Cal is a college football program. The Chicago Bears operate within the confines of the NFL. Each of those two things operate with a variation of a bear being their mascot.

Chicago is the Bears. Cal is the Golden Bears. That is the context you need to know, as there is a bit of a hashtag war going on between the two.

The NFL partnered with Twitter so that whenever someone uses a hashtag of a team nickname, it would show up as an emoji. Makes sense. Well, it did until you did it for the Chicago Bears.

That #GoBears is an interesting thing to see, as it is literally the hashtag used in Cal's official Twitter bio.

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Here we have two football teams attempting to use the (LOL) amazing #GoBears hashtag to rally the fans.

Have no fear, however. After some complaining, or compromising, from the folk in Berkeley, Twitter has now made #GoBears a neutral hashtag.

This just goes to show you anything is possible. In a time of divisiveness in our nation, being able to see Cal and the Chicago Bears unite and overcome from such a polarizing issue as #GoBears is the beacon of light our country needs to look to during our most desperate of times.

If they can overcome the pitfalls that awaited during this pivotal moment of a hashtag war, we can all go beyond our personal belief systems, look at one another for who each person truly is, and become one as a country.

Was that dripped with enough sarcasm or do you really think I'm comparing a hashtag thingy to something much bigger?