NFC Championship (Bears fans)

[Flames24Rulz]

Oh, hooray. The NFL is monitoring the field condition at Soldier Field and will have the final say in what is done with it. Glad they have recognized what a problem the atrocious playing surface poses. Sorry to post the JS again, but it just popped up.

 

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/113932249.html

 

Nothing will happen. Even if they replace the sod, it won't take by Sunday. They played on a sheet of ice in Minnesota...they'll play on some bad grass in Chicago.

 

That's just the Green Bay press whining.

 

Unlike the Chicago press, the Packers beat writers aren't fans of the team. Objective journalism. Who knew such a thing existed?

 

are you freaking kidding me? i hope you're being saracstic, the packer fan base and media coverage are indistinguishable from one another.

 

i've never met a group of fans or a media base that was more rah-rah about the home team. chicago will tear their own team apart, even being a bears town.

 

Give me an example of a Bears reporter who tore the team apart.

 

Holmes, Zaidman, Dickerson, Biggs, and Mullin are all pretty big homers. Especially the first three.

[Sammy Sofa]

All of those guys have trashed Cutler, the receivers, the OL and Lovie and the coaches this year. Granted, less this year than usual, but if you think they're just rah-rah homers you just don't follow them except every once in a while. The stock and trade for a Chicago sports reporter is "what's wrong with this team?" like 95% of the time.

[Flames24Rulz]

All of those guys have trashed Cutler, the receivers, the OL and Lovie and the coaches this year. Granted, less this year than usual, but if you think they're just rah-rah homers you just don't follow them except every once in a while. The stock and trade for a Chicago sports reporter is "what's wrong with this team?" like 95% of the time.

 

More or less, I think they're just catering to the overly pessimistic fans.

[Sammy Sofa]

All of those guys have trashed Cutler, the receivers, the OL and Lovie and the coaches this year. Granted, less this year than usual, but if you think they're just rah-rah homers you just don't follow them except every once in a while. The stock and trade for a Chicago sports reporter is "what's wrong with this team?" like 95% of the time.

 

More or less, I think they're just catering to the overly pessimistic fans.

 

Regardless of why they're doing it, the bottom line is that most of the members of the sports media here are constantly looking for reasons to complain or rail against the teams here, and that's going to be true in almost any major market. Rah-rah, everything is great bull [expletive] doesn't make money, so this idea that Green Bay is somehow relatively unique because the press around them is "objective" (and they're not) is silly. It's the same there as it is basically everywhere.

[Magnetic Curses]

Oh, hooray. The NFL is monitoring the field condition at Soldier Field and will have the final say in what is done with it. Glad they have recognized what a problem the atrocious playing surface poses. Sorry to post the JS again, but it just popped up.

 

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/113932249.html

 

Nothing will happen. Even if they replace the sod, it won't take by Sunday. They played on a sheet of ice in Minnesota...they'll play on some bad grass in Chicago.

 

That's just the Green Bay press whining.

 

Unlike the Chicago press, the Packers beat writers aren't fans of the team. Objective journalism. Who knew such a thing existed?

 

are you freaking kidding me? i hope you're being saracstic, the packer fan base and media coverage are indistinguishable from one another.

 

i've never met a group of fans or a media base that was more rah-rah about the home team. chicago will tear their own team apart, even being a bears town.

 

Give me an example of a Bears reporter who tore the team apart.

 

Holmes, Zaidman, Dickerson, Biggs, and Mullin are all pretty big homers. Especially the first three.

 

brad biggs, jeff dickerson, and john mullin are all beat guys. zach zaidman is the score bears beat guy. i'm sure they'd be beloved on the sideline or in the locker room if they came on the air or wrote an article tearing them apart. holmes is the floating radio guy, but spends a lot of time with the team in bourbonais and can't afford to make enemies in the organization. if you want to listen to criticism, listen to the regular guys like boers and bernstein, boers is about as objective as they come, the whole "who you crappin????" segment is built on his antagonism of ditka. and i guarantee that no green bay station has the equivalent of a dan bernstein, a guy who begs chicago meatballs to come on his show so he can ruthlessly eviscerate them. they bring on hub arkush, a notorious bears-axe-grinder, to tell us how inept the bears will look this week. dan mcneil and matt spiegel aren't much more positive. you think those guys are rah-rah guys? that's unbelievable, and they're are the drive-time people.

 

these are personalities that you do not see in a less than big city.

 

 

and you will not find anyone like them in packerland, the land of the rah-rahs.

Edited January 18, 2011 by Stannis

[Old Style]

I really hate the [expletive] Packers. If by some chance God hates me and the Bears lose this Sunday, there is no chance in hell I will root for those shitheads in the Super Bowl. I am shocked that any Bears fan would do so.

[imb]

I really hate the [expletive] Packers. If by some chance God hates me and the Bears lose this Sunday, there is no chance in hell I will root for those [expletive] in the Super Bowl. I am shocked that any Bears fan would do so.

 

NFC! NFC! NFC!

[sweetpeteman]

I really hate the [expletive] Packers. If by some chance God hates me and the Bears lose this Sunday, there is no chance in hell I will root for those [expletive] in the Super Bowl. I am shocked that any Bears fan would do so.

 

 

If the Bears lose on Sunday, I will readily and happily root for the Packers.

 

 

 

/Dad is a Packers fan, Mom is a Bears fan, started following the Bears more after joining here, but still like both.

