An open letter to Chicago Bears fans and the national media

 Todays Blog Brought to you by my buddy Ryan Sudol.  Well said my friend!

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An open letter to Chicago Bears fans and the national media:

by Ryan Sudol on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 4:44pm

What do the words “Idiot, moron, and clown” all have in common?  They were all names that I was called prior to September 1st of last year.  People that know me have their own reasons for calling me that, but for the average Bears fan that I talked to, it was a name I was called because I said that the Bears would win over 10 games before the season even started.  When I would ask: “How many games do you think the Bears will win?”  The answer I would receive was never more than 7 games.  So now here we stand in the wake of an NFC Championship loss to the hated Green Bay Packers and the Bears finished off the season at a “disappointing” 12-6 record.  What is the real disappointment though?  The answer is simple – the fans and the national media.

Minutes after Caleb Hanie threw the game-ending interception, fans were burning Cutler jerseys in the parking lot in effigy. They questioned his heart.  The heart of a man who, while sacked more than any quarterback this season, still overcame a damning physical illness and managed to throw for more than 3,000 yards in consecutive seasons for the first time in BEARS HISTORY.  We now know that Jay Cutler suffered an MCL “sprain.”  Let’s get something straight for the meatball moron fans reading this.  The primary purpose of the MCL is to prevent the leg from extending too far inward, but it also helps keep the knee stable and allows it to rotate.  So if a partially torn ligament in the knee isn’t a severe enough injury to sit out on, what is?  A concussion is just a headache right?  A sprain just some soreness right?  The MRI results are in, and again fans…you lose.

Now what about those people calling Jay a quitter?  Not just fans, but NFL players, Chicago’s own Michael Wilbon, and Jason Whitlock just to name a few of the people pouring gasoline on this media fire.  Jacksonville Jaguars running back, Maurice Jones-Drew, said the “Urban Meyer rule was in effect” for Jay Cutler, suggesting he quit on his team.  Is this the same Maurice Jones-Drew who sat out the last two weeks, with a knee injury, while the Jaguars chances at the NFL postseason were eliminated?  NFL analyst Deion Sanders tweeted that he questioned Jay Cutler’s heart.  Is this the same Deion Sanders that was caught violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy?  I’m not angry or upset that people are having opinions, I’m disgusted that they are, pardon the pun, having knee-jerk reactions.  Mark Schlereth, Kerry Rhodes, and Ross Tucker all had twitteriah last night as well.  You don’t know who Ross Tucker is? Yeah…neither do I.  Derrick Brooks tweeted “FOX Havent shown any trainer looking at cutler UMMM.”  I’ll forgive the poor grammar of the great linebacker, but won’t forgive his ignorance.  Before halftime I saw Cutler surrounded by many members of the Bears organization limping to the locker room, before the rest of his team.  Just because FOX doesn’t show trainers looking at Cutler on the sidelines, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  Just because FOX doesn’t show Jay Cutler getting excited on the sidelines after a great play doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  And just because Jay Cutler is walking on the sideline, doesn’t mean he can avoid Clay Matthews without further damaging his knee and possibly inhibiting his ability to lead the Bears into next season.  Jason Whitlock equated Cutler’s quitting on his team to LeBron James quitting on Cleveland.  Would anyone care if Earl Bennett or Chester Taylor didn’t play the second half with an MCL sprain? Probably not.  The only things that Jay Cutler and LeBron James have in common, is that they are both exceedingly good at what they do, and they both desperately want to win a championship in their respective sports.  Wilbon said Cutler isn’t worthy of the Bears defense.  Wilbon should know better than anyone that nobody in our lifetime has seen a real quarterback play football in Chicago, so who is he to judge?  It’s bad enough that the Bears fan base consists mostly of impressionable meatballs more fickle than a Tempur-pedic mattress, but to have “experts” call a professional athlete’s heart in question, from the comfort of their living room or office, is just adding to the mass idiocy.

