Monday Sports Hangover

...and the Bears still suck!

My two favorite things in the National Football League happened yesterday. The Packers won and the Bears lost. Actually, the terms "won" and "lost" are complete understatements in this case. The Packers DOMINATED and the Bears were CRUSHED.

After the game, I made my annual gloating phone call to my dad (a Bears fan) which led to this exchange, which seems to happen every year.

Me: Hey pops! Watch any football today?
Dad: No. Was there a game on?
Me: Oh you know there was a game on, and you know the Pack were mercilessly victorious.
Dad: I don't know anything about that. I was sleeping.
Me: Sleeping?!?! How could you sleep during such a tremendous display of sporting prowess!?! That was a slaughter!
Dad: Yeah, yeah. Have you heard the latest with CC? Do you think he'll take the Yankees offer?

Clearly, Dad was in no mood to discuss the pathetic effort put forth by the monsters of the midway, and quickly changed the subject to the one team we've ever been able to agree on. I was not yet ready to move on in conversation, and I proceeded to talk about how great the Packers have been at home. Mister Rodgers certainly plays well in his neighborhood, that's for sure. The Frozen Tundra advantage that has been curiously absent for the past few years seems to be returning in full force. 37-3 to the division-leading Bears? Oh, hell yeah.

Everything about that game yesterday was just awesome. We even had a Rex Grossman sighting, which is always fun for so many reasons. He's a walking punchline, he brings nothing to the table, he turns the ball over in hilarious ways, and he looks like the identical twin of my buddy Jimbo, which always makes for an onslaught of unnecessary jokes. I mean really, not many quarterbacks can pull something like this before being entered into a game:



Please, Lovie Smith, keep playing Rex. It's too much fun for Packer fans. Watching him fail gives me so much joy.

OK, that's all for now. I'll have more later this week when there is CC Sabathia news to ramble on about.

Peace in the Middle West,
-dan