Babe, wake up. It's time for another story about how the Chicago Bears fricking suck

The Chicago Bears missed out on a Hall of Fame QB because of a bug bite.

Here's the wild story ⬇️

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— Tyler Webb (@tylermwebb) March 4, 2024

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The Chicago Bears missed out on a Hall of Fame QB because of a bug bite.

Here's the wild story ⬇️

In 1998, Kurt Warner was playing in the Arena Football League for the Iowa Barnstormers.

He was having an incredible year:

∙ 4,149 yards

∙ 79 touchdowns

∙ 64.7% completion

So the Bears called and offered him a tryout that same week on a Friday.

But when Warner went to tell his fiancee, Brenda, she reminded him that they were getting married that Saturday.

So he called the team back and asked if they could reschedule his tryout for any other time.

They agreed and scheduled it for the following week.

But when he told his fiancee about it again, she reminded him that they were leaving for a week-long honeymoon in Jamaica right after their wedding

So Warner had to call the Bears back again and ask for the workout to be rescheduled for after the trip.

Luckily, the team allowed it and Kurt and Brenda went on their vacation.

But the night before they left to return home, Kurt was bitten by some sort of bug.

He says to this day he doesn't know what bit him.

But it caused his throwing elbow to swell up to the “size of a grapefruit.”

This meant that he had to call the Bears for a third time and explain why he couldn't do the tryout.

Expect this time, the team wasn't so understanding...

Kurt explained on an episode of

@PardonMyTake

that after this third call, the team hung up and never called back, and he never got the workout.

However, two weeks later he got a call from the St. Louis Rams...

Kurt worked out for them and ended up signing with the team ahead of the 1998 season.

And the next year he went from third-string QB to:

∙ Leauge MVP

∙ Super Bowl XXXIV Champion

∙ Super Bowl MVP

But the real irony is in his first full season with the Rams, he threw for:

∙ 4,353 yards

∙ 41 TDs

Both are things no Chicago Bear QB has done in the 100+ year history of the franchise.

I like to think of it as an inspiring story of God helping a talented QB not squander his career by having to play for the Bears.

To add insult to injury, here's the QB the Bears are expected to draft talking about how he idolizes Aaron Rodgers confirming Aaron Rodgers still owns them from beyond the grave