It wasn't until 43 years later, on December 17, 2007 ( a Monday Night Football game versus the Chicago Bears ) that the Vikings again donned both purple jerseys and purple pants.

The nation's recognition of the Bears ' accomplishment was overshadowed by the explosion of the Challenger two days later, an event which caused the cancellation of the Bears ' post-Super Bowl White House visit ; the surviving members of the team eventually would be invited to the White House in 2011.

Two plays later, Bears fullback Matt Suhey scored on an 11-yard touchdown run to increase the lead 13-3.

Eight plays later, McMahon finished the Super Bowl record 96-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run to make the Bears lead 30-3.

* Berkshire Black Bears ( 2002 – 2003 ); team later moved to New Haven, Connecticut and then folded

The team included later notable NFL stars such as David Overstreet, a former running back for the Oklahoma Sooners and Miami Dolphins, and Lovie Smith, head coach of the Chicago Bears.

He played college football at Brigham Young University, where he was a two-time All-American ( 1980, 1981 ) and later in the professional ranks with the Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers.

McMahon would later explain that the reason behind this was that the Bears never got to go to the White House after they won Super Bowl XX, due to the event being canceled after the Challenger tragedy.

With a new emphasis on " star " characters, Terrytoons featured the adventures of Super Mouse ( later renamed Mighty Mouse ), the talking magpies Heckle and Jeckle, silly Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck, mischievous mouse Little Roquefort, and The Terry Bears.

In 1986 he signed with the NFL's Chicago Bears, and later played for the New England Patriots, becoming their starting quarterback in 1988.

Flutie would later make his debut on the 1986 Chicago Bears, appearing in 4 games.

The Staleys won, 6-0 ; the Tigers dropped out of the league right afterward and, after playing one game against the independent Thorn Tornadoes, folded, with the Staleys moving to Chicago ( later to become the Chicago Bears ) one week into the 1921 season.

The Berenstain Bears, who reside " in a big treehouse down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country ," consists of Papa Bear, an oafish, bumbling carpenter ; wise Mama Bear, a housewife and perfectionist ; and their children, Brother Bear ( originally Small Bear ), and later additions Sister Bear and Honey Bear.

Honey Bear's imminent arrival was announced in early 2000 in The Birds, the Bees, and the Berenstain Bears, along with a reader contest to name the new bear ; her birth was featured later that year in The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five.

" Living Books later released a second Berenstain Bears installment, The Berenstain Bears in the Dark.

The Indians were defeated by the Bears 33-6 just a few hours later.

Two years later, in July 2001, Kariya's number 9 was retired by the Black Bears.

They would later go on, alongside Bill Lancaster ( the original screenwriter ; although he has since died, he is still credited ), to write the screenplay for the 2005 remake of The Bad News Bears, also starring Billy Bob Thornton.

Gummiberry Juice is a concoction formulated using Gummiberries by the Gummi Bears, with the recipe known only by Grammi Gummi until she later taught it to Sunni Gummi.

Cappelletti signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL, but was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, later cut, and went back to the ORFU, leading the Sarnia Golden Bears ( the team changed its name in 1956 ) to the league championship.

* Chicago Staleys ( later the Chicago Bears ) win the 1921 American Professional Football Association title, albeit not without dispute.

Bears ( grizzly, black, and the Kermode bear or spirit bear — found only in British Columbia ) live here, as do deer, elk, moose, caribou, big-horn sheep, mountain goats, marmots, beavers, muskrat, coyotes, wolves, mustelids ( such as wolverines, badgers and fishers ), Cougar, eagles, ospreys, herons, Canada geese, swans, loons, hawks, owls, ravens, Harlequin Ducks, and many other sorts of ducks.

" Maguntsche " is a Lenape word, meaning either " bear swamp " or " feeding place of the Bears.

This was in fact the original meaning of " Arctic Circle ", before the current geographical meaning, meaning " Circle of the Bears " ( Ursa Major, the Great Bear ; and Ursa Minor, the Little Bear ), from Greek αρκτικός ( arktikos ), " near the Bear ", from the word άρκτος ( arktos ) bear.

* William Holbrook Beard ( 1824 – 1900 ), painter of Bulls and Bears representing the market cycle ; a bear statue sits on top of his headstone

In Romania, in a cave called Bears ' Cave, 140 cave bear skeletons were discovered in 1983.

** Macungie-derived from " Maguntsche ", meaning " bear swamp " or " feeding place of the Bears.

In 1897, a live bear cub traveled with UM's football team, then known as the " Bears " ( the " Grizzlies " name was adopted in 1923 ).

Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium is a 6, 200-seat baseball park in Newark, New Jersey, USA, that hosted its first regular season baseball game on July 16, 1999, with former 1940's bear Yogi Berra throwing the ceremonial first pitch, as the tenants of the facility, the Newark Bears, took on the Lehigh Valley Black Diamonds.

The Bears have nicknamed the stadium " the Den ," representing the home of a bear.

The logo of La New Bears, a professional baseball team in Taiwan, features a Formosan black bear.

The BBC documentary " Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest " looks at some of the bear research being done in Peru and Ecuador and what the researchers are discovering.

The primary logo is a medium brown bear, outlined in dark brown, roaring while standing on a hockey stick centered above the Hershey Bears wordmark.

The primary logo was a maroon bear, outlined in black, swatting a hockey puck centered below the Hershey Bears wordmark.

Bears seem to have played a special role in the carvers ' culture: they feature prominently in many carvings and frequently appear not only as animals to be hunted but are also often depicted in positions that seem to indicate that bears were worshipped in some form of cult ( which seems very plausible since bear cults are known in many old cultures of northwestern Russia as well as in Sami culture ).

In a 2010 report biologists affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History and City College of the City University of New York have prepared a new report published in Canadian Field Naturalist that offers the first documented evidence the temperamental Grizzly Bears are migrating into polar bear territory.

He's an optimistic bear cub who idolizes The Country Bears.

Nearby at Glenade ( about 7. 5 miles south east ) is Poll na mBear ( Cave of the Bears ) where some of the best preserved examples of Irish brown bear bones were recovered by cavers in May 1997.

Bears probably rarely prey on marmots, as their presence close to colonies generally does not raise alarm calls unless the bear advances up to from the colony.

The school's basketball team are known as the Oxford Golden Bears, represented by a golden bear.

" Noting that " the nagging, scolding Mama Bear is a pillar of pettiness and conventionality " who " seems to care more about how the Bears ' tree house looks than whether anyone is happy inside ", she wrote, " some viewers may find it a genuine relief when the cubs demolish Mama's favorite lamp.