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Then one foggy Christmas Eve, a Soldier Field camera operator panned the crowd of the Bears-Cardinals game looking for cheering fans to put on the Soldier Field scoreboard. The camera settled on fans holding signs in the first quarter Sunday; before it could turn away, a fan held up a sign with three words: “Eberflus gets coal.”
The Bears may soon decide that Eberflus gets on the first thing smoking out of town. Sunday, though, his claim that the Bears have momentum held serve — barely.