It was a very nice mild November day. I went for a nice run but didn't enjoy it much. The Bears were slaughtered last night for the second game in a row.
I could literally hear George Halas roll over in his grave last night. It's not easy to sleep when the legacy of a team you grew up with just plain quits and gets beat up like that.
In the old days when the team wasn't good it was at least fun to watch the defense. Guys named Butkus or Hampton would just beat guys up on the other team. They were the Monsters of the Midway.
In the 1980's the Bears were one of the premier teams in the NFL for a whole decade. The 1985 team won a Super Bowl and is considered perhaps to be the greatest single team of all time led by Walter Payton.
The Bears have more players by far in the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio than anyone else. The fans support this team with tons of money thru ticket and merchandise sales.
Halas brought Mike Ditka in to coach the team right before he passed away. Eleven years later his grandson fired Ditka who had become too popular and the face of the franchise. Since then it has been cheap General Managers and cheap Coaches. They won't pay top dollar for outstanding management. The fish rots from the top down don't forget.
I'm getting quite tired of hearing about the Matriarch of the NFL in Virginia McCaskey. She really hasn't worked at all for the team. She was simply the daughter of a man named George Halas who was the premier founder of the NFL. The man attended a Green Bay city board meeting back in the day and begged them to build a new stadium to keep the Packers there. Obviously they listened to him.
Now I don't have anything against Virginia. She's a nice old lady but so was my grandmother and she couldn't run an NFL franchise neither. It's time to sell because your son's aren't doing even a decent job with our Chicago Bears. I know this will never happen. Us fans will keep going to games and spending money. The price of loyalty hurts sometime!
Later
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