Tuesday, October 17, 2006

One of the worst offensive games by a quarterback I have ever seen in football history. From little league football to the NFL, I have never seen such a pitiful performance by a QB. Rex Grossman looked flat out horrendous.

Coming into the game Monday night, I was just as confident as I’m sure the whole city of Chicago was. I mean, this was the rebirth of the '85 Bears and we were playing the Arizona Cardinals. No way were we going to lose. This was the new undefeated Bears against the same ol' 1-4 Arizona Cardinals, they were suppose to lose! No one (with the exception of maybe Brian Weiss) thought the Cardinals stood any chance in the world. But in the famous words of Chris Berman, "That is why they play the game."

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(I really do not want to write a full article about this game, mainly because I am at work and I am trying not to get fired, plus I am sure most of you saw at least the first half and saw how bad the Bears were and how good Matt Leinhart and the Cardinals were. Therefore I will just sum up my night in the final 6 minutes of the game.)
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With 6 minutes left to play and the Bears down 23-10, Rex threw his 4th INT (6th turnover) and I finally said that is enough. I had been blowing up at the TV all night and I had seen enough games to know that the Bears chances of winning at this point looked pretty bleak. I turned off the TV and told Katie it was time to call it a night. Depressed I was. All the expectations and hype about this team going undefeated had completely vanished. Katie kept telling me, "It's only one loss Kevin" but it was a lot more than just a loss, it was the Arizona fucking Cardinals! And what made it worse was that I was going to have to hear Weiss tell everybody how he was right and we should've listened to his wisdom. I got in bed and watched the last 15 minutes of a Seinfeld to try to cheer me up.

After the episode, I said, "We’ll let’s just see what the final was" and flipped to ESPN. The score read "Chi 24 Arz 23".... And then came what seemed like a very long silence ... was I dyslexic? "Chicago 24, Arizona 23" - I kept repeating it in my head, "Chicago 24, Arizona 23". WAIT A MINUTE! CHICAGO 24?!!!! What and the hell happened??? I couldn't believe it. Before I could get too excited I noticed Arizona was driving and were about to set up a final field goal attempt. "They're not going to win, they somehow have comeback, but no point in getting excited over nothing" - I told Katie. But as the final field goal attempt went wide left, and the Bears secured their 6th victory of the season to go to 6-0, I was in complete shock and disbelief. They won, they somehow pulled it out. No offensive touch downs, 6 turnovers, and they won.

Unfuckingbelievable!

I can go on and on and try to describe the way I felt after this, hell I couldn't even sleep. I had to check the internet this morning just to make sure it wasn't a dream.

I must get back to work now, I could go on and on if I wanted to but I think you guys get the point. And Weiss, I told you that was a bad bet.....

BEAR

9 comments:

Faust said...

I'm happy for you too, Kev.

"Kev" <----- that is cute

The Bear said...

Shut up bitch, Im changing that now.

Faust said...

I changed it back. Bitch.

BDub_210 said...

Great story. I actually ended up winning my bet. I picked the Bears money line.

The Bear said...

Shut up Mazur, that's not funny. I only punched her once and it was in a spot where she could cover it up with her clothes.

Lee said...

Ciudado Kev,

You never want to let on that you actually care as much as you do about your teams. Better to watch the game alone. The intensity is in the realm of un-understandable for them. Thats why I was lucky to have a business trip the day after game 7 this summer. And is the same reason faust can't live with piper in the US. Cause all his teams suck.

Go Farva!

Faust said...

Here's how I see it, Lee...

Mavs > Spurs (at least in 2005-2006)
St. Louis Cardinals > San Antonio Missions (AA)
Green Bay Packers < All NFL teams, and most of the SEC

2 out of 3 ain't bad.

But you're right, Piper hates sports.

Lee said...

But your a true fan. Unlike a names someone who tried to convert the spurtholism from Mavism. Then one day this name-less person walked up to a tailgate and Lubagn said "Tha's adam, he's a mav."

Faust said...

"so..."