Bear down!

This is just a random found image, but this is exactly what everyone in Chicago looked like in 1986.

Bears looked good last night, but even though I am from Chicago, I'm a lot more cautiously optimistic than average. Their secondary looked like tissue paper as Denver's lesser tier receivers and Kyle friggin' Orton had no problem carving them up last night.

Gayle Sayers and Billy Dee Williams on the set of "Brian's Song" (1971)

it seems that something gets in my eye every time I watch this classic.

Gayle Sayers is one of the all time greats on and off the field.

A ton of trouble- the Steelers' front four (1975)

TIME cover: 12-08-1975 on The Pittsburgh Steelers. On cover: (L-R) L.C. Greenwood, Dwight White, Ernie Holmes and Joe Greene. Photo Credits: (Clockwise from Top R) L. C. Greenwood, Dwight White and Ernie Holmes by Shelly Katz-Black Star; Joe Greene by Steve Northup.


cool art- i'm pulling for the Cardinals.

sports sweaters from the Sears catalog (1988)

Most notably rocked by Michael Keller Ditka.

celebrity endorsers: Tony Dorsett for Lee Jeans (1983)

found in Jet Magazine, April 1983

Pudge Heffelfinger, All American (1955)

This is a world of win for me- great portrait, great name, great leather helmet, and an ACES old Yale Bulldogs logo (to be stolen later).

NFL sweaters for kids (1984)

From the 1984 Sears Catalog. The Bears sweater was standard Sunday school wear in Chicago for the 1985-86 season.

Rose Bowl ticket seekers (1951)

Click photo to embiggen.

Rose Bowl ticket seekers, in December 1951. The fellows in this photo rock a badass mix of casual and formal (note wingtips with rolled up jeans, righteous pea coats and leather jackets, etc.) The first national television audience for a college football game saw Illinois clobber Stanford 40-7 in the Grandaddy of Them All (TM) (C) (R) etc

etc

the varsity jacket: John McKay, USC coach (1964)