Kenneth Sothman, Bears Superfan


Amazing stuff is really only the best way to describe last night's game. We probably all know by now (props to Mark for coming up with that stuff) was one of the biggest second-half comebacks in MNF history and the biggest comeback ever without the offense scoring any points, but anyday of the week I'll trade all that stuff for one regular 20-point win. Either way though, a dub is a dub, and I'll definitely take it. I'll especially take it on a night when Rex Grossman and Gail Freund throw the same amount of touchdowns. Onto some stuff from the game...

- I truly hate to say I told you so, but my predictions of Leinart coming out firing while Grossman would have troubles came true. I think Leinart proved he has the potential to become a force to be reckoned with in the future, but I think a more important event took place on our side. Rex Grossman has proven that even though he can be good, he still has the "Jon Garland Factor" working for him, and those long balls aren't going to work everytime. As anybody like myself that has played enough Madden knows,eventually those hail mary's every play are going to work against you. But to tell the truth, I'd rather have him figure this out now then later down the road in a playoff game, or more importantly against a team like New England.
Honestly, I think there was one major positive notion Rex proved to us last night. Just as the sideline reporter let us know, REX WAS CALM THE WHOLE GAME. I don't care how many times he turned the ball over, if Rex would've gotten the chance, he would've attempted to gun the ball down the field to win the game. Call me crazy, but as he's working over the hump, as long as he has confidence in himself and continues to play his style, I'm still gonna drive the bandwagon. Unfortunately I think he lost his MVP status after this game though...

- Just as a side note before I continue about the Bears, did anybody else find it odd how long Charles Barkley was allowed to stay in the announcer's booth last night? I mean don't get me wrong, he's one of my favorite basketball players of all-time and he's a very smart/talented man, but I just don't understand why a former basketball player was in the booth for a football game. It seems about as smart as taking Super Bowl advice from Dan Marino, especially since poor Theismann was left out of conversation for the majority of that quarter.

- Last night Brian Urlacher played football with the intensity that I wish every professional athlete would play with. By far Urlacher played one of the greatest regular season quarters for a single defensive player on a field that I've ever witnessed in my life. He was just a mad-man completely out of control, getting involved in what felt like every single tackle in that fourth quarter. It was like somebody just flipped an on-switch in his head that made every Arizona Cardinal look like Rex.

- At any point of the game last night do you guys think Kyle Orton was laughing on the inside? I have to think he was telling himself "Dang... I never played this horrible! Put me in Lovie!".

- Even though Rex turned the ball over all the time, let's not forget the fact that Thomas and Benson had a combined 43 yards between the two of them. There is an actual reason we had Rex chucking the ball over and over.

- I was frozen from excitement for about five good minutes after Devin Hester's punt return. I'm interested to see how this is going to affect his returns in the next few games, for he'll probably go back to his grab the ball when too many guys are around returns. As long as he doesn't get injured, and as long as he keeps running balls back, I give him the green light. But I still think it's a matter of time before he completely get his clocked clean.

- I'll admit, the Super Bowl XX hat came off with three minutes left in the third quarter. Now I'm a little iffy if I should even attempt wearing it against the 49ers. Maybe I should switch to the Bears boxers for good luck?

- Besides his interception turned touchdown last night, did Charles Tillman even produce at all last night? Is here even any video proof that he was on the field before it? He's lucky he came up big, because he was basically invisible the whole game before that.

- Speaking of guys that probably wished they were invisible, our big four up in front getting pushed around like Raggedy Ann dolls was embarrassing. Those guys are too good to be letting a quarterback, especially a rookie quarterback, have that much time to get rid of the ball.

- There's alot more ugly stuff that took place, but since Chicago won, well, who really cares? I vote we just forget about the first three quarters of this game ever happened and move on forever.

Onto some other things outside of the game...

- I'm going to go out on a limb and state that the Bears aren't going undefeated this season. We'll have home field advantage through-out and finish with about 13-14 wins, which to me is all that matters, but I just don't think this is the only game where our offense isn't going to score 20 points, which will hurt us if it takes place against the better teams.

- Who's Marcus Riley? Should I know who he is? Is he a Colts fan or something?

(Just messing with you Marcus, you're a very brave man for announcing your true allegiance. I respect your decision, but of course you have to understand, this means war.)

- To our interns Danielle and Lindsay, I'm definitely looking forward to this weeks "Bears Business" and how you girls handle the show, especially after this weeks exciting game. It's gonna be fun watching you girls grow as the season goes on, for I was impressed how calm you girls were the first go around. Once I figure out MediaBox (I had problems with it last week loading my footage)it'll be fun having a dualing show with you girls.

- I think my "Buy Ken a Grossman Jersey" fund can now become the "Buy Mr. Bixby Lots and Lots of Bags of Dorritos" fund.

- And to end this I have to give a shout-out to "The Bears Gal", AKA my good friend Katie, who managed to keep both of our heads on during last night's game by cracking some excellent observations. If it wasn't for The Bears Gal, I'm pretty confident the first three quarters of last nights game would've been very very painful to watch. I think she may have thrown more times across the room then I did though...