T.D. Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Dallas to interview Mike Singletary: ESPN (orig AP) Certainly a more interesting candidate than Norv Turner, who'd be a lame choice IMO. But I won't even try to predict Jones's decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I think its foolish to dismiss this coming Super Bowl to an automatic Colts victory. The Bears defense has really stepped it up during these playoffs, and you know they'll be running the ball like there's no tomorrow. Like every other Bears fan, I don't want a situation to arise where the game is dependant on Grossman's passing, but then again, he's not made those mistakes during these playoffs that he was making at the end of the regular season. I think this is going to be a very good game. More than anything, both teams have had this trip to the Super Bowl coming for a long time now. I think we're in for an excellent show this Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 (edited) Odds i lookin' for in friday's USA Today Super Bowl Preview Grossman named MVP (not that i'd put $$$ on it, but it should be 8:1 or greater) QB TD Run OT I still like the bears and the 7 points, but i think the colts win on a AV FG Edited January 30, 2007 by Soulstation1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 ps i have 20 squares left Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 tank johnson's theme song My Uzi Weighs A Ton by PE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I think its foolish to dismiss this coming Super Bowl to an automatic Colts victory. The Bears defense has really stepped it up during these playoffs, and you know they'll be running the ball like there's no tomorrow. Like every other Bears fan, I don't want a situation to arise where the game is dependant on Grossman's passing, but then again, he's not made those mistakes during these playoffs that he was making at the end of the regular season. I think this is going to be a very good game. More than anything, both teams have had this trip to the Super Bowl coming for a long time now. I think we're in for an excellent show this Sunday. ...of course you do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 tank johnson's theme song My Uzi Weighs A Ton by PE ...how is he going to play with the electronic ankle bracelet on??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Info from Stats Inc. (a Chicago-based but non-partisan outfit that does statistical analysis for a lot of sports franchises) that suggests a Bears' victory may be in the cards: http://actasports.com/sows.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Info from Stats Inc. (a Chicago-based but non-partisan outfit that does statistical analysis for a lot of sports franchises) that suggests a Bears' victory may be in the cards: http://actasports.com/sows.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 tank johnson's theme song My Uzi Weighs A Ton by PE ...how is he going to play with the electronic ankle bracelet on??? He'll use it to rap on Peyton's helmet after he sacks his ass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Twizzle Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 CHICAGO (AP) -- Sunday's Super Bowl has triggered questions that haven't been asked here in years. Like, if the Chicago Bears were 14 inches tall would they still win? And would a big bus loaded with Bears cross the finish line first in the Indianapolis 500? If you know the answers -- yes and yes -- you probably remember Bill Swerski's Super Fans on ''Saturday Night Live'' in the early 1990s. Knocking back beers, they took turns extolling the virtues of ''a certain team from a certain Midwestern town that starts with a C, ends with an O and in the middle is HICAG.'' But even those who don't recall the beefy guys -- made so by a diet of beer, ribs and Polish sausage -- can't escape their rallying cry of ''Da Bears.'' In Chicago and around the country, ''Da Bears'' are everywhere. Radio hosts can't stop talking about ''Da Bears.'' The words ''Da Bears'' are irresistible to newspaper and Web site headline writers from all over the United States and even the frozen north of Canada. And on YouTube, one of the sketches has been watched more than 53,000 times in the last three months. The phrase, repeated in the sketch by the men as they hoisted a beer to their favorite team, has become synonymous with the city, shorthand for its love affair with its favorite sports team. ''It really tells you a lot about the city -- Bears and food -- that is what Chicago is all about,'' said Mike North, a Chicago radio host who sounds enough like the guys in the sketch that he was accused of imitating them when he was hired. Actor Joe Mantegna, a Chicago native, has been hearing calls of ''Da Bears'' ever since he appeared in the first Super Fans sketch on ''Saturday Night Live'' in 1991. ''It's not Hollywood, it's not New York, it's not Broadway, it's Da Bears,'' said Mantegna, trying to explain the appeal of ''Da Bears'' both in and outside the city. ''It's fans, it's sports fans.'' The way Mantegna sees it, had Carl Sandburg written his famous poem about the city in the late 1900s when ''Saturday Night Live'' writer Robert Smigel came up with the idea instead of the early 1900s, it might have included something about ''Da Bears.'' ''He could have fit it right in there somewhere, stacker of wheat, city of big shoulders, home of Da Bears,'' he said. For his part, Smigel said Chicagoans took to the sketch because it was ''grounded in some truth.'' True, he said, Chicagoans don't have as many heart attacks as the Super Fans did and they don't know how to give themselves CPR. ''And at the hospitals they don't have barbecue sauce in their IVs,'' he said. But they do see themselves -- or more specifically their neighbors. ''People from Chicago would come up to me and sound exactly like the characters and say, 'I know a guy just like that,''' he said. Smigel said the sketch, in which the characters predict the Bears and other Chicago teams will win by outrageous scores -- the late Chris Farley's character once predicted a Bulls ''402 to zip'' win -- also tapped into something that had nothing to do with Chicago. ''People just enjoyed the arrogance and overwhelming pride in their own city,'' he said. The sketch stemmed from what Smigel saw when he came to Chicago from New York in the early 1980s: man after man who looked like the characters he would ultimately create with fellow ''Saturday Night Live'' writer Bob Odenkirk. He also listened to the way they talked about their teams and no matter how bad they played, these men with their walrus mustaches and aviator sunglasses projected what he called a ''kind of hilarious arrogance'' about them. ''I just thought to myself, 'Da Bears, oh yeah, that's money in the bank, my friend,''' he said in the voice straight from Super Fans