Bearssss

hicago will have to put off its collective nervous breakdown for another week. That Rex Grossman doll, waiting to be hung in effigy, stick it back in the closet. The Chicago Bears are going to the Super Bowl. They beat New Orleans 39-14 at a snowy Soldier Field Sunday afternoon to win their first NFC title in 21 years.

On Feb. 4 the Bears will play the Indianapolis Colts in Miami. Once again they will be underdogs. They already are. The strange world of sports betting and prognosticating has the Colts by 7. That’s a touchdown the Bears are giving up to the Colts, who needed to stage the biggest comeback in conference championship history to beat the New England Patriots in Indianapolis Sunday night.

Meanwhile, except for a brief time late in the second quarter and for part of the third, when the Saints made a game of it, the Bears monkey-stomped New Orleans. They ran the ball down their throats, and beat the holy living shit out of them on defense. All the while the glorious snow fell from the sky, adding another 10 years at least to the mystique of “Bears Weather.” Of course, at the rate we’re going, Chicago will have Miami’s climate by the time the Bears make the Super Bowl again, but what the hell? The Bears are in the Super Bowl.

The Indignant Citizen