Deadspin: Why Your Team Sucks 2016: Chicago Bears

Good call.

I had read the article months ago, but the comments were fun.  Some random favorites:

"Over the roughly twenty years of Bears fandom I can remember, we have had more offensive coordinators (eleven) than I’ve had sexual partners."

"Charles “Peanut” Tillman retired, and his retirement announcement video will somehow be the highlight of the whole season when all is said and done."

"Most global city rankings put Chicago somewhere in the top 10 as a significant global city in the world, and yet the entire metro area turns into fucking Dillon, Texas every Sunday to jack off to a team that has missed the playoffs in 8 out of the last 9 years."

"The three most memorable games for me as a Bears fan are all losses to the Packers."

And if that party is actually in Dillon...you will be well prepared too!

Through all of this it's very hard not to also recognize that this long term decline since the '85 Bears, a team built by guys like Jim Finks, Jerry Vainisi, and GSH himself has basically been neutered at the hands of the Halas heirs.

While I'm sure they're very nice staunch Catholic folks I can't help but thinking that Ginny going against GSH will and making Mikey the head of the team was a lot like someone making Gomer Pyle the commandant of the Marine Corps.  Since he's been terminated to conduct unbecoming an supposedly intelligent Yalie I think they family really has tried to put it all back together but I'm finally convinced they can keep trying 'til the sun comes up in the west and it won't work.  They and their guardian of the Bears brand Ted Phillips know far more about being long suffering fans like us than they do about being winning owners of the NFL's flagship franchise.

It seemed like this last go 'round they may finally have made some progress by reaching outside of the organization for talent and the help of an old NFL hand with such matters only to find that rumors abound that the fix was in ahead of time on this one too.  They were sold one beat up old HC who couldn't even figure out why he was fired in Denver wrapped up with a bright shiny new, inexperienced personnel guy, never been a GM before guy, from one of the most historically bad franchises in the NFL and now NOLA has loaned their brown paper head coverings to us.  These two guys and the shill who sold them to us have put us on the road to lift the title of worst run NFL franchise from Cleveland just like they appear to be lifting the WS from the Cubs in five games.

I'm not sure whose offense is worse right now, the Cubs or the Bears.

What is making me very angry is that the McCaskeys simply won't pull out all the stops needed to turn this franchise around.  They'll hand out another ration of excuses and beg fans for more time then mail out the season ticket packages with a modest price increase when in reality they should discount them by 50% like their team has been discounted to the level of something that can't seem to play any game better than if it was still preseason. 

I'm also terrified that this nightmare will never end because they've managed some kind of GST that will pass ownership to the yet another generation of dolts most of whom have far more in common with Ed McCaskey, who GSH once called the dumbest sonuvabitch he ever met, than GSH himself and they will never sell the team. I don't think I can handle another decade of their incompetence and the idiocy of Ted Phillips.  I really don't.  The wick on my candle of faith and trust has burned to the bottom and I'm not sure it can be lit again until these buffoons are gone.