Here’s a little bit of Bears trivia for you: Jim McMahon, the quarterback of the legendary 1985 Bears, won a second Super Bowl with the team’s No. 1 rival, the Green Bay Packers. Further, when the Pack made their championship trip to the White House in 1997, McMahon didn’t wear green and gold. He went in his Bears jersey.
It sounds like a crazy move considering the historic rivalry between the two franchises, but McMahon offered up a simple explanation for the decision to wear orange and blue on the Packers’ visit, on a recent episode of “Good Morning Football.