The All-in-One Bears Fan Hub
THE COLD FRONT is an independent Chicago Bears fan hub — news, injuries, betting odds, game stats & schedule, roster, and practice intel in one place. Built for Midwest football energy (Soldier Field cold, lake wind, orange & blue grit) without the fluff. No accounts, no backend — it runs in your browser and degrades gracefully when the network goes whiteout. Unofficial. Not NFL- or Bears-affiliated.
City from the sand. Front from the lake.
Chicago skyline from the beach — the same lakefront that shapes every cold Sunday. Wikimedia CC; Cold Front marks only.
Built for Chicago cold
Night river, lake wind, stadium stone. Photography from Unsplash & Wikimedia Commons. Team identity is original Cold Front SVG art — never official NFL or Bears logos.
Photo credits: Unsplash (skyline, Cloud Gate / Bean dusk, Chicago Theatre, downtown night, Navy Pier, Lincoln Park night) · Wikimedia Commons (Soldier Field, Chicago River night, lakefront winter, CTA L, Buckingham Fountain, Marina City). Mobile loads lighter -sm webps via <picture>. Marks are original Cold Front SVGs — never NFL logos. See img/ATTRIBUTION.txt.
Built by
the human behind the snow@kshot9000
Developer, degen, and self-appointed weather forecaster for Uptown. Posts about the projects below, the chains they live on, and — on Sundays — whatever the front did to the scoreboard.
- 🧊 Theme: Midwest winter football — cold fronts, lake effect, crunchers.
- 📡 Data: ESPN league wire, Polymarket, Open-Meteo weather — all keyless, all in-browser.
- 🔌 Offline: every feed you've seen once caches to this device for the whiteouts.
- 🚫 Not affiliated with the NFL, the Chicago Bears, or any bookmaker. Fan-made, stats-checked, weather-obsessed.
Keep the lights on
crypto donations · same wallets as the other sitesHosting, data, and development cost real money — and in this economy, so does the coffee for the 6 a.m. practice watch. If the site saves you a tab or starts a bet-board argument, a little crypto goes a long way. These are the same public wallets from my other projects. Double-check before you send — crypto can't be un-sent.
Privacy
short versionThis is a static fan site — there are no accounts, no tracking profiles, and nothing you type here is sent anywhere except the provider you asked for (paste a data key and it goes only to that API; the rest stays in your browser's local storage on your device). When display ads are enabled, our ad partner (e.g. Google AdSense) may use cookies to serve and measure ads; you can opt out of personalized ads in your Google ad settings. Questions? Reach me at @kshot9000.
Other projects
from the same deskAll the socials
mine + the Bears'Optional data sources
BYO-key upgrades · stored only in this browserEverything above is keyless and works out of the box. For deeper stats, available injury reports, or a fully independent second wire, drop a free key into a box below. It lives in this browser's local storage only — it's never written to the site or shared, and it's sent only to that provider.
Extra stats + injury reports
When a key is set, the stats and injury panels switch to full-season player stats and available injury reports; coverage depends on the provider. Usage and coverage depend on your plan.
Full Vegas board
The odds page already asks for a key right where it's used (subject to your plan). It stays in this browser, same as everything else — no need to set it here.
A second, independent wire
When a key is set, standings, the roster, and the schedule can read a completely different provider if the league wire is ever unreachable. Different company, different CDN — the site keeps working either way.