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Bears fans’ vitriol over Justin Fields trade reveals an unusual divisiveness

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We the people

Usually when something, anything, starts with those sacred words anything from constitutional unity to insurrections follow. And in this intensely-debated, emotionally-charged case of the Bears’ divorce with Justin Fields the ugly side of Chicago amplified itself. We them people.

Here we are a week in the aftermath of the trade — and what have we learned? Not about the trade, not about the Bears, not about the Steelers, not about the NFL or the landscape they created league-wide that devalued non-elite quarterbacks to running backs status, but about we: Chicago.