The Bears held an awkward prayer before asking the public to help fund their $4.6 billion new stadium

The Bears aren’t even pretending to respect their fans.

It is not enough that the Chicago Bears are asking the public for roughly $2.3 billion for a new stadium on the Chicago lakefront. They also have to be impossibly brazen and blatantly disrespectful about it, too.

On Wednesday, before they officially requested that Chicago taxpayers foot half the bill on their giant unnecessary toy in a press conference, the Bears began the session with an awkward prayer in a video from Fox Chicago posted by a Twitter user.

Yes, that is not a parody in the least. Yes, that actually happened. Yes, this is real life. Yes, the Bears clearly think extremely little of their fans if they’re pulling shameless stunts like this:

Let us pray. pic.twitter.com/LWEEecWOHE

— ✶ ???????????????????? ✶ (@_MarcusD3_) April 24, 2024

I was already beside myself that the Bears were going to ask Chicago taxpayers to give them a lot of money they don’t have themselves. But to use religion in any context to try and use regular people as a piggy bank is beyond the pale. It is a new low I did not see coming but probably should’ve expected.

Owner George McCaskey should be thoroughly embarrassed by this display.

Featured image courtesy of Fox Chicago.