For those bloggers who did not watch the ESPN Monday Night Football telecast, you missed one for the ages. MY Chicago Bears....the Bears I watched growing up...THE 1985 Super Bowl Champion Bears.....came back from a 23-3 hole to beat the Arizona Cardinals in AZ last night. Was it their fantastic offense you say? Nope! The Bears scored on a field goal, 2 defensive fumble recoveries for td's and a punt return for a td. They did not score a td on offense. This type of comeback has never happend in the NFL...ever! When a grown man is screeming at the tv at 11pm at night because Devin Hester returns a punt for the go ahead score....priceless.
Lots of "beer flu" in Chicago today I bet.
Could this be the year? stay tuned.
bunny out
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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Is football that game with the brown, oblong ball?
In any case, hard fought victories in any sport are dramatic and incredibly exciting. Congrats to your team!
Thank God for the Bears Defense (who...coincidentally enough is on my fantasy football team). Awesome game!!!
The Sheriff's description of a grown man screaming at the TV takes me back to the beginning of September, when the US Open was in full swing in NY.
Only multiply that by fourteen days, a few of which I watched matches for ten to twelve hours straight, and you've got an amusing snapshot of an unusually enthusiastic Kern.
Deit-I see what you're saying, but keep in mind, I've been warped for years, and tennis is a little different than other sports. As you know, fellow tennis fan, some men's matches can easily go four hours plus if they get into a fifth set. At that point it's totally reasonable to be pretty amped about the outcome. Really ten hours is only approximately three matches or so, give or take depending on whether it's a men's or women's match. That will change soon, from what I understand, as there are talks of making both men's and women's matches only three sets apiece, which would eliminate these monster marathon matches. I think the reason is partially because it is so taxing on some of the major players, that last year several of them had to withdraw from other tournaments they would have otherwise played in, had their bodies not been so ravaged by the previous tournaments.
I did like your comment about not harming anything but the Dewey Decimal system. Touche, good sir. Touche.
Deit-I actually do agree with you that a lot of the drama does come in the woman's game, and exactly for the reason you specified. In certain respects, I think that this change in the Men's game is going to really force them to dig deep and not rely on the fact that they might be able to simply let their opponent succumb to fatigue, and come back swinging. Granted, I've seen some awesome five setters in my short time of watching tennis, but I do think that this is going to potentially be a good thing for the sport.
Also, in certain respects I enjoy the Women's game a little more because it's not such brute force being used. Sure, Roddick has a huge serve, and Federer is pretty amazing no matter what, and Nadal looks like Conan the Barbarian with those arms, but brute strength is not the most lyrical aspect of the game. Because the women in tennis can never hope to be as strong as guys like Nadal for example, they place a lot more emphasis on shot making and finesse, which in my opinion is a lot more fun to watch than an out and out slugfest.
Good point about the weather conditions, as well.
Yes, apologies for threadjacking. I didn't see much other response, so I was just trying to keep it lively.
Otherwise, my lack of manliness would have prohibited me from participating at all in today's event.
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