Jilted Bears Fan Gets Helping Handout

By Shannon in News on Jan 28, 2007 6:05PM

Only one more week to go, Bears fans. Someday, someone will tell us what good it does to make the Super Bowl two weeks after the championships. All it does now is give the papers an extra week to stretch the limits of journalism and fill their pages with anything tangentially relating to the Bears. One story did catch our eye, though: The plight of one Bryan Lange.

Lange is a host on a cable access TV show out of Crystal Lake called Psycho Babble TV (oh so NSFW) that, from our best guess, appeals to the major suburban porn-and-hair-band constituency. In any case, Lange interviewed Bears safety Chris Harris way back in June, where Lange said he would sell his Harley to get a ticket, if the team were to make the Super Bowl. Harris replied that Lange wouldn't have to; he'd give him a ticket himself. Lange countered that he was going to hold him to that, that they had it all on tape. Harris appeared to be fine with that, judging from the video.

Now, seven months later, the Bears are in the Big Game, but Harris isn't honoring his word. He stiffed Lange on his ticket, claiming he only gets 15 and all those go to family members. That's all fine and good, but you'd think a football player with roughly more money than God could take the trouble to fetch the cable guy a seat, if only to avoid the possible legal implications and horrible PR such a story generates. No matter. A broker from Wrigleyville has stepped up to the plate and offered Lange a free ticket. Steve Buzil of Sit Close Tickets muses that he's "been blessed" and that he wants to share the wealth. With developments like a broker giving away a ticket and the Bears even making it to the Super Bowl, we suppose Hell really has frozen over.