Clearly, that’s the reason the Bears will wear these 1940’s era jerseys on Sept. 27 vs. the Packers and Nov. 14 vs. the Vikings:
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The Deep Dish is all for history but… um, well, those aren’t great. Strange looking numbers that look like they were cut from orange construction paper by an 8-year-old.
↵Naturally, these exist because the Bears want you to buy one; they don’t appear to be for sale yet in the online store.
↵The Bears also announced that they will wear their white road jerseys for the home opener on Sunday.
↵↵UPDATE: via tweet from the Tribune's Brad Biggs, we learn the throwbacks will be on sale -- later this month:
↵↵Yes, starting Sept. 27 thru the team. That is why they wear em. RT @mattbud @BradBiggs will those throwback #Bears jerseys be sold?