It's 2007, I'm in a high rise on Michigan Avenue about to watch Chicago take on Indianapolis in Super Bowl XLI with 20 of the rowdiest Bears fans.
The night starts off with a bang. Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff, the one room apartment explodes with enjoyment. Everyone began screaming, jumping and dancing to the "Super Bowl Shuffle." Led by the owner of the place, people began smashing beer bottles and plates on the floor. It was completely out of control.
The night was all down hill from there. The Bears D and Rex Grossman made costly mistakes, and Chicago lost the Super Bowl 29-17. Everything went wrong, we even ran out of beer.
Since everyone at the party was illegal drinkers, there was limited ways to get beer. While we discussed how to get more, one Bears fan stood up and said he could steal beer from the Jewel on Wabash. So a couple of us made our way to Jewel not expecting him to try it, hoping to find another way to get our precious alcohol.
The whole time we told him it's a sketchy plan, but he assured us it would be fine. Before he went into the store, we asked him one more time "if he really wanted to do it." He put in a fat dip, said "I got this" and confidently walked into Jewel. He had no chance.
After a couple of agonizing minutes, we saw him come out of the store stumbling and fumbling with four cases underneath his arms. He was a hero. For only a few seconds though, right when he got outside a Jewel security guard grabbed him.
The drunk, depressed Bears fan was put in handcuffs and led into the security closet. The man tried to escape by spearing the guard, but he would later find out it's nearly impossible to spear someone at close range while handcuffed. The guard just laid on the Bears fan until help came.
The cops were called and he spent the rest of the Bears Super Bowl night in jail. The whole experience resulted in one Chicago loss, one noise complaint, which eventually became an eviction, and one misdemeanor battery conviction.
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