The Chicago Bears achieved some incredible feats in 2025. Beyond going from worst to first within the NFC North and securing their first winning record since 2018, they changed the culture of the team. The positive environment and atmosphere the Bears cultivated has spread beyond just the locker room and into the city of Chicago.
Bears fans have been looking for stability within the franchise for years. Now the team has an established head coach, a superstar quarterback, and foundational pieces that will set them up for success in the future. Despite their loss in the Divisional Round to the Los Angeles Rams, Bears fans have hope and are genuinely excited about the team moving forward. Before this season, their last playoff win was over a decade and a half ago, in 2010. Now a new standard has been set, and one the team will look to raise next year.
On the drive home, you’re thinking about it. On the drive home, you’re contemplating on you know, the game, you’re contemplating on you don’t know on who all is going to be here next year. All these different things,” Williams said to the media on Monday.
“Reflecting back on it, supremely grateful, supremely appreciative of everyone here, the organization, like I said last night, Chicago, the city, and its support and love for us.”
A reporter followed up by asking about what the season meant to him personally and how fans have embraced him as their quarterback.
The reporter asked, “It’s not hard to see the impact that this team had on the city, but for you specifically, what has it meant? Like last year, this year, I mean, you have fans, like doing the bear claw. There’s a matcha drink being sold at Soldier Field. There are people who are painting their nails now because you do it. Do you take a sense of pride with all of those things now and being able to be a figurehead for sports in this city, for fans to follow?”
