Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
How could they hire Accorsi? Shouldn't they have hired someone else to consult on hiring Accorsi?
yeah that's exactly what i was thinking when they mentioned that during the pressers on "black monday." if you have no confidence in your own ability to bring in a football guy who oversee all of the football decisions to be made, then how confident are you that you can pick out a guy can go and pick out all of the football people to bring in? did they offer accorsi the general manager's / president-of-football-operations gig and he said no, but he'd be willing to take a nice lump sum to do a one time thing for your hapless franchise? that's the obvious ? to me, but these are the bears and thus i don't expect anything to make sense by default.
so in a sense, the franchise is in exactly the same place it was in back when it had to hire a consulting firm to find jerry angelo. IIRC the consulting firm was there to distance themselves from mike mccaskey's reign of terror and basically say "yeah we don't trust anyone here to make this call" and if i'm not mistaken that's exactly where we are now.... except that ted phillips gets to survive (unlike mike mccaskey) because he always makes ginny happy by bringing her a bunch of cash and in the end while losing sucks and you'll go out of your way to try and convince the public that losing bothers you even more than it does them, you at least get that nice consolation prize of ALWAYS being a very profitable enterprise that has to be filed under the "gift from god" category in terms of daddy mccaskey managing to plant a seed in ginny halas and then a few well-timed deaths and legal battles later the chicago bears are the property of the mccaskey family, a family that never had any business owning a NFL franchise but hey the lord works in mysterious ways.
i need someone older than me to answer this: would the bears have been in better hands if mugsy didnt die in late 79? there was nothing sketchy about his death whatsoever (oh look he had a heart attack! let's get all of those organs out of there and replace them with sawdust! hey if the past is for losers and cowards we're neither and we're not gonna get caught looking back!) and of course that and a few legal battles made sure that the bears ended up solely in the hands of the mccaskey family (my dad was telling me the other day that after papa bear died there were legal battles to make sure that the mccaskeys got everything and there were grandkids with the last name of halas, mugs' kids, who got jack squat diddly shit. he says there was a "nick halas" who was a cop in skokie last he checked... and there's other halas kids out there who have the name but nothing else as they were all removed from the will/family/bears/etc in a possibly/probably-sketchy fashion --- again i ask you people older than me for a little help here!)
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Curious Hair wrote:
Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?
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