\u2014 Jack (@_TheDonKeedic_) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n CHICAGO HAS A POPE BEFORE HAVING A QUARTERBACK THROW FOR 4 THOUSAND + YARDS.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc80<\/p>\n (h\/t@AnnieAgar) pic.twitter.com\/6Ne9Hzw7V2<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 MLFootball (@_MLFootball) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Bears offseason moves:<\/p>\n \u2013 overhaul interior o-line \u2014 carl (@barstoolcarl) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n The pageantry of the church and the idea of a man who acts as a voice for God, Nackers says, combine for fertile humorous ground no matter the pontiff. Having him hail from the U.S., though, and a city as distinct as Chicago, opens up a whole new world of funny.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just kind of ripe for humor,\u201d Nackers says.<\/p>\n \u201cDA POPE!\u201d blared the front of the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, one of countless spins on the city\u2019s unique accent, immortalized in \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d sketches. No matter how Pope Leo XIV actually appears, in this realm of humor, he\u2019s a mustachioed everyman who swaps his Ts for Ds and his zucchetto for a Bears cap.<\/p>\n With the Second City in the spotlight, more Chicago tropes were trotted out than even the famed namesake improv troupe could dream up. The popemobile traded for the Dodge Monaco made famous in \u201cThe Blues Brothers\u201d? Check. Twists on city-set shows and movies like \u201cChicago Hope,\u201d er, \u201cChicago Pope\u201d? Yup. Dreams of Portillo\u2019s Italian beef sandwiches and the Chicago liqueur Mal\u00f6rt taking the place of the bread and wine of communion? Yes, chef. Over and over again.<\/p>\n New Pope Leo XIV from Chicago makes his Vatican entrance to the Chicago Bulls 98 lineup introduction video pic.twitter.com\/puLzbo5yVl<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 THE\u2122 Jessi Davin (@jessithebuckeye) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n In sports-loving Chicago, city teams were spun in a swell of papal humor. Initial belief that the pope\u2019s baseball loyalties were with the Cubs led content creator Caitlin Hendricks to muse that Leo ironically hates the Cardinals. As it turns out, though, it appears the man in white roots for the White Sox.<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t stop those in Wrigleyville from eating up pope memes and feeling hometown pride. At the Sports World shop, one woman came in asking for a Cubs jersey with Pope Leo XIV\u2019s name splayed across the back. Down the street at Wrigleyville Sports, Chad Grant said he wouldn\u2019t hate Leo for rooting for the Sox, but that \u201cI just feel bad, because he\u2019s been used to losing for a little while.\u201d<\/p>\n Late-night hosts, too, had a ball with an American\u2019s ascension.<\/p>\n Jimmy Fallon mused of \u201cdeep-dish communion wafers\u201d from a pope known as \u201cBobby Bratwurst.\u201d Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic who performs in a studio with nearly as much stained glass to rival St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, offered patriotic \u201cPope-S-A\u201d chants and mentions of \u201cda prayers\u201d in thick Chicago tongue.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m actually surprised by how excited I am,\u201d Jimmy Kimmel said in his first monologue after the news. \u201cAn American who grew up here, watched all the shows we watched, rooted for teams, is now in Rome at the head of the church \u2026 this must have been what it felt like when they opened the first Olive Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 competition at skill positions
\u2013 new head coach
\u2013 install Bears fan in the Vatican as new Pope
\u2013 EDGE<\/p>\n
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