Matt Eberfluss, Tyrique Stevenson, and the Chicago Bears embarrassed themselves Nationally this weekend

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There are plays or games which undo years of hard work or become careeer defining and sometimes career ending.  In Chicago Bears history the loss to the Washington Commanders on the ‘Hail Mary, full of disgrace’ last Sunday epitomizes this team.

As the last drive unfolded, Tony Romo called out the Bears mistakes real time.  Romo also laid out the pass plays Washington needed to accomplish to put themselves into position to attempt the Hail Mary.  But, while the game ended on that last play the Bears coaches lost the game with the numerous mistakes they made throughout the game.

Coach Matt Eberfluss not only lost that game, he lost the Bears season, lost the team, and should lose his job.  Worse still as media in Chicago now dissects his every statement and is rehashing and reanalyzing past coaching mistakes Eberfluss has the Big Loser stench all over him.  

This embarrassment continues to grow and even Coach Walz took a swipe at the lowly Bears.  What makes it worse is it while campaigning in Wisconsin.  The Bears defeat 18-15 didn’t happen solely because of the final play or the clownish antics of Mr. Tyrique Stevenson but because the Bears coaching staff failed in all aspects of the game.  

The Bears defense kept this game close throughout the first 3 quarters holding Washington to 4 Field goals giving themselves a chance despite Caleb Williams and the offense being terrible.  Then new running back DeAndre Swift single-handedly hurdled over Washington as Caleb Williams found enough moxie and poise to put the Bears ahead with less than a minute in the 4th quarter!

Then after somehow overcoming a terrible performance Tyrique Stevenson cemented himself into the NFL film archives, alongside Leon Lett being chased down by Don Beebe in the Super Bowl, but it’s even worse because Stevenson’s taunting, lolly-gagging, and unprofessional clowning actually cost the Bears the game.  His video will be showed to young football players forever about what not to do.  I have some pity for Stevenson because he’s a young man playing in the bright lights of professional football but, as 670 The Score talked about him being a goof in practice, inattentive in pre-game walk-through, as well as highlighting his past on field egregious infractions it makes it seem like the play was not of character for him.  Which means his buffoonery on the field, while the final play has started, as the game hung in the balance is not only not unexpected but, tolerated.  Stevenson to his credit took blame on social media but, does it really matter?

This game was supposed to be the arrival party for the Bears and for Caleb Williams to take a step into the new pantheon of young QBs.  It was supposed to herald a new era in Chicago football, to be the springboard for the future, which would also see the Bears move to Arlington Heights and become a relevant NFL powerhouse again.

Just a couple weeks ago, Cole Kmet said he was looking forward to more prime time exposure for the Bears after their London romp over the Jaguars.  Instead the Bears are the laughing stock of the League Yet Again!

"I think it's a really good lesson for everyone to learn from in terms of how to respect the game," Cole Kmet said. "I think we had examples of that throughout the game and quite frankly throughout the week of practice this past week. There are moments where maybe some guys lay off here and there, those are the types of things that can happen when you do that for just a split-second. It doesn't always come to bite you in the butt but when it does, it hurts. That's the unfortunate and I would also say beauty of this game, if you disrespect it in a certain way and it'll come to haunt you in some form or fashion."

I don’t see how Eberfluss can recover from this, he’s about to become Mark Trestman a coach the Bears fans and media hated from day one and never gave a chance and whom players like Lance Briggs walked all over and like Double Doink Matt Nagy tenure, this current team under Eberfluss will never win a playoff game.

Unless Eberfluss pulls off a miracle this year this game will be the defining one for him as a coach. Unprepared.  Undisciplined.  Too cutesy play calling, by handing the ball off to a stone-handed lineman who promptly fumbled at the goal line instead of running the touchdown run in their playbook he himself calls ‘Gods Play’. Not calling timeouts to blunt Washington’s Hail Mary momentum. And not being able or willing to discipline a player who was out of position and whose frantic scramble to get back in resulted in the tipped ball and a lost game.

The Bears at the end of the season will find themselves one game out and this pathetic loss will be that game.

White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf wants a $1.2 Billion dollar handout from Illinois (Don't forget about Da Bears!)

"Socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it, is never the answer." Hank Steinbrenner in 2011, just 2 years after Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees received $2 Billion in public funds subsidized by the New York City and State taxpayers to build Yankee Stadium III.

