Sun-Times Media Sun-Times Media The Bears lost to the Packers on Sunday but made it into the playoffs anyway, so their suffering continues. The season started so well, if I recall, base on snippets overheard Monday mornings on WBBM radio news. Not that I watched a single second of a single game. But that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in the team. I’ve been reading about how, 100 years ago this October, the A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company of Decatur, producers of starch, sent their factory team, the Staleys, north, along with its young coach, George Halas, to become the Chicago Bears.