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CHICAGO -- The bar is called Bull & Bear. It's a sports hangout on Wells Street, hard by the rumbling and annoyingly archaic 'L' tracks, and the name pays a double tribute to traders in the financial district and what once were the city's two proudest sports teams. It would be a natural place for a Bears communal on a Sunday afternoon and a Bulls party on any winter's night.
If only the locals cared to watch, that is.
In a town that has depended on football and basketball to unite the fans after two blood-dueling baseball teams divide them every summer, the Bears and Bulls have become sources of embarrassment and pain. They are woefully removed from glory days in which both franchises produced teams ranked among the most prestigious and entertaining in the history of sports. Remember the Jordan Era? It was wrecking-balled prematurely 11 years ago by Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who longed to create his own dynasty but only gagged away all momentum created by the greatest resource known to the NBA -- Michael Jeffrey Jordan and his six championship trophies -- while winning exactly one postseason series since. And remember the 1985 Bears? They devoured, shuffled and drank their way to one of the most dominant NFL seasons ever, a slaughter accompanied by their passion for partying, mischief and self-promotion. Chicago was blessed to have both reigns of terror and fun.
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