Name: Patrick Scales
Position: Long Snapper
Number: 48
Age: 33
Time with Bears: 7th Season
The Past:
“If you’re going to make a team, and you’re going to give it a shot, you’ve got to go balls to the wall.”
June 20, 2014. Chicago Bears fans, hardened from the constant departures of roster mainstays, such as “Spice” Adams and Brad Maynard, and (forced) retirements of Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs, watched as yet another fan-favorite said goodbye to Halas Hall.
Patrick Mannelly, the Bears’ long-snapper since 1998, was retiring from the league.