Damn I Hate This Song

At the Bears game tailgate we are continually pestered by the terrible jukebox that the guys near us at the Adler lot set up in a giant tent with huge speakers.  Dan and I usually try to bet on which song is going to come next; one time he shouted "Thunderstruck" and damn if that wasn't the first song they played.

Of all the songs we are most tired of, "Stranglehold" has to top the list.  So it was my lucky day at the White Sox opener to hear this...

Bears T Shirt Seen in Key West

I had a laugh at this Bears' T shirt seen in Key West.

Damn if only the Bears could start beating up on the Pack like we used to in the semi-olden days. Every loss to them is brutal.

Drunk Bear Fans on Location

Dan and I are headed out to Reno for the Super Bowl. This is the second year of our annual tradition, and we usually meet astoundingly drunk football fans of all sorts. Last year since I was wearing a Bears shirt a completely faced' fan came up to me and said how he named his daughter after Walter Payton and went on and on. During the approximately 120 seconds we talked to him he dropped his credit card, personal phone, and work phone on the ground so it is likely that his night ended badly, like a true Drunk Bear Fan.

Due to the wonders of Technology I am blogging this from the actual plane with a photo of the for-the-ride Heineken (I was going to get a Coors Light just for Dan) and Brian's Bloody Mary.

Hey remember when the Bears were 7-1 and we thought that just maybe there'd be a bit of post season action for us? We all know how that ended and are reduced to just watching a game I could give a crap about because the Bears aren't in it. Oh well that is grist for another site now just on to meeting drunks of all sorts watching the Super Bowl.

Drunk Fan Throwing Up At Columns

Sorry for the slightly grainy photo but friends saw this guy spitting up over the columns at half time. Nice.

Banana Costume

Got to love the banana costume and the frosty head.

Trust

Here's the definition of "trust" at Soldier Field. It was right near the end of the third quarter when beer sales cut off and there was a big scramble and the beer vendor gave me an unopened can in a cup. I've been to hundreds of sporting events in Chicago and this has never happened. I'm sure someone somewhere is worried that I could have used it as a projectile. Just for Dan you can see the dimple in the top where Miller Lite makes it easy to shotgun the beer down your gullet.

Drunk Packer Fans

I don't know if it was the inevitability of another defeat or our losing streak but the crowd didn't seem to take it out on the Packer fans. Everyone was more or less getting along compared to the fights I'd expect.

This guy rung a cowbell every time the Packers did something good. I think either he toned it down or someone muffled his bell because it got quieter in the second half.

This one was completely faced. The girl below us was worried about her (another Packer fan) and asked as she came back up if she was with someone and she was. It was her 21st B day and I get the feeling that Monday is going to be a long day for her.

F Bears Haters

This guy was tailgating right next to us so I didn't have to move far to get this photo. He was surprisingly pleasant given his obnoxious shirt. He was a Bears fan out of Pennsylvania which means he must have an incredibly thick skin; that damn state is split between hellish Steelers fans and hellish Eagles fans. Love the hair, too. He also had a Marshall jersey which I think he planned to wear to get into the stadium which seemed like an intelligent move.

Drunk Bear Fan Stumbles Out

For whatever reason it has been quiet up in the cheap non PSL seats the last few games. I don't know what is causing it but I also think that the "text security" model must be putting a dent in drunken behavior because it is much more anonymous to send a text about a drunk rather than going down to find security because then your drunken nemesis knows who is tattling on him.

This guy however was TOTALLY faced. He kept falling as they brought him down the steps in the fourth quarter. Since he was moving so slowly the falls weren't impacting him much. His friends were getting him out of there before security caught up with him or he threw up on someone else up in the cheap seats.

Bears Remote Control Car

This was clever. The remote controlled Bear car dragged the Seattle mascot through the Adler lot.

Obscure Jersey - Ancient Edition

While we bemoan the obscure jerseys here at DBF another un-explainable trend is people picking jerseys for Bears players that have been dead forever.

