Sorry, It didn't put the "Other" option after Bulls.

Not too many basketball fans here huh?

Not too many basketball fans here huh?

Not too many basketball fans here huh?

I find it interesting that everyone says this is a football town yet when I have posed this question myself I hear Cubs or Sox more than Bears as an answer. In this poll we have twice as many votes for baseball teams.

Take this poll in January and you have different results. You should know that Mr. Woodcock. That was a loser statement.

Is January the only month of the year? Now, normally October through December this city is gripped with Bears 'fever', but the rest of the year inasmuch as I wish it weren't so, this is a recent winners' city or a Cubs city.

Sox won, Bears off of the front sports pages until November, and back off when pitchers and catchers reported. Bulls won, Bears didn't matter. Cubs win, or at least back into the playoffs, other than to crap on Rex, who(generally) gives a crap.

Now if the Bears routinely won, that would be a different story. The simple fact is that in the last 50 years there have been two Bear winning periods, 84-89 (little satisfaction) and 05-Present(illusory at best). The Bears once were the favored franchise, but that their sustained ineptitude isn't pretty, lovable, and leads to Sid Luckman's name getting tossed around as much as it does, 60 yrs. after he retired, is embarrasing.

Their glory years are pre-television. The faintest sniff of new sustainable glory and this would unquestionably be a Bears town, but that ain't happening while this franchise remains a cash cow for a family full of football 'bluebloods'.

I disagree. Obviously we agree that the "hottest" team will always top these popularity polls, the Bears always seem like the main favorite franchise of the city over all the years.

Consider this: if the Cubs won, how long would the party and subsequent hangover be? I would hazard a guess that if that happened, the Chicago River would be dyed Cubbie blue, the Art Institute lions would be replaced with statues of (St.)Louis of Pinella and even Daley would take seats behind the Cubbie dugout---and the party would never end

Rick, I here you and I are one in the same.

Rick, I here you and I are one in the same.

Not to correct an excellent individual but I think you HEAR him.

Not to correct but I think you actually REED him.

Hawkeye Vince,
I'm aware you corrected a winner. That is most impressive. I'm going to be running 27 laps around the school building today for my failure. Afterwards, I will beat the shit out of mental midgets with red dodgeballs. In the meantime, I give you the whistle. Prove the Hawkeyes can carry the load.