Go Bears!

Now those who know me will know that I know jack about American Football. However as I did last year with the White Sox, I have been keenly watching the Bears results and progression throughout the season and the play-offs. Today I went to a friends place to watch the last game before Superbowl XLI (41 for us dummies)

The Bears were playing the fans favourite and heavily favoured New Orleans Saints, for their first chance to go to the Superbowl since the 1985/86 season. All of the omens were in their favour, with the snow coming down, and Patriots (the team they beat in '86) possibly on their way to the Superbowl too.

It's an interesting thing, watching this 3+ hour game (in which incidentally there are only about 30 minutes of actual plays) with a bunch of long time fans. If you speak to anyone in the Chicagoland area about Rex Grossman, their current Quarterback, and essentially one of the key men that got them to this position, you will invariably hear tales of woe about how bad he is, or how he is not good enough to be an NFL quarterback, or any one of a number of other opinions. The best you might hear is "that the good Rex played today"

Never mind that he is 13-3 for the year; 14-3 if you count today's win. For the Brits that means that out of 17 starts, he has won 14 of them. Sure he has bad games, he has made some mistakes, he threw some downright horrible passes, but hey he is just a guy; someone who gets out of bed every day and does his best to be there for his team. Oh yeah, that's right, another one you will hear is that he isn't winning the games, it's the rest of the team.

So I guess, even if they go ahead and win in two weeks time, or worse if they lose, I am sure Rex will still get a hard time from both the fans and the media. I guess sometimes you just can't win!

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