Meet Don Wachter, the Bears superfan who has a shot at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
CHICAGO - The turning point in Don Wachter's Bears fandom came during a home game in 1996.
"I saw a guy had a whole bearskin rug. He had it over his head and draped over his back," said Wachter, 56. "It kind of gave me an idea. Can I get one of those heads from a bearskin rug and actually wear it?"
Wachter called taxidermy shops and found a bearskin with a good price - around $300, as he recalls - in Palatine. He intended to cut the head from the body and strap the head to his.
"I was too embarrassed to tell what I was going to
