31 Oct
Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of Chicago Bears legend Walter Payton’s passing. I grew up watching Payton, my first childhood hero. Here’s a Payton tribute video I dug up on YouTube. If this doesn’t get you going, nothing will.
That dude ran with more heart than anyone playing the game today. He wanted to deliver the [...]
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30 Oct
The NFC North leading Minnesota Vikings head to Green Bay to the face the second place Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Some guy named Favre makes his return to Lambeau Field for the first time since he retired then unretired and then played in New York then re-retired and then un-un-retired again. Keeping up with [...]
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29 Oct
I am closing the book on last week’s Chicago Bears train wreck against the Bengals. It’s over. Done. Not even going to bring it up. Page turned.
The Browns are coming off a doosie of their own: a 31-3 beatdown at the hands of the Packers. But they’re used to it. The Browns are nearly as [...]
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29 Oct
Again, sometimes you just have to be content with a .500 week if you’re a betting grinder. I ended up 2-2 last week bringing my season total to 16-12. However, watching a lot of those games come in last week always makes you second-guess yourself for not taking certain games. I originally [...]
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29 Oct
I have to apologize in advance, but the DeCon is sick (I have never referred to myself in the 3rd person before, but I kinda like it), so this is gonna be a relatively short post. Feel free to e-mail me this weekend with any lineup questions you might have and I will get back [...]
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29 Oct
Attention Fantasy Footballers, be sure to check out The League on FX. Here’s what the Trib’s reviewer had to say when describing the new sitcom which premiers tonight:
A kind of sociopathic “Sex and the City” for men that substitutes football for shoes and dope for cosmos, “The League” is about a group of arrested-development buddies [...]
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28 Oct
Jerry Angelo did his weekly chat on the Chicago Bears official website on Wednesday. Some interesting nuggets coming out of the interview. Let’s see if we can read between the lines
How do you explain what happened to the Bears in Cincinnati?
I don’t want to take anything away from the Bengals because they are a very [...]
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28 Oct
It would be crazy if the Bears didn’t make some changes after the Benson Bowl-over last Sunday. As the Bears start to prepare for the Browns, there’s all kinds of news coming in from Halas Hall today.
Let’s be Frank
It looks like Frank Omiyale is heading to the bench. Regardless of what Ron Turner says, it’s [...]
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