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Well I guess Funkytown was right for once. She told me she found a Bears board with some members who reminded her of the people on our board, but I thought she was just being weird again. Maybe once I'm finally fed up with the Vikings I'll have to consider the Bears xD. True story, I wanted to move to Chicago once upon a time. I was into architecture and tall buildings so it seemed like the perfect city lol.



Occasionally I'd make the 450 mile drive just to visit some sites and walk around and check things out. Got there at 4am once and walked around downtown. The place was a ghost town, which was sorta surreal. Big ass city that looked completely empty. It was just missing some zombies. I went and hung around on North Avenue Beach waiting for stuff to open. Thought about walking out onto that little walkway that goes out onto Lake Michigan, but jiminy christmas was it windy and cold so I had to pass.



My brother and I played a lot of MS Flight Sim back then too and the starting airport was Meigs Field, so on one trip back in 1997 we showed up to the real thing and hired a guy to fly us around the city. The guy let me take over the controls at one point and I nearly nose dived the plane right into Comiskey lol. I swear it wasn't intentional haha. I was a bit nervous and leaned in, to get a better view out the window, which made me lean into the flight yoke a bit too much, which made the plane pitch down. The pilot helped me right the ship. Later he let me land at Meigs too, but I think it was 95% him xD. Cool experience though. I landed at Meigs a 1000 times in the sim so I had some experience . Too bad the airport no longer exists.


The landing was caught on film, although you can't see much. A little bit of the runway near the end. My brother was hung over in the back so he didn't film much. It was a foggy day so our trip to the Sears Tower observation deck was ruined too.
The Gophers were in the Final 4 at the time so we stopped at a bar downtown to watch it, but the bar closed at 8 or 9 or something so we drove a little further out to another bar to finish watching them lose to Kentucky.






And in 1999 I went to a Cubs game with some friends, against the Padres. Back when Sosa and Tony Gwynn were still playing. We were fans of Gary Gaetti, former Twin xD. Didn't get to see any homers, but after giving up 2 runs in the top of the 8th the Cubs rallied for 2 runs in the bottom half to win 3-2. Found some empty seats behind home plate by then.







www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199905020.shtml

Actually Tina is/was. Alex knows her quite well. 😁😁

That seems to have changed.  Or maybe the Bears have sucked so badly for so long it just seems so.

Maybe if the Bears become the team I think they will be it will change.