Crying Baby Girl Is How The World Sees Bears Fans

Dear Bears fans,

If you act like this and this, then the following video is how the world sees you. Man up and accept your loss. It hurts but it doesn’t mean you have to act like a Vikings fan.

Here’s a video of a “baby girl” crying when the Bears lose. She really personifies how some angry Bears fans have acted this week. 4-year-old “Bears fan” Lauren is torn up that her Chicago Bears lost in the NFC Championship Game to those big, bad Green Bay Packers. Those Packers are such poopy heads.

She says, “I hate the Packers,” and that’s understandable. But there’s no crying in football. Even for Bears fans.

Packer Fan Fired for Wearing Green Bay Tie

Did you hear about the bitter Bears fans who overreacted to the NFC Championship game?

No, I’m not talking about Jay Cutler’s knee.

While Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are headed toward the Super Bowl, it looks like one Packer fan in Chicago is headed toward the unemployment line.

In what appears to be an easy win for wrongful termination, a Chicago car dealer has admitted to firing an employee for wearing a Green Bay Packers tie after the Bears loss in the NFC Championship. Webb Chevrolet general manager Jerry Roberts says he fired John Stone for refusing to remove his Packers-branded tie even though Stone had worn the tie on occasions before.

I know Bears fans are still bitter about the loss but to me that seems like a horrible way to show it. And a petty way to make the news.

With Chicago reeling from Sunday’s painful playoff loss, Monday morning probably wasn’t the best time for car salesman John Stone to share his love for the Green Bay Packers with co-workers and customers.

But Stone, 34, proudly showed up for work at Webb Chevrolet in south suburban Oak Lawn wearing his green-and-yellow Packers necktie anyway.

Now he’s former car salesman John Stone.

The morning after the Chicago Bears’ hated rivals beat them at Soldier Field to advance to the Super Bowl, Webb’s general manager Jerry Roberts says he fired Stone for refusing to remove the Packers-branded tie.

“He said, ‘You have two options,’ ” a furious Stone said later Monday. “Remove the tie, or you’re fired.”

Roberts agreed that no customers had complained about the tie when Stone was asked to remove it at 10:30 a.m., and that Stone was a good salesman who sold 14 cars last month.

But he said the tie was “salting the wounds” of Bears fans including himself and that it “makes it harder to sell cars in what’s already a competitive sales environment.”

“We spend $20,000 a month on advertising with the Bears on WBBM during the season, and we have Bears players including Corey Wootten driving loaner vehicles, and here was a salesman openly undoing that work.”

Stone was offered five chances to take off the tie, but chose not to, he said, adding “If he loves the tie more than his job, he’s welcome to keep wearing it — elsewhere.”

For his part, Stone complains that he often wore the tie, which he bought three years ago at Wal-Mart, in his former job at a Dodge dealership.

But, said Roberts, context is everything. “If he’d worn the tie on Saturday I wouldn’t have minded.” [via Sun Times]

The Dirty Sanchez

Maybe the Jets should have done more trash talking this week. Seems they only showed up enough to play the second half of the AFC Championship game which is good enough to get them a front row ticket to the offseason.

And midway through the first quarter of the Jets/Steelers game there was an odd vision of New York QB Mark Sanchez doing an odd exchange with backup Mark Brunell. Sanchez didn’t throw any INT’s in the game but he sure did get a pick.

I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the ‘Dirty Sanchez’ before. Well, this isn’t it but it’s the most SFW image of it we can show as Sanchez picks his nose and wipes it on poor Mark’s jacket.

That’s what good teammates are for.

Rashard Mendenhall Violates Ben Roethlisberger on Field

There’s some kind of twisted irony to the fact that Ben Rapistberger got a little violated on the field last night as the Steelers beat the Jets to advance to the Super Bowl. Late in the game Big Ben takes it in the butt from running back Rashard Mendenhall after taking a knee in 2011 AFC Championship game.

No fines or sexual assault charges were filed. The action by Mendenhall was rather rude. Even Ben buys the girl a drink first before doing this.

Big BJ Blows Bears Away

Quarterback woes continue to haunt the Chicago Bears as the Bears shuffled through 3 QBs in a failed effort to hold off the Green Bay Packers and advance to the Super Bowl. The Pack beat the Bears 21-14 and will now make hotel reservations in Dallas for the big game.

Starter Jay Cutler left the lineup right after the half with a knee injury. Veteran backup Todd Collins came in for a few series but was horrible and by the start of the 4th quarter the third stringer, Caleb Hanie, was inserted as the Bears were only down 14-7.

The momentum for the Pack grew when Hanie tossed his first TD pass….kinda.

He threw a pick 6 to big B.J. Raji who rumbled into the endzone and did a little dance. Raji’s TD return put the Packers up 21-7 and they were able to hold off a late surge by Hanie and the Bears and advance to the Super Bowl for the first time without that old pervert Brett Favre.

The victory makes the Packers the first sixth-seeded team to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.  Here’s the play of the game as big B.J. intercepts Hanie and takes it to the house.

