The Chicago Bears have a mascot, and it’s a bear.

The bear has a name.

The name is Staley.

“The club was established (in 1919) by the A. E. Staley food starch company of Decatur, Illinois, as a company team.”

The first Staley, not the mascot, paid George Halas five thousand dollars to take the team off his hands.

Halas moved the team into Chicago and called them the Bears because the city already had a sports team called … the Cubs.

In a couple weeks we’ll be going back there.