Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson

It’s simple. The Packers showed up to play. The Bears didn’t. Lovie Smith is a moron. Bob Babich doesn’t know anything about football. Jerry Angelo is the leaders of these idiots who drafts most of these bums and then gives them high-priced contracts especially when they didn’t even earn it (See Tommie Harris). The only player that his earning his money is Lance Briggs.

I cannot sit here and say that Orton should not have been playing. I was praying for him to play. Now that I look back, I wish he didn’t. When the diagnose is a high ankle sprain and it means four weeks out, then I guess you should listen to the doctors. He couldn’t move around and he wasn’t putting much into his passes. That means he is hurt. Maybe Rex needed to be thrown out there for at least one more game just to make sure Orton gets to 100%. I understood last week’s situation. Sometimes, you might have to lose a battle just to have a chance to win the war. With Orton getting the start in this game, the Bears might have lost both the battle and the war.

It is now down to six games for the Bears, Packers and Vikings. Whoever is the best in the next six, then that is the team going to the playoffs. This was the Bears division to win and it still is but it is also theirs to lose.

I have been meaning to write this article for a while but haven’t had much time to but I am glad I finally get a chance now. If you have a Sega Genesis laying around somewhere, make sure you have NHL ’95. By far the best sports game on the Sega Genesis. If you do not have one, then you can download a Sega Genesis emulator and the NHL ’95 ROM on various gaming sites that you can play on your computer.

If you are an expert at this game, you know the easy way to score a goal is the wrap around. On the North end, go to the left side then wrap around to the right and most times, the goalie would only be guarding the left side of the goal leaving open a gap on the other side. If you play with the Blackhawks, Chris Chelios and Jeremy Roenick are the fastest on the team and best players to use for this technique. Also, if you put Tony Amonte in the game for Joe Murphy, you have a very fast team that can score about five to ten goals a game. The hardest team that I have played with the Blackhawks is the New York Rangers with Mark Messier and Eddie Olcyck. This game is indeed awesome.

Recently, I have found myself interested in hockey for the first time since I was a young kid. The Blackhawks are on the rise and the fans are back. One reason why I found myself interested again in hockey was the fact that the Blackhawks are broacasting their home games on tv which is something none of us have experienced. Seeing home hockey on tv makes me want to attend a game sometime which I plan on doing in the next month.

I wasn’t expecting the Bears to win this game let alone have a chance in it. Let’s not put all of the blame on Rex. He is a part of the reason why the Bears lost this game. The main reason for this loss was the defense playing like shit again. Yes, they stopped the run. When the Titans realized that, they stopped running and started to pass. Kerry Collins picked apart this defense once again. It is making me think that firing Ron Rivera was a dumb move. This lies on Lovie Smith and Jerry Angelo. These two people are not only ignorant but they are stubborn.

They stopped running the football in the 3rd quarter and the defense let Collins pass all over the place. 30/41 for 289 yards? This was the first game Collins threw over 200 yards. Another week goes by and this pass defense is still brutal and pathetic.

Next up: The Bears play the NASCAR fans to the North at Lambeau Field next Sunday. Maybe the Bears can steal one on the road and put a little distance between themselves and Green Bay/Minnesota.

As always, there is a lot to discuss but I will try to keep it at a minimum.

The minute Orton went down, I thought the Bears were finished for the game as many of you guys were probably thinking the same. Reports say that Orton will be out for about a month so I guess things could be worse. We saw “Rex be Rex” in the second half. He had some nice passes as well as some dumb ones. He had a couple passes deflected with one being an interception. This of course happens all the time with him because he is too short. Like it or not, we will have to deal with this for the next month.

The good: Craig Steltz filling in for Mike Brown and getting an interception, the defense allowing no points in the second half, Rex Grossman leading the team after being down at halftime and Matt Forte rushing for 126 yards with 101 of them coming in the 2nd half.

Also, Jason Hanson slipping on the extra point in the 2nd quarter proved to be huge because the game might have went into overtime because the Lions were driving down the field in the final seconds of the game.

The bad: Letting Dan Orlovsky play like Steve Young, the defense giving up 23 points in the second quarter and the Mike Brown annual injury.

First place and a 5-3 record. I think we all would take that.

I was listening to the Score 670 Friday and at 12:45, Murph took a call from someone named Bobby D from Rockford.

Is this the same Bobby D that pretty much abandoned us at the old site so we all had to come here?

