Chicago Bears: These quarterbacks have made us who we are

You’ll have to excuse my admission of Mike Hohensee, and I’m only even admitting I did that so I can write, “Mike Hohensee.” If you can identify him, then you need to make some changes in your life.

Anyway, Jim Harbaugh was a starter at Michigan, and most everyone I knew was a Bears and Michigan fan at the same time because that’s how it worked around here. Or Notre Dame, but those are clearly crazy people. As a kid you didn’t pay much attention to the fact that Harbaugh was running Bo Schembechler’s offense in Ann Arbor, which was a half-step ahead of whatever Red Grange ran at Illinois.

So it didn’t exactly prepare him for the pros. Luckily, Ditka didn’t run anything much more advanced, but Harbaugh couldn’t even manage that. When the most famous thing you did was throw an interception that caused your juvenile coach to air you out in front of millions, that’s not where you want to be. I couldn’t even find a picture of Harbaugh in a Bears uniform, and I’m assuming he’s such a lunatic he’s had them all wiped from the internet. Do you doubt he would?

And yet he was another one who looked like nothing more than a loiterer the Bears threw a jersey on who then went on to be pretty good for other teams. Remember what I said about that fog that only affects quarterbacks here? At this point in history we all thought it was real.