Figures - I wait for Lovie and the crew to take a hiatus from their perennial stomping of the dreaded cheese to go up to Lambeau and watch the "game." Add to this the apparent four years of bile backed up in the stomach of the derelicts, alcoholics, and imbeciles that fill the stands there and I was treated to an onslaught of such creative wits and witticisms as "Bears still suck" and "you guys suck".

 

When my son Erik told me that he wished they would stop drinking because they weren't talking in complete or intelligible sentences, I said to two things to him: One, they are incapable of speaking in complete and/or intelligible sentences even when they are sober, and Two, the only real break we had in the verbal abuse was when they left to pee on themselves and buy more beer.

 

After they had asked me about 30 times, "So - How does it feel to be a Bears Fan?" I finally turned and looked them in the eye and answered, "Sober?"

 

They had no idea how to take that so they took another swig of beer and thought about it for 5 minutes until the Bears did another three and out and then it was back to "Bears still suck."

 

The bad news - we got trounced and I had to drive five hours and sit through three hours of ineptitude by our coaches and our players on both sides of the ball. Every time I looked up at the scoreboard, the total yards gained were two to one against us.

 

The good news - after that bashing we took, God help any Packer Fan that happens to be anywhere near Erik at the next game. Another martyr is created.

 

I hope the Bears bring their "A" game such as it is to the December 22 tilt and let's hope it means something.

 

Lactose Intolerant

11/17/2008