Tomorrow the 2006 football season for your Chicago Bears will begin on the hallowed grounds of Lambeau Field. Tomorrow Rex Grossman ceases to be a hypothetical. Tomorrow Charles Tillman stays on his feet. Why?
Because this is a damn good football team, that's why. This is the finest football team we've had since Da Coach stopped roaming Da Sidelines. It took over a decade to clean up the pile of shit Dave Wannstedt left at Halas Hall, but it's clean now. Ask Barnum. Ask Bailey. When an elephant takes a shit...
Tomorrow they show us how good they are and we don't have to talk about the "golden days" of Erik Kramer. We don't have to talk about mortgaging the future for Rick Mirer, starting Henry Burris in primetime or Jim Miller trying to make tackles in the playoffs.
Tomorrow is tomorrow. It is football season. And there is no football without the Chicago Bears. We started it and this year we're going to finish it. We're going to hit the shit out of every team on every field and when they close the book on the 2006 season, they're going to bind it in navy blue and orange.
I'll meet you all right here tomorrow evening at 1-0.
#2 jeff said . . .When I read Henry Burris it makes my eyes bleed, please no more mention.
Anyway, well spoken, well said, and well done.
Get fucking PUMPED!!!!September 9, 2006
#3 Russ said . . .off the bears website...awesome fact: Bears quarterback Rex Grossman is the only active NFL quarterback other than Brett Favre to have multiple regular season wins at Lambeau Field.
September 9, 2006
#4 Noah said . . .Dude, that was great. I'm so tired of these salty Blogs talking about when the Bears are gonna fall off and how crappy they think they are. Screw that! The Bears are going 16-0 this year and Rex is gonna throw for a million yards! You rock, dude. Go Bears!
September 9, 2006
#5 Max said . . .If you can't believe before week 1 when can you believe?
September 9, 2006
#6 Dirty Sanchez said . . .After week 1 when we are 1-0 and coming off a stomping of the packers at Lambeau is also a good time to believe
September 9, 2006
#7 revdad said . . .I'm in Gainesville, FL and I desperately need a Bears bar! Not a goddamn Packer bar, a full-fledged BEARS bar. Help, quick!
September 9, 2006
#8 revdad said . . .i read 'em so you don't have to ...
packers game predictions:
trib: bears 20, pack 13
sun-times: bears 20, pack 17sports illustrated, king: bears, 19-10 ... 'favre to get terrorized by tommie harris, brian urlacher and lance briggs"
espn, wojechowski: "upset special: packers over the bears"
green bay press-gazette apparently doesn't do predictions, but columnist vandermaus says that, for packers this season, "wins will be few and far between"
milwaukee sentinel moves all its packers columns into its "packer insider" subscription package. prediction: i won't be paying $5.95 a month to be a packer insider
next post: bears season predictions, including gregg easterbrook haiku
September 10, 2006
#9 jeff said . . .i read 'em round 2: bears season predictions
sun-times preview: 9-7. losses to vikings at minnesota, cardinals (!), dolphins, giants, rams (!!), patriots, seahawks
sun-times columnists mariotti, biggs, mulligan, telander: all say 10-6trib:
morrissey: 10-6
downey ... wow, jeff, you picked the wrong trib columnist to be pissed at: downey says 8-8, because "The NFL's worst offense was not upgraded a bit." (um, mike: grossman/griese vs. the rookie orton ... hellooo)copley, mike nadel: 10-6. another one who sees loss to arizona(!), plus to tampa bay and lions round 2 (!!); but thinks bears beat seahawks AND pats.
espn sports guy (simmons): 11-5
wojechowski: bears win division (no record predicted), lose wild card game. grossman injury means griese finishes season ... jones/benson "testiest and most interesting battle in the league"16 espn experts all pick bears to win division except sal pal (lions ... LIONS?) and mark schlereth (vikes)
spts illus
king: 9-7 (lions ... LIONS?... win division at 10-6). bears "too unsettled on offense."
Dr. Z: 11-5. nfc north is "chicago and the three stooges"espn gregg easterbrook, haiku prediction:
"for them, 3-0
considered high-scoring game
the chicago bears"
easterbrook season prediction, 9-7, bears win divisionstart looking up crow recipes. a lot of these guys are going to need one in january ... go bears!
September 10, 2006
#10 Dirty Sanchez said . . .i've got the bears going 15-1 and this week's game...71-6
September 10, 2006
#11 jeff said . . .Will the real Dirty Sanchez please stand up! You stole my name bitch! Bears 24, Pack 10. I invited my shithead packer-fan brother-in-law down to watch the game so I can terrorize his ass. I even printed out the favre pic from this site, the one with targets, and hung it under the TV. Should be fun watching the bears D-Line eat packer meat.
Bear down!
September 10, 2006
#12 fred said . . .Woah! We've got Ringer Sanchez...change your name Gainesville Sanchez so we don't confuse you guys. It's funny though.
I've been awake since 6 this morning. Have had two large black iced coffees from Dunkies. Holding off on the breakfast sandwich (my favorite food) for the wings and steak sandwich to come. 4:00...that's what it is about today. 4:00
September 10, 2006
#13 Reverenddave said . . .Up since five, coffee is about gone. Is it to early for a beer?
September 10, 2006
#14 Max said . . .Its Bears vs. Packers week 1. . . never to early for beer
September 10, 2006
#15 Reverenddave said . . .Green Bay play by play announcer was just on 670 the score, his final score prediction: Bears 31 - Packers 10
September 10, 2006
#16 Noah said . . .I have absolutely no memory of writing the above comment but I had such a sleepless night last night that I have no problem believing I woke up at one point and wrote that before passing back out. Sounds like me.
To hell with predicting the score, Im predicting Favre: 4 sacks, 1 fumble, 1 int, 12 grimaces with the frustrated pull at his chinstrap.
September 10, 2006
#17 Tim said . . .Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout. Shutout.
September 11, 2006
#18 Ernst said . . .Anyone know of a Bears bar in the Milwaukee area? I'm dyin' here in Packer land...
September 23, 2006
I'm going to be Gainesville, FL on Superbowl Sunday because my wondeful friend doesn't want to drive to Miami. I know someone else asked this but is there an official Bears bar.
January 24, 2007
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