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Bears fans remember the heartbreakersCNNSI.com looked at a few of the transactions that made Bears fans shout, "Say It Ain't So." Then we opened the mailbag and let users vent on those and other dirty deals from over the years. Here is a sampling of your reactions:
Jason Elin, Clarksville, Tenn.
You forgot about when they fired Ditka. He was the Chicago Bears, the last direct link to Poppa Bear.
The year that the Bears traded for Mirer was also the year that a certain free agent quarterback from San Francisco was available by the name of Elvis Grbac. If I can remember, he visited Chicago and gave every indication that he wanted to play for the Bears. So let's say the Bears don't make the trade and sign Grbac does he turn them into a winner by himself. No, he needs some help maybe a tight end. If you look back at the draft that year you will see that the Chiefs drafted an end by the name of Tony Gonzalez. Let's now flash forward to the present. Couldn't the Bears have used Grbac and Gonzalez? Enough said.
Hey! Bobby Douglass was fun to watch (if not pretty painful most of the time) running for his life every week. You left out the "best" part of the '69 draft debacle. After the Bears lost the coin flip and ended up with the No. 2 pick, they traded it to the Packers (!) for a washed up running back named Elijah Pitts, adding stupidity to bad luck.
The day I saw my hero, Jim McMahon, in a San Diego uniform I felt sick and wanted to cry.
My saddest day as a Bear fan would have to be the day we lost Walter Payton, followed closely by the loss of Gayle Sayers due to injury. For stunning front office betrayal however, the day I learned the Bears drafted Cade McNown over Daunte Culpepper is hands down the most gut wrenching event of my life as a fan.
It makes me want to ask the McCaskey family to sell me the team. I know life is not fair, but this is beyond what anyone should have to endure. It's just not right. Should I end up in Hell in the next life I know that Satan will make me watch Viking highlights for eternity.
As strange at it sounds,I believe it was 1987 or 1988 when the Bears let Wilbur Marshall go to the Redskins. It was the beginning of the end for the Bears Dynasty that never was.
While the whole country may not be familiar with this I have to mention it. I am a huge Bears fan. Every Sunday I turn the tv down and my home team radio announcers up. We used to enjoy the best play by play man in the country in Wayne Larivee. Last season Wayne left town. Of all the places to go he chose Green Bay, our most hated rival. To this day that hurts me.
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