Calling it quits. That was a quick and unfulfilling 16 years. So much talent.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

would have been the second best bull of all time but for that injury. So many dreams went down with his torn leg. He was so great and a rare star who was a hard nosed player. Bulls still haven't recovered and that was 12 years ago.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

A shame he was so stupid with all that talent.

Now we’ll finally find out whether he’ll be able to sit through meetings without being all sore.

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Jordan retired from the Bulls thirteen years before Rose tore his knee up against Philadelphia. Next March it will have been thirteen years since Rose tore his knee up against Philadelphia.

Thanks David Haugh

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Yep really sad. He was so good when he was healthy. That dunk over the dude I think from the Suns. Crazy.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Sex belt.

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Closer to 14, the injury was 2012. 2011 was the conference final. Still, though, where does the time go?

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Not much of an NBA guy but I remember exactly where I was when he was injured. Watching the game at Murphy's Pub in Champaign -- post C-U marathon.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

I guess one of the aspects of tanking as a strategy is that you can have these dark ages that last decades and it feels like nothing. You could say the same about the Sox and Bears since 2012 too. The 2018 Bears season will be less recent to the present day than the Packers’ NFC Championship loss was to the 2018. What’s happened in the meantime? Fat load of nothing. Sitting around watching quarterbacks fail to develop.

Everyone thought NBA/NFL/MLB Hell was being moderately competitive year after year. Good enough to make the playoffs but not good enough to win it all. Well OK that’s what 2000-2010 was in Chicago and it featured more excitement in any single year than we’ve had from the Sox, Bulls and Bears cumulatively 2012-present.

That 2018 Bears team has achieved mythical status in my recollection. Why? They got bounced immediately from the playoffs. Its because everything that surrounds it is shit.