Chicago Bears Notes: We're Just 1 Week Away From Football (2024)

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What is the Chicago Bears slogan? ›

"Bear down, Chicago Bears! Make every play clear the way to victory. Bear down, Chicago Bears! Put up a fight with a might so fearlessly.

The Chicago Bears will start their 2024 campaign on Sunday against the Tennessee Titans at Solider Field. After an offseason's worth of optimism, it's likely most of the Bears fan base will be glued to screens in time for the noon CT kickoff.

In 1921, after a business recession cut starch profits, A. E. Staley suggested to Halas that the future of professional sports would lie in big cities and paid Halas $5,000 to take the team to Chicago and keep the nickname Staleys for one season.

The Staleys won the 1921 league championship. A year later, the team was renamed the Chicago Bears. From the very start, the Bears were one of pro football's most successful and innovative franchises.

Although the bear safety rhyme “If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, goodnight” sounds like good advice, you have to know why a bear is attacking you before you can decide the best way to respond.

The Monsters of the Midway is most widely known as the nickname for the National Football League's Chicago Bears. The moniker initially belonged to the University of Chicago Maroons football team, which was a reference to the Midway Plaisance on the South Side of Chicago.

Looking to rebound from a disastrous 2023 season, Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles started the 2024 campaign on a positive note. Keyed by a sensational Eagles debut from Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia defeated the Green Bay Packers on Friday night in the NFL's first-ever game in Brazil.

The Chicago Bears and Houston Texans play Sunday, Sept. 15, at NRG Stadium in a game on the NFL Week 2 schedule. Which team will win the Sunday Night Football Week 2 NFL game? Check out these NFL Week 2 picks and NFL Week 2 predictions for the game, which can be seen at 5:20 p.m. MST on NBC (stream with Peaco*ck).

This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 August 2024. Virginia Halas McCaskey (née Virginia Marion Halas; January 5, 1923) is an American football executive who is the principal owner of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).

What did bears used to be called? ›

Germanic ancestors were the ones to call the bears "the brown one" or "the dark one," which was eventually translated to the English version of "bear." Another common nickname for the animals was "Medú jed," or "honey eater," which was used by Slovaks. There's another version of how "bear" came to be, though.

The Chicago Bears American football franchise is a charter member of the National Football League (NFL), and has played in all of the league's 100 seasons. The team has captured nine NFL championships – eight NFL championships and one Super Bowl – second most all time behind the Green Bay Packers.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers owns the Chicago Bears. No, he didn't actually purchase the franchise. But, on the field, he dominates them every time the two teams play.

In 2023, the Bears made their primary logo the orange bear head, which was previously their secondary logo since 1999. Despite demoting the "C" to a secondary logo, the team will still retain it on their helmets and at the home field's 50-yard line.

The Arizona Cardinals are the oldest established team in the NFL. They were established in 1898 as an independent team and joined the NFL in its founding year of 1920.

A Bear Paw for Every Paw.

“The Most Fun You'll Ever Make” – that's the motto behind the iconic global retailer, Build-A-Bear Workshop, which offers guests the opportunity to make personalized stuffed animals, including adding smells, sounds and outfits.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena. You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly. Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really.

In 2001 we were gifted with a new iteration, “Only you can prevent wildfires”, which makes an important distinction between unintentional human-caused fires and calculated controlled burns. A living representation of Smokey Bear was a rescued black bear cub who narrowly survived a forest fire in New Mexico.