The Playoff Drought is Over for Chicago

Can you spot what didn’t exist when the Bears last had a playoff game?The Bears last competed in a playoff game on January 23, 2011.

To give some sense of how long ago that was, when the Bears lost the NFC Championship Game, the Marvel Cinematic Universe consisted of a pair of Iron Man movies and a version of the Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton in it. Chris Hemsworth’s biggest movie role to that date was arguably playing Jim Kirk’s dad in the Star Trek reboot.

Over on the sports side of things, the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Fierce Five were not yet a thing. Urban Meyer had just resigned from coaching at Florida, and Lance Armstrong was still two years away from admitting to doping. Joe…