sketches that he appeared in with Mike Myers, Farley and either Mantegna or George Wendt. Smigel and Odenkirk wrote the sketch for a stage show in Chicago in the late 1980s. ''We didn't think the bit would fly on 'Saturday Night Live,''' he said. But when Mantegna hosted the show in 1991 they gave it a try. ''All of a sudden the next day we heard how it just took off,'' Mantegna said. Nowhere was that more true than in Chicago. ''That's ours,'' North said. ''It's Chicago.'' The question now is whether the Super Fans will make a return to ''Saturday Night Live'' the night before the Super Bowl. All but one of the sketches were performed in the early 1990s. The lone exception came in 2003 when the Cubs, with the help of fan Steve Bartman, made Chicago-style sports history and collapsed in the playoffs just five outs from making it to the World Series. Now, though, a publicist with the show won't comment on any upcoming sketches. Smigel said this week he hasn't planned to do anything with the Super Fans and hasn't been approached. Whether they return, Smigel knows they wouldn't agree with him that for the Bears to win they must run the ball well, thus keeping the ball out of Colts quarterback Peyton Manning's hands for big chunks of time. Instead, he said, they'd say Da Bears 300 to negative 20 for the Colts. ''Or maybe more like 70 to negative 284.'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sal Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Rice hopes Colts trample da' Bears WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice often spends her days trying to bring two opposing factions to the negotiating table in the hope of finding peaceful resolutions. But on Sunday, Rice is shelving diplomacy and is taking sides in Super Bowl XLI. The nation's top diplomat will be rooting for the Indianapolis Colts over the Chicago Bears this Sunday. Rice told a meeting of network bureau chiefs Wednesday that while she is a big fan of Bears coach Lovie Smith and Colts coach Tony Dungy, she really wants Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to win a Super Bowl ring. Rice's favorite team, the Cleveland Browns, did not make the playoffs. Rice is one of the highest-profile football fans in the nation's capital and has said her dream job is to be commissioner of the National Football League. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Rice hopes Colts trample da' Bears WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice often spends her days trying to bring two opposing factions to the negotiating table in the hope of finding peaceful resolutions. But on Sunday, Rice is shelving diplomacy and is taking sides in Super Bowl XLI. The nation's top diplomat will be rooting for the Indianapolis Colts over the Chicago Bears this Sunday. Rice told a meeting of network bureau chiefs Wednesday that while she is a big fan of Bears coach Lovie Smith and Colts coach Tony Dungy, she really wants Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to win a Super Bowl ring. Rice's favorite team, the Cleveland Browns, did not make the playoffs. Rice is one of the highest-profile football fans in the nation's capital and has said her dream job is to be commissioner of the National Football League. Colts may be in trouble!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man with the Golden Arm Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Rice's favorite team, the Cleveland Browns, did not make the playoffs. Now I'm gunning for the first woman coach in the NFL! or at least bring back Sam Rutigliano. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Rice's favorite team, the Cleveland Browns, did not make the playoffs. Now I'm gunning for the first woman coach in the NFL! or at least bring back Sam Rutigliano. SD might be willing to let Marty go back... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 I have a great deal of respect for BB, but I have to admit that I lost a little bit of it that day. I'm reasonable enough to assume that there are two (at least) sides to every story, but his actions that day, on the face of it anyway, were totally classless. Two sides is correct. Belechick's side from a Boston Globe interview: http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patr..._on_2006_season Asked about the scene after the game, when it appeared he brushed off Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, Belichick said: "I talked to Tony [Dungy] after the game and congratulated him. Peyton, I didn't see, he kind of grabbed me, it all happened really fast. I saw Tony, I saw Adam [Vinatieri], wished him well. Saw [Dan] Klecko, wished him well. Ask any of them what happened after the game." As for the team's postgame celebration in San Diego that drew the wrath of Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson, Belichick said: "In San Diego, I honestly didn't see what happened. I had seen some clips after the game, but still don't know what happened. They show LaDainian coming in and Reche [Caldwell] is there, he pulls him in. I didn't see it. I still don't know what happened." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 I'll tell you what happened, Billy. Tomlinson showed what a little crybaby he really is that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Tank Johnson's first line in the new SB Shuffle should be Everybody Hit The Floor........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Ex-Pat LB Ted Johnson: BB abused my health Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Aggie87 Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 That's a cool picture! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Ex-Pat LB Ted Johnson: BB abused my health Read the huge article that they ran about this in the NYT this morning. certainly it's foolish to jump to conclusions when presented with a story like this. But if it's true, it's incredibly sad. Especially considering what just happened with Andre Waters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Thanks for the tip. Hadn't seen the NYT article. I think the s**t is about to hit the fan on this issue. Gotta believe the problem's widespread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 Thanks for the tip. Hadn't seen the NYT article. I think the s**t is about to hit the fan on this issue. Gotta believe the problem's widespread. there are some very big lawsuits coming. in my opinion, the leader of the players union, an oldtimer himself, carries much of the blame. the raiders take care of their own, perhaps a bit better than the steelers? todays owners, for the most part, are money men, and debt service men who dont care about the hired servants. wouldnt an exnflers retirement home-hospital be a great idea? think the nfl could afford it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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