At least the northwest portion of Indiana, closer to Chicago: N. Ind. town divides Colts, Bears fans Associated Press REMINGTON, Ind. -- As the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears draw closer to a possible Interstate 65 Super Bowl matchup, this small Jasper County town that lies midway between Soldier Field and the RCA Dome marks a dividing line of sorts in pro football loyalties. "I think everyone would pretty much want to see the both of them in the Super Bowl against each other," said Remington Councilman Brian Melchi. Jasper County lies in the Central time zone in large part due to its proximity to Chicago, but many clocks in Remington, where the tallest buildings are grain elevators, are set to Eastern time to stay in step with the Hoosier capital, Melchi said. One's as likely to see sports fans decked out in Bears gear, said Melchi, himself a Colts a fan. "I would guess we're pretty evenly split," he said. Directly to the north, the Colts' marketing department concedes Lake and Porter counties to the Bears, but that's as far as it's willing to go. The Colts' network of radio affiliates includes stations in the surrounding cities of Michigan City, South Bend and Monticello and even crosses the state line at Danville, Ill. The Colts have fewer than 100 season ticketholders in Lake and Porter counties, the Post-Tribune of Merrillville reported. National Football League teams observe a strict non-compete pact with neighboring clubs, said Colts spokesman Craig Kelley. "It's just not something we do," Kelly said. "Lake and Porter County is the Bears' market." Even in Jasper County, one need not venture far to reach the Bears' sphere of influence. In the neighboring city of Rennselaer, a late season Monday night game between the Colts and Cincinnati Bengals drew just a handful of fans to Rico's Bar & Grill, said owner Ron Klauer. "When the Bears are on Monday night (the previous week), we were packed," Klauer said. St. Joseph's College in Rennselaer hosted Bears' summer training camps for 35 years until 1975. Vinnie Urbano, 27, wasn't even born when the Bears left Rennselaer, but he remembers the Colts' arrival in Indianapolis in 1984, a year before the Bears' last Super Bowl run. "It's getting more balanced with Colts and Bears fans, though," Urbano said. "The Bears haven't been good for a few years, until now, and the Colts have been winning. "My daughter is 3 months old, and she'll be welcome to choose her own way," he said. "But she'll be sitting on her dad's lap when the Bears are on."
Well it's been a few years but now a Super Bowl I can be interested in instead of if the beer is going to run out or the chip dip taste stale!
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