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I don't think so. It's not on the Superstation. I'm getting the Clipper broadcast here in the LA area. Yeah I checked all the usual channels. Looks like one of those WCIU local-only deals. *sigh*

This game on outside Chicago?

Don't bother me with details like whether or not this will actually make a difference. I'm happy to see Woody back :) This is a nice little bit of news for a Friday afternoon/evening.

It should have been fairly obvious there would be boos bringing Chelios back to be honored. That was kind of embarrassing. I didn't realize he actually played 7 years in Montreal before he even came to Chicago. Yes, he had a lot of good years here, but I think elevating him to the same kind of level as the Espositos and the Hulls is a bit much, considering the majority of his career, and the most successful parts of his career, were spent elsewhere.

Hopefully we can give him a whole new set of migraines to worry about. He'll probably see quite a bit of action. Wildcat, end arounds, etc. I'll be looking for it. Hopefully the Bears are, too.

Like it :) Go Rexy.

It's interesting in the sense that this is the kind of thing that happens when a team melts down.

Yeah, there's being dumb and then there's just straight making things up, which is what Stone did here. Amazing. The thing about Ramirez not diving for balls is staggering. Aramis dives in the field regularly. As someone mentioned, that even caused the most significant injury of his career at one point. Stone is a clown. Goony is probably right on saying that if Ramirez was white, he'd be thought of as a guy that's tough and plays hurt. The Ramirez part was where my brain exploded. I can't believe that was committed to words. Seriously.

Maybe it's a bad case of Igiveup-ism, along with a side case of butcan'tadmitIt-itis.

The prima donna is whining about the physical toll of travelling at odd hours now? He has to be attempting to set the stage for one last start doesn't he? Haha. This tells me he's checked out for the season, regardless of whether he's going to be there or not. Can't wait for the numerous camera shots of him on the sidelines Monday night, sitting there.....doing nothing. Hopefully it's in the context of Webb performing so poorly that Viking fans wish Favre were healthy.

I think no beer + cold temps will overcome the novelty of the situation and we'll see a light crowd. Or maybe a full house at the beginning but a lot of early departures.

Well they better get over it. Losing this game because you decided to get all pissy about conditions is simply not acceptable. Not this week. Not with this much at stake.

This one was laughable, even for Stone. I swear he's getting dumber every time I see something from him.

All signs were pointing toward Sandberg until Quade won a couple more games than expected and gave them a reason to hire him. Hendry often has crazy plans, and he switches them up in a heartbeat. There's no set path. I'm sure he saw the success and thought it must have been because of the manager, since all the talent he acquired couldn't possibly be a sub .500 team. I say why not give him the job. They were so awful last season, give him the job when it's not like he can do any major damage. Last year was painful! I'd like something at least remotely interesting to watch if nothing else. What's done is done, and hopefully one day he can come back. None of us knows what went on behind the scenes, but if he was promised the job when Lou left, he got royally screwed. Period. A year ago no one was on the "Quade for manager" bandwagon, but now he's the manager. He's not quite as polarizing as Sandberg for manager would have been, that's for sure. My biggest hope is that Quade goes out of his way to prove he deserves this. Then again, with Hendry as GM, it's not like he's gonna have a lot of opportunity I guess. Still.... looking forward to April..... Eh, Quade gets his chance to succeed where folks don't think he can. If he fails, it was never going to happen anyway --- and everyone walks away clean. With Ryno all those expectations come with him, because he's the legend. You know most Cub fans. It's Ryno. They're going to believe he'll pull off a miracle, or whatever. Then he fails, and it sours the memory of the man. I don't know. I'm glad he was denied. I'll take a little butt-hurted-ness from Ryno. Because I'm convinced that him managing this club, at this particular time, would have been a catastrophe.

Harvey. There's a name. Haha, he's trying the reliever route now? Good luck.

Mind. Blown.

I'm just going to assume this will all work out one way or another. The NFL are a group of big boys, being paid good money, to do a job. Figure it out. That game Monday night? It needs to be an NFL game played at a decently-prepped venue. The goal is pretty clear.

I'd just go with the existing rankings, and put the top 16 in. I think most of the strong arguments come from a team not making a BCS game, or not making the national championship game. But those are all going to be top ranked teams. It gets harder for me to justify being upset when we're talking about a #17 being left out, vs. a #5 or something like that. It's never going to be perfect.

Yeah, just read that. It's so irritating because it's such an important game for the Bears. The only thing I can add is an interview this morning where Jaworski said he & the 300-ish MNF staff were all flying to Minny with the full understanding that this game is going to be played at TCF.

The Bears have no idea what to prepare for. And there's no telling what that field is going to do to either team's gameplan or execution. That game is far from an automatic Bear win. And I agree, it's pretty amazing how important that game has become to the Bears.

This is going to be a circus.

Now I'm officially having a bad day. This sucks.

Welp, we suck now. Nite everyone.

All I want to see is a solid game where we don't have a late goalgasm and blow ourselves up.

You've "tried"? That implies that you failed and/or quit drinking beer because the temperature was 50. I refuse to believe that. Do you not attend/tailgate any Iowa football or Bears games? Seriously Bob, that's kind of pathetic. I've drank beer tailgating at Jets games that were 20 degrees mainly because that is the only point in attending a game you have no interest in. The good thing is the mountains are always blue. Good thing too. I have a condition where I can't feel temperature. Those mountains are the only way I know it's cold.