{"id":412622,"date":"2023-02-13T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=412622"},"modified":"2023-02-14T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:38:31","slug":"our-favorite-chicago-sports-bromances-throughout-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/our-favorite-chicago-sports-bromances-throughout-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Chicago Sports Bromances Throughout the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Love is in the air! That\u2019s right, Chicago sports fans, today is Valentine\u2019s day and here at UrbanMatter Chicago we love celebrating love. If you\u2019re spending time with a special someone this year then hopefully you\u2019ve figured out a gift by now and made reservations for date night. But if not, don\u2019t sweat it, because we\u2019ve got you covered with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/the-fool-proof-valentines-day-gift-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">our fool-proof Valentine\u2019s day gift guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/valentines-day-in-chicago-17-date-ideas-to-choose-from\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">list of 17 fun date ideas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to get you back on track.You can thank us later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For those of you who woke up a bit more prepared today &#8211; let\u2019s kickoff V-day 2023 with some of our favorite Chicago sports bromances of all time!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>4 Chicago Sports Bromances We LOVE<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thx man, seriously though what&#39;s with the no-follow <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/odMLlU0XWI\">https:\/\/t.co\/odMLlU0XWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Toews (@JonathanToews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanToews\/status\/727880388324950016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kane and Toews<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If this Chicago sports bromance was a person, it\u2019d be old enough to drive. We\u2019re starting off our list with one of the strongest sports bromances in history: Patrick Kane and Johnathan Toews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This bromance started way back in the year 2007 when Kane was drafted to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?s=chicago+blackhawks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a year after Toews was selected. Since then, the duo has gone on to win three Stanley Cup championships and five times the amount of NHL All-Star appearances combined. While their bromance started in the late 2000\u2019s, it would take another ten years for the two to follow each other on Twitter (see above).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just goes to show that every couple has their own unique love story.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s a night of crying and pouring my feelings into ice cream now that Bryzzo is over \ud83d\ude22. JK congrats u 2 lovebirds\ud83d\udc91 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1dSo4JpLqf\">https:\/\/t.co\/1dSo4JpLqf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony Rizzo (@ARizzo44) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARizzo44\/status\/682042105028427777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryant and Rizzo<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This next Chicago sports bromance is &#8211; or was &#8211; so official that it had its own cute pet name. Just like Bennifer and Brangelina, Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo formed their own super-sport couple in Bryzzo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Kane and Toews, the Bryzzo couple also won a championship together in the historic 106-year World Series drought winning season of 2015-2016. But for Bryzzo, things got even more serious when the two hooked up for their own Bryzzo ad campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All good things gotta come to an end, and prior to both players being traded from the Cubs in 2021, the couple seemed to fizzle out after Bryant announced his engagement towards the end of 2015. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ck6eueVvBw7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Chicago Bears (@chicagobears)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kmet and Graham<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nothing appeared to be tighter than the love these two Chicago Bears tight ends had for each other just a few years ago. They may not have their own pet name, but for Cole Kmet and Jimmy Graham the bromance was real in the tight end room.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/bromance-alert-jimmy-graham-cole-191756059.html?src=rss\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an interview on NBC Sports Chicago\u2019s Countdown to Kickoff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, both players had nothing but positive things to say about one another and the veteran Graham said that he\u2019d always be a mentor for the young Kmet. 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