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Posts tagged Chicago Bears
The Purpose of Things
Sep 20th
Everything in life has a purpose (except mosquitos). Here are a quick few items that I think demonstrate a salient purpose this week:
- Rob Letterly wrote a piece for ChicagoNow this week that reminds folks not to miss the point of the Chicago Cubs this season. The piece is good but I think the purpose of the team this year is so this guy can make inappropriate gestures on live TV at 1:30 in the morning:
- The purpose of tasers that are issued to law officials and court security is to send as many volts as possible through alleged freedom fighters like this douchebag. Take that camera More >
Perspective Is a Virtue
Sep 19th
In the masthead of this website the word perspective is prominently featured. While admittedly residing a few exits short of enlightenment, I like to think that I am able – more often than not – to keep a big picture outlook and not get caught up in the minutia that the rest of the world converts to various poisons like stress and drama. I note this not as a form of braggadocio but rather to preface what I am about to write next:
The Chicago Bears are a good football team.
I do not think they are the greatest football team ever assembled More >
Radio Silence In the 21st Century
Sep 16th
Last Thursday morning I woke up in San Diego with a problem on my hands. No, it was not about what to do with the immigrants I was letting sleep in my hotel closet. We worked that out the night before and they were going to blend in with housekeeping during their shift change and filter off into the foothills on their own. The bigger dilemma was how I was going to make it back to Chicago and my DVR to catch the Bears-Packers game without learning the score. I needed to go into the often spoken of but rarely More >
Ur-Lacking Something In The Middle
Aug 7th
I’ve caught some flak from the loyal readership for failing to chime in on the Olympics in this space to date. While pleading guilty as charged, my defense would be that while having consumed the Olympics nearly every night from 7pm-11pm CST, I wouldn’t say they have elicited much in the way of a reaction thus far. This is not to say that I haven’t enjoyed them – it couldn’t be further from the truth – but I also haven’t experienced anything akin to shock or outrage from any of the outcomes and we’re thirteen days in already.
Basically I’d sum up the first week-plus More >
The Smart Side of the Ledger
Jul 18th
Times they are a changing on the Chicago sports scene. I honestly cannot say that there has been a time in this city’s history (at least in my lifetime) where each of our sporting franchises have been in such good hands from a front office perspective. Let’s take a lap around the various franchises for a quick peak at the brains percolating behind the scenes.
The Cubs
The Cubs are in the midst of a 13-5 run, easily their best of the season, and yet the front office is not losing focus of the big picture which involves reloading the entire system More >
It’s Been A Mad Last Few Days
Jun 10th
“Mad Men” season five has come to an all too abrupt ending. I’ve already written about how my television schedule has gone blank for the coming months and tonight brought some serious finality to the whole thing. I flippin’ love this show. If they try to pull off another seventeen month hiatus snow job on their viewing public I’m going to kick Mathew right in his surname.
Season five has been a blast, from Zou bisou bisou to Roger Sterling’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Trip, I have ended each Sunday evening both satiated and hungry for more. This season we’ve watched Don move from More >
A Glance At Our Chicago Sporting Culture
Apr 26th
I’ve been in St. Louis the past few days and while there I enjoyed some fantastic bar-b-que. I only mention this as it gives me an excuse to mention the fact that I attended the St. Louis Rib Fest last spring which for some inexplicable reason is still in the top 10 Google searches that lead people to this website. Either a lot of people want to know about this festival (that I personally found a wee bit lacking) – or – the St. Louis Rib Fest has no idea how to e-market themselves (they don’t even have a website for More >
Draft Day
Apr 26th
For all you NFL draft-nicks out there who get your intravenous fix of football each April, today is your big day. It’s the NFL equivalent of Rex Manning Day. I’ll touch on this in further detail in my Friday post but I want to plant my flag in the ground now and say that I think the Bears need to go with a defensive end with the 19th overall pick in the draft and I think Illinois’ Whitney Mercilus is the pick. I like him more than Quinton Coples from North Carolina (who has issues about trying hard and taking plays off – not what I’m looking for in a 1st More >
Spring Cleaning Abound
Mar 18th
With our recent stretch of warm weather, the general populace of the Chicagoland area has gotten the itch to get outside and play. Be it kids on the beach (a bit of a stretch if you ask me), families dusting off their bikes, or old women cleaning up their yards, folks are finding excuses to get outside. Count me amongst the latter. Between assembling baby swings and bouncers, I spent the better part of this past weekend trimming rose bushes and grasses and chopping firewood. The springtime allows for one to start anew or re-assess their current situation and plan More >
