Bears Fan Turns Disdain For Green Bay Into A Successful Business
(CBS) -- For Idaho resident Jeran Dahlquist, being a Bears fan has also always meant hating the Packers.
"The second best thing to being a Bears fan is always hating on the Packers."
So Dahlquist got to thinking about Green Bay's iconic cheesehead.
"We make fun of it, it's ridiculous but it's a cool iconic thing that they have for their team."
So he created his own anti-Packer head gear.
"I ended up making the first Graterhead out of foam poster board, silver contact paper, fake fingernails to make the scoops on the top." said Dahlquist.
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His life changed at a Monday Night Football game last year when the Packers played the Bears at Lambeau Field.
"We basically blew our entire money that were set aside for marketing on the tickets to that game."
Dahlquist and his business partners decided that game they'd debut their latest invention and it paid off. The Cheese-hating head gear made it onto the big screen and soon, every Packer-hating fan had to have one.
"We had our phones set to notify us every time we got a sale, and it didn't stop all night. We were backed ordered immediately by eight weeks."
Since then, Dahlquist follows the Packers during football season and peddles the one size fits all foam head piece. He says his Chicago Bears fandom and his disdain for the Green and Gold has turned into quite the business.
"This is a fun company and this will be a fun company to run once it gets up and running."
Dahlquist says in sports, its always about upping the ante and he's just glad Bear fans are game.
"It's always in fashion to hate the Packers so if we can get this up and running all year round, we'll be pretty happy."
Graterhead will be holding a tailGRATE party in the Adler Lot at Soldier Field from 8 a.m. until noon.
The one sized fits all foam head piece can be purchased for $40 online at Graterhead.com.
