This is basically the Bears version of the "keep Zook and Weber" arguments.
Would never root for the Packers. Ever. You going to root for Duke next when you get tired of Illini incompetence?
Huh? Obviously it isn’t a player or coach issue when this franchise has been pretty bad for 25+ years. That’s a systemic issue.
I didn’t think I could ever root for the Packers either but whatever. I have friends and family in WI, am moving out of Illinois, generally think Chicago is pretty much a giant beehive full of worker drones running endlessly between little workspaces in big buildings and their enormously overpriced and overtaxed homes and are ridiculously proud of that for some reason. Tribalism, I guess. Outside of the areas they keep nice for tourists and the wealthy (which can’t even be used right now due to COVID) it’s kind of a dump. The sports teams suck year over year, the weather sucks, and people are mostly miserable AF and want everyone else to be miserable along with them.
I’ve been watching lots of family and friends who are Packers fans have fun most of my life while I somehow let myself get emotionally invested in a terrible Bears franchise that doesn’t know how to win football games. I’m tired of sulking in my sad camp watching everyone else have fun every year.
Why should anyone feel an emotional loyalty to a professional sports team they have no control over? Especially when most of that emotion ends up being negative year over year. I was either going to have to give up the NFL or give up the Bears. There’s enough negativity and BS going on all around us right now without having to willingly adopt more negativity and anger into my life. That’s just insanity.
And no I will never cheer for Duke. College sports (at least for the time being) are different. I attended UIUC. I’m a donor. I lived in the community for a significant portion of my life. I’m invested in the institution in ways I cannot be invested in a pro sports franchise.
The Bears don’t owe me anything and I don’t owe them anything. So fuck em I’m out