Archive for January, 2011

A couple of days ago I wrote a little post to thank everyone for joining me for this past season and to encourage folks to stick with us through the offseason.  I also asked for topics to cover during the offseason and my pleas were answered with a lot of nice notes from some loyal readers with some great questions.  I figured I’d like it up and go with it in a feature I’ll call Boomer’s Mailbag for lack of a better title. If I don’t single your question out, it’s nothing personal.  I’ll try to get to as many [...]

I can’t believe it’s been 25 years since the Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XX.  I was just a little kid (not that little, I guess) and now I have one of my own!  It’s crazy how time flies.  So take a few moments and enjoy this outstanding clip from NFL Films that I pulled off Hulu to remember the glory days: BEAR DOWN!!!

We’re still busy tying a bow around the 2010 Chicago Bears and haven’t even really recapped the last game of the season with all of the Cutler craziness, but before I lose a lot of fans’ attention, I thought it would be a good time to say THANK YOU for a great season. The 2010 Bears took us on a wild ride.  I did a radio spot right at the start of the season where  I speculated that the Bears would struggle to get to 8 wins (WRONG) but I also said that whatever their record was, that they would [...]

The swelling on Jay Cutler’s left knee hasn’t even come down yet and the “trade Jay Cutler” speculation has already begun.  Congrats to Politico on being the first site that I came across with this golden nugget: GOOD TUESDAY MORNING – Bears QB Jay Cutler got roasted for coming out of the NFC Championship game. But it’s kinda tough to play with a sprained MCL. M.M. prediction: Cutler winds up in D.C. next year playing for his former coach Mike Shanahan. Now you’ve got to consider the source.  Politico is a DC-based political blog, so what the heck do they [...]

As we move into Day 2 after the Jay Cutler Conundrum, I still cannot believe how many bandwagon Bears fans hate Jay because he was injured and taken out of the game on Sunday. Don’t get me wrong, I know many knowledgeable die-hard fans are just as sick as I am about hearing the illogical blatherings of the loud minority. I know each and every Bears fan at Solider field was cheering him on during the first half and probably the whole season, but then they are burning his jerseys after the game. I can’t believe that I keep hearing reason after reason why Jay [...]

Clipped from: www.chicagotribune.com (share this clip) I saw this on the Trib’s website this morning and just had to post it.  John Stone, a car salesman in suburban Oak Lawn was fired for wearing a Packers tie to work.  Get the scoop after the jump. 

When I heard that Brian Urlacher jump to Jay Cutler’s defense yesterday, I couldn’t help but remember a story from a couple of seasons ago. I’m gonna hop into the Bear Goggles On time machine and take a very short trip to July 20o9, about a day before training camp.  Remember this little story about what Urlacher called new Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.  Here’s the quote from former Bear Bobby Wade, who was busy stirring things up as camp was ready to open. Vikings (and former Chicago Bears) wide receiver Bobby Wade took to the airwaves this morning and [...]

For all the Jay Cutler jersey burners, critics and haters, here’s the early scoop – your scapegoat suffered a torn MCL.  This from Sean Jenen of the Chicago Sun Times: Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was scheduled to undergo an MRI this morning to determine the extent of a torn MCL believed to be in his left knee, according to a source close to the situation. We’ll have to wait and see what the extent of the injury is following the official MRI results, but it looks like the physical injury will pale in comparison to the injury to Jay’s public [...]