[CBFF] Bears bashing boggles the mind

Sun Feb 11 15:50:12 MST 2007

can ya take a pill??

teri

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Madsen" <jerrywm at gmail.com>
To: <post at chicagobearsfanforum.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [CBFF] Bears bashing boggles the mind

I feel a blog coming on...

On 2/11/07, emo <emolson1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Truly inspirational. We have no reason to hang our heads.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mom2iancal" <senzigx4 at charter.net>
>
> Mike Downey
> In the wake of the news
>
> February 11, 2007
>
> Jay Leno and David Letterman have made Bears jokes almost nightly.
>
> A columnist from the Los Angeles Times referred to the Bears as "Da Bums"
> and as "the Munsters of the Midway."
>
> A gentleman from ESPN said of the Bears, "You wonder how they reached the
> playoffs, much less the Super Bowl."
>
> A fellow from a Chicago paper proposed after the Super Bowl that it might
> be
> best for all concerned if Rex Grossman went to a different team.
>
> A football writer for Sports Illustrated suggested the Bears try to trade
> for Houston's David Carr, who is the quarterback of one of the NFL's worst
> teams.
>
> A guy from Fox Sports cracked "if Grossman were added to the presidential
> ticket, Barack Obama probably couldn't carry Cook County."
>
> A columnist for the Denver Post wrote Grossman "stinks" and, furthermore,
> "Truth is, the Bears are vastly overrated."
>
> That guy put those last two comments on the record before the Super Bowl.
>
> Forgive my foul language on a Sunday, but what the hell is going on here?
>
> How did the Bears go from being one of the top teams in football to the
> butts of jokes and to the targets for all sorts of verbal and critical
> abuse?
>
> How did a seven-point underdog lose a game by 12 points and suddenly turn
> into a different kind of dog?
>
> How did a team win its division a month early, win its conference
> championship game by 25 points, win 15 of its games and lose four, only to
> end up on
> the receiving end of an almost daily bashing?
>
> A week ago this day, the Bears were on a wet field in Florida with the
> favored Indianapolis Colts, a team led by perhaps the best quarterback of
> the 21st
> Century.
>
> At the end of a quarter, the score was Bears 14, Colts 6.
>
> Chicago's fans must have been as proud as punch. Their heroes were up by
> eight. A 92-yard kickoff return put the Colts in a hole. Grossman threw a
> touchdown pass.
>
> Thomas Jones broke a 52-yard run. In a word, the Bears looked super.
>
> At halftime, the Bears were behind, but only by two. They didn't touch the
> ball much. But there was a Colts fumble and a missed field goal. It was
> still
> anybody's game.
>
> At the end of three quarters, the score was 22-17.
>
> It wasn't a blowout. It wasn't a Bears embarrassment. The favored Colts
> were
> up five. They did not score a touchdown on the Bears' defense in the third
> quarter. Manning passed for 54 yards in this quarterâ?"big deal.
>
> In the end, Indianapolis did win. A team that was expected to prevail by a
> huge majority of NFL analystsâ?"many of them former pro coaches and
> players
> with
> a certain amount of expertiseâ?"did, in fact, beat the Bears.
>
> It was not an upset. And I, for one, was not upset. I was sorry to see my
> guys lose but grateful for a great season, as many of my Bears brethren
> were.
>
> Bob Newhart, the comedian, a true-blue fan, called up to joke, "I've just
> entered a 12-step Bears recovery program."
>
> We both expressed surprise at the way the team was knocked and mocked in
> the
> game's aftermath.
>
> Hadn't the Bears had a spectacular season? Weren't the Colts supposed to
> beat them? Why did the Bears suddenly seem to be getting a worse
>
> beating in the postgame than they did in the game?
>
> I have been to Super Bowls decided 42-10, 46-10, 48-21 and 52-17.
>
> I saw a team John Elway quarterbacked be torn to shreds 55-10. Now that's
> the kind of thrashing a team could get embarrassed about.
>
> Denver obviously should have gotten rid of that Elway bum.
>
> Twenty-three teams lost games from Super Bowls I through XL by margins as
> bad or worse than the Bears' just was.
>
> But now they are bums? They were lucky to make the playoffs? They were
> vastly overrated? They ought to dump a quarterback who went 15-4 and go
> get
> the
> quarterback of the Houston Texans?
>
> Madness, madness.
>
> Look, no one likes to lose.
>
> In the painful first minutes after last Sunday's game ended, Bears wide
> receiver Bernard Berrian said that where winning the Super Bowl is
> concerned,
> "Anything less is failure."
>
> No, it is not.
>
> Did we imagine those division and league championships? Did we imagine
> Virginia McCaskey having the George S. Halas Trophy placed in her hands?
>
> Did we imagine beating Super Bowl XL runner-up Seattle twice? Did we
> imagine
> winning in Green Bay 26-0, in St. Louis 42-27, beating the two New York
> teams on the road by a combined 48-20? Did we imagine pounding Detroit
> 34-7,
> Buffalo 40-7, San Francisco 41-10 and New Orleans 39-14?
>
> Did we imagine Grossman passing for 3,193 yards and 23 scores in the
> regular
> season? Did we imagine Jones and Cedric Benson rushing for 1,857 yards?
> Did
> we imagine Robbie Gould making 32 of 36 field-goal attempts and Devin
> Hester
> returning six kicks for touchdowns?
>
> I don't know about you, butâ?"please pardon my language againâ?"I thought
> Chicago had one hell of a team.
>
> _mikedowney at tribune.com_ (mailto:mikedowney at tribune.com)
>
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