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Hot Take Tuesday: I (f’n) Love It!

The Chicago Bears have won a playoff game. It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to say that. A lot has happened since the last time we could say that. George McCaskey wasn’t running the team; Lovie Smith was the team’s coach, and Colston Loveland was in first grade. Not only did the […]

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28 days ago | 0 reads

Bears place T.J. Edwards, Ozzy Trapilo on IR

The Chicago Bears have placed linebacker T.J. Edwards and offensive tackle Ozzy Trapilo on injured reserve, the team announced on Tuesday. The move effectively ends both of their respective seasons after injuries suffered in Chicago’s Wild Card win over the Packers on Saturday. As corresponding roster moves, the Bears activated offensive tackle Braxton Jones off […]

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January 13 UPDATE: Chicago Bears 16-Man Practice Squad

On January 13, the Chicago Bears signed linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin from the practice squad to the active roster and signed linebacker Nephi Sewell to the practice squad. Practice squad injured reserve list: DL Xavier Carlton, OL Ricky Stromberg, TE Qadir Ismail, LB Ty Summers We’ll update this list all season long. Important rules to remember […]

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Ben “Bleeping” Johnson, meet George “Bleeping” Halas

(Ed. note: the following column contains salty language.) Johnny Lujack and George Connor had never heard language like that. Certainly not from a head football coach. When the two star rookies signed with the Bears in 1948, they learned immediately the preferred vocabulary of their new head coach, George Stanley Halas. “Lujack and I joined […]

28 days ago | 1 read

Stock up, stock down: Bears Wild Card win over Packers

None of us can get over it, can we? I just keep scrolling through reaction videos, highlights, etc. For the first time since the 2010 season and the 2011 calendar year, the Chicago Bears have won a playoff game. Here’s a little timeline of what’s happened in my life since the last time the Bears […]

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WCG NFL Power Rankings: And Parting Thoughts For Those Eliminated

The NFL postseason is underway, and Super Wild Card Weekend did not disappoint. Of the six games, the first four came down to the final drive of the game. Away teams won three of the first five games, and a few playoff newcomers advanced to the Divisional Round. With another jam-packed weekend ahead, we’ll dissect […]

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Chicago Bears Question of the Day: Was it the best throw you have ever seen?

It’s easy to be a prisoner of the moment. The Chicago Bears just vanquished their greatest foe and turned the page on a difficult chapter of Bears football. There is going to be some hyperbole. Still, it feels like this game will live in infamy, and that’s not hyperbole. Yet, that wouldn’t have been the […]

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The Bear’s Den, January 13, 2025

THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL BEARSSSSSS How a mild-mannered suburban Chicago delivery driver transforms into Bearman Face paint, shoulder pads, bear-head hat and fake fur separate Don Wachter from the Bearman. Bears fans come together with the help of cheese graters, both real and fake Bears fans could be seen shredding some cheese and wearing foam […]

29 days ago | 2 reads

Bears Caleb Williams is The Grate One

Earlier this season, our friends at Breaking T revealed a few Chicago Bears-inspired shirts and hoodies. The Caleb Williams-to-Colston Loveland game-winner against the Bengals and a couple of Good Better Best variations. But their latest one might be the best yet. Fresh off the Bears’ Wild Card win over the Green Bay Packers, you can […]

29 days ago | 5 reads

The Packers wanted the Bears… and then what happened?

The Green Bay Packers sure were mad after the Chicago Bears walked them off a few weeks ago. They talked and talked, hoping they’d get an opportunity for revenge on the Bears in the playoffs. Welp, they got their wish; it just didn’t work out the way they wanted. “There was probably a little bit […]

29 days ago | 1 read

Will the Bears start Theo Benedet at left tackle vs the Rams?

When rookie left tackle Ozzy Trapilo hobbled off the field on Saturday night to save the Chicago Bears a timeout, he was in visible pain, and we feared the worst. In his postgame press conference, head coach Ben Johnson confirmed Ozzy had injured his patellar tendon and was likely out for the remainder of the […]

29 days ago | 1 read

10 Bears Takes Following Chicago’s First Playoff Victory In 15 Seasons

Despite losing their final two games, excitement was in the air across Chicago this week as the Bears prepared to host their first playoff game in seven years. Following their 0-2 start, there’s been a level of magic around this team for the majority of the season. Most fans know that, as fun as this […]

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Windy City Honors: Chicago Bears Wild Card Superlatives

The Cardiac Bears. The Comeback Kids. The 2025 Chicago Bears. After a lackluster first half, a different Chicago Bears team stepped onto the field to pull off an improbable 31-27 comeback win over the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card Round. With this win, not only did the Bears advance to the Divisional Round, […]

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The Bear’s Den, January 12, 2025

THE DAILY SPONGIE GREEN BAY PACKERS CHOKE SPECIAL BEARSSSSSS Local officials, celebs celebrate Bears comeback victory against Packers: ‘This is the greatest moment ever’ I dunno about the “greatest moment ever” but it’s certainly the greatest moment in quite a while for Bears fans. Bears: We hit a ‘home run’ by drafting TE Colston Loveland […]

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NFL Divisional Odds: Los Angeles Rams favored over the Chicago Bears

The specific time and date will be announced later tonight, but we now know that the Chicago Bears will host the Los Angeles Rams in the Divisional round of the NFC playoffs. Our partners at FanDuel Sportsbook already have some odds out for the game, and they currently have the Rams as a 4.5-point favorite, […]

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Bears vs. Packers Game Balls: Cold As Ice

Everyone expected the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers to have a close game in the Wild Card Playoffs on Saturday night. But nobody expected that. The fate of the last four Bears vs. Packers games had come down to the final play of the game, so it seemed like a logical prediction that this […]

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Chicago Bears Wild Card Notes: Are You Not Entertained?!

Emotions were high, and so were the stakes. Not only for the 2025 playoffs but for the oldest rivalry in the game. While the offense started off stronger than it had for most of the year, what followed was some of the sloppier play we have seen all season. Until crunch time, that is. Here […]

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The Chicago Bears’ Rookie Class: Already Stars

The Chicago Bears’ rookies have featured heavily in their improbable season, helping propel the team to its first playoff win in fifteen years. In order to celebrate their accomplishments, here is a brief summary of the major awards and acknowledgments members of the class have received. Just as a note, though this summary does not […]

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It’s A Bears Beat The Packers In The Playoffs Den! January 11, 2025

THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL Ken’s Note: I made this song a couple of years ago. It is entirely done in AI, but still, it’s my ode to how Green Bay’s season ends every single year. BEARSSSSSS Bears rally again in fourth quarter to beat Packers The Ice Man cometh again. T.J. Edwards to miss rest […]

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Caleb Williams and the Bears Grate the Packers Again

Last month, when the Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers on a Caleb Williams to DJ Moore walk-off 46-yard touchdown pass in overtime, the Packers and their fans were ticked off at DJ’s headgear in the postgame celebration. Moore was again at the center of an improbable comeback, this time with his 25-yard go-ahead […]

about 1 month ago | 3 reads