Does your loyalty to the Cubs carry over to the Bears?

[J.R.]

Well? Another poster and I were talking it over awhile back. Though I think Ditka is a god, I really can't stand the Bears these days.

 

Some people I know have assumed that I'd back the Bears because of my Cubs fandom. Those people are morons.

[rocket]

when i was a kid, i loved the bears, but didn't really follow them or watch football at all. during that time i loved everything chicago, because i hated moving from chicago to ohio so much. i loved the cubs, bulls, blackhawks, and yes, even the white sox.

 

but as i got older, my love for the other chicago teams started to taper off (except for the cubs, who i've always loved). i lost interest in the blackhawks, lost interest in the bears, l lost interest in the white sox (and eventually grew to hate them when i discovered the internet), and lost interest in the bulls as soon as jordan and company left. when i started watching football again about 5 years ago, i decided i loved the bengals, since i can see all their games and i was a fan of corey dillon and jon kitna. i wished the bears well, but i no longer considered myself a big fan of them.

 

so the long-winded answer to your question is no. though i am pulling for the bears on sunday, and i'm dusting off an old bears hat to wear that day.

[NCCubFan]

I'm a big fan of both the Cubs and Bears (I grew up in the Chicago area). I like the Colts (I was living in Indiana when they made their infamous overnight escape from Baltimore) and Panthers (I had moved to Carolina a year before they began play) too, but the Bears will always be number 1 with me.

[Andy]

My love for the Cubs started well after I already had an NFL team. The Bears have never been any more or less important to me than any of the other 31 NFL teams besides Carolina.

 

I am rooting for them on Sunday, though.

[VanceJergins]

I've lived near Indy my whole life and am a pretty big Colts fan (not nearly the love I have for the Cubs, though). But my intense love for the Cubs has caused me to really like all things Chicago (except the Blackhawks because I dont give a crap about hockey, and I hate the whitesox because thats the true Chicago thing to do). Chicago is probably my favorite U.S city and the Bears are my 2nd favorite football team because of that. So the love does carry over, just not all the way.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Grew up a Cubs fan, grew up a Bears fan, and for some reason I didnt grow up a Bulls fan, so I still have yet to see a Championship for my team. Hopefully that'll change by Sunday.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'm rooting for the Bears in the Super Bowl, but my answer to the question is no.

[tkenm356]

I never really followed football until I started playing in a fantasy league three years ago. Same can be said for basebal 4 years ago. I always loved the Chicago teams (sans White Sox), but never really followed them seriously until 3-4 years ago, but thats only the Bears and Cubs.

 

I was born in a suburb of Chicago but moved to the Tampa Bay area when I was 3. Some people on here show some loyalty to the teams of the respected areas they've lived in. Not me. I hate Florida. I'd use a lot of expletives to describe my disdain for Florida but I don't want to be rude. I hate everything about it, as well as their sports teams, particularly their fans (Tampa Bay fans especially).

 

No one gave a crap about the Bucs/Lightning/Devil Rays. Bucs started winning, people jumped on their bandwagon, even my parents who lived in Chicago for almost 20 years. Their fairweather attitude made me sick, my mother is even pulling for the Colts because she wants Dungy to win a championship.

 

But I've always been a fan of Chicago teams, regardless of record. I've always loved the Cubs but not until recently did I track their every move. That's why I love Chicago sports and hate Florida sports. Win or lose, everyone still supports their beloved Cubbies/Bears/Bulls/Blackhawks/White Sox etc. Win in FL, you've got 15 minutes of fame until you start losing again and people stop giving a crap about you. It's dumb ass fans like that which make my loyalties to Chicago sports that much stronger.

 

I don't care if I move right next to the stadium of a different team sometime in my life, I'll never root for them unless my teams are out of it and I have no one left to root for.

 

Chicago sports till the day I die.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

No

[CubFanPhilly]

Some people I know have assumed that I'd back the Bears because of my Cubs fandom. Those people are morons.

