30-Day Challenge: Who is your all-time favorite Bears offensive lineman?

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesMy Chicago Bears fandom really started consuming me in the early 1980s, which is also when I started to play organized football for the first time, and that’s also when my dreams of high stepping across the goal line died.

I was always a big kid, but in my youth I dreamed of running the ball and scoring touchdowns, and it wasn’t until I left the pickup games with friends that I truly realized I would never be the next Walter Payton.

With my future now clearly on the offensive line, I turned my attention to the tackles on the Bears, and it was big number 78 Keith Van Horne that caught my eye. It wasn’t his technique that lured me in, it was him rushing to…