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With a smile across his face, new Bears coach Ben Johnson said Friday he’s heard over the past 24 hours that the Pope Leo XIV might be a Bears fan.
“I’ve heard rumblings,” he said after Friday’s rookie minicamp, his first as Bears head coach. “But that hasn’t been discussed too much first-hand.”
Robert Francis Prevost, the Cardinal who became Pope on Thursday, was born in Dalton and is an avowed White Sox fan. He and friend Ed Schmit even attended a White Sox World Series game in 2005, where the future Pope was captured wearing a pinstriped jersey and checking his cell phone.