My Friends,

Like most of you, I'm enjoying watching the latest Lance Briggs episode play out. Briggs walks away from his $350,000 (or $600,000, depending on who you listen to) Lamborghini after cracking it up sometime before the police discovered it at 3:14 am, and Lovie Smith gets indignant when a reporter has the temerity to ask if alcohol was involved. True, there's nothing to indicate booze had anything to do with the accident. Maybe Briggs was stone cold sober and figured the only time he could turn the car loose on the roads around here was at 3am. I read where the car brakes from 60 to zero in 107 feet; with that kind of braking power it's easy to see how you could lose control if you're hauling ass down the Edens and have to jump on the brakes. But I know one thing. I'm not walking away from my 350K car unless I have something else to lose by staying.

So even if Briggs wasn't drinking, we all learned something here. If you wreck your car but nobody gets hurt, especially if you're alone in a one car incident, you can just walk away and deal with the authorities later. Who says the NFL isn't educational?

Oh, and one other thing. Jeff Joniak reported on Briggs arrival in his new Murcielago Roadster at Soldier Field last Saturday night, telling us that after five years Briggs said he wanted to treat himself when he bought the car. Here's a thought: next time Briggs wants to treat himself, he should go to Dairy Queen and buy himself a Blizzard. It only costs a couple bucks, and it'll last about as long as that car.

LBF

8/28/2007