Case of the Mondays: The Bears, cigar smoke, and reporting live from the vortex

January 22nd, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

If you read this site even semi-regularly, then you’re well aware that R and I are loyal Chicago sports fans. While we differ on our choice of baseball teams, nothing unites us quite like those good old Chicago Bears.

Lo and behold, the first calender year after we start this site, our Bears are going to the Super Bowl. Repeat that one more time: The Bears … are … going … TO THE SUPER BOWL. Awesome.

We know nothing is won yet, and that the Colts have a pretty good team over there on the other side of the ball, and that the Bears aren’t perfect by any means and certainly not favored and … aw, who cares man? Let’s bust out the cigars. (30 guys smoking fat celebratory stogies in a small college house does terrible, terrible things to the nostrils, by the way.)

Anyway, my heart is already racing for the game. It would be bad enough if I lived in some Bears-dominated area, but thanks to my geography, I am literally in the one of the most divided football cities in the country, Bloomington, IN. Though it lies much closer to Indianapolis on the map, the huge number of Chicago-born college students creates a, I would say, 60/40 divide between Bears fans and Colts fans. I’ve already seen a fight between someone in a Tommie Harris jersey and someone wearing Brandon Stokley’s 83. (Which, by the way, is a really old, ugly jersey. At least find someone on the team, please.)

Oh, and I know this Case of the Mondays, and I’m supposed to, like, wrap some weekend shit up or something, but did anything else really happen this weekend? Nope, didn’t think so.

(Also, quick note: Thanks to recent scheduling changes, R and I are switching our site days around. I’ll be patrolling Monday and Wednesday now, and he’ll be working Tuesdays and Thursdays. Just so you know.)