One of the biggest and most successful scams the Ultra-Rich 1% pulled on America was the Trickle-Down Economics scheme.  Give Us large amount of public money for free and the economic benefit of us using it for ourselves will flow downward onto everyone else.  There is stuff flowing down from the 1% onto us but, it sure ain't economic benefits...  And while they were aided and abetted by Republicans and other conservative politicians the goal has always been the same to gain access to public monies in order to Privatize the Profits, and Socialize the Losses.

The White Sox are looking to move from the old 35th and Shields in the Bridgeport neighborhood to the 78, but in order to accomplish this move, poor, poor Jerry Reinsdorf needs to bum a couple o' bucks from the people of Illinois.

Jerry Reinsdorf has engaged in several tactics reserved for rich plutocratic assholes.  First, Reinsdorf dusted of his 1990s playbook and threatened to move the Chicago White Sox, this time to Nashville, Tennessee.  In the 1990s, Reinsdorf successfully bilked Illinois Governor Big Jim Thompson and the people of Illinois out of hundreds of millions of dollars to repair Comiskey Park by threatening to move the club to St. Petersburg, Florida.

So, last month just before Governor J.B. Pritzker's budget address, Reinsdorf went to Springfield to press the Governor and Legislature for $1,200,000,000 in public assistance in the building of the new White Sox stadium.  Reinsdorf and his investors would come up with the additional funding for the extended stadium grounds.

Rich people stay Rich because they don't pay for things with their money.  Governor J.B. Pritzker is rich he's a real Billionaire unlike the Orange Hitler so he knows this.  Pritzker has been adamant that no public money is going to build sports stadiums,

“I think I’ve been fairly clear about the fact that the taxpayers’ dollars are precious,” Pritzker said in response to a reporter’s question at an unrelated event. “And the idea of taking taxpayer dollars and subsidizing the building of a stadium as opposed to, for example, subsidizing the building of a birthing center, just to give the example, does not seem like the stadium ought to have higher priority.”

Unfortunately, there is a quirk which might allow not only the White Sox but Chicago Bears access to a government handout;  Mayor Brandon Johnson has been stepping all over his own dick and needs win, or to be clearer he needs not to be the Mayor who 'lost" the Chicago Bears to Arlington Heights.

“As far as public dollars, we haven’t gotten into any of those specifics just yet,” the mayor said of discussions with Sox officials.  "But I will say that we’re gonna explore all options. But we have to make sure that we’re doing right by the people of Chicago. … Everything is on the table here."

Why is everything on the table?  Jerry Reinsdorf is so rich he has quietly for the past 2 years been buying up the vacant parking lots in and around the United Center, Home of YOUR HIS Chicago BULLS!

Meanwhile, the Chicago Bears are floating the idea of tearing down Solider's Field and putting up a state-of-the-art doomed Stadium on the Lakefront.  They've even proposed using $2,000,000,000 of their own money.  As a comparison, Stan Kroenke of the LA (not St. Louis) Rams spent $5,000,000,000 on the SoFi Stadium, without public assistance, although the NFL did some money as well.

But, this is all posturing as the Chicago Lake front is protected by statute from building on it, as George Lucas learned when he proposed his gaudy Star Wars museum.  The Bears have already knocked down the old Arlington Racetrack, accompanying side buildings and that vast open area is going to house their Stadium, a Bears Museum, hotels, restaurants, probably apartments for players and coaches to live in, and all that revenue will go right into the extended Halas Family pockets.  It's a no-brainer.  But, at this point the Bears seem to be trying to reduce their financial commitment to the Arlington Heights community and surrounding school districts because they can rely on the non-stop messaging of "Trickle-Down" effect being good enough for the peoples who should feel privileged we wish to build a stadium in their community and probably should provide us incentives to do so!

Hand-outs to the MegaRich are called stimulus and the Rich love getting other peoples' money.

I hope Jordan Love doesn’t turn into Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers

Scum                             Not Scum                  Scum

Well, the Chicago Bears season came to an end as it so often has with a defeat at the hands of the Green Bay Packers.  During the game Tony Romo said he saw some of Brett Favre's gunslinger attributes in Jordan Love's arm angles and throwing motion.

Since 1992, the Packers have enjoyed an unprecedented run at Quarterback;  Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers.  Fortunately, these two all-time "greats" only managed to bring two Super Bowl Titles (and one loss) to Title Town.

