Ahhhh, so that's why the Bears haven't won a championship since 1985!
Recently saw a show on the NFL channel of the Top 10 Football Curses.
Number 1 is, of course, the Lions' Curse of Bobby Lane...
WTF Bobby, it's been more than 50 years... give us a break, already. :(
Anyway, another one of the Top 10 Football Curses is the Bears' Curse of the Honey Bears.
In 1976, owner/founder George Halas decided he wanted dancing girls on the sidelines. "As long as I’m alive, we will have dancing girls on the sidelines."
So Halas founded the Honey Bears cheerleading squad.
From that point on, the Bears went from regular losers to powerful winners, winning the Super Bowl in 1985.
Unfortunately for the Bears, Halas died in 1983. His daughter Virginia, who took over the team, hated cheerleaders, calling them "sex objects."
When the Honey Bears' contract ended in 1985, they were fired. Super Bowl XX, when the Bears won it all, was their last performance.
To this day, the Bears are one of only 6 teams without a cheerleading squad.
Anyway, it is said that after clearing their stuff out of Soldier Field, the Honey Bears shook their pom poms at the stadium and declared that the Bears would not win another championship until the team brought back the Honey Bears. And sure enough, since then, the Bears have become sad losers, like they use to be.
So now you know. The Bears aren't losers because of poor management, or bad coaches, or even Jay Cutler.
It's the Curse of the Honey Bears.