The only place to see the Bears’ starters play a full game this preseason was on Field 3 behind Halas Hall.
That’s where, on Wednesday night — on just more than 24 hours’ notice — the Bears created their own game.
They rented stadium lights, powered by generators, for when the sun went down beyond the forest that borders two of the field’s four sides.
Players ran onto the field as if they were shot out of the tunnel. Their DJ turned the volume knob to 11 and played crowd noise and familiar Soldier Field sounds from game day.