Friday, February 02, 2007

A Certain Team From A Certain Town...


...that begins with a "c" ends with an "o" and has "hicag" in the middle.

I expect that you figured I would only be silent about this for so long...consider the silence broken, my friend.

Oh, and by the way, go here for all you Superfans memories, my friend.

What to say about the Bears in a Super Bowl? Did I think it was possible at the beginning of the year? Sure, I always do (when you grow up a Chicago sports fan, hope always springs eternal). When did I think we were for real? Not sure, but Arizona on Monday night, and our performance therein, really showed me what we were made of. The rest of the season, well, apart from the little hiccups against New England and Green Bay (a fluke), could not have been better.

What will it take to win this game? I am no expert (nor am I completely without knowledge), so I will say that a combo of the running games of Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson with a solid Grossman performance and back-up from the D will serve us in good stead. People who are worried about Grossman should read here what Rick Telander had to say. Problems? While people say a lot of nice things about Peyton Manning, and some of them may be true, he will have to contend with some blistering resistance...and there is one more thing...

The Peyton Manning Playoff Choke Factor.

Aside from the main event, this naturally is the reward for years of loyal support on the part of Bears fans, myself included. To see your guys finally in the big show is nothing short of kickass. When I think back on the lean years (Ditka's final years, Dave Wannstead and the eerily emotionless Dick Jauron), all the embarassing seasons while another Midwestern football team seemed so dominant. All those Sundays wondering when the hurting would ever stop.

Well, the time is now.

Oh, and to all the people who doubted us and just hated us for who we are, well, where are your gods now?

As predictions go, and I always hate making these, even nuns say that we are going to win.

FINAL SCORE: CHICAGO 31, INDIANAPOLIS 24

Well, that's about all I have to say apart from...

BEAR DOWN CHICAGO BEARS!

P.S. For great, totally biased Bears coverage, go here, to WBBM, the radio home of the 2006 NFC Champion Chicago Bears (sounds great, don't it?)

3 comments:

Lost A Sock said...

...Make every play clear the way to victory!

Good call on the score. Looking forward to a great game!

Will you be in the homeland?

erika said...

Sorry they didn't win. We were pulling for da Bears (or as they say in Germany, Die Baeres - which sounds suspiciously Chicagoish...)
Anyway, German football coverage is too funny - "Overthrown! Ach, etwas uebergeworfen!" - and we were totally thinking about you when the Bears scored that first fabulous touchdown.

MJenks said...

Wow. Sexy Rexy sure laid an egg on the field, didn't he? But then, given the way he dominated Green Bay in that final game of the season, this was to be expected, wasn't it?

The only bad thing here is that you went to the Super Bowl, so your draft status is effed up. You're going to have to a find a decent, consistent, respectable quarterback through free agency, because Brady Quinn's not going to be available.

Good showing, though. Hester and Jones made the game respectable for a quarter. Too bad the defense decided to stay in the locker room after the half.