 

I'm absolutely on board with this. My love for the Cubs and my hatred for the Bears are inversely proportional!

 

IMO there are only two Bears in history with any redeeming qualities: Singletary and Sweetness. The same goes for the Colts, it's Tony Dungy and then not much else to root for.

 

For me this Super Bowl will be a lot like the last several Presidential elections. I know somebody has to win, but I'm not real happy about it.

 

CFP

[erik316wttn]

I'm a Cubs fan through and through. However in the offseason I bleed green and gold.

 

Go Colts on Sunday!

[TruffleShuffle]

not so much... I'm a Eagles fan first, Patriots fan second, then there's a whole lot of teams I don't give a crap about, then there are the Cowboys and Giants.

 

Though my Patriots fandom has waned since many of my relatives moved away from Massachusetts and I stopped going to school up there in 2000.

[biittner77]

No

 

I was in a sporting goods store here and by some odd circumstance they had Cubs t-shirts on sale. I walked up with 2 Cubs shirts and 2 Illinois Basketball shirts. The guy asked me if I was a Cubs fan. #-o

 

Ironically, I was hoping he'd ask if I was a Bears fan because they don't sell any Bears stuff around here.

[Keyris]

No, I am a Bears fan and a Cubs fan. Niether one has anything to do with each other.

[goonys evil twin]

It's not a matter of carrying over. I'm a Cubs, Bears and Blackhawks fan. Moved away a long time ago but won't ever be able to change any of that.

[CuseCubFan69]

I'm a Cub fan and I thought it was nice to see the Bears go to the Super Bowl since a lot of posters here like them. Go to the Super Bowl....not win it. :wink:

[Derwood]

I was pretty exclusively a Penn State football fan until I moved to Chicago for college. I didn't care much for either Philly or Pittsburgh (though this is REALLY a Pittsburgh town NFL-wise) so I feel more allegiance to the Bears than anyone. 13 years living in a city with a team will do that for you.

[goonys evil twin]

13 years living in a city with a team will do that for you.

 

speak for yourself..... :D

[cbbryan]

I've always been a diehard Cub, Bears, and Illinois fan. I grew up outside Champaign-Urbana.

 

Baseball fans in that area are almost 50/50 Cubs/Cardinals, it's almost all Illini fans because of the college and NFL teams are mostly Bears. Although, I have friends from there that are Viking and Packer fans. There was a bunch of bandwagoners when the Rams were good.

 

I'm all about Chicago minus college sports.

[Omar]

Well.. considering that the Bears once called Wrigley Field their home, they were named in honor of the Cubs, (By George Halas because Cubs let his team play at Wrigley) and their logo is kind of similar.. I think it's okay to be just as loyal to the Bears.

[NCCubFan]

Well.. considering that the Bears once called Wrigley Field their home, they were named in honor of the Cubs, (By George Halas because Cubs let the Bears play at Wrigley) and their logo is kind of similar.. I think it's okay to be just as loyal to the Bears.

Their first year in Chicago they were called the Staleys (their original name from their previous season when they played in Decatur). The previous owner sold the team to Halas to move to Chicago, with the stipulation they keep the name Staleys for one year. Halas then considered the name Cubs, but didn't think that sounded tough enough for a football team, so he chose the name Bears. That was designed to honor the Cubs, as you mentioned, and at the same time sound tough enough to be appropriate for football.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'm a pretty big bears fan, but they don't come close to touching the Cubs. They don't even touch U of I basketball who also can't come close to touching the Cubs.

[CubinNY]

I'm not a real big football fan. My senior year in high school ruiend my love of football.

 

My entire family are huge bears fans. I have a cousin who has his entire basement decked out in Bears colors.

 

Football doesn't hold much interest for at all.

[fiver]

Go Cubs!

Go Colts!

[CubmanPi]

Being a Bears fan has nothing to do with being a Cubs fan for me, apparently with the exception that being both is like asking someone wearing a lead clown shoe to kick you in the nuts. I hate sports.