Would you have rather seen Jay on the sidelines crying in pain because it was too painful to walk?  Would you have rather not seen Jay at all because he was having emergency surgery on his knee in the locker room?  I know, you wanted to see Jay Cutler with a cast on his leg, under center, wincing at every movement, throwing the ball through double coverage while needing Roberto Garza and Olin Kreutz’s to help him back to the huddle, right?  Or maybe you’d prefer he step into a phone booth and rip off his jersey exposing a Superman outfit.  No, instead he was on the sideline helping the emergency 3rd string quarterback try to get his team back into the game because he was physically unable to.  I’m sorry that’s not good enough for most of you, but just because you can walk on a sideline…doesn’t mean you can play football at a championship level.  Remember when Brian Urlacher hurt his wrist?  Did you burn his jersey because a “minor” injury kept him off of the field?  Or better yet, do you remember a similar situation with an NFL 4th overall draft pick in the biggest game ever?  Cedric Benson was hurt in the first of half of Super Bowl XLI and you supposed fans rode him out of town on a rail.  You are the same fan base that can’t even understand the purpose of home-field advantage.  I was waiting for it all game, and wouldn’t you know it, on the final drive I still saw Caleb Hanie’s hands going to his earholes because you obviously can’t comprehend the notion that 40,000 fans screaming may prevent your offense from working properly.  I don’t care that you spent $5,000 for a ticket, I don’t care that you buy Bears merchandise, hell I don’t even care that you invoke names like “Punky QB” and “Sid Luckman.”  Here’s the bottom line and it’s partially me begging you, the idiot Bear fan:  When you get player like Jay Cutler on your football team, don’t piss him off.  Chicago is a great city and has the potential to be a competitive football team for a long time as long as Jay Cutler is your quarterback…You want to question Jay Cutler’s heart?  I’ll challenge you with this: Go back to November 5th, 2005.  Jay Cutler and Earl Bennett were teammates at Vanderbilt and playing at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, arguably the toughest place to play in college football, better known as “The Swamp”.  Re-watch the fourth quarter as Cutler put the entire Commodore team on his shoulders and brought them back from being down two touchdowns and, if not for a ridiculous excessive celebration penalty, they would have gone for a 2 point conversion and beaten the Gators in regulation.  They lost the game in the second overtime, but on that day I knew one thing and one thing only, nobody loved playing the game of football more than Jay Cutler.

The sad truth is Bears fans, is that you don’t deserve Jay Cutler.  Nothing you’ve done this season has shown you appreciate having him as your quarterback.  You elevate Matt Forte for his amazing stats and call him the best since Payton, and you ignore Cutler’s back to back 3,000 yard seasons.  You praise Devin Hester for his returns, but ignore the fact that the first postseason pass Jay has thrown since high school was a 58 yard bomb to Greg Olsen.  And he does all of this without a viable professional offensive line or professional NFL receivers.  Johnny Knox as the Bears #1 receiver would barely make it as a #3 on the Packers or most other NFL teams with real receivers.  This team went from preseason afterthought, to one drive away from playing in Dallas and still you don’t realize how good your team was and can be. You make me sick Chicago, and you make me hope that after the ashes of your torched Cutler jerseys blow away, you realize how stupid you really are as a “Bears Fan.”

With love,

Ryan Sudol

What do Packer Players do before a NFC Championship Game?

They booze it up and go on stage during a Brad Paisley / Darius Rucker concert.  Yep, even Aaron Rodgers.  Check out the video below.  You can see them chugging away and singing "Alcohol".  This happened with less than 72 hours to go before the big NFC showdown with the Bears.  Go Bears!

Packers in the 80's would be Fined a Ton in Today's NFL

Turns out Aaron Rodgers doesn't hate elderly women with cancer.

I still think he's a tool. Just like how all the Pack fans hate Cutler. It's the same thing, except in Chicago, we laugh it off and in Green Bay, people get all defensive and cry.

