UMFan83

Don't stop Erik, you're on a roll!

lol, so ESPN Sportsnation has a poll for who will win the game. The choices are Chicago comfortably, Chicago close, GB comfortably, GB close. GB close has 42%, followed by GB comfortably 32%, followed by Bears close 21% and Bears comfortably 5% But that's not the funny thing. 47 states had Packers close the majority pick. As expected, Illinois was the only state that had Bears in a close one. But then there were 2 states that picked Packers comfortably, Wisconson and......Washington. Those crazy bitter Seahawks fans want the Packers to thrash us. For once, I am glad the Thunder left for OKC. Also sticking with the stereotypes of the Bears: -70% have McCarthy as the better coach -64% think that Jay Cutler's inconsistency is a bigger question mark than GBs running game. -49% think that Chicago having HFA helps "a little" (vs. 30% that think its no advantage)

That's funny, but he was one of only 2 of those "experts" to go 3-1 the week before. He predicted the Seahawks both weeks.

I blame you for watching that abortion of a television program. I'm quitting it this year, but yeah... It's worth it just for Kaplan's on-air tantrum over it on CTL last night, and how the rest of the panel responded to him like he was a brat throwing a hissyfit. I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw that. That was embarrassing, even for Kaplan's standards.

Who do you all think has a better chance of beating the Packers or Bears in the Super Bowl?

He doesn't need prostitutes. And should I force feed Jay Cutler some sugar? I'm kind of tempted. Yeah right, like there's any of that leftover in your apartment There wouldn't be, because I've lived in my own house for the last 5 years. Gotta love the fat jokes from you guys. Nobody's smart enough to think of anything else? Get some new material. (anxiously waits for the next SCATHING fat joke, because, indeed, nobody here IS smart enough to think of anything else) You are the person who made an awful diabetes joke. You aren't smart enough to think of anything else?

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.

Looks like someone wants their number retired.

I have a feeling the Jets are gonna win this. I'll say Jets 19 Steelers 17

Burgess was a 1st round sandwhich pick for the Nats in the 2007 draft. Was this the draft pick we gave the Nats for signing Soriano? Edit: Nevermind, I just looked it up. Burgess' pick was given to the Nats for losing Jose Guillen. Soriano's compensation pick was the first pick of the supplemental round, 31st overall.

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.

First of all, its rather odd that the Hawks have 5 full days off in the middle of the season and it's not the All Star Break. I know it happens occasionally but it never feels right. Second of all, good move for the Hawks/Flyers game to be moved from 3PM to 11:30AM on Sunday. That move was made on January 5th, but it probably would have happened at some point due to the Bears game. I don't know who in Chicago would choose to goto a Blackhawks regular season game instead of going to or watching the Bears/Packers NFC Championship game. Now, its set up to be an amazing doubleheader. At 11:30, we have a rematch of the Stanley Cup Finals last year, and that game will get over exactly at 2 when the Bears game starts. I wish the game started at 11 or the Bears game started at 3. That would be an awesome Chicago sports doubleheader to attend.

So Aaron Rodgers is a cancer patient hating jerk apparently.

I was reading an article that was saying until this season, the Packers would put Woodson exclusively on Olsen, and he was really effective at preventing Olsen from getting anything. This year they mixed him on the WRs, and as we remember, he stopped Knox completely in the 2nd game. It'll be tough but its not like we only have one pass catcher that we trust and that's it. I look for Earl Bennett to step up and have a good 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.

I think the Bears were daring the Seahawks to blitz them with their playcalling. Cutler has been awesome for the most part against the blitz in the 2nd half of the season. Reason of course being that the O-line has done better at holding them off long enough to find the open man. Also, the plays called are allowing Cutler a safety valve when the o-line doesn't hold.

Exactly. And that doesn't upset me at all. If you told me back in September that we'd be in the NFC title game with a 50% chance of winning, I'd be all about it and I am all about it now.

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.

Assume you meant "team" and not "game", but I think the Packers are pretty close to being clearly better than the Bears. Passing game is one of the league's elite. Bears run game is much better, but not enough to make up the difference. I think the Packers are a better team defensively too, especially vs. the pass. But that's a closer contest. Special teams is where the Bears have a huge advantage, though. But if you ask the Packers and most of the free world, they would say the Packers are clearly better (as witnessed by the early picks for the game). That being said, the Bears clearly don't need a miracle to win and they aren't even overmatched in any way. People keep telling me the Packers are better than the Bears, yet the Bears are the ones hosting this game. I realize we've gotten a lot of breaks this year, but we've played them twice and have showed no signs of being inferior to the Packers. Maybe we just match up really well against them defensively, but for whatever reason I don't fear the Packers one bit. Doesn't mean I don't think they can win or even blow us out. But I like our odds on Sunday, as much as the Packers fans probably do. Maybe I shouldn't be doing this, but a huge huge part of my confidence comes from almost beating the Packers in Lambeau when there was nothing on the line for us and everything for the Packers. By all rights they should have blown us out, especially coming off a 30+ point victory over the Giants, and no Bears fan would have lost that much confidence in the team. But their high flying offense that scares everyone put up 10 points and struggled to move the ball most of the game, and we were right there in the end despite having an unsustainable unbalanced offense. That gave me all the confidence in the world that we can beat them if we play them again in the playoffs, which we are about to. I'm not confident of a victory, I'm confident that we have a good chance of winning. I'll take 50/50 at this point.

Oh that's cute. Clay Matthews thinks his team represents an actual city.

PACKER FANs are douchebags

The one additional cool thing about this game, is that it seems to me that both fanbases are extremely confident in their team's chances on Sunday. I don't think Packers fans are all that fearful of playing the Bears, and I don't think Bears fans are all that scared of playing the Packers. It's not like where one team is clearly a better all around football game, and the other side is praying for a miracle to win. If I goto this game, I'm gonna find a safe spot so that I can survive if things get out of hand between the winning and losing fan bases. There is likely to be a lot of energy and emotion coming from both fanbases. Although I'm a Bears fan and it slightly hurts us, another cool thing is that the Bears home field advantage will be somewhat negated. I'm gonna guess maybe 70-30 or 75-25 depending on how many Bears fans cave and sell their season tickets. I know a buddy of mine whose dad has seats in the United Club and told me that if he sold his 4 tickets for Sunday, it would pay for 3/4ths of the season. And these have a $300 face value in the regular season.

That was awesome. Most fun I've had at work in months watching Rose's quest for a triple double. 28-13 and we won on the road against a decent team without Boozer and Noah. Impressive. Chicago sports are bullish right now.

From what I've seen he hits a lot of line drives, has a great OF arm, but has a Tony Gwynn like physique which will obviously limit him as a player. Seems like his issue is inconsistency. Inconsistent performance, inconsistent approach to the plate, etc.

If so, who cares who the other 2 are. This is a great trade! Former 1st round pick. 2007 1st round pick with strong power numbers in the mid minors and a great OF arm (was rated best OF arm in the Nats org back in 2009 by BA). That's a fantastic prospect to get for Gorz. It seems like he had a bit of a drop in expectations over the last year. Didn't really look like he had a down year though. Maybe just progressing through the minors too slowly? I have seem him somewhere around the 8th to 12th best prospect in the Nats org.