NCCubFan

As usual, a national "expert" is about 2 weeks behind. Finley is out of play now that Soriano agreed to play CF and the Cubs signed Floyd. Hendry said after the Finley signing that he was now done with FA signings for this year. An easy mistake to make when talking about the two of them, but talk about a Freudian slip :D. Close enough; they both begin with "F." :lol:

#3! Absurd. They're conducting fan voting on their web site, and last I checked the 85 Bears were #1 according to the fan voting.

NFL Network is showing a series called America's Game, where they're counting down the top 20 Super Bowl teams of all time. #3, which I believe is slated to air Friday evening, is the 1985 Bears. The first showing is scheduled for 8:30 P.M. Eastern time, but it is repeated several times.

So you're raising cain about it. :lol:

I'm a big fan of both the Cubs and Bears (I grew up in the Chicago area). I like the Colts (I was living in Indiana when they made their infamous overnight escape from Baltimore) and Panthers (I had moved to Carolina a year before they began play) too, but the Bears will always be number 1 with me.

The Bears' own web site would never acknowledge that possibility, though.

There's one possibility that wasn't even provided as an option in the chicagobears.com poll, and that is Grossman himself scoring on a quarterback sneak.

Maybe the fact that the Bears put this poll on their web page but the Colts didn't do one speaks to the relative confidence of the two teams. :D

This is a poll on chicagobears.com. Let's see how responses here compare to responses there.

4 days, 21 hours, and 45 minutes. EDIT: I just noticed that the countdown clock on the Colts' web site actually includes milliseconds, while the Bears' web page only does it in seconds. That's the one thing the Colts will be more accurate at than the Bears. :D

Hmm, is someone turning 21 on that day or something? :wink:

And the actual meaningless games don't begin until March anyway.

Better than 0-10.

Most years I think this would be a no-brainer for most people on the board, but this year I think it's an interesting question.

Many years, the actual game is a time to take a restroom or snack break between commercials. Not this year.

