The number 31 may seem so benign to most people. In science it represents the atomic number of gallium, a chemical used in our everyday electronics. It’s how many days lay within seven of the 12 months during a given year. Don’t forget it is also the number of flavors in Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Fun right? Not for Chicago Bears fans, who know that it has now been 31-straight years they’ve had to watch another team win the Super Bowl.
Tom Brady has five times the number of rings as any Bears player in existence since the game became a thing back in 1966. It just doesn’t seem fair, and has many wondering just what exactly this franchise has done wrong. Oh there are plenty of theories and opinions on that. Plenty of them are certain to include colorful language too.
In truth the best thing to do is these situation is stick to the facts. Otherwise the arguments will degenerate into competitions of philosophy, which often get ugly in addition to going nowhere. So Bears fans will be interested (and probably not surprised) to find out where the source of their unending pain in playoff failures comes from.
