Susan Rhein, Bears Super Fan,


Okay I've read enough of what my fellow bloggers have written to be able to ask this question, were all of you watching the same Bears game I was??

I'm sorry but I was quite disappointed in the way the Bears almighty defense played and how they allowed the Seahawks to score 24 points. I don't feel as though the Bears defense was playing like they did in the first 6 weeks of the season because, if they had, then the Seahawks wouldn't have scored as many points as they did and they surely wouldn't have almost walked away with a win, which had the Bears lost the game, it would have left us Bears Fans saying "there's always next year".

I will admit that in the first quarter of the game, the Bears defense did look like the defense from the beginning of the season however, as the game progressed, the Bears defense wasn't playing up to par. In the 4th quarter, when the Seahawks had 3rd and 1 and then 4th and 1, I dared the Bears defense to prove to me that they could hold the Seahawks to no gain on yardage. As the rest of the entire stadium was screaming "Defense" and/or "D", I just stood there with my pom-poms hanging at my hips and my lips were shut. Now that's a first for me and anyone who knows me or sits around me at Soldier Field or who has ever been to my house during a Bears away game, that's just not me to just stand there and say and do nothing while any part of the Bears team is on the field. I truly get into the game 110% and that's why my voice is still hoarse today, two days after the Bears beat the Seahawks in overtime.

I'm not going to sit here and say that the Bears offense was all that great either because, there were a couple of times that the Bears offense could have capitalized on some key plays which would have given the Bears at least an additional 3 if not 7 points during the first 4 quarters of the game which of course means the Bears wouldn't have had to go into overtime and pray to an even higher power that Robbie's kick would be good.

If you ask me, the Bears have a lot of cleaning up and preparing to do on all sides of the ball if the Bears intend to not only beat the Saints during next Sunday's game and become the NFC Champions but, if they want to advance to the Superbowl and finish their ride to Miami and bring home the win to Chicago where it belongs, then the Bears need to be a lot stronger, tougher, and definitely more focused and insinc with each other.

A win from this Sunday's NFC Championship game matters a whole heck of a lot and not just to the players, the coaches, the owners of the team or even the sponsors who pay for every five seconds of advertisement but, most of all it matters to US, the Fans. We have dreampt of nothing but bringing a Superbowl win home to Chicago since the last Superbowl win back in 1986 so, I say its time the Bears of today prove to not only the Fans, but to the Bears of years past that the Monsters of the Midway still exist and that they have come not only to play but, to bring a victory that is long over due home to Chicago.

GO BEARS