Caleb Williams, "Da Bears"; and a City with Broad Shoulders & Big Dreams

Who's winning the Super Bowl this season?

All together now: "Da Bears".

Truly, it never gets old.

The city is gaga over the franchise's new rookie QB from USC: Caleb Williams.

We're 3-0, in the preseason, and all you see when you walk down Michigan Avenue these days are Brian Urlacher, Dan Hampton and Willie Gault jerseys as far as the eye can see.

These games don't matter but that hasn't stopped the whole city from salivating over them.

Everyone in Chicago is a Bears fan. In the same way that everyone in Chicago is a Democrat. It's not that we don't have Republicans - or Green Bay Packer fans, for instance - it's just that it's commonly known that if that's your preference - well, you know, don't make too much of a ruckus if you don't want the tree in your front yard to get tee-peed during football or election season. We keep winning meaningless preseason games by wide margins and yet everyone can't stop talking about how significant this is. We're like a wounded dog, as Coach used to say. You'll have to forgive us.

Cubs - White Sox? Splits the city. Blackhawks - Bulls? Depends on your sport. Chicago Fire? Not a soccer town.

Bears? 1000% unanimous Cook County support.

The Monsters of the Midway historically are great defensively. They are also typically horrendous with the ball. We went to the Super Bowl once with a quarterback who - I kid you not - couldn't palm the ball. Friends; I can palm the ball. And I got cut my sophomore year. These are pros we pay to play the most important position in all of sports. And all of them since Sid Luckman - during the Hoover administration, I think it was - have been awful.

McMahon, Kramer, Trubisky? Not ever to be enshrined in Canton.

But now there is Caleb. We have one spot left on the Mount Rushmore of Chicago greats - MJ, Sweetness, Banks - and no pressure, Caleb. But why don't you be a good kid and go win us now about six Super Bowl titles in the next decade or so. Is that too much to ask??