I know how all of you love the NFL, live for it, breath it, get your panties in team colors and all that, hell most of us have a cheerleader outfit from our team on our wish list.

But, for everyone who thinks these people are a bunch of overpaid kids, playing a kids game, with no real meaning - - - -

Oh tune in and watch them suffer tonight.  Green Bay @ Chicago.  Air temp at kickoff ought to be a 0.  (That's Fahrenheit, for those of you in the rest of the world, who don't use our systems (yet) that's -17.5, or, as we used to call it in the Midwest, really ->-bleeped-<-in' cold.)   And Solider Field is on the Lake, and it gets a nice 'breeze' as they say.  In fact, the wind in Chicago is world famous, and has its own name, "The Hawk."  Its going to be brutal just to be out in that.  Much less get hit in it.

Watch 'em earn their money.

And, for history buffs, Chicago v. Green Bay is the oldest running grudge match in the NFL, which goes back to 1921, Chicago holds a 89-80-6 advantage in the series.

Dont forget them Redskins, great start, bad finish. If they win the next 2 games theyr in.

Yeah, but I love to see them suffer.  Suffer big time.  Suffer the people in Chicago too, who will stick it out, 'cause its 'da bears.  With wind chill, its -17 in Chicago now, that's -27 the other way.

go chargers!

That's one of those sports thingies, isn't it?

I was a football widower with my first spouse.  She watched every. single. game.  And went to see 'da Bears in the most brutal weather.  I stayed home.

She would join the football pools where I worked and cleaned them out.  One place forbid spouses to join the pool after one particularly profitable year for her.

I never did *get* sports.  Other than the times the home teams brought home some prize like the superwachet thing.  And that was more about worrying about getting to work downtown on the day of the parade.

Ah well.  Go Bears...

-Sandy