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 blow on every run.  Can you imagine how many more yards he could have gained if he played behind the offensive lines that Emmit Smith did?
Post your Sweetness stories, memories and tributes in the comments section below.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES WALTER!!!

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 all of this?  This game has major implications for the NFC North and figures to be the game of the week.
The Bears had a golden opportunity to gain ground on the Vikings, who lost last week at the hands of Pittsburgh.  Instead, they laid an [...]

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 pathetic as the Lions, which is saying something.  They are suffering from what the Bears had gone through for years – a quarterback controversy.  When you have a controversy between 2 quarterbacks, it usually means you don’t have any.
If the Bears lose this game, you [...]

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 stayed away from New England because you never know how traveling to another country can throw off a team. Then after the game started, I thought, okay – they both had to travel and New England is like….28 points better than Tampa. Dang! [...]

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 to you.  I am going to keep this simple and just give you the guys I like and don’t like this week…
Guys I Like this Week

Matt Forte vs Cleveland – I am calling Forte out…perform this week or I drop you from 2 of my [...]

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 (one is actually a woman, but she slings locker-room raunch with the best of them) whose fantasy-football league is an extension of their ethically stunted, emotionally retarded, sexually starved lives.
Sound familiar?  Yeah – it’s like a show about me!  All I needed to see was [...]

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 good offensive football team with a great receiver, a great quarterback and a running back who’s having a Pro Bowl year. But what really surprised me was that we weren’t able to make the needed adjustments in terms of slowing them down or stopping them. [...]

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 about freakin’ time!   Brad Biggs  dives into the sacks allowed stat.  It goes to show that figures lie and liars figure.  Now what do we do if Josh Beekman isn’t the answer?
Middle Man

Hunter Hillenmeyer is going back to the middle linebacker spot with Nick Roach [...]