Ever heard of a Brewer/Bear fan?

[Dnye23]

There is a lot of Brewer/Bear fans in Racine and Kenosha. Baseball wise it's pretty split but I think there are more bears fan than packers fans.

[MJLiverock]

I have a friend from Iowa who is a Brewer/Bear fan. He lived in Milwaukee for a while, but hated the Cubs because so many of his friends back home were Cub fans who annoyed him. He is a hard core sports guy (I believe he has every Iowa football game on VHS and DVD from the last 15 years.) and can't stand the so called fans who can't name players on the team or have no clue about their abilites so he found himself rooting against the Cubs growing up.

 

Of course his wife is a huge Packer/Cub fan, she is also a sports nut and her dad has Packer season tickets and drives from Iowa to GB for every home game. To top it off while she was in grad school at Marquette she worked for the Brewers front office and her sister worked for ESPN then the Big 10 Network.

 

It is always fun to have sports discussions with them because I side with him on baseball, her on NFL and neither on college football as both are Iowa fans.

[The Mexican Weez]

I grew up in Milwaukee during the 80's when the Bears were good. It was tough having kids in my class root for the bears simply because they weren't losers like the Packers. I'd say the split was 60/40 (packers/bears. I stuck with the Pack because I was a big fan of the Bucks (remember when they were consistently good?) and Brewers and wanted to keep my allegiances to a fellow Wisconsin team. It wasn't until the '89 season that I fully embraced the Packers with Sharpe, the Majik man, and of course the instant replay game. Also I think that year my science lab partner was the niece of Steve Grogan and we gave her grief after the Pats lost a game that would have put us in the playoffs. My memory is fuzzy about that.

[CheezWizHed]

I work with a Bears/Brewer fan. He grew up in Platteville watching Payton and the rest at TC. But otherwise cheers for WI sports.