Order by the year each player joined the Chicago Bears. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Bears players make up the deck, each one placed by the year he joined Chicago. Under the name you'll see a position like DE or LB. One player is down at the start with his year shown. Draw a card and choose a gap for it. A correct choice shows the year; a wrong one costs one of three lives, though the card still goes where it truly belongs.
A founding franchise of the league, Chicago gives this deck a long reach, back to the era of leather helmets. Its identity is defense, and the cards show it: defensive ends and the various linebacker spots add up to a big share, even if receivers are the single most common label. The famous defenses are easy to recall, but the stretches between them blur. Quarterbacks and receivers from the lean years are the cards most likely to trip you.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.