That is Not a Recreation Preview.

Why do I just like the Chicago Bears this week? 

I don’t know after I began utilizing this phrase to open my recreation previews, however I don’t actually bear in mind not doing so. Every week I repeat it and every week I comply with it with the straightforward, “I always like the Chicago Bears.”

And as we start the twentieth season of DaBearsBlog (2005-2025), it stays true. Social media appears to be the staging floor for one thing of an existential disaster on the subject of Bears followers and their fandom. The subtext of just about each tweet is “I don’t want to be a fan anymore.” I don’t get it. Fandom comes with no ensures. You root for a group since you just like the group, or as a result of they play in your neighborhood, or as a result of they symbolize your nation, or as a result of they’re a half black man upending the whitest sport on the planet. You then watch them play and hope they win. That’s the extent of the transaction. However for those who’re prepared to both (a) cease watching the game totally or (b) swap groups, then you definitely have been by no means an precise fan to start with.

In case you don’t need to prioritize watching a nasty group’s video games, I get that. I made that call myself this season a number of instances, skipping Bears v. Patriots to present a lecture and grasp after with the viewers, and giving in to exhaustion at halftime of Bears v. Seahawks, whereby I missed the worst half-hour of NFL soccer all season. You don’t should undergo by way of each minute of group’s season to have your fandom ticket validated. However being a fan doesn’t truly value you something for those who maintain that fandom in emotional perspective. Get indignant once they lose. Complain once they make dangerous organizational selections. However it’s nonetheless a recreation, performed in your amusement. Get pleasure from it.

The Bears are going to lose Sunday. You need to settle for that reality in the present day, proper now, studying this. The Packers are good and gearing up for a playoff run and nonetheless have pivotal seeding to play for. The Bears are dangerous. If watching the Bears lose brings you immense agita, would possibly I like to recommend a go to to the cinema this weekend? Or simply grasp with the children? Or go to your native watering gap and argue about politics? Blow this recreation off and focus your consideration on the teaching search come Monday morning.

This isn’t a recreation preview as a result of this recreation carries no that means for the Chicago Bears group. It’s a recreation they’re taking part in as a result of schedules dictate they play a seventeenth recreation. If they’d a possibility to knock their division rival from the match, then you would actually put some weight behind this finale. However does altering Inexperienced Bay’s seeding get you pumped up? Not me. Because the calendar is popping, the Packers are related, and the Bears usually are not. Rinse. Repeat.

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