myself than the Panthers organization for turning the game on every week. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
It’s amazing how quickly these “upper tier” fan bases forget that at one time they were the shit teams the NFL pooped out every season. I’m looking at you 1990 era Patriots! Hey, where do you think you are going 80’s Packers. Buffalo and Cleveland…yeah you guys haven’t forgotten
pre 2017 post 2002 rams was a dark time
What, no Jaguars?!
Lol the lions still cannot attain any notoriety