Broken
As if insult needed to be added to injury, the eastbound traffic on the Ike kept me on the road twice as long as it should have; the ride home from Kevin and Scott's Superbowl party in Lombard wasted a miserable hour and a half of my life.
Everything started so well, too. Devin Hester returned a kick for a touchdown once again, once again re-igniting my Hestersexuality™, once again getting everyone in the room screaming, jumping, hugging, laughing at the absurdity of his talent.
For us Bears fans, it was the last perfect moment of the season.
Because, we lost.
Colts 29, Bears 17.
And when I say "lost", that's not me incorrectly or vicariously referring to us as the Chicago Bears organization. That's me saying, WE LOST. Us, the fans.
I'm too jaded right now to properly analyze the game. I just don't want to think about it.
Actually, what's there to analyze? Rex Grossman lost this game for us. I defended him all season. I carried my smug grin around every sports bar for the past two weeks and dared people to tell me that Brian Griese would have gotten the Bears to the Superbowl like Rex did. I bristled whenever fans implored him to just "manage" the game. I remained loyal and positive to almost the very end, telling everyone early in the 4th quarter that Rex was due for a great drive. That he'd find Berrian soon. I defended, believed in Rex. I lost.
I should be a good sport, congratulate the Colts for winning, be happy for them. But that's just not the emotion that's in me right now. Right now, I'm just a broken man.
At the end of the game, someone wisecracked, "I wonder, for Dungy, if this Superbowl ring makes up for his dead kid?"
To which someone joked, "Oh, I'm sure it does."
And I thought to myself, I wonder what could possibly make up for not winning the Superbowl?
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Yes the first play was great, and the Bears played pretty decent in the first half, but they played horrible in the second half, and honestly did not deserve to win.
If they would have played like 2 weeks ago they would have won, but nope, Colts deserved that one.
As everyone says "there's always next year".
(Wow I'm the first comment of what 30 this time?)
At least you're converted to the reality . But don't despair though, tommorow morning there will be a cadre of Grossman supporters who don't have the slightest clue what they're talking about - from the 22 year old women in Wrigleyville to the 45 year old soccer mom in all the way to the residents of [Random Crappy European Country] over at "Monsters of the WebWay" to tell you that it was actually the fault of the defense or the refs. If they're really dumbfounded by Wreck's crap performance you'll see them blame the fans for putting too much pressure on him.
And the Jerry Angelo front office will side with Grossman. We're stuck with this idiot.
all rex had to do was not turn the ball over...but two botched snaps and two interceptions sealed the deal. good for peyton manning for finally winning the superbowl.
and the traffic back into the city (and out!) was crazy...it's like no one wanted to stay where they were to watch the game!
football season is over (who actually watches the pro bowl?)- now it's time to gear up for the cubbies! :)
Yes. Time to gear up for the Cubbies. Come to think of it, Rex Grossman might be a great pitcher for the Cubs.
Grossman wasn't the key to the game...it was your defense. The Colts had the ball twice as long as the Bears did. Grossman never got into a rhythm because the offense could never get onto the field.
Stolen from a message board:
"The Bears offense would have been better off punting the ball backwards and letting Hester return it all game."
Adrian is exactly right.
Im exhausted (just getting back from wet south FL) and will expand on why, as I have been saying since week 10...the Colts DO in fact have the most efficient, hardest hitting D in the League, at a later date.
I know its hard to admit, but your D just cannot hang with 'top of the pops' AFC O Lines. We moved you all over the place, and you were not conditioned to run like we are on D.
Grossman was jittery all game, like peyton was only on his first drive. He is not the only problem, but its so hard to face facts that Urlacher is not perfect (fucking Cato June had better numbers in the reg season?!?) and simply replacing Grossman will not do it all.
You all saw the game; I want to give you the reality check on how your homo fans did anything but 'Bear Down' on us outnumbered, hick ass colts fans after the first quarter ;) It was awesome down there!
I hope we can turn this into a real rivalry over the next few years
Yeah, don't be too hard on Rex... be hard on the Bears defense that couldn't prevent Manning from converting all those 3rd downs.