With the National Football League season on blurred hold, by virtue of the most recent court ruling permitting the possessors lockout and moderate efforts at mediation, the present is not predominantly interesting and the future too... well, it just isn’t immediately.

So our “View from the Moon” is taking this prospect to bring exceptional simplicity to the Chicago Bears’ past, with some “present” crinkled in. Rather than take on one more investigation of the year 2011 roster that essentially remains in a molten state awaiting yet unsure free agency, training camp and preseason, “View” will set up the franchise profundity chart position by position.

Particularly, who are the 3 finest Bears of all time at each of the twenty two positions?

Ed Brown

The plunge at the position after Nos. 1-2 is very steep. That might be a franchise dilemma. But that’s some other story.

• Jim McMahon

McMahon wasn’t the passer like Jay Cutler is, or perhaps even Rudy Bukich or Ed Brown. But shaky passes are not the point. Winning is, and McMahon did.

• Sid Luckman

There is one Bears quarterback in the Hall of Fame (other than Bobby Layne or a George Blanda, whose most prominent undertakings arrived after they left Bears uniform), and that is Luckman. In an epoch when the passing felonies were still in their decisive years, Luckman threw 7 TD passes and for 433 yards in one game.