During the season, the Bears played their home games at the University of Illinois ' Memorial Stadium in Champaign, where they went 3 – 5.

Currently, WBBM ( 780 AM / 105. 9 FM ) airs the Bears games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer, who played for the Bears from 1985 – 1992, and sideline reporter Zach Zaidman.

* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals

* Rodney Eade – Australian Rules Footballer who played 259 games for Hawthorn and the Bears, was head coach of the Western Bulldogs until Round 21, 2011

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

When the Vikings played the Chicago Bears in the first of their two games, Peterson broke the record for single game All-Purpose ( rushing, receiving, kick returning ) yards ( 361 total yards, 224 rushing ).

Because of on-going repairs to the roof of the Metrodome, the Vikings played their December 20 game versus the Chicago Bears at TCF Bank Stadium ( the home of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ).

I thought, yeah, but none of those 15 had ever played the Bears.

Since the 1999 season, the Bears have played their home games at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium.

However, the Bears played their " home " schedule at The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Connecticut that season while awaiting the completion of their new home field.

In addition, the Bears played several home games during the first half of the 1999 season at Skylands Park in Augusta, New Jersey.

Ozzie Canseco played for the Bears in 2000 and 2001, and his brother José Canseco was with the team for part of 2001 as well.

Rickey Henderson played the first half of the 2003 season with the Bears and was named most valuable player in the Atlantic League All-Star Game.

Sheldon Souray, who had played the entire 2010 – 11 season in the AHL with the Hershey Bears, was bought out of the last year of his contract.

Several of the actors and extras from Bad News Bears ( 1976 ) were from Northridge, but the field where they played is in Mason Park on Mason Avenue in Chatsworth.

He was selected in the first round of the 1985 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.

* Shaun Gayle, Special Teams captain of the 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears football team, and played with the San Diego Chargers

He also played a banker in Silver Bears.

* Marcus Monk-( 1986-) football wide receiver drafted by the Chicago Bears, played for the AR Razorbacks and has also been a member of the New York Giants.

* Willie Gault ( born September 5, 1960 ) is a former American football wide receiver and Olympic athlete ; Gault played in the National Football League for 11 seasons for the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Raiders

The club team has played more than twenty games in the last three years, most of them " away " because of the Bears ' lack of a home field, locker rooms or visiting team amenities.

* Matt Forté, running back for Chicago Bears ; played at Tulane University in New Orleans and at Slidell High School

McAfee, nicknamed " Lefty McAfee " in high school and " One Play McAfee " when he played in the NFL, went on to star at Duke University and for the Chicago Bears.

The Bears added two more in the fifth when McAuliffe dropped a double into the leftfield corner, Paschal doubled down the rightfield line and Cooke singled off Phil Shartzer's glove.

One franchise that did not share in this newfound success of the league was the Chicago Cardinals, owned by the Bidwill family, who had become overshadowed by the more popular Chicago Bears.

Two more non-Victorian clubs, the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears began playing in 1987.

Some old characters, like The Three Bears and Little Plum, have more recently made a return.

The Bears have also recorded more regular season and overall victories than any other NFL franchise.

The Little Ice Age may have reduced the population of the Great Auk by exposing more of their breeding islands to predation by Polar Bears, but massive exploitation for their down drastically reduced the population.

In what became an early rivalry in the NFL, the Redskins and Bears met two more times in the NFL Championship.

Druids take less damage and appear to be more threatening to monsters while in Bear form, and they can use relatively low damage but high threat physical abilities like Maul or Lacerate, or they can Swipe multiple targets to generate threat on all of them, making Bears suitable for tanking.

The Chicago Bears declined the proposal and opted to stay in Chicago with commitments for a newer more modern stadium.

After three decades of resistance, Disney finally entered Saturday morning in 1985 when The Gummi Bears and The Wuzzles debuted with significantly more substantial budgets ; the first-run syndication success of DuckTales, which premiered in 1987, eventually inspired a whole block of Disney-produced syndicated cartoons which forced competing studios to improve their own production standards to compete.

1988 saw McMahon return for the Bears with a much more serious attitude.

In addition to being a member of King Crimson, he is also in the more straightforward pop band The Bears and fronted his own band, " Gaga ", in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

As a band, The Bears was a conscious attempt to create a more unified and collective group, with Belew and Fetters sharing frontman and lead vocal duties.

Jones was moving out of his Disney-esque stage in the late 1945, and Sniffles was retired in 1946 as the director took to more hilarious and sadistic characters such as the Three Bears, fellow mice Hubie and Bertie, Marvin The Martian, and Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.

Despite the long-time backing of Bears founder George Halas, Steelers founder Art Rooney and, more recently, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the NFL ’ s other owners, led, not surprisingly, by the Cardinals, still continue to vote it down ( 30-2 ).

When the Continental Football League folded, the Bears returned to the ACFL, playing two more seasons in 1970 and 1971.

The Berenstain Bears series has been called " syrupy ", " unsatisfying ", " infuriatingly formulaic ", " hokey ", " abominable ", and " little more than stern lectures dressed up as children's stories.

" 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.

The larger questions about the popularity of the Berenstain Bears are more troubling: Is this what we really want from children's books in the first place, a world filled with scares and neuroses and problems to be toughed out and solved?

As of 1983, the Berenstain Bears had been licensed to approximately 40 companies for more than 150 types of products, with projected annual sales of $ 50 million.

The Hershey Bears have won the Cup more times than any other team, with eleven victories in franchise history.

Shunned by the more competitive teams ( and competitive parents ), the Bears are the outsiders.