If choosing from a loaded ILB group in our Team for the Ages contest wasn't hard enough, try being a lifelong Chicago-area native and not simply rolling with three Bears and calling it a day. After all, few would argue, as no NFL franchise comes close to matching Chicago's storied LB tradition.
Nevertheless, partially to avoid the homer comments, but mostly to make this a more fun and objective test, I chose just one Bear — Dick Butkus (who else?) — alongside Ray Lewis and Jack Lambert.
Lambert was the nearly decade-long defensive captain of the "Steel Curtain.