Sid Luckman last played in 1950. That was SIXTY TWO years ago. It is a long shot that this guy was old enough to have seen him play but really, what is the point of this jersey? At least at QB really the only 3 great ones that the Bears have had in forever are Luckman, McMahon and likely Cutty if he can stay alive & un-concussed long enough.

Nagurski? He last played in 1943. That is almost SEVENTY years ago. Really? Can't we find someone more recent?

Cade

One of our favorite topics here at "the most important site on the internet" (tm) is the obscure jersey. I don't know if it is a Bear fan deal, or if all NFL teams' fans have this thing going on. At any home Bear game you can see plenty of people with jerseys on (which is dumb enough) but the fact that we can get to re-live the horrible players of the past just makes no sense at all.

At what point do you look at yourself in the mirror and say that you just need to toss that Rashaan Salaam jersey? Are you really that cheap? And why do you wear the number 23 of Jerry Azumah instead of the almost universally known and current roster member Hester?

This is the question that simply cannot be answered. If we could figure it out it would be like finding the Higgs Boson particle.

Stalwart contributor Fro Dog has done the Lord's work and sent me this photo from last Sunday of a guy with a "handicapped" Cade jersey while washing up in the bathroom. My god.

He also reports seeing an Olin Kreutz and an Aromashedu - who by the way was on the field for the VIKINGS yesterday. The obscure jersey theme really is amazing.

On another note, Fro also notes that he got to see a woman barf all over some fans down below her way up in the nose bleeds. No photos of that but good to hear that things are normal up there.

Cow Fan

This photo epitomizes what makes "Drunk Bear Fans" what we are.

A grown adult man, in a cow costume, smoking one of those fake nicotine electronic cigarettes, proudly being hammered.

Full disclosure - I have that exact same costume, although I don't wear it plus shorts to the Bears game.

Suit Crew and Beer Bongs

We have a lot of Suit Crew photos up here so need something new to merit another photo - so then they added the beer bong and that was worthy of the site.

Intentionally Bald Costume Dude (Carl Brutananadilewski)

At the Bears / Carolina game it was COLD. This guy was in some sort of Halloween costume with shorts and just a T Shirt. This was half time and the guy was in great spirits. This merits a "no shirt" tag because it was a wife beater.

Hey thanks to the ol' intertubes an alert commentor said that he is in a halloween costume for this guy.

Lost Opposing Fans

I can understand 1) going as a fan in colors for your home team 2) following your team on the road and wearing colors 3) going incognito. Here is what I don't understand - wearing the colors of your team at an opposing stadium WHEN YOUR TEAM ISN'T PLAYING. That is inviting personal abuse with no upside.

Here is a lost Browns fan wandering around during the Bears / Indy home game. At least no one gives the slightest crap about Cleveland.

But this one makes NO sense. A queens fan wandering around during the Bears / Carolina game. This guy invited a spray of beers as well as an entire section chanting "a**hole". Why would you wear these colors and attend a Bears game? Just to hope they lose? Then watch it on TV...

Empty Family Friendly Lot

While tailgating at the Adler lot I found an empty lot near game time which struck me as quite odd. Then I looked at the sign and figured out why - it was a "family friendly" lot with no alcohol. OK then it makes sense why no one bothered to tailgate there - tailgating w/out booze is pointless (apparently).

This is the optimal level of booze per tailgate... ten smashed Miller Lite cans per attendee.

Douchebag Bears Fan

I was tallying up my haul of photos for DBF and was a little disappointed for a Monday night football game against the Lions with beautiful weather and then I ran into this guy and all was right with the world.

Bachelorette Party in the Cheap Seats

Gotta love the idea of having your bachelorette party at the Bears' game but how about better seats than the nosebleeds that Dan and I sit in because we refuse to pay for a PSL.

The Heckler Inadvertently Gives Us Love

The Heckler (whom we love, it's over on the blogroll) inadvertently gave us some love with this "costume" T Shirt that you can buy at the Heckler store.