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Packers Fan with Cancer Shocked by Criticism of Aaron Rodgers
By Marcie Kobriger

Last Friday, an Action 2 News report featured a breast cancer survivor seeking Aaron Rodgers's autograph as the Packers were departing for Atlanta. Video of the Packers quarterback walking past the woman as she held out a hat for him to sign went viral -- and Rodgers came under fire.

The woman at the center of the controversy says she's shocked and upset by comments critical of Rodgers's actions at Austin Straubel airport.

Jan Cavanaugh and her husband are die hard Packers fans. The pair is often at the airport to see the team off for away games and on the edge of their seats when the Packers play.

When she talks about the team, Jan includes herself on the roster, referring to the Packers as "we."

"We sat yesterday and watched the whole game, and we're so excited that we're going to play the Bears," she said.

But her excitement over an NFC Championship match-up has been tempered.

Aaron Rodgers and other players didn't autograph her cap as she saw them off to Atlanta -- but it's not the hat she's upset about, it's the Internet and radio chatter created by the video of Rodgers passing her by.

"I was terribly upset this morning because I did not realize what was online, and opened up my email," she said, "and I was just shocked."

The video has drawn criticism but the only people Jan is critical of today are those creating the chatter.

"I am very unhappy with people making so much out of this, because this really isn't that big of a deal. It's up to the players to decide who they want to give an autograph to, and that's their prerogative."

Just a week earlier, Rodgers autographed Jan's pink jersey bearing the number 12 as the team departed for Philadelphia. A few years ago the now-star quarterback signed a number of things for her, too.

Jan says they've kept everything players have signed for them except for a few items they gave to family members.

While she is distressed over the controversy, Cavanaugh won't let it dampen her excitement for the packers.

"We're really big football fans and the Packers are our team, and we just think that this is the team to root for, so Go Pack Go!"

Hey Wisconsin, Try Defending Aaron Rodgers On This One.

Aaron Rodgers is a DOUCHEBAG.
Bigger Douchebags, WBAY-TV out of Green Bay.


I know this post will start a whole string of "Bears Still Suck" chants from all my Wisconsin friends. I'm OK with that. I'm also gonna hear people say that Cutler is the bigger douche. Let's make 3 things clear here before you see the videos below and read Mike Florio's article.

A) Jay Cutler has always been a jerk. He knows it. That's who he is. He doesn't care to embrace that role. He's about football. Some athletes embrace it.  Not Jay.  Jordan was king when it came to embracing that role.  MJ still has Chicago eating out of his hand. Cutler wants nothing to do with that. He just wants to play football.

B) Aaron Rodgers wants to be the face of the Packers. He embraces the spotlight. Heck, he looks for it. He makes himself seem like the lovable QB.  Just like Favre did during his tenure in Green Bay.

C) See for yourself. Aaron Rodgers acts as if he is totally unaware of the situation below. Yet moments later, Clay Matthews does what any respectable athlete would do.  He even acknowledges that he was aware of Jan Cavanaugh's presence.

Both Rodgers and Matthews came off the same plane. That means Packers PR told Matthew about Cavanaugh's story. No way they would tell Matthews and not Rodgers.

Bottom line, Rodgers is an idiot that will be defended by more idiots.



Check out the article below by Mike Florio of [Pro Football Talk]. I even found the videos that prove their douchiness.


Aaron Rodgers has a lot to learn about where his money comes from
Posted by Mike Florio on January 16, 2011, 3:35 PM EST

We realize that only two days ago we defended largely unlikable Bears quarterback Jay Cutler from a mailed-in attack by ESPN’s Rick Reilly. But since Reilly has yet to attack Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, we feel no need to defend him. (Yet.)

In fact, we’re going to attack him a little. (Maybe Reilly will come to his defense.)

