Super stupor

More than 24 hours later and intellectually we all know that the Bears…our Bears are headed back to the Super Bowl for the first time since Silver Spoons and Punky Brewster left the airwaves. We lived through some dark days, you and I. Days when it seemed like a...

Len apparently shot a man in Reno

One night before he graced the Hank White Fan Club meeting at Kitty O’Shea’s, Len Kasper and his sidekick Bob Brenly (Brenly’s going to love being called a sidekick) played a couple songs at the Len and Bob Bash at House of Blues. Because nothing...

Super Bowling

I’m tired of it, and I don’t even play for them. Imagine how fed up the Bears have to be, already, at all of the media posturing to make the a Super Bowl the birthright of the New Orleans Saints. No matter that whenever a national tragedy like the 9/11...

Winnin’–it’s like better than losin’

It would be nice to be so spoiled by playoff wins that when one isn’t pretty, or well executed, or doesn’t even create a vast amount of confidence in the ability to repeat it in seven days, that you could spend a lot of time sitting around bitching about...

10 things to remember about Bears-Seahawks

Roughly a year ago, Bears fans settled in to watch our heroes pound the upstart Carolina Panthers on their way to Super Bowl XL. What we got was a game that ended about :37 after it started. If we weren’t mature, reasoned, thoughtful fans, we’d be worried...