Is it too early to panic yet? (I feel like ESPN when their beloved Yankees/Lakers/Cowboys/Giants/Jets lose the first game of the season.) I am starting to wonder if other fans are ready to hit the big red button. Apparently, I’m not alone (sort of). (more…)

So, there wasn’t a Bears-Raiders game thread here last night. Our bad. But, our dropping the ball was nothing compared to Desmond Clark’s four botched snaps last night — two field goals, one extra point and one punt — as he subbed for the injured Patrick Mannelly. Here, Clark speaks about repeatedly flubbing the ball-through-legs toss.

Unlike this year’s Madden 2011 game, Matt Forte 2010 returns with our favorite feature…turbo boost. So while it is now harder to attain massive amounts of yards in virtual reality, Fortual Reality promises to provide us with a lot more Ohh’s and Ahh’s than, say, any semblence of the ’09 season. At least we know if football fails him, Forte looks quite capable as a showtunes dancer. Now THOSE are spirit fingers.

ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago is currently offering fans of legends to have lunch with one. Or, at least, that’s what they claim. (more…)

With Caleb Hanie injuring his shoulder against the San Diego Chargers, the Chicago Bears are scrambling to find an insurance policy at quarterback. (more…)

This is the back of Nick Roach’s head. He’s wearing a mohawk. If you click here, you’ll also notice Pisa Tinoisamoa and Lance Briggs have one, too. Brian Urlacher kind of has one. Hunter Hillenmeyer opted, instead, for the faux-hawk, or the hair cut I sported obliviously from  2004 until yesterday. (more…)

After a season in which Jay Cutler took our limitless expectations of him and, well, threw them away to the other team, sometimes four or five at a time…it seemed hard for many people to buy into what the young quarterback could bring to the table this year. Cutler recently had a few words that he hoped his critics would intercept. (more…)

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/punts puppy off Michigan Ave bridge (more…)

Devin Hester was just married and “the most visited urban Website in the world” was all over it. Some excerpts from their coverage, followed by commentator reaction, after the jump. (more…)

Deadspin posted a selection from the book, Bigger Than The Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the 80′s Created the Modern Athlete by Michael Weinreb, and it tells all about how Jim McMahon’s days leading up to Super Bowl XX got turned upside down because some reporter told a dirty, dirty lie. (more…)

Buried at the end of a Sun-Times post-training camp day review, lies this nugget about Matt Forte taking a snap in the Wildcat formation. Yes, Mike Martz, with his incredibly complex playbook, has apparently started to implement the Wildcat offense into the Bears’ repertoire. Hey, isn’t Forte basically a modern-day Walter Payton, anyway?

The N’Awlins Saints were recently invited, like most Super Bowl-winning teams are, to the White House to celebrate having been the best of the best. Somehow, new Saint Alex Brown snuck in there,despite having spent last season, um, not winning a Super Bowl.