Chicago has always been a great sports town. From the Cubs and White Sox World Series teams of the early 1900s to the great Bears teams of the ’80s, the Bulls dynasty in the ’90s and the Blackhawks six Stanley Cup champions, Chicago sports fans have always had a team and legendary players to cheer for.
But Chicagoans also have skin as thick as a deep dish pizza, enduring years of futility in most of the major sports.
The 1970s, ’80s and ’90s were lean years for Chicago baseball, with the Cubs and White Sox producing few winners. The Bears, meanwhile, stumbled through the ’60s and ’70s until producing a Super Bowl winner and perennial contenders in the 1980s. The Bulls were good in the ’70s, but struggled in the ’80s before the arrival of a North Carolina kid named
