Oh, I Think So

LOL built by yours truly on GraphJam.com (I believe I reliquish property control once it hits their pages.) Last week I thought that was it for the season.  Game over, the Bears lost, and everyone will start thinking about next season.  Au contraire.  I arrived at work on Monday and Lady Football send me an instant message saying she thought Jay choked, caved, and fell to the pressure of an NFL final.  She used the words, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it."  Lady Football is a bright and sensible woman. If she suggests Jay choked, it merits consideration.  However, doctors and coaches were racing about flailing their arms (in general, flailing isn't a good look for anyone) and saying he had a tear in a knee ligament that would take several weeks to repair.  Jay didn't need surgery as it could be repaired with several weeks of rest.  This would have all gone away except Jay is whipped. The Frank Loesser musical, "Guys and Dolls," has a...

I really thought the Bears were going to suck the chrome off multiple trailer hitches this year, but there we were at the NFC Championship game in Soldier Field with home-field advantage.  Yeah, fine, we lost but it wasn't a massacre, with special kudos to Caleb Hanie who got points on the board.  No Superbowl XLV for us but we can be proud of what they did, can't we?  H-e-double-hockeysticks yes, I say emphatically. The Bears won their division!  They got past Jay Cutler being the most sackable QB in the entire league, Jay started turning loose the ball, the bitches (yes, wide receivers, yes) caught and ran, the defense was as good as one expects a Bears defense to be (which is very good), and the Bears won games.  Once they and their coaching staff got it all together, there was no shame in their game. Yes, y'all, I am going to watch Superbowl XLV but mostly to see The Black-Eyed Peas whom I find awesome.  The Steelers and the Packers can bitch s...

From the Chicago Bears website: The Chicago Bears fight song,  Bear Down, Chicago Bears , was introduced in 1941. Though Jerry Downs is listed as the composer, it actually is a pseudonym for Al Hoffman (who also wrote the words and music for the song  If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake ). Hoffman's words for the Bears' fight song: Bear down, Chicago Bears, make every play clear the way to victory; Bear down, Chicago Bears, put up a fight with a might so fearlessly. We'll never forget the way you thrilled the nation with your T-formation. Bear down, Chicago Bears, and let them know why you're wearing the crown. You're the pride and joy of Illinois, Chicago Bears, bear down.  

Matt Hasselbeck, Seahawks #8, after the waltz. Picture is probably property of the NFL and FOX. I try not to say things like, "I may be crazy but..." because I am crazy, much as you are crazy and don't tell me you aren't crazy because the more you say it, the more it so.  But if i were an I-may-be-crazy-but girl, I would follow the phrase with "isn't this just a cool thing the Bears have done?"  It's not like the last time, for Super Bowl XLI, when Robbie Gould saved things week after week (do not get me started on Rex Grossman, y'all).  My belief that Cutler stank and the coaching staff blew and the offensive line bit was EITHER a wake up call that they needed to get it together (message sent courtesy of the universe as my readership could not possibly include even one single Bear, Bears coach, Bears staff member, or even someone working as an usher at Soldier Field for Bears games) OR after the severe sackage of Jay Cutler, they really did ...

Nonfootball things, thanks for asking.  At L'Eiffel Bistrot I had a nice lunch of a ratatouille/chicken/goat cheese crepe, delicious charcuterie (including a kangaroo pate), and some freaking tasty coffee.  My dear friend and I met up at a mall that is midway between our residences and we enjoyed conversation, shopping, and a cold but very clear day.  It was a great afternoon.  We ended by visiting a chocolate bar/gift shop that is ridiculously girly and charming and pleasant and fun.  It is called Anna Shea and I want to visit again next week and drink a giant pot of coffee and a bonbon or half of a cupcake.  Anna Shea is perfect for mid-shopping relaxation or a wedding shower or a bridal shower or a birthday party.  It's all the way out in South Barrington so if you are in that neck of the woods, stop and relax for no other reason than it's pretty and girly and fun.  If you're a manly man, it might make you twitchy. As soon as I got home,...

'The regular season ended with the Bears losing to their division rivals, the Green Bay Packers, with a score of 10-3.  Yes, this does mean the Packers got a field goal, a touchdown, and the extra point, and we got a field goal, but at least it was an even match with tough guys pushing on each other and playing like hardened SOBs until the game was done.  There were 10 seconds on the clock and they were still setting up a play.  Because of the Bears win-opposite outcome, the Packers will be in the playoffs, and are the #6 seed.  The Bears are still the #2 seed and next week is a bye week so I am not upset except I have to scrounge up a topic for next week; perhaps I will speculate on what LOSERS every other team is.  Oh, how unsportsmanlike of me. Toward the end of the game, the commentators were blabbing about stats (i.e. the rulers were out and the dicks were being measured) and saying how the Bears had done a better job of gaining yardage.  Again,...