I've became a bears fan last week, i went out into the woods one night, put my hand on a rock, looked up at the stars and said I AM A BEARS FAN!

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("We knew ... in that huddle ... there was a group ... destined ... to apply the kind of pressure ... that had not been seen before."

Lol...9 years I'm probably the youngest person on this board..:)

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Caleb Hanie Is Our QB of The Future

about 23 years

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Fire Lovie Smith and bring in Marty Scottenheimer, its time for martyball

26 years I would have to say. 

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GO BEARS

BEARS FAN SINCE 1982

Melt the Cheeseheads, Crush the Viking Horn, Take the Roar away in 2008--GO BEARS

since the early 1980's when the NFL was first shown on Brit TV. There's a fair few of us in the UK who have been Bears fans since then.

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EVER SINCE I WAS KNEE HIGH TO A GRASS HOPPER.  MY DAD TOOK ME TO ALL TYPES OF GAMES WHEN I WAS A BABY.  GO BEARS

 

51 years and looking  for many many more .

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twocole4u

my whole life...  and I've never even been to Chicago!

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Once a Bears fan
Always a Bears fan

Never been anything else, 40 years.

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My five year old knows the Fight song. What's your excuse?!

I would say all my life but my Dad is a huge Dallas fan being from Tucson you either like Dallas or San Fran ,..so I would have to say since I started in pop warner 1980. Thank God someone knocked some sense into me....

Go Bears!

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GO BEARS!!!

17 years and counting!

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**The NFL wouldn't be the NFL..without DA BEARS!!!**

23 years

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Psalm 118:8,9
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It. is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. Jim Tressell for President and Lovie Smith for Secretary of Defense.

2Th.3:10 For even when we were with you, that if any would not work neither should he eat.

I'm the dude playin the dude, disguised as another dude. Robert Downey Jr.-Tropic Thunder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4LDjSSOT4

If Big Govt. can give the people everything it needs or wants then it is big enough to take it all away.

Since 1954 when I was 7...umm, 54 years.

Ari Bear:

28 years for me. Loving every minute of it.

 

GO BEARS IN 2008 AND BEYOND ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

1 and a half years!!! Yea! How lame is that, oh well, loving supporting the Bears, only got in to football that long ago too, and got in to the Bears straight away.

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Bears will turn:
Lions to Cats
Rams to Lambs
Eagles to sparrows
Falcons to Pidgins
Panthers to Kittens
Jaguars to Cubs
Buccaneers to Cabbin Boys
Colts to Foals
Vikings to Viqueens
and Titans, Packers and Texans will all lose to a pack of bears.. like the rest!

jack, everyone is a  new fan at some point. Even the guys that have supported them close on 50 years. The important thing is keep following the team no matter what.

I got into the Bears 82/83, and after the 85 SB win we've had more lean times than good times. But I'm still here. Still a Bear. Hell I even started a blog on the Bears.

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mancunian:

jack, everyone is a  new fan at some point. Even the guys that have supported them close on 50 years. The important thing is keep following the team no matter what.

I got into the Bears 82/83, and after the 85 SB win we've had more lean times than good times. But I'm still here. Still a Bear. Hell I even started a blog on the Bears.

Been a Bears Fan since the late 70,s (I have to admit to rooting for the Steelers during the Bradshaw years) I guess it's been about 30 years.

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Officially climbed aboard the Matt Forte Band Wagon on 18Jun08.

"If you've got them by the Balls their Hearts and Minds will follow." John Wayne

since i was 9 years old. 23 now so thats about 14 years...

got to say i did not realize there were this many 40 yr.+ people in here. it gives me hope for the future.

i cant even see staying with my wife that long..

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GO BLUE!

It was 1981.  I put it on my bio...

I was watching a game between the Chicago Bears and the Dallas Cowboys.  Some guy by the name of Tony Dorsett was carrying the ball when I turned on the game.  He broke one for about 30 yards or something.  I sat down and watched the D dig in.  I loved the simplicity of the Blue and Orange.  The majesty of the helmet, and that of the helmets hitting... HARD.

They held this America's team, and then it shifted to the offence.  #34.  Almost enough said.  He was just brilliant.  Just sweetness.  It was riveting, crazy so.  Never seen anything like it.  High step, catching out of backfield... getting stopped, no, not stopped... working, working, working.

