An “alternate” logo, used from 1963 until 1992, of one of the oldest franchises in the National Football League, the Chicago Bears. Some have said the Bear resembles former Bear Hall of Fame tight end and coach Mike Ditka. The team was founded and owned by George “Papa Bear” Halas, who also was a one of the NFL’s founding fathers, a group of men who started the league in a showroom of a Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio. The club was originally located in Decatur, Illinois and was known as the Decatur Staleys, but Halas, in 1922, moved them to Chicago and renamed them the Bears, as a tribute to baseball’s Chicago Cubs, who permitted the Bears to play their home games at Wrigley Field.