In another matchup of the only two professional football teams to call Chicago home, the Cardinals and Bears are getting the full Fox treatment today. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are at Soldier Field to call the action. This will be great. Joe does smug so well, and Troy comes in handy because he loves to read the graphics on the screen to us. Great?
If you’re wondering just what a rag-tag league the NFL was early on, the reason the Bears colors are navy blue and orange, and the Cardinals are red and white is because they used to use the leftover jerseys from the University of Illinois (navy and orange) and the University of Chicago (maroon and white). Over the years, the Cardinals lightened up their red, but now you know the rest of the story. And I’m sure you wish you had cared to learn any of it.
The Bears won the toss and deferred to the second half, so they’re kicking off to the Cardinals.
Anquan Boldin is out, which is good for the Bears. But I don’t know how much it matters. They have to put Peanut Tillman on Larry Fitzgerald on every play, and Zach Bowman can’t cover Steve Breaston any better than he wouldn’t be able to cover Boldin.
In case you’ve forgotten (and let’s be honest, nobody has forgotten) the Super Bowl champion Bears of 1985 had the most dominant defense of all time.
