For so many years, many of us have pointed out examples of the NFL's bias against the Bears. From refs calling penalties against the Bears that were bogus. To the penalties committed by the opposition that the refs never called. And then they rob us of two 3rd round compensatory picks from the Ian Cunningham signing with Atlanta.

There is an article on SI com that gives some interesting data to back up our claims:

Link to article: Stunning NFL Penalty Data Suggests There is Bias Against the Bears

It starts off wth this paragraph and then continues to break down the statistics.

"The Chicago Bears have a league-worst -795 net penalty yardage gap since 2022. From missed Caleb Williams hits to the 'Bears Tax,' see the data that proves the NFL bias."

An excellent read during a time we are starving fr Bears' info:

Then you add the lack of compensation for the Cunningham stuff and the recent scheduling, it seems that Goodell doesn't care too much for the McCaskeys.

If you look at the bye weeks, the Bears have gotten shafted almost every year. They never get a favorable bye. Then when they had an international game, it was considered a home game, so they ended up with only 7 games at Soldier Field.

It seems that we finally have one benefit, the 3rd least amount of travel:

and if the Bears open the season in Seattle on Wednesday, they would have 3,432 miles already out of the way and have the least amount of travel for the remainder of the season by a huge margin. Panthers are the least with 8,740, but if the Bears got that 3400 out of the way before Carolina even played, the Bears would only have about 7,244 left (the least by 1500 miles).

Teams like SF and LAR will spend over 4 days worth of time on airplanes during the season.