Rodgers makes a lot of money because people are willing to pay to watch him do what he does, and because they’re willing to sit and watch him do it on television, while being bombarded with advertisements and networks promos.

Without fans, football would be lacrosse. Or indoor soccer. Or postseason baseball.

So football players need to be willing to pause and sign an autograph or two from time to time. Especially when the person seeking the autograph is female, is wearing copious amounts of NFL-licensed pink apparel, and has very short gray hair.

There’s a pretty good chance that any person fitting that description is a cancer patient. And if the NFL is going to allow the official uniform to be infiltrated by pink patches and gloves and cleats and stripes every October, high-profile NFL players need to be willing to stop and sign an autograph for someone who fits the profile of a person who is in the fight of her life.

WBAY-TV has the video evidence. Watch Rodgers breeze by Jan Cavanaugh, refusing even to acknowledge her existence. (The good news is that linebacker Clay Matthews treated her with warmth and respect.)







Hey, it’s a free country. Rodgers has an inalienable right to choose to behave like an ass. And the rest of us have an inalienable right to tell anyone who’ll listen that he’s behaving like an ass.

Rodgers needs to realize that without people like Jan Cavanaugh, whose passion for pro football prompted her to go to the airport after a radiation treatment in the hopes of getting Rodgers to sign the pink hat with the Packers logo that she always wears, make his entire lifestyle possible. Otherwise, he’d be no different than a guy who’s really good at throwing darts or horseshoes or cornhole bags. He’d derive personal satisfaction from the use of his God-given skills, but not much if any money.

We hope this strikes a chord with all pro athletes. The fans are the reason you get paid the big bucks. And it would be wise to show some gratitude, especially when it’s obvious that one of those fans isn’t blessed with good health.

We also hope that Rodgers and/or the Packers track down Jan Cavanaugh and make it up to her. The fact that Rodgers would crap on a rare moment of happiness for someone whose entire life in consumed by fighting the disease and contending with the physical, mental, and emotional effects of it should make the stomach churn of anyone who has cancer, or who has seen a loved one stricken by it.

In other words, everyone.

UPDATE: The folks at WBAY, who probably should have realized that the station’s relationship with the only team in town may have been undermined with the publication of the video of Rodgers treating a cancer patient like a panhandler with leprosy, apparently have taken down the clip. The key moment has been uploaded to YouTube.

ESPN: A Financial and Cultural Disaster

What the heck is in the water in Bristol, Connecticut?!





Seriously! The Bears have been underdogs all year. They're going into playoffs after a bye week and yet all the jerkfaces are still at it. Almost everyone in Bristol are rooting for a 7-9 team. Did they all forget the Bears ended 11-5? Did they forget some of the teams we beat during the season? Eagles, Jets, and Packers are all playoff teams we beat during the regular season.

Don't tell me that we should be worried because the Seachickens beat us during the season. A)No way they beat the Bears twice in Chicago in 1 season. B)The Bears had many players inactive. Lance Briggs, Roberto Garza, Joshua Moore, Marcus Harrison, and Major Wright just to name a few. C)This was Cutler's first game back after sitting out a week for a concussion.

Yes, you may argue the Bears have been the luckiest team in the league. We did play a bunch of back-up QBs and should have lost week 1 vs the Lions (that team is gonna get scary soon), but they played the schedule given to them. I can't stand that argument. That could've happened to any team in the league.

This year's stats shows that Cutler is a better QB compared to Hassleback. Going with Hassleback because he has playoff games under his belt is dumb. Would you go with Favre this year just because of the past? HELL NO. Favre was awful this year.

I have to wonder, what would happen if the Bears get to the Super Bowl and lose to the Pats? I can promise you that Dilfer, Matty Hassleback's brother Tim and the other idiots would be on the air all smug with their "told you so" swagger.

I'm o.k with the Bears losing the big game. I won't be o.k with what all the stupid ass-hats would say in Bristol.

Only Ron Burgandy can save this network now.