Oh well.

I’ll have a Bears and/or Bulls recap Sunday night or Monday. Have a good Halloween weekend everybody. Be safe.

Some people may not know this about me but I am a huge Bulls fan. When the Bulls had Jordan and were spoiling the city with titles, I was watching. When Tim Floyd was coaching and the likes of Randy Brown and Dickey Simpkins were in the starting lineup, I was watching. I am not sure how many of you guys here follow the NBA closely but I will be here to talk about the Bulls all season long.

Right now, the Bulls have about sixteen guards, two forwards and one center. That is suppose to be a joke but it could be true in this case. They do have a lot of guards and a couple that need to find new homes. Larry Hughes and Kirk Hinrich are two players that were rumored to be traded in the summer but no one wanted either of them. Hughes is a guy that can play average defense but every time someone passes him the ball, there is a 100% chance he will take a shot and on top of that, his salary is pretty high. In fact, Larry Hughes is so bad that when he was in Cleveland, a fan made this site: Website

Hinrich on the other hand can also play defense but he likes to dribble the ball until the shot clock reaches 3 in which he will either shoot or pass with no time for another player to shoot. I would want Derrick Rose and Thabo Sefelosha to start at the guards with Ben Gordon coming off of the bench as a sixth man.

Hometown hero Derrick Rose is by far the best player on this team. Most people are realizing by now that Rose is going to have to be the leader on this team. He will make shitty players average. He will make average players a little bit better. He is the real deal. This will be a process for John Paxson (Unless he gets fired this season) to unload some of the shitty players on this team to get some draft picks in return and try to make this team a serious contender once again in the next couple years.

With the Eastern Conference still being weak, my season win-loss prediction for our Chicago Bulls is 42-40, the 7th or 8th seed in the playoffs but end of getting their ass whooped by Boston or Orlando in the first round.

"First place fuckers."

I have always been a fan of Kyle Orton since his days at Purdue. In his senior year, he could of easily won the Heismann Trophy and being selected in the first round of the NFL Draft but ended up having a horrible knee injury that hurt his draft status. Thankfully, Jerry Angelo did not take his stupid pills that day and decided to take Orton in the fourth round anyways.

When Grossman was injured in the 2005 preseason for the 57th time, Orton was put in charge. The problem was that Ron Turner and Lovie Smith didn’t allow him to throw the ball more than five yards. This year, Orton has carried this team. In the losses with Carolina and Tampa Bay, he did overthrow a couple passes that could of easily been touchdowns and ones that would of put the game away. Combine that with the defense that has really sucked and blowing 4th quarter leads like the Chicago Bulls have done the last four years. He led this team to a sure win in Atlanta only to have the defense piss it away again. Disgusting.

Regardless, this team should be 7-0 right now. Yeah, I know. Would of. Could of. Should of. They are 4-3 and tied for first place with the NASCAR fans to the North. Luckily, a bye week is here so the Bears can rest their injured defense.

"Yeah buddy."

3-3. Which team are we going to get?

I am not going to sit here and talk about what happened this previous week. That was taken care of in the last few threads. All of my memorabilia and jerseys are in a box and ready to be put on eBay (If I can even get any cash out of this worthless shit). The only thing I am holding on to are a few autographed baseballs for financial purposes. I am actually kind of amazed that my apartment looks empty that all of my stuff is in a box. Obviously, most of it was Cubs merchandise.

Getting away from this team is going to be hard, but it can be done. I am telling myself now that I am finished with this team for good. I am not going to watch the games or go to them. I am not ever going back. I can’t take this anymore. I am done.

As far as this site is concerned, I will continue to hold on to it. I will try to have new threads about once or twice a week. I will be spending more time with video games, watching some shows or even a movie since I haven’t had a chance much lately. As it approaches Spring, I may hand the site to someone else to take care of the Cubs writing. You guys at the old site are awesome. I think over the last few years, we became pretty good friends on here without meeting up in person. It is really cool. We all think alike. When we disagreed, we gave each other our points in respect.

You guys are always welcome to talk about Cubs and anything else baseball-wise on this site. I do not mind. Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls along with college football and basketball can be discussed as well. This is your guys’ site also.

So once again, I really appreciate all of you guys coming over here from the old site and new visitors as well. Thank you very much for the support.

Saturday – 9:00 p.m. Tbs – Dick Harden vs. Hiroki Kuroda