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Chalk this as another slice of awesome that somehow passed us by in the election craziness: ESPN's piece on whether or not Ditka could have toppled Obama.
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Chalk this as another slice of awesome that somehow passed us by in the election craziness: ESPN's piece on whether or not Ditka could have toppled Obama.
I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, and as a wee kiddie I remember being let out of kindergarten because the Bears won (great school) but Mike Ditka is such an emberassing, boorish figure. And the hackneyed "dems, dese and dose" image of Chicago is just OVER.
A Chicagoan in the White House. Lets elevate our game people.
Albany, please get over yourself.
DITKA!
Unfortunately, the Ditka/Da Bulls/Da Bears image is over. The new image is that of an overtaxed, overregulated populace barely getting by in a city with skyrocketing crime and a declining retail/business community, soon to be overtaken by Houston as the #3 U.S. city.
Obama can improve the image of Chicago, but he'll be living in the White House and visiting Chicago mainly for personal reasons. Besides, Clinton and W did not exactly enhance the images of Little Rock and Crawford, although those Arkansas tourism commercials try to tell me otherwise.
Ditka's overrated and I hate how they still call him coach on TV. He won one Superbowl as a head coach. Just one. Sure, the man can market the hell out of himself, but he's no where near as good as, say, Bill Walsh or Jimmy Johnson.
I'm with Matty and Marcus on this one.
This is pretty funny.
Ditka!
Ditka also led the Bears to the NFC Championship game 3 out of 5 years, and we were pretty much always in the playoffs. That was a golden era for Bears fans. I'll take the "one" Superbowl "Da Coach" led us to any day of the week.
Ditka is pretty much a cliche that we now call "Ditka". He's harmless, at least to me. I don't mind them dragging out this Superfan stuff. Hell, if it's a choice between being known for them and the fact that we're going to lead the nation in murders again, I'll take George Wendt squeezing his gut into a Bears sweater one more time. And "DAAAAAAAAA Murders" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Da Bears"...
And when Ditka and the Bears won that Super Bowl, the city hadn't done jack shit up until then in terms of world championships, which is why that will stick here probably forever. Hell, Michael Jordan has played for other teams and they still consider this his town.