I was at the game Sunday, and while sitting in the Bear Weather, I was thinking the Bears should hire Mike Holgrum as coach. He has fire and passion and is a football guy. I played football in high school and think he would be good. The one thing for certain is they need to make changes. Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Bear down.

My buddies and I were just talking about this, and the possibility of bringing back McGowan.

I think they should bring back Grossman.

$11 for hot chocolate at Soldier Field

Dan's getting all pissy because someone suggested that the Bears' doldrums will close the gap with the other local teams. "There's not some finite amount of money that goes to sports." Yes, actually, for normal people, disposable income is most certainly finite, and perhaps spending money on a moribund Bears team won't be worth it when you can spend it not only on Chicago sports, but on any number of things that don't suck.

Dan's getting all pissy because someone suggested that the Bears' doldrums will close the gap with the other local teams. "There's not some finite amount of money that goes to sports." Yes, actually, for normal people, disposable income is most certainly finite, and perhaps spending money on a moribund Bears team won't be worth it when you can spend it not only on Chicago sports, but on any number of things that don't suck.


Also, he said calculus

last game hot chocolate in a souvinear cup was half off... so $5.50.... had me wondering who the hell would pay $11 for it. Beer is $9.25.... i think next year it jumps to $9.75... i wonder what the fans will say when the following year it goes over $10...

Also, he said calculus

how far do you think dan went into the realm of calculus throughout his higher/education? i wonder as someone who it took like 2-3 tries to get through calc 2, and then it's like "ok you know all that bullshit your dumb ass finally figured out? yeah next year in diff eq we're gonna throw in another variable or two. have fun with that" and that's about the point where i was just like "fuck this. there are people put on earth who are meant to design rockets and program computers and shit and i am definitely not one of those people. so it goes."

do you think dan ever hit that point, or was he a prissy literary major or something? what was his major?

The Bears could raise ticket prices 100% and every game would still sell out.

The Bears could raise ticket prices 100% and every game would still sell out.

It's funny. White Sox fans famously stay home from games to "demand a winner." Blackhawks fans wouldn't go to games until Bill died. But the same people ostensibly like the Bears and will eat up the Bears' shit with a spoon year after year because...why, exactly? Because of something that happened thirty years ago? It's idiotic. Football sucks in person anyway.

"It's just what they do." That pretty much gets to the heart of it. People support the Bears because supporting the Bears is what we do. No one gives it any higher thought than that; we can be critical of the other teams, but it's somehow our civic responsibility to sing along to the stupid fight song and think that they "represent" us by being "blue-collar" despite that describing neither player nor fan. It shouldn't matter how many home games there are per year. If the product is going to be this underwhelming, it doesn't matter if there are eight games or eight hundred. Find some better shit to do on a Sunday than worry about this crappy go-nowhere team.

"It's just what they do." That pretty much gets to the heart of it. People support the Bears because supporting the Bears is what we do. No one gives it any higher thought than that; we can be critical of the other teams, but it's somehow our civic responsibility to sing along to the stupid fight song and think that they "represent" us by being "blue-collar" despite that describing neither player nor fan. It shouldn't matter how many home games there are per year. If the product is going to be this underwhelming, it doesn't matter if there are eight games or eight hundred. Find some better shit to do on a Sunday than worry about this crappy go-nowhere team.

Let me guess, you only followed the Hawks once they were good too right?

Why does it bother you?

Spent many a lonely high school night with the radio on listening to the 02-03 and, worse, 03-04 Hawks, thanks.

I'm an idiot! Other people should know better!

Because I'm sick of football, I'm sick of the NFL, and I'm sick of the Bears. I hate that we treat this team like some treasured institution as if they're the Steelers or 49ers or any team that's actually accomplished anything and we're all just supposed to fall in line and unquestionably support this team because it's the NFL and because they're the Bears. It's empty-headed tautological bullshit. I hate the weird owners, I hate the unlikable players year after year, I hate the crappy stadium blighting the lakefront. Of the five pro teams in town, no one gives us less from more than the Bears, but to suggest that maybe this ought to change is dismissed: you don't just spend that time and money on other things!

Spent many a lonely high school night with the radio on listening to the 02-03 and, worse, 03-04 Hawks, thanks.

do you have a good paragraph or so on why european soccer sucks? i'd love to hear your thoughts on the mother nipple of your beloved canadian stick soccer on meth =D