The Chicago Bears play the Green Bay Packers Saturday in the NFC wildcard playoffs.
In this city, a Bears v. Packers matchup is less a football game than a recurring test of faith. The air sharpens, old arguments resurface, and the color navy blue seems to deepen on storefronts and street corners. Rivalry week has a way of turning nostalgia into fuel.
And so CBS News Chicago went on a specific mission to find a Bears flag. But not just any Bears flag: the “Bear Down” flag, the one that feels inseparable from Soldier Field itself. The kind you see snapping in the lake wind, heavy with tradition, not mass-produced optimism…