18.7
Take that times one million and you have the weight of the retractable roof of the newly named University of Phoenix Stadium. 18,700,000 pounds or 9,350 tons . No matter how you count it, that's a lot of fucking roof. Plus, it seems like it caving in is the only thing that could stop the Chicago Bears from destroying the Matt Leinart lead Arizona Cardinals tonight.
It's a weird time being a Bears fan (maybe only for me). They are off to their best start in 20 years, the year after they won Super Bowl XX. Sexy Rexy, as Tony Kornheiser (who's calling the game tonight) likes to call him, is on fire after 2 years of basically season ending injuries. The running game is finally clicking and the defense looks like they are trying to kill the chances of opposing players being capable of conceiving or raising children with some of the hits that they lay. I get to watch them on television more than I can remember happening in the last 10 years, though it might not happen much if they keep crushing people as they have been.
With all that going down you have people in Chicago already giving them the Lombardi Trophy (then renaming it the Lovie Smith Trophy), but I'm not there yet. I could be because I live in Los Angeles which, beyond the front page story of this morning's LA Times sports section, doesn't care about anything other than their sports teams. Seriously, I can only find small blurbs on the past couple of Bears games, after combing it over a couple of times. Also I'm a Cubs fan so that might have some bearing on on it. [About the pun, it wasn't intentional, I'm just dumb. I was going to use affect, but I couldn't remember if it was actually effect.]
Being a Cubs fan, they have taught me that you either will be highly disappointed (66-96 this year, haven't won a World Series since 1908) or elevated to a high unknown to you as a sports fan and then kick you in the junk (I'm looking at you 2003 Cubs).
That's why I'm hesitant to hand them the trophy right now. Secretly I think they will win - but secretly I don't know jack shit. Plus, last years Colts were undefeated for the first 12 weeks and then blew it all. I don't need to pump myself up to go through that shit. I'm content to just let the Lovie's Bears play each week and, hopefully, prove a that my doubts are silly.
It's a weird time being a Bears fan (maybe only for me). They are off to their best start in 20 years, the year after they won Super Bowl XX. Sexy Rexy, as Tony Kornheiser (who's calling the game tonight) likes to call him, is on fire after 2 years of basically season ending injuries. The running game is finally clicking and the defense looks like they are trying to kill the chances of opposing players being capable of conceiving or raising children with some of the hits that they lay. I get to watch them on television more than I can remember happening in the last 10 years, though it might not happen much if they keep crushing people as they have been.
With all that going down you have people in Chicago already giving them the Lombardi Trophy (then renaming it the Lovie Smith Trophy), but I'm not there yet. I could be because I live in Los Angeles which, beyond the front page story of this morning's LA Times sports section, doesn't care about anything other than their sports teams. Seriously, I can only find small blurbs on the past couple of Bears games, after combing it over a couple of times. Also I'm a Cubs fan so that might have some bearing on on it. [About the pun, it wasn't intentional, I'm just dumb. I was going to use affect, but I couldn't remember if it was actually effect.]
Being a Cubs fan, they have taught me that you either will be highly disappointed (66-96 this year, haven't won a World Series since 1908) or elevated to a high unknown to you as a sports fan and then kick you in the junk (I'm looking at you 2003 Cubs).
That's why I'm hesitant to hand them the trophy right now. Secretly I think they will win - but secretly I don't know jack shit. Plus, last years Colts were undefeated for the first 12 weeks and then blew it all. I don't need to pump myself up to go through that shit. I'm content to just let the Lovie's Bears play each week and, hopefully, prove a that my doubts are silly.
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