In honor of Super Bowl XLI, here are 41 things that have changed since the Bears' last Super Bowl. This was e-mailed to me by a member of a fantasy league I'm in; I'm not sure where it originated. I remember something similar about the Cubs posted on this board a few years ago. 1 Brian Urlacher was in 2nd grade. Rex Grossman was in kindergarten. 2 Peyton Manning was 10 years old. Eli Manning was 5 years old. Their dad, Archie, had just retired from the NFL two years earlier. 3 Lovie Smith was in his first college coaching job at University of Tulsa. 4 Ronald Reagan was the President, and Harold Washington was the Mayor. James R. Thompson was the Governor running for re-election and his office was in the new State of Illinois Center, which is now called the James R. Thompson Center. 5 George W. Bush was 39 years old and still drinking. His father would run for President two years later. 6 Rod Blagojevich was just out of law school and was a low-level prosecutor working for the Cook County State's Attorney, Richard M. Daley. 7 Barack Obama had just moved to Illinois, and Osama bin Laden was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. 8 Red Grange and Sid Luckman were still alive. 9 The Colts had just moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore and were the doormat of the AFC EAST. The Bears were the champions of the NFC CENTRAL. 10 Property in Wicker Park and Bucktown was cheap because they were really bad neighborhoods. 11 CD players, cellular phones and fax machines were expensive, cutting edge technology and only a few people used them. 12 "Surfing the net" meant a volleyball game at the beach, and virtually no one used the "@" key on their TYPEWRITER. 13 Sam Walton was still alive and was wealthier than Bill Gates. Windows were panes of glass...not a computer operating system that was a pain in something that rhymes with glass. 14 The Soviet Union was our main enemy, and Saddam Hussein was our ally. 15 There were no lights at Wrigley Field, and the oldest park in baseball belonged to the White Sox. 16 Michael Jordan and Ozzie Guillen had just finished their "Rookie of the Year" seasons. Jordan's coach was Stan Albeck and Guillen's manager was Tony LaRussa. (Three out of four of those guys are now wearing championship rings, but what ever happened to Stan Albeck???) 17 Soldier Field had AstroTurf. The Houston Oilers played in the AstroDome. 18 The Fox TV Network didn't exist, and ESPN had yet to air a single live pro football, baseball, or basketball game. 19 MTV played music and so did some AM radio stations. 20 Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff weren't born yet; Jackie Gleason and Richard Nixon were still alive. 21 Hillary Clinton had dark hair and was the First Lady......of Arkansas! 22 "The Love Boat" and "Diff'rent Strokes" were still on network TV every week. 23 Martin Luther King Day was about to be celebrated as a National Holiday for the first time. "9-11" was a phone number many cities were just adopting for emergency calls - not a date of terror. 24 I-88 was called "Illinois Rt. 5" and I-355 hadn't been built yet. 25 What the CTA now calls "The Blue Line" had just been extended to O'Hare, and the Orange Line to Midway hadn't been built yet. 26 Q101 played adult contemporary music and most teenagers listened to WLS. Music from the 70s and 80s wasn't "retro" yet. 27 Tiger Woods hadn't won an amateur golf tournament yet. 28 Most people knew Seattle just as a city in the Northwest U.S. - not the home of grunge or Starbucks. 29 Only Southerners went to NASCAR races and only Northerners went to NHL games. 30 The Chicago area had no Wal-Marts, Targets or Home Depots, and Walgreen's was only in the Midwest. 31 Depending on your bank, your ATM card was good at only "Cash Station" machines or only at "Money Network" machines, but there were no fees. 32 "The Phone Company" was Illinois Bell. 33 They still sold leaded gasoline and you couldn't pay for your gas at the pump. 34 Discover Card hadn't been discovered yet, and Miller Genuine Draft hadn't been brewed yet. 35 Stereo TVs were the rage that HDTVs are now. 8-track tapes were still being made. 36 All of the Blockbuster Video stores that are now closing hadn't opened yet. Betamax was still competing with VHS. 37 You paid cash for your groceries and fast food, and you used a travel agent to book airline flights. 38 Bowl games didn't have corporate sponsors, and if the #1 ranked team was in a conference that played in one bowl game and the #2 ranked team was in a conference that played in another bowl game, then so be it! They let the sportswriters vote on the national champion. (and no college football games were played after New Year's Day) 39 The Baltimore Ravens were the Cleveland Browns. The Tennessee Titans were the Houston Oilers. The Oakland Raiders were the Los Angeles Raiders that had just left Oakland. The Arizona Cardinals (the former Phoenix Cardinals) were the St. Louis Cardinals, and the St. Louis Rams were the Los Angeles Rams. The Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers, Houston Texans, and the Cleveland Browns (not to be confused with the Cleveland Browns that are now the Baltimore Ravens) didn't exist. The Seattle Seahawks (last year's NFC Champions) played in the AFC. 40 Number 9 on the Bears was their Punky QB...not their perky field goal kicker. 41 There were no iPods - just Sony Walkmen - so if you said something about a "shuffle" on your Walkman, they assumed you were listening to "The Super Bowl Shuffle" and one thing that will be the same from the Chicago Bears last Super Bowl appearance..... THEY WILL WIN!!!! GO BEARS!!!!!!

I definitely think head-to-head is more fun, especially if it is in a private league with people you're familiar with (such as from NSBB). I joined a public league this football season just to see what it's like, and it's the first and last time I'll do a public league.

Tennessee is AA. Daytona is high-A (Peoria is low-A).

This reminds me of the NFL Network commercials that ran starting right after the Super Bowl a couple of times (I don't think there was one last year, but there was each of the two previous years) where well-known players from non-Super Bowl teams (I remember Peyton Manning in particulat) took turns singing the song "Tomorrow" from Annie. The tag line was that tomorrow everybody is 0-0.

And that turned out to be a moot point, because a few years later the Colts had both James and Williams. The other Ricky Williams, that is (the one from Texas Tech). :D

I've already ordered the DVD and the Super Bowl program. Since the Bears are my favorite team and the Colts second, I'd want the DVD regardless of the outcome.

Even though I am a DirecTV subscriber, I do still see advantages to cable. In many markets (including mine) the local channels aren't yet available in HD (unless you use an off-air antenna), while they are available on digital cable. A person shouldn't be forced to choose between getting the sports packages or getting local channels in HD. If DirecTV is allowed to go through with this I feel that, as a condition, they should be required to IMMEDIATELY make any local channels with HD broadcasta available in all markets. That way a person could switch to DirecTV to keep EI without losing their local channels in HD.

If anything, it could hurt current DirecTV subscribers in the future in the form of higher prices. As others have pointed out, with a monopoly DirecTV could raise the price as much as they want to and people who want the package would have no choice but to pay it because they couldn't get it from another source at a lower cost. This should be an illegal monopoly.

Yes. Because before that, MLB on satellite radio didn't exist. It'd be similar if MLB used to be on both, but switched to just one provider. I see, thanks. Actually it's XM that carries MLB. Sirius has the NFL.