It was dirty.  It was ugly.  It was beautiful. 

I said, "This will be my team."

I am a high school teacher and my walls are adorned with much Bears stuff.  I teach journalism, ironically, and one of the first things I teach is, There is the Bears, and then there is the news.  They all understand.  During the season, every Monday, I wear a Bears jersey.  I have Waddle, I have Thomas, I have Jones, I have Urlacher x 2...I have Blue, orange and white... and if I'm cut, those are the colors I bleed.

What a fun thread. 

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Montreal loves Da Bears

Montrealbear:

It was 1981.  I put it on my bio...

I was watching a game between the Chicago Bears and the Dallas Cowboys.  Some guy by the name of Tony Dorsett was carrying the ball when I turned on the game.  He broke one for about 30 yards or something.  I sat down and watched the D dig in.  I loved the simplicity of the Blue and Orange.  The majesty of the helmet, and that of the helmets hitting... HARD.

They held this America's team, and then it shifted to the offence.  #34.  Almost enough said.  He was just brilliant.  Just sweetness.  It was riveting, crazy so.  Never seen anything like it.  High step, catching out of backfield... getting stopped, no, not stopped... working, working, working.

It was dirty.  It was ugly.  It was beautiful. 

I said, "This will be my team."

I am a high school teacher and my walls are adorned with much Bears stuff.  I teach journalism, ironically, and one of the first things I teach is, There is the Bears, and then there is the news.  They all understand.  During the season, every Monday, I wear a Bears jersey.  I have Waddle, I have Thomas, I have Jones, I have Urlacher x 2...I have Blue, orange and white... and if I'm cut, those are the colors I bleed.

What a fun thread. 

  Bravo, very well put.

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Officially climbed aboard the Matt Forte Band Wagon on 18Jun08.

"If you've got them by the Balls their Hearts and Minds will follow." John Wayne

Since I was 7, so about 23 years now. My entire family are Dall ass Cowgirl fans too....BLAH!!! I remember watching Walter Payton when I was younger and thinking he was like superman or something. I have been hooked ever since and I have stuck by them win or lose!!!!

The truth?--43 years, but at a distance. Not to offend any die-hard Bears fans, but with the distance between, & no early days coverage like Bears.com, it was tough trying to follow a team that you did'nt get to watch, or sports pages that never really talked about the Bears, except the stats, in the game review. Or, when the Bears would really shine. There are actually quite a few Bears fans here. From the 1983-4 teams--(held out Super Bowl year)--Todd Bell #25--SS was from my home town, Middletown, Ohio--& the Bears were getting a lot of  TV time. I still respect Todd--(nice guy), even though I realize, he made a big mistake listening to his agent--(Lee Steinberg?) & missing out on the ring. That Super Bowl ring was just an inch away the year before, & much more precious than that money he wanted!--(Grr--#### 49ers), & everybody with any football knowledge, could see that it was inevitable, the Bears would win it! They were just too tough! & one of the greatest teams ever! When I was 8 years old, it was 1965. My whole family was Browns fans--(the local team)--But me, being the rebal-(lol) loved the Bears! With Gale Sayers & Dick Butkus in that draft class, & Kansas City also drafting Sayers in the old AFL draft, & starting a bidding war with the Bears, I was excited to see him sign with Chicago! The Bears really had everyone interested at that time! & what can you say about Butkus? He was a total madman out there! Cursing at, & saying all sorts of nasties to QB's! Intimidation! That was what he was all about! You had to deal with "Captan Caveman"--as I have sometimes called him. I have a ton of old pictures of him. Some of them are obvious, that the lineman in the shot was going for his knees. & as you know, there are classic films of his & Gale's injuries. That was a sickening day in San Francisco, watching them carry Sayers off the field. I know, it's part of the game, but you still hate to see it. Anyway~~~Thanks for the welcome I've recieved here. Bears fans are great! It seems like most guys on TV, who are fans---are Bears fans! Chicago surely leads the NFL with major celebrities.--GO BEARS!!! Have a great year!---Jon--(also a Bengals fan--poor me--lol) Who Dey???--"Gonna arrest this year?"

Since birth!