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The Bears have their bye week this weekend, which means a weekend off for Lovie Smith's players. We imagine Kyle Orton will end up in some embarrassing photos taken in some college-town bar. We suspect that Brian Urlacher will stay home to rest his aching back... unless some starlet want to hang with him in Vegas. And perhaps Lance Briggs will use the free time to finally test drive some new rides.
It also means a weekend off for all of us Bears fans, who can now make other Sunday plans without worrying that we're missing the game. Because we all know the first time we have to miss a game for our buddy's wedding is the time they'll win by four TDs... and we'll have forgotten to set the Tivo.
So with the Bears off this weekend, what do you plan to do with your extra free day?
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Eat a bagel and lox sandwich and stare a blank television screen for 2 hours
You've been watching this horseshit? Who cares...
WHO CARES ABOUT THE BEARS? I CARE ABOUT THE BEARS!!!!!!!!!!111111ONEONEONEOONEONEONEONENO
I'm too busy fretting about how I'm going to spend my extra DST hour on Sunday.
Hold my nose and pray that the cretinous dome-playing Colts defeat the evil that is the 2007 Patriots.
Or better yet, pray for a career ending injury to Tom Brady when he's still in and throwing deep when up 61-10 with 1.5 minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Actually, better than an injury would be a clean decapitation in which his bloody head soars off the field and smacks directly into that cheating bastard Belichick's ratty-ass hoodie. Belickick's mind snaps and he spends the rest of his life rocking back and forth in a fetal ball, replaying his inner videotape of the event.
Then, and only then, would justice be served.
Are you kidding me? It's the Windy City Rollers 2007 Championship Bout on Sunday! Woot!
Yeah, a beat down of the Pats would be great. They're the yankees of football...and i hate them.
If belecheat continues to run up the score late in the game, Brady is sure to end up in a body bag.
The bounty on Brady's knees is now up to thirty dollars.
I know this isn't a sports site, but all this hatred for the Pats confuses me. What are they supposed to, start kneeling on it once they get up? If teams can't stop them from scoring, isn't it on those inept teams?
The 4th and 1 plays that make everybody so upset... here are their options:
- Kneel on it (insulting, i personally thing, for the professionals on the other side of the ball not given the chance to do their job, stopping them).
- Kick a FG (3 points, no problem), give the ball back to (insert team here, Redskins work), who run three plays, and give the ball back to the Pats, who do it all over again. This eliminates any "running out the clock", and they'd likely get 6 points from 2 FGs instead of 7 from 1 TD.
- Go for the first down. If the other team is allowing 10 yards per play, its not really the Pats fault is it?
I, personally, would be pissed if i paid for a NFL ticket and wound up watching NE's 2nd and 3rd string players instead of the stars and future HOF'ers like Moss, Brady, Seau and Teddy. I paid for entertainment, to see athletes on top of their game, not to see 20 mins of good football and then 2 practice squads square off so Joe Gibbs can walk off the field feeling like his first team players didn't suck ass.
P.S. Anybody remember Superbowl XX in 1986? Chicago Bears 46, New England Patriots 10. Was that bad sportsmanship? Should there have been a bounty on Ditka's head because he "insulted" those "poor patriots" on the worlds largest sporting stage?
P.P.S. That Orton pic is at The Union Bar in Iowa City... i wasn't out that night, but some roommates saw him, and i guess he was in rare form, sloppy, double fisting drinks, sweating, spilling. Iowa City is the devil. It will ruin ANYBODY. Parents, don't send your kids there for school. For real. Its fun and awful and ruins your life.
Everybody gets upset at the Pats for running up the score, but what happens if some team went off on them like the Lions did to the Bears in week 3 and scored 34 4th quarter points? Not saying it's likely, but teams always risk opening the door for an upset if they let down their guard too much... besides, it's the NFL -- the league of parity. It's not like it's Ohio St. beating up on SE Indiana A&M.
You pull your starters so they don't get hurt and run the ball. You don't pull trick spike plays, deep throws and other weird crap for the sake of scoring the highest number of points possible. If the other team threatens, you can always put the starters back in. What's the complicated part?
None of which the Pats will do, which is why I'm hoping for the huge injury as karmic payback. They are pissed and indigant because they got caught cheating and feel entitled to run up the score on crappy teams because they can. (Oh sorry, they misinterpreted the rule that says "no filming" to mean "filming is ok.") May the football gods strike them down.
If there were some way that the coach could get the payback he deserves...Maybe the radio jamming equipment shorts out the secret cameras and his headset explodes in a fireball, the ragged sleeves of his sweatshirt forming the perfect kindling?
And the bounty is now fifty bucks and a bag of Reese's cups. Hot damn!
You pull your starters so they don't get hurt and run the ball. You don't pull trick spike plays, deep throws and other weird crap for the sake of scoring the highest number of points possible. If the other team threatens, you can always put the starters back in. What's the complicated part?
None of which the Pats will do, which is why I'm hoping for the huge injury as karmic payback. They are pissed and indigant because they got caught cheating and feel entitled to run up the score on crappy teams because they can. (Oh sorry, they misinterpreted the rule that says "no filming" to mean "filming is ok.") May the football gods strike them down.
If there were some way that the coach could get the payback he deserves...Maybe the radio jamming equipment shorts out the secret cameras and his headset explodes in a fireball, the ragged sleeves of his sweatshirt forming the perfect kindling?
And the bounty is now fifty bucks and a bag of Reese's cups. Hot damn!
"So with the Bears off this weekend, what do you plan to do with your extra free day?"
Watch the Lions or Packers. Haha.