And now Jordan Love appears to be continuing the tradition.  While the rules absolutely favor passing Love put together a strong season and got the Packers back into the Playoffs.  Now perhaps Love will sabotage his career by making a pass at his teammate Jonathan Owens wife, someone named Simone Biles, but I highly doubt it as Love seems like a good dude.  Damnit...

But, the past two Green Bay QBs have either turned into unredeemable scumbags or always were.  It's amazing the inferiority complex Aaron Rodgers has that he is still trying to outdo Favre in scumbag behavior.  But, barring some Hail Mary it's not likely as Favre's run of behavior has veered into theft and criminality. 

As the Mississippi scandal of Republicans stealing TANF money and funneling it to their wealthy friends and allies broke and Favre's deep involvement came to light, Shannon Sharpe took to his ESPN Show Undisputed to correctly call Favre "a sorry mojo who stole money from the lowest of the low" "people who really needed that money",  Trump loving Bret Favre decided to sue him and two others (Pat McAfee and Mississippi State Auditor Shad White) for defamation.

Of course, the facts of the situation are Republicans in Mississippi did steal $77,000,000 in federal money set aside for TANF and, however Favre found out about the scam, he specifically asked to have several million dollars of that money set aside for him to build a volleyball stadium at his daughter's school while Favre would claim he donated that money through his charity.  Favre has paid back over a million dollars to the state.  As Republicans often say "facts are stupid things".  Fortunately, the Judge in his case threw out Favre defamation suit but, it shows how rightwingers have really taken to using courts to win when the facts are against them.  Too bad for Favre he couldn't go Judge Shopping for a Packers Fan who would have declared him the Winner.

Fascinatingly, the Reason article on this garnered so little commentary from the lying rightwingers who infest that platform (only 7 comments and half of them are off topic).

Pat McAfee is now entangled in another Packers QB scandal.  McAfee often has Rodgers on his show to talk to him and former Green Bay Packers LB A.J. Hawk.  Last week, as the trio inexplicably talked about the Epstein List release Rodgers, with his extensive wine room in the background stated, “A lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, are really hoping that doesn’t come out.” Rodgers also said he would be “popping some sort of bottle,” if Kimmel was on the list.

Rodgers has been angry at Kimmel for several years because during Covid Rodgers repeatedly lied, especially by omission and inference, when asked about his vaccination status by saying he was "immunized".  Rodgers is a "tin-foil hat nutter" who like all Republicans has no compunctions about putting other people at risk because he is a special little snowflake who doesn't care about others.

Kimmel pointed out that Rodgers' slander put his family and children at risk as MAGA Chuds sent death threats as if that matters to conservatives who have fallen in love with threatening to murder their political enemies and emulate Traitor Trump's manner of hateful, vile, treasonous, fascist speech, that is when Trump isn't making fun of disabled people or stumbling through a speech not knowing what he's saying.

But, Kimmel the comedian really skewered Rodgers by making fun of the end of his career.  Aaron hamstrung the Jets this season and probably for a decade to come by forcing them to cater to his delusional trade, contract, and player signing demands.  But, yesterday with big Don't Report that I Got Mad energy on McAfee's show, Rodgers claimed, he "doesn't give a shit what Kimmel says about me" and he "isn't stupid enough to accuse [Kimmel] with absolutely zero concrete evidence."

That's some big ass covering for Rodgers, McAfee, and ESPN.  But, Rodgers still feels free to air his lunatic conspiracy theories about Fauci, vaccines, and #QAnon nonsense.

So, while Rodgers career included unprecedented success of "still owning the Bears", he and Favre are being forced to own up to being their scummy selves.

Touchdown! Execute Taylor Swift? Conservatives hate Women and Football...

They're only so much rightwing garbage I or anyone can keep up with but, occasionally something are just too ridiculous or too vile to ignore, especially as the desired end result of inflammatory rightwing rhetoric is murder.

So, my Chicago Bears are currently the worst franchise in football.  I say this because the Chicago Bears are supposedly a storied franchise but, have been unable to adapt to modern football or even develop any modicum of sustained success.  The highpoint for the Bears in the last 25 years was the Devin Hester, Super Bowl Kickoff for a Touchdown in 2006.  Since then it has been a steady decline into ridiculous irrelevance and sub-par mediocrity, defeat, and fanbase misery.  Punctuated by comical losses (the Double Doink playoff loss in 2018) and soul-crushing insults like last year when Aaron "Torn Tendon" Rodgers declared, "I still Own You!" while beating the Bears, yet again.

