As the year concludes, a glance at Chicago sports in 2019 is a reasonably depressing look. The only postseason game for any of the big-league teams ended with a missed field goal in January. None of the five big league sides are playoff teams as I write this. In fact:
With the Bears' loss Sunday, it's now official: Chicago's five major professional teams were shut out of the playoffs in 2019, the first time in 15 years.
This is just the fourth time since 1966 that Chicago's teams missed the postseason in the same year.