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The Reading Room: The Wow Boys
In 1940, Stanford shocked college football by coming out of nowhere to rip off an undefeated season and claim the national championship. The Indians, as the team was then known, started the season a lightly regarded unit with a has-been coach starting his first year at Palo Alto. Instead, they...
OSS: Chicago Bears Minimalist Posters (Series 2)
MORE AFTER THE JUMP | More OSS >> Chicago Bears Minimalist Posters | The idea behind these is to use a few simplistic elements to create an easily recognizable icon. My inspiration comes from a series of minimalist super hero posters, created by an artist named Anthony Ocasio....
OSS: Chicago Bears Minimalist Posters (Series)
MORE AFTER THE JUMP | More OSS >> Chicago Bears Minimalist Posters | The idea behind these is to use a few simplistic elements to create an easily recognizable icon. My inspiration comes from a series of minimalist super hero posters, created by an artist named Anthony Ocasio. Stay...
Bill Swerski's Superfans Predict The 2011 Season (part 2)
If you need to catch up on the predictions so far then click here for part 1. If you need to catch up on who the Superfans are then tsk, tsk, tsk... On with part 2! Bill - Welcome back to our 2011 Prediction Show, live from Ditka's restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. Before we get started we'd like...
OSS: The Halas Hangover
View/Download Larger Version >> | More OSS >> If you have a fun and creative idea for a Bears-related photoshop, send me an email. If it passes WCG's 34-step approval process, I'll see what I can come up with (and give you full credit for it). Don't forget to include your profile...
Today in Sports History: December 8th
12/08/1940 - Bears 73, Redskins 0The 1940 NFL Championship Game is a blowout of epic proportions, as the Chicago Bears humiliate the Washington Redskins, 73-0. It was far and away the largest blowout in NFL history, and the fact that it happened between the two best teams in the league made it all...
Review: The Galloping Ghost - Red Grange: An American Football Legend
In the 1920s, four athletes stood like giants in a golden age of sport - Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey and Red Grange. With “The Galloping Ghost”, author Gary Andrew Poole delivers an authoritative autobiography of Grange, who was most responsible for the popularization of...
Do not intrigue us long, Coach Zorn
I love Coach Zorn and have Great Expectations for the coming season, so don't interpret this as even a modest criticism of the coach, but I don't know if an "intriguing" is really all that preferable (at least in the meaning used below) a quality in coaches. George Halas circa 1962, for example,...
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