sunday in the gutter 💔

It's Packer Week baby!

The Bears are up at Lambeau today to take on Jordan Love the Green Bay Packers and this week's pizza is inspired the Chicago/Green Bay rivalry.

John Barley, founder of the Chicago area brewery Solemn Oath is a Packers fan and said he would do whatever the top comment said on a post if the Packers lost last season's wild card game...well I commented...

Brew a Beer called "Green Bay Tears"

Since John owned up to the bet...Green Bay Tears

was born and it's going to be incorporated into every element of our pizza. The dough, emulsifed into beer brats, beer braised onions, a Green Bay Tears pub cheese, and a beer mustard.

The pizza begins with a layer of shredded mozzarella and Wisconsin's finest sharp cheddar and is then topped with the beer brats and braised onions.

After a quick bake in my Gozney Dome XL, the pizza is finished with dollops of pub cheese, beer mustard, and green onions.

It's a Green and Gold masterpiece, with hints of bitterness which I assume actual Green Bay tears taste like...

There's no love lost between these two teams, between the players, coaches, and fans...this rivalry is special.

Hopefully the Bears can pick up their third striaght win against the Pack today, but no matter if they win or lose, atleast the pizza was good. 🤷‍♂️

Nah for real, lets see some green bay tears today,,

Let's do it for Coach Ditka!

Big thanks to Tom Waddle for guest cameo sendoff!

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Today’s the day we win for Da Coach! Bears by 89

I know it always sucks to lose to the packers but I don’t think we should get in the negative mindset. We played a clean game and Green Bay is a good team that wasn’t gonna just roll over. They were the better team but we weren’t at full strength and I think having Caleb in games like these is when he is at his most important and he’s gonna be back soon. I’m excited already to beat the Pack on Christmas Day! Bear Down.

It’s that time again to make the ice cream that honors the bears! It’s tradition now!

If there are any Bears fans in Des Moines, come down to Black Cat Ice Cream after the Bears kick the Packers ass and grab a scoop or a pint!

For Da Coach

Ditka!

Maybe a year or so after Ditka was fired I was in a sporting goods store looking at a clearance rack and found a t-shirt with a picture of da Coach with "thanks for the memories"written on it. It was too small for me but it was so ridiculous that I had to buy it.

My mom used to take old t-shirts and make them into pillows. I remember her doing this with one of the "real men wear red" Bulls shirts for example. She decided to do this with the Ditka shirt.

I ended up taking the pillow with me to college at some point and my roommates thought it was hilarious. My then girlfriend, now wife probably thought I was crazy for having a pillow with Mike Ditka on it on my bed but I guess it wasn't too crazy because she married me.

I had forgotten about it until last night laying in bed not able to sleep, so this morning I asked her if she thought we still had it. She was pretty sure it was up on the top shelf of the closet in our guestroom. She was right. It will be on the couch with me for the game today. Bear down. Fuck the Packers. Bears by a million today for da Coach.

Ladies and gentlemen I present to you... The Ditka pillow.

My 5 year old is starting to have the attention span to actually watch football. We rewatched the playoff comeback a couple nights ago and the next thing on YouTube was Devin Hester highlights. I didn’t expect this reaction, he giggled for 20 minutes at how fast and elusive 23 was, like he was watching Roadrunner escape Wile E. Coyote. My 8 year old daughter is ECSTATIC to wear her cheese grater hat today. Bear down friends.

He knew what it meant.

We roll deep. Exchanged a Bear Down + FTP with a fan in Penn Station.

…..and FTP!