Irish win against All-Blacks would be latest drama at Soldier Field

It sure seems like a good time for miracles in Chicago.

The Cubs’ bridging of a 108-year gap with baseball’s World Series on Wednesday night has been the obvious focal point for the city and the wider state of Illinois, but the Bears’ unlikely defeat of the hated Minnesota Vikings at Soldier Field last Monday evening was another left-field result few would have predicted.

Put simply, ‘Da Bears’ suck. A side with one of sport’s most storied histories, they are the only NFL team in the nation’s second-biggest market and yet you could build a fairly formidable case that, with their measly one Super Bowl title, they are quite possibly the greatest underachievers in modern US sports, both on and off the turf.