Jay Cutler and the Bears are rising to the top of NFL Power Rankings.

We have all heard Bill Parcells line, “You’re as good as your record says you are,” and it looks like people are hesitantly starting to believe it about the 2010 Chicago Bears.  College football has the BCS and the NFL has their power rankings.  Yes, power rankings are very arbitrary and subjective and honestly can be a waste of time to read.  But, who doesn’t check them out now and again just to disagree with 90% of the picks?  At least some people are finally giving the Bears some love, so here’s a look at a few top ten lists from around the web:

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I guess I shouldn’t have expected anything more from CBS.  They’re no better than any other national outlet when covering our little cow patch.  Chicago is a but a blip on a radar and a layover when jet-setting from New York to LA, so this LOWER THE BOOM goes out to CBS.

The Bears paid tribute to the legendary Walter Payton during halftime of Sunday’s drubbing of the Cleveland Browns on the 10th anniversary of Payton’s sudden passing back in 1999.  The Payton family, including wife Connie, daughter Brittney and son Jarrett along with Payton’s mother Alyne were on hand, as were former teammates Matt Suhey and Dennis Gentry.

Brittney, Connie and Jarrett Payton at Soldier Field.

So as the taffy pull by the lake unfolded on Sunday, what I looked forward to most was the tribute that the Bears planned for halftime.  But as the teams headed to their respective locker rooms to attempt to re-discover offensive football, CBS headed back to New York so the talking heads to blather on about the Bears-Browns and all the other games going on.

I understand that there are commercial sponsors, updates that need to be given, etc, but in the local market, couldn’t CBS have kept it live at Soldier Field so Bears fans not lucky enough to have a ticket to the game get a chance to see the tribute and share in that experience?

Fox had a freakin’ Favre cam for the Vikings-Packers tilt, where you could log into their website to see what Favre was doing the entire game.  No lie.  Couldn’t CBS have at least had a similar setup for halftime?  Couldn’t they have worked out a deal to let a local station break into their coverage?  Check out the video clip of the Payton tribute I pulled of the Bears’ website after the jump. (more…)

Anyway, here is CBS’ post-game breakdown…