Franchise history
A Bears come one of a storied NFL teams. It lead a NFL inside franchise wins by using 660. It were founded by A.E. Staley, originally as the Staley Company team in Decatur, a typical start for several of the classic NFL franchises. Staley hired George Halas and Edward "Dutch" Sternaman within 1920 & turned control of the team complete to the babies in 1921.

Halas liked a brilliantly orange-&-blue colors of his alma mater, a University of Illinois, and a Bears adopted victims colors when their have, albeit within a darker shade of every (the orange is Pantone 1665, similar to burnt orange). When using many early NFL franchises, a Bears took their title from either that of their landlords, in that out break a Chicago Cubs.

Their competition using a Green Bay Packers is one of the oldest & fiercest around agent sports. Green Bay historiographer however talk all about an incident in a early NFL times, where Halas experienced a Packers expelled from either a league sequentially to stop the children signing a particular streaming video streaming video player, and so gracefully had the two re-admitted fallowing the Bears had closed the treat therewith player. Jumping leading to their illustrious 1985 season, Coach Mike Ditka used 350-plus pound lineman "Refrigerator" Perry as a truly "wide" receiver in a touchdown play at Lambeau Field, flagrantly taunting the Packers. A Packers keep around as well of these-upped a Bears at times on top a years.

A Bears were responsible triggering a NFL's long-standing rule that the streaming video player may not become signed until his senior class experienced graduated. A NFL took that action following of the Bears' aggressive sign language of illustrious U of We streaming video player Red Grange, almost literally when he walked retired a door of Memorial Stadium following his final game as a collegian.

the Bears became a dominant team in the early 1940s, acquiring a University of Chicago's discarded nickname "Monsters of the Midway" too as a newly-penned theme song that declared the two "The pride and joy of Illinois". Of a numerous league championships at one time or another, a virtually all awe-awing was their 73-0 triumph above the favorite Washington Redskins at Griffith Stadium in the 1940 league championship game. That score is however an NFL record for lopsided final result.

When his partner Dutch Sternaman left a organization, Halas maintained control of the Bears until his demise within 1983. Halas too coached a team off-&-in for xl seasons, an NFL record. Mostly, a Bears stand stayed in the Halas personal. A team is presently owned by Halas' girl Virginithe McCaskey & has been redo in a daily-to-day basis since 1999 by President & CEO Ted Phillips.

Players of note
Super Bowl XX Championship Roster
Kevin Butler Maury Buford Jim Covert Mark Bortz Willie Gault Jay Hilgenberg Dennis McKinnon Jim McMahon Emery Moorehead Walter Payton Matt Suhey Tom Thayer Keith Van Horne Richard Dent Dave Duerson Gary Fencik Leslie Frazier Dan Hampton Wilber Marshall Steve McMichael William Perry Mike Richardson Ron Rivera Reggie Phillips Mike Singletary Otis Wilson

Current players

Retired numbers
Tercet Bronko Nagurski Quintuplet George McAfee Sevener George Halas 28 Willie Gallimore 34 Walter Payton 40 Gale Sayers 41 Brian Piccolo (the subject of the film ''Brian's Song'') 42 Sid Luckman 51 Dick Butkus 56 Bill Hewitt 61 Bill George 66 Clyde (Bulldog) Turner 77 Harold (Red) Grange

Not to be forgotten
Neal Anderson Marty Booker Doug Buffone Mark Carrier Rick Casares Richard Dent Mike Ditka Dan Hampton Jim Harbaugh Raymont Harris Mike Hartenstine Jim McMahon Steve McMichael Johnny Morris Larry Morris Ed O'Bradovich Jim Osbourne Alan Page Doug Plank Marcus Robinson Mike Singletary Ed Sprinkle Tom Waddle Otis Wilson Donnell Woolford

Partial Inaugural (1919) Roster
Bailey E Robert E. "Red" Brannon E/Coach (Millikin) Brant HB Berry Brecount QB Casey HB Chase G (Navy) Joe Cooper E Robert L. "Bob" Crisp G Chuck Dressen QB Edward G. Eckhoff E Gammel G Sylvan R. "Sid" Gepford B (Millikin) Henry Halterman G Charlie "Bob ?" Koehler T W. Lutz Krigbaum G Ralph L. "Jake" Lanum HB (Millikin) Chester The. "Baldy" Will G Ray Will T Walter O. "Red" Might G McGrath John F. "Jack" Mintun C Moffett T Bun Moran G Pyrzynski HB Lawrence Thrift E (Stephen Decatur HS) Walter W. Veach HB Wagner E (Rose Poly) Fred "Fritz" Wasem E Woodsworth E

Coaches
Red Brannon 1919 George Halas 1920-1929 Ralph Jones 1930-1932 George Halas 1933-1942 Hunk Anderson & Luke Johnsos 1942-1945 George Halas 1946-1955 Paddy Driscoll 1956-1957 George Halas 1958-1967 Jim Dooley 1968-1971 Abe Gibron 1972-1974 Jack Pardee 1975-1977 Neill Armstrong 1978-1981 Mike Ditka 1982-1992 Dave Wannstedt 1993-1998 Dick Jauron 1999-2003 Lovie Smith 2004-Present