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The Bears appear to have eventually acknowledged a little piece of their actual history:- 2018 Media Guide - https://flic.kr/p/2gJ3htc 2019 Media Guide - https://flic.kr/p/2gJ3hnA Some credit would have been nice! Can't win them all I suppose. Another 20-30 years and they might acknowledge the 1919 ...

Jim Zimmerman's Oldest Living Pro Football Players website (https://www.oldestlivingprofootball.com) appears to have been inactive for some time now, with no updates in the past ~2 years and access to the forum somewhat limited to read only, if at all. Jim, Steve J, myself and others put a lot of re...

Former Bears HB Perry Jeter died May 18th aged 88.

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The broadside collection:- 1926 Chicago Bears vs Louisville Colonels - https://flic.kr/p/2gxMHQu 1928 Chicago Bears vs New York Giants - https://flic.kr/p/2gxMtTX 1928 Chicago Bears vs Dayton Triangles - https://flic.kr/p/2gxMbjD 1929 Chicago Bears Schedule - https://flic.kr/p/2gxL7Lt 1937 Chicago B...

A few old Bears photos from my little collection. The Famiglietti one is probably my favourite. When it came up for auction many years ago my immediate reaction was "I'm winning that"!! Apologies for the watermarks which are a necessary evil I'm afraid. Red Grange - https://flic.kr/p/2gxzP...

One for the uniform historians - for 1941 at least the Bears appear to have had a pinkish stripe up the inside of their pants. It's fairly obvious in these two Warnecke & Cranston colour photos that appeared in the Sunday News (30-Nov-1941) but on careful inspection is also visible in several bl...

In the 01-Dec-1921 edition of The Decatur Review, Howard Millard's buildup for the game states the following:- "If the Decatur Staleys are successful in their game with Buffalo Sunday in Chicago the world's professional championship title will belong to the starchworkers for the season. Preside...

Former Raiders LB Dan Conners died April 28th, aged 77.

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Not recent, but the Bears doubled up in 1935 to finish their season:- 24-Nov vs Detroit T20-20 28-Nov at Detroit L2-14 01-Dec vs Cardinals T7-7 08-Dec at Cardinals W13-0 The Cardinals games were both played at Wrigley Field, the latter having been postponed from 06-Oct because of the MLB World Serie...