Chicago Bears fans have reached a breaking point. They’ve endured a lot of losing over the past decade. Only one winning season since 2013. In that time, they’ve wasted two opportunities to draft difference-making quarterbacks in the 1st round. Now they finally seem to have one who doesn’t suck and he’s been sacked 66 times this season because of bad blocking and even worse coaching. At the end of a dismal 6-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks at Soldier Field, the dam finally broke. It wasn’t “Fire Flus” or “Fire Poles” that rang out across the stadium. It was something long overdue.
“Sell the team.”
Since the McCaskey family took over in 1983, the Bears have declined from a charter franchise to a perennial basement dweller. The past decade has been, by far, the worst of the experience. It probably isn’t a coincidence that all of it coincidence with George McCaskey’s rise to power as team chairman. Every head coach and GM decision made in that time frame involved him.
The 101-year-old matriarch has held control of the franchise since her father, George Halas, passed. She has made it abundantly clear there would never be a sale. The Chicago Bears would remain in the family. However, once she’s gone, there could be a power vacuum that others of the young generation may not be able to fill. Many in the family have expressed a desire to sell. George has made it clear at every point that his mother still makes the ultimate final decisions. Does he really have the wherewithal and political savvy to handle such a massive transfer of power? It would not be shocking if he is forced to consider a sale one Virginia is gone. That is the best hope Bears fans have at this point.
