No particular game is my “first memory,” in that I was always aware of being a Bears fan, even though I didn’t know what was happening, but the Sunday tradition of going to Whitey’s in the DC area starting in second grade was something I looked forward to each week. All our games blend together in my memories of going there, tbh. While we did watch our games at Atlanta and Washington in person, which remain my only NFL games I’ve personally attended, it wasn’t until that playoff loss to the Eagles in the '01 season that a solid memory comes to mind, since my dad had promised to take me to see us play Green Bay if we’d’ve won, that really cements itself as my first Bears memory, to the extent that when we played the Eagles in the playoffs after the 2018 season, my gut told me what the result would be…

Our game in Washington in '01 is when I learned that scoring a safety is a thing, since seeing a five on the scoreboard led me to ask my dad how that’s possible