Yes, the Detroit Lions are within the Chicago Bears’ division. Yes, the Bears play them twice a 12 months.
But we will’t assist however root for the Lions as they make their inconceivable means by the NFL playoff gauntlet and are one win away from their first-ever Super Bowl look.
Chicagoans can relate. Lions Nation is one fan base that has seen nearly nothing however failure within the practically six a long time that make up the Super Bowl period. One measly playoff win in all that point.
The Bears put their followers by a variety of disappointment on the sphere, verging on abject embarrassment typically. But we a minimum of can (and do) proceed to bask within the brutal majesty of the 1985-86 Bears. Lions followers have Barry Sanders highlights on YouTube, and that’s just about it.
Also, as fellow Upper Midwesterners, we must have one another’s backs, with the apparent exception of the Green Bay Packers, who’ve received fairly sufficient, thanks very a lot.
The Lions’ success this 12 months is type of a soccer model of when the Cubs lastly received all of it in 2016, some 108 years after final doing so. Watching Lions followers, younger and previous, have a good time the 2 playoff victories in their very own stadium reminded us a little bit of the multigenerational delirium that took maintain when that Cubs group broke by eventually.
It’s a beautiful factor to see individuals bond over one thing shared, a phenomenon sports activities at its greatest promotes extra typically than absolutely anything else on this fractious age.
So have your day, Detroit! Lots of us are having fun with seeing of us in our neighboring state expertise one thing for the primary time even when they’ve greater than a little bit grey of their hair.
If the Lions win all of it, we will likely be glad for you. But that pledge is sweet for this season solely.
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