[Soul]

I really hate the [expletive] Packers. If by some chance God hates me and the Bears lose this Sunday, there is no chance in hell I will root for those [expletive] in the Super Bowl. I am shocked that any Bears fan would do so.

 

 

If the Bears lose on Sunday, I will readily and happily root for the Packers.

 

 

 

/Dad is a Packers fan, Mom is a Bears fan, started following the Bears more after joining here, but still like both.

 

Abomination. Unholy vile spawn of Baphomet.

 

Choose your team.

[TruffleShuffle]

BTW, Bill Simmons says he doesnt regret picking the Seahawks and said that it was just one of those games where you lose a starting TE right away, and the receivers drop a few balls and all the sudden things unravel and you lose a winnable game.

This is a joke, right? I honestly can't tell.

 

OK, he didn't use the term "winnable game" exactly, but the rest he said, and it was implied that it was a game that got out of hand early that probably shouldn't have.

 

apparently it's really tough to write "i was wrong"

[Outshined_One]

Come on [expletive], let's get some trash talk going.

 

I hope Clay Matthews gets arrested for soliciting a prostitute the night before the game.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I really hate the [expletive] Packers. If by some chance God hates me and the Bears lose this Sunday, there is no chance in hell I will root for those [expletive] in the Super Bowl. I am shocked that any Bears fan would do so.

 

 

If the Bears lose on Sunday, I will readily and happily root for the Packers.

 

 

 

/Dad is a Packers fan, Mom is a Bears fan, started following the Bears more after joining here, but still like both.

 

get out.

[Mark Priors Calves]

Come on [expletive], let's get some trash talk going.

 

I hope Clay Matthews gets arrested for soliciting a prostitute the night before the game.

c'mon, the green bay way is to rape an underage girl in a hot tub at a high school party.

[UMFan83]

Here are some Chicago sports media personalities that rip on the Bears:

 

Hub Arkush

Terry Boers

Dan Bernstein

Dan Pompei

Ed Obradovich

Doug Buffone

Steve Rosenbloom

Mark Silverman

 

None of them are necessarily on the beat but they represent people who on a regular basis talk Bears football and are not afraid to talk negative about the Bears.

[Magnetic Curses]

any columnist in either the sun-times or tribune.

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

Come on [expletive], let's get some trash talk going.

 

I hope Clay Matthews gets arrested for soliciting a prostitute the night before the game.

c'mon, the green bay way is to rape an underage girl in a hot tub at a high school party.

 

*allegedly

[ELCABALLO45]

The whole everyone is picking Green Bay or Green Bay players are confident and think they will win has nothing to do what will happen Sunday. If the Bears do beat the Packers it will have nothing to do with the Media picking them. Or the cute "everyone didn't believe in us!" garbage.

[Banedon]

Anybody want another reason to beat the Packers? Don't have enough reasons already? I find that unlikely, but here's another great reason...

 

In an e-mail response to ESPN's Ed Werder, Favre said Monday that the Packers are "by far" the best team left in the NFL playoffs.

 

"[Packers QB] Aaron [Rodgers] is the best QB and the receiving corps is the best ever, maybe," Favre said in the e-mail. "But [defensive coordinator] Dom [Capers] and the defense gets the MVP award at this stage."

 

"I think they will win it all! I hope they do, if you are wondering," Favre said in the e-mail.

[erik316wttn]

Come on [expletive], let's get some trash talk going.

 

I hope Clay Matthews gets arrested for soliciting a prostitute the night before the game.

 

He doesn't need prostitutes.

 

And should I force feed Jay Cutler some sugar? I'm kind of tempted.

Edited January 18, 2011 by erik316wttn

[BigSlick]

Anybody want another reason to beat the Packers? Don't have enough reasons already? I find that unlikely, but here's another great reason...

 

In an e-mail response to ESPN's Ed Werder, Favre said Monday that the Packers are "by far" the best team left in the NFL playoffs.

 

"[Packers QB] Aaron [Rodgers] is the best QB and the receiving corps is the best ever, maybe," Favre said in the e-mail. "But [defensive coordinator] Dom [Capers] and the defense gets the MVP award at this stage."

 

"I think they will win it all! I hope they do, if you are wondering," Favre said in the e-mail.

Thats a strange about face because I thought I heard him rooting for the Bears to edge the Packers for the division title earlier in the year

[minnesotacubsfan]

its Brett Favre, he can't decide if he wants to retire for crying out loud

[TruffleShuffle]

personally i would be careful about opening e-mails from brett favre.

[erik316wttn]

personally i would be careful about opening e-mails from brett favre.

 

haha

[UMFan83]

Anybody want another reason to beat the Packers? Don't have enough reasons already? I find that unlikely, but here's another great reason...

 

In an e-mail response to ESPN's Ed Werder, Favre said Monday that the Packers are "by far" the best team left in the NFL playoffs.

 

"[Packers QB] Aaron [Rodgers] is the best QB and the receiving corps is the best ever, maybe," Favre said in the e-mail. "But [defensive coordinator] Dom [Capers] and the defense gets the MVP award at this stage."

 

"I think they will win it all! I hope they do, if you are wondering," Favre said in the e-mail.

 

Looks like someone wants their number retired.

[UMFan83]

Come on [expletive], let's get some trash talk going.

 

I hope Clay Matthews gets arrested for soliciting a prostitute the night before the game.

 

He doesn't need prostitutes.

 

And should I force feed Jay Cutler some sugar? I'm kind of tempted.

 

The best you can do is make a diabetes joke? For shame.