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I don’t even care that I lost my fantasy game. BOO-YAH.

going 3-and-out is not the way to win football games. On the bright side, the defense is playing solidly though not spectacularly, and Tillman, coming off a week spent injured, is playing like he has something to prove. If only the rest of the team was doing the same…

you can say is that Devin Hester is, as always, amazing. Jesus, the guy is only in his second NFL season, and he’s already a legend. He is revolutionizing how people think about special teams, and I have no doubt that he will play a big part in the history of the league.

being played in Detroit today. Wide receivers are dropping passes (like they’ve been doing all season), the running backs are just not getting it done (also like they’ve been, er, not doing all season), Griese is an at-best lackluster replacement for the dangerously self-destructive Rex Grossman, and there are penalties all over the place. About the only positive thing you can say is that the D looks solid, if not spectacular. Which is actually something of a miracle, as the secondary is simply decimated by injury.

That said, as ugly as this game is shaping up to be, the Bears are holding on to their 4-point lead by their fingernails.

In other news, how about that Tony Romo? God, he’s good. Now pay attention, boys and girls: the Cowboys are my early-season NFC champion favorites.

Also, speaking of the Cowboys, I have to say I love that Pepsi Max commercial with the yawning offensive coordinator. Ha!

Final score: 115-105, in my opponent’s favor. I didn’t win, but my team did turn in a respectable performance.

Well now that that’s over, it’s time for the best game of the week: Cowboys vs. BEARS!

Such is the life of a Chicago sports fan. Joe Buck said today that we learned three things for sure:

• The Bears can stop the run.
• The Bears’ defense looks fantastic.
• The running backs, being tested in the (tragic, IMO) absence of Thomas Jones, just didn’t get it done. Cedric Benson and Adrian Peterson had one fumble each, and those turnovers just killed us. Killed us.

In fantasy news, I had thought that I wasn’t going to win against my opponent, who racked up a mind-boggling 105 points Thursday night and today. Unfortunately for the Bears, LT happened, supplementing his relatively small amount of rushing yards (BEARS.) with a touchdown pass to Antonio Gates, therefore putting me back in the running. By the end of the second game, I had racked up 104 points. We each have one player left to play on Monday night—my opponent: San Francisco’s Darrell Jackson, me: Ocho cinco. It’s not a sure thing, but I’m reasonably confident that I will prevail.

In other depressing news, the Bears have just cemented the ignominious position of last place in the NFC North: Green Bay, Detroit, and Minnesota all won their games today. I’m going to cry.

That is all. We held San Diego—San Diego, mind you—to 0 points and 6 rushing yards in the 1st quarter. The D is looking beautiful. More to come…

:’(

We’ve hit the 2-minute warning, and unless there’s a miracle, the Bears have lost the Superbowl. Through substandard play, pure and simple. In this second half, they’ve looked more like the Bears of the late season and not the Bears that played in the divisional and NFC championship playoff games. The D wasn’t there, and Grossman was throwing interceptions right and left. Of all the days, man.

I will be missing the rioting in Chicago when the Bears WIN THE SUPERBOWL. BEARS!!! Thank you.

7 point underdogs in the Superbowl. I am unsurprised, not because I don’t think they’re as good as the Colts (perish the thought!), but because they’ve been getting shortchanged on faith all season. Until now:

Chicago Bears fans, poor souls, must be asking themselves, why, oh why, should Lovie and the gang even bother showing up in Miami?

The NFL pundits, those pontificating Phd.’s of gridiron prognostication (most of whom, of course, predicted the Saints would run right through the Bears last Sunday) are now piling on, forecasting an easy win for the Colts in Super Bowl XLI.

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To hear the experts tell it, this sounds like the most lopsided Super Bowl since, well, 2002, when the high-powered St. Louis Rams were picked by everyone and his sister to steamroll the New England Patriots, led by some rookie QB fill-in named Brady.

We know how that came out. Experts, be damned. The game’s played on the field, it’s played with emotion and it’s played with a slippery oblong ball that takes funny bounces. Here are five reasons the pundits are full of Colts manure, and Da Bears will whup Tony Dungy’s boys on Feb. 4.

Preach on, brother. Read the whole thing. (Thanks to Prachee for the link.)