Toronto Wants An NFL Team

Toronto wants a piece of the NFL action. The fourth-largest market in North America has hosted a Buffalo Bills game for the last three years and now wants the gig full time. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he wants to lure an NFL franchise to Toronto and with the NFL’s recent success in Europe and Canada it could very well happen soon.

My guess is that a team will be placed in L.A. by expansion or move before Toronto but on a larger time line the expansion of the NFL in inevitable and foreign territories are prime locations.

Another bump in the road is a suitable stadium. Currently the retractable Rogers Centre is where the Bills and the CFL’s Argonauts play ball. The capacity for the CFL games are 31,074 but expandable to 54,000 for larger events like the CFL Championship or an NFL game.

In 2010, 3 NFL teams averaged less than 54,000 fans. St. Louis, Oakland and Tampa Bay all missed that mark despite the Bucs having a winning season and just missing the playoffs.

The NFL games held in Toronto have seen a slight decline in attendance.  Ticket prices and a poor team to watch, Buffalo, have not helped the situation but does shed a good light on how Toronto would support a team that is a winner or a loser.

Rogers Centre Toronto Argonauts Attendance (2002-07)

2002 – 20,539
2003 – 15,083
2004 – 25,813
2005 – 30,196
2006 – 29,677
2007 – 30,931

Rogers Centre American football Attendance (2008-10)

2008 – 48,434 (Preseason game)
2008 – 52,134
2009 – 51,567
2008 – 39,583 (Preseason game)
2010 – 50,746

Antonio Cromartie Jealous Hines Ward Is A Better Hitter

If it works once, why not go back to the well again?

New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie is back in the press trash talking an opponent. The target this time is Steelers WR Hines Ward and the comments are about Ward’s knack for laying out defensive players.

“I know for a fact that he will hit you while you’re not looking,” Cromartie stated. “I don’t think he’s man enough to hit you while you’re looking at him.”

My biggest concern about this situation is not what Cromartie said. He’s right but considering safeties and cornerbacks love doing it to helpless receivers I see no problem in the favor being returned. Ward is easily the best blocking WR in the game even though he runs the 40 in a time that I could probably beat these days.

What I’m concerned about is that the Jets are going to keep this trash-talking shtick up for every game they play.  Can you imagine all the talk if the Jets do make the Super Bowl and have that extra week to talk to the media?  Whew! that’ll just wear us all out.

Personally, I think Cromartie is just a bit jealous because Hines has proven he can hit on the field. For comparison, here’s why I say that.

Carl’s Lock: Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears Playoffs

Alright, so who’s gonna win this weekend in the game of the year between the Bears and Packers?

Whenever I need betting advice I always go to Carl because Carl knows his NFL and he knows that the Packers are the team that will go to the Super Bowl after whooping the Bears up and down Lake Michigan. Carl summons the power of dairy-based headwear to show support for his new team of choice. Golly, I wonder which one he picked.

Peyton Hillis Made Fun Of For Being White

Poor Peyton Hillis. First, he’s stuck playing for the Cleveland Browns during their rebuilding years.  And second, he’s taunted for the color of his skin. Hills became the first white running back to rush for 1,000 since Craig James in 1985.

I would think he’d take more grief for being a Brown but it turns out that opposing players used his white skin as a taunt to try to get inside his head.  It didn’t work.  Hillis rushed for almost 1,200 yards for the Browns this year and became the second most famous Peyton in the league.

Hillis revealed on the Dan Patrick show that opposing teams trash-talked to him about his race on the field.

“Every team did it,” he said. “They’ll say, ‘You white boy, you ain’t gonna run on us today. This is ridiculous. Why are you giving offensive linemen the ball?’

“All kinds of stuff like that you hear on the field, but I use that to my advantage. I kind of soaked it in, ate it up a little bit, because I enjoyed it.”

He told the Dan Patrick he’s heard of nicknames others have created for him. Among them:

• “The Avalanche”
• “White Rhino”
• “Chuck Norris”

I’m not sure that Commissioner Roger Goodell is going to be rushing to Hillis’ defense very fast for a reverse racism case. Maybe the other teams will keep up the harassment. It worked in Hillis’ favor this year and hopefully he can repeat the magic next year.

Aaron Rodgers Is Like Cowbell

Phil Simms proves just how old and out of touch the crew at “Inside the NFL” is with a pop culture reference….from 10 years ago.

The analysts of the show, and much of the crew, are just shocked when Simms compares Packers QB Aaron Rodgers to a “Saturday Night Live” skit by Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken circa April 2000.

It’s not the material of the skit which shocks the crew. The “I need more cowbell” reference has been run into the ground over that last decade and odds are you know someone who owns a t-shirt with the phars on the front.

It’s the fact that no one on the set has a clue what Simms is talking about.

Good guess by Warren Sapp who says he knows about Blue Bell ice cream. Not quite the same thing, big guy, but good try anyway.

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