By Jim Coffman

Dabo redeems!
I hate, hate, hate cults of college coaches, but if I was ever going to join one, it would be the church of William Christopher “Dabo” Swinney, the Clemson football coach who led his team to a thrilling 35-31 upset victory over Alabama and Little Nicky Saban for the national championship last night. The Tide coach failed to win his fifth minor league football championship in eight years, and everyone in America outside of Alabama is breathing a sigh of relief.
Unfortunately, I don’t think the Dabo cult, which will surely now enjoy explosive growth, would have me. Swinney has been scolded in the past for overdoing the Christian stuff and I bowed out of Christianity a while ago.

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Posted on January 10, 2017

Video by The State

Whoever that dude is making snow angels on the field, he’s our favorite*.

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Posted on January 10, 2017

By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes

George McCaskey is not a patient man – except when it comes to his family’s ownership and management of the Bears. Then his patience is infinite. Plus: Wake Me Up When Rondo Go-Goes; Arty On Top; and Toasting Terry While Opening The Score’s Door.

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Posted on January 7, 2017

By Lawrence Hurley/Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court last month cleared the way for the National Football League’s estimated $1 billion settlement of concussion-related lawsuits with thousands of retired players to take effect, rejecting a challenge brought by a small group of dissenters.
The eight justices refused to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling in April upholding the settlement, which resolved litigation brought by players who accused the NFL of covering up information that tied head trauma like that suffered playing football to permanent brain damage.
The settlement enables the NFL, the most popular U.S. sports league with billions of dollars in annual revenue, to avoid litigation that could have led to huge sums in damages and provided embarrassing details about how it has dealt with the dangers posed by head trauma in the violent sport.

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Posted on January 6, 2017

By Jim Coffman

“Just fire everyone” doesn’t cut it – especially when the current coaching regime is only two years into its run after the last regime lasted only two years.
Making that move can be satisfying at the time, but if a football team does it too frequently we all know it quickly heads into Cleveland Browns territory, or even worse at this point, San Francisco (congratulations to legacy owner monstrosity Jed York for spending the last two years obliterating what made the Niners one of the league’s proudest franchises).
And yes, the Bears are awfully close to a laughingstock as well at this point. But it makes the most sense to hang in there for another season with a general manager who had a great draft last year and a coach who, while suffering through a historically bad season this year capped off by Sunday’s 38-10 loss at the Vikings, at least didn’t allow his team to become an embarrassment like Marc Trestman did in 2014.

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Posted on January 2, 2017

By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes

Everybody’s new (misunderstood) model. Including: White Sox Salvage Arrow; The Rebuild-A-Bears Narrative; Bulls Blow Up; and We Love Coach Q Deja Vu.

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Posted on December 30, 2016

By Carl Mohrbacher

Before we take a quick look at the year that was, let’s talk about the game that just happened . . .
Mmmmm. On second thought, do we have to?
[Editor’s Note (shrug): I kinda want to pretend that game never happened.]
Noice.
You know the more the years go on, the more it seems like you’re starting to see things my way, buddy.

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Posted on December 28, 2016

By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes

Making End-Times Christians of all of us. Featuring: Bears Fuller Shit; Fred’s Funhouse; Q’s Kids; and The Old College Try.

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Posted on December 23, 2016

By Carl Mohrbacher

You gotta feel for Cre’Von LeBlanc. Apparently, even management did.
Coming off a big game against Detroit, the young player found himself on the ass end of another magical friggin’ Aaron Rodgers dart; a 60-yard pass to Jordy Nelson on 3rd-and-11 that set up a field goal in the 11th hour, 59th minute and 59th second of last Sunday’s game which damned the Bears to another loss.
Despite a valiant, 17-point fourth-quarter comeback, Chicago fell 30-27, and at first glance the blame fell squarely to LeBlanc, who was left alone in quarters coverage against Green Bay’s number one receiver.
Upon further review, one could argue that the defender should have received some safety help over the top.

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Posted on December 22, 2016

By Jim Coffman

Sunday’s football game at Soldier Field was remarkable. Of course there were larger implications, like the Packers staying alive for the division title with their 30-27 victory, and the fact that the Bears lost again to their arch-rivals.
Just about everyone must have seen a note about this by now but just in case someone is coming in from the cold in more ways than one, the teams are now 94-94-6 against each other since 1921. That is 194 total games by the way. And both teams have won . . . I mean, wow.
Most importantly, by finding a way to lose, the Bears (3-11) protected their draft position. And they did so while still making it clear to every last viewer that they were desperately trying to win the game, rallying from a 27-10 deficit in the fourth quarter, until the last second. That’s a win-win in my book.

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Posted on December 19, 2016