Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:29 AM
Perry
Bears open training camp - Welcome back football!!
If you are a baseball fan in Chicago, today marks your first opportunity to start ignoring your team and focus on the Bears. This is as much a Chicago tradition as deep dish pizza and voting early and often. The Bears' training camp opens today and it's just in time to cure your baseball aches and pains. It's the pain killer everyone is jonesin' for come August. Stronger than a handful of aspirin, the Bears and their questionable offense will gladly replace the Cubs and the White Sox woes in your sports medicine cabinet. This is pain relief at it's highest dose.
The timing is beautiful and a bit harsh for White Sox fans. The Sox have been struggling as of late and today's necessary break in the schedule affords everyone the chance to talk football. If winning isn't in the gameplan for the Cubs and the Sox, then maybe your brain's CPU cycles could be better spent figuring out why in the name of Jim Brown would the Bears want to start Cedric Benson over Thomas Jones. How about that second wide receiver who will compliment Mushin? Do you really need to worry about the second wide receiver in an offense whose primary offensive target had only 4 TDs all of
last season? I bet the memories are flooding back.
Take for example the fantastic, league leading (really?) defense that was destroyed by Carolina's Steve Smith. Do you remember our cornerbacks falling besides themselves as Smith barely broke a sweat on his way to crushing our SuperBowl dreams? That should clear up some space in your head. There is no need to dwell on the Cubs pitching problems. The alternative I offer up is the linebacker situation at Halas Hall. Leon Joe is starting over the underpaid and very disgruntled Lance Briggs. You can understand why the man is upset. Afterall, the Bears
gave his money to Hunter Hillenmeyer. That should be enough to get you started back on track with football. If that wasn't enough, you should be getting your DirecTV bill any day now. You've all signed up for the NFL Package by now, haven't you?
Welcome back football - Bear Down!
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