I have heard the quote, “the year that was” referring to the 1985 Chicago Bears. 

As we tune into Super Bowl XLII, on Bears fans mind is more recently Super Bowl XLI, where Chicago fell apart and quickly allowed one of the most glorious plays (IMO) to go down in history without a win to back it up.

Even with subzero temperatures and frigid winds, Devin Hester continued to keep fans in awe and visiting teams on the their feet as the ball flew threw the windy city air. 

As promised at the beginning of this drawing, I release my Super Bowl Day Drawing of Devin Hester. 

February 2007, Chicago fan’s flew flags, and prepared for a long anticpated Superbowl.   Party preparations, excitement was in the air like the blizzard of 1967 &1979. 

The city stopped during those snow storms. Last year, Bears Fan’s stopped at any chance they could to discuss the upcoming game,  all over the city,  Monster’s of the Midway.  The Art Institute Lion’s doned the Chicago Bears Helmet’s. 

92 yards for a touchdown at Superbowl XLI, we sat with racing hearts and sweaty palms, with anticipation of a Superbowl celebration.  Well, we all know how it ended, and as the Superbowl weekend kicks into gear, I decided to draw a tribute to a player that has held his own, and held the ball for:  

• Most touchdown returns in a season - (6) (2006, 2007)
• Most touchdowns kick and punt returns in a season - (6) (2007)
• Most touchdown returns as a rookie (6) - (2006)
• Most touchdown returns in one game (2)** - Against St. Louis on 12/11/2006 and Denver Broncos on 11/25/07

As the weekend get’s underway, this sketch, done with a General’s Woodless Graphite HB, merging three of Devin’s famous poses into one 18 x 18 sketch, it will be a Bear’s Superbowl at heart!

Stay tuned for the finish product!

As I sit and watch the Chicago Bears - I ponder the question, how long will it take for the Chicago Bears to trade him? Would it surprise anyone? Will they see dollar signs and think he is trading material?

I certainly hope not, but it wouldn’t surprise me!

This piece was done on a vintage window, I sprayed the front with frost and sketched with white and black charcoal pencils the Chicago Bears Logo - for my brother in law.

I also want to thank Koz for recently donating several autographed photo’s of the Chicago Bears players for our 15th annual Christmas party - due to weather conditions - the attendance was down this year, but I was able to raise $200.00 and donated it to The Assisi Foundation in Crystal Lake, Illinois.  I was amazed at the phone calls I made to organizations, I wanted to help out kids that were not going to have any gifts under the tree, and never got any calls back.  Thanks for your concern - so the money went to an organization that needed and appreciated it!

We adopted our two cat’s Carly and Stanley from Assisi over the last two years, and I would recommend them highly.  The Cat thats afraid of Scissors!