In our family of seven boys and one girl there are 5 Chicago Bears fans including our daughter who this fall will fulfill her long held ambition of studying law, with a full ride scholarship to a school right there in the Windy City. Me, I’m a Jets fan dating back to the very earliest years of the 1980s about the time when those kids who old enough to choose picked the Bears, as Jim McMahon started his NFL career. They started to follow a great team and I choose the Jets because they were then (and forever shall be) the great under-dogs. As a few more kids came along a couple choose the Bears but one obstinate one latched on to the Denver team. I will tell you our young lady did flirt with the Cowboys before seeing some sense. Walter Payton is a great hero around here for most of us and Ben still has an unopened box of Wheaties featuring Sweetness, given to him by the Bears fan mother of a long-term girlfriend with whom he is still friends. He is now married and if ever his kids discover those Wheaties and despoil that special box there will be much less sweetness in that household!
So most of the family is looking forward to Gabe Carimi putting on the blue and orange. And that’s where we get back to the Jewish contribution to the NFL and particularly Da Bears. Word on the street is that Gabe might be a rival for top Jew Bear title now held by the redoubtable Sid Luckman. During his 12 seasons with the Bears he led them to four NFL championships. Could Gabe do the same? I know 5 fans who are probably praying that he can. I for my part am looking forward to seeing 5 smiling faces for a few seasons of Bears best behavior.
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