Who are the Chefs?

So as the Kansas City Chiefs, led by transcendent QB talent Patrick Mahomes (whom the Bears passed on in the draft), were crushing the Bears 41-0, Taylor Swift was seen in the KC private box as a guest of TE Travis Kelce.  Mahomes said afterwards he didn't believe Kelce had invited Taylor Swift to the game, but said meeting her was cool, 

"Yea I met her. She's really cool. Good people.  But like Trav said, imma let them have their privacy and just keep it moving." 

Davis founded The Federalist
and is upset women won't "date" him

Pencil-dicked conservatives latched onto Taylor Swift a few years back, about the time Kanye jumped on stage and interrupted her, as their ideal woman; the überfrau.  Since then conservatives have fallen into love with Kanye and out of love with Taylor and her army of Swifties.  You see rightwing men saw the 6 foot tall Swift as their Nazi Goddess and got big boners thinking about how they could impregnate her with their seed and build the master race.  But, Taylor Swift, like most women, want nothing to do with the  MAGA Republicans. Even worse Swift is galvanizing her Swifties into an engaged voting bloc.

So, you know what happens next.  The juvenile rightwing brain immediately switches to hating that bitch, declaring her music sucks, and she's stupid, and ugly, and gay... oh and she should be executed.  You see conservatives loathe women and wish to enslave or murder them.  This is a great amount of the subtext of the rightwing gun fondling and displays.  Of course, the majority of guns are used to kill the gun owner after he has murdered his so-called loved ones and family members.

C. Kirk: Face to Big for Helmet
But! No Brains to CTE!

Stew Peters had a whole segment on his "show" about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.  Besides declaring Kelce is the new Colin Kapernick, Peters stated 

"This is a strong point in favor of the rumors that Taylor Swift is actually a lesbian or even asexual because with a history like that and all these death jabs, it's pretty clear Kelce has no dick," 

Peters declared Kelce sold out to Pfizer and is complicit in the murder of babies so his guest on the show, pyscho fundamentalist fanatic, Morgan Ariel added, 

 
"I think that we need justice in this country.  I think the celebrities that are pushing it, they should be tried. I think these people should be publicly prosecuted and hung."

You know what happens next, rightwing trolls and Russian bots on every social media platform amplify and expand the reach of these calls for Taylor Swift's murder, while the odious YouTube algorithm continually recommends rightwing influencers.  Republicans and law enforcement ignore it but, agree that something should be done about these baby-killers and death jabbers.  Some triggered right-winger takes it to heart and kills people and Republicans and Rightwingers offer up their Thoughts & Prayers and ask how this can happen and then go on to demonize someone else who is outside the MAGA circle.

Dennis McKinnon the 1985 Bears and Hubris

As the Chicago Bears suffer through another disappointing season, after it began with such promise and talk of Super Bowl aspirations, it's time to reflect on the one Bear Super Bowl Championship; the Legendary 1985 Bears.

The young me who half watched the Bears demolish the Patriots (spit) in Super Bowl XX had no idea it would be 20 years before another Bears team even made the big game.

To be fair, I don't watch football on TV much anymore, don't gamble on games, and don't go to games or buy merchandise because of the barbarity of the sport. Added together with the treatment of Colin Kaepernick provided me the ability to sever connections almost completely*.

But, I believe I will buy Dennis McKinnon's new book, Chicago Bear #85 Silky D Bares All authored with the late great Chicago sportscaster Chet Coppock. The 85 Bears have been overanalyzed since their failure to win a second or third Championship and cement themselves as the Dynasty of 1980's, that honor went to the San Francisco 49ers. McKinnon did the Chicago Sports Radio talk shows and tore into the Bears ownership and management because Ego and Hubris, from coaches, owners and players were all responsible for Bears One-and-Done fate; a fate which seems to be befalling the most recent Chicago over-hyped Champion the 2016 Cubs.

(* - I started "playing" Fantasy Football back in 1992 with High School friends and my first Title was in 1993 thanks to Marcus Allen's 13 touchdown Chiefs season. Much to my chagrin I still indulge with my old friends. I recommend Nate Jackson's book Fantasy Man.)