Ask any Chicago Bears fan their opinion of the upper management of this franchise and safe to say the language would get pretty crude and colorful in a hurry. The McCaskey family, along with their perceived lapdog in team president Ted Phillips have become the central villains for why this franchise hasn’t been able to win a Super Bowl going on 32 years now. Meanwhile they’ve had to watch the Patriots win five just since 2001.
That’s not right, and yet there is nothing anybody can do. It’s a helpless feeling. George McCaskey has gone on record stating he has zero plans to sell the team. Now, in the future or ever if he can help it. Yet in the face of this growing resentment from fans, not to mention plummeting attendance, the Bears chose to do something incredible.
Despite a growing number of empty seats late in 2016, #Bears raising season-ticket prices an average of 2.6%. First increase since 2014.
— Adam Hoge (@AdamHoge) February 8, 2017
Despite coming off a 3-13 season, the worst the Bears have ever had in a 16-game schedule, they somehow convinced themselves raising ticket prices was a good idea. As if angering fans even more sounded smart. Then again, one might want to take a look at the deeper implications of what that could mean.
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