George McCaskey cracks open the first of his three binders, compiled after trips to the Lake Forest College library and the bowels of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and buoyed by a lifetime of institutional knowledge. Bronko Nagurski is on the cover, wearing a 1936 white jersey with alternating blue and orange stripes on his shoulders and sleeves. He has navy pants and navy-and-orange striped socks.To get more news about
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Over the last 14 years, McCaskey, the Bears’ chairman, has compiled a history of the team’s uniforms in three-ring binders he keeps on his office shelf, feeding a passion that started when he worked in the team’s equipment room in high school. The black and white newspaper clippings and new photos of old jerseys trace one of the most consistent, recognized uniform sets in all of sports.
On the rare occasion the Bears make uniform changes, it’s never taken lightly. And it’s always done at the ownership level.
On Friday, the Bears unveiled orange jerseys, which will return after a seven-year hiatus, and began selling them to fans on their website. Except for a new manufacturer, Nike, they are almost identical to what the Bears wore from 2005 to ’09 and again in 2011: an orange Pantone 1655 jersey with the distinctive number font they’ve used since 1949. On the left sleeve, a tribute to George S. Halas sits over recognizable stripes that echo Nagurski’s.
The Bears will pair the orange jersey with white pants and their typical navy helmet and facemask twice this year — in Week 6 at Miami and in Week 11 against the Vikings at Soldier Field.They’ll also wear their “Monsters of the Midway” throwback jersey once this year. It will remain the same as in years past, though the Bears might scrap the accompanying gray facemasks.