I don’t have much to say about this game.
The score tells it all.
Okay, I do have one thing to say, “Lucas Oil Field?!!!” Is that what we need rubbed in our faces every weekend? It’s not enough you have all our money your fucking criminals? Now you have to have a stadium sponsorship?
In fairness, I don’t know who Lucas Oil actually is, but pretty much everyone involved in the current oil scam that’s crippling a middle class already long-suffering enough should consider themselves lucky they aren’t yet the target of a revolution!
But seriously, get your name outta our Sunday enjoyment. It’s completely unreasonable.
So, as far as the game goes, I can say also that Payton Manning didn’t quite look himself and neither did Kyle Orton. Manning seemed just really ordinary, while so did Orton. How that threw the entire Sunday night thing out of whack far enough for the Bears to beat the Colts somewhat handily, is beyond me.
The Bears defense certainly looked to be closer to their 2006 form than the atrocity that was their 2007 edition. But, if you didn’t see the game, it wasn’t that Devin Hester worked his magic and put the Bears in great situations. In fact, his most-notable play caused the Bears to start from their own 3-yard line, which resulted in a three-and-out and a punt.
When Manning and the Colts were similarly backed-up to their own goal line, they ended up taking a safety when Joseph Addai was dragged down in his own end zone.
It was an odd way to kick off the Sunday Night Football schedule. I don’t presume to know everything about football by any means, nor can you really know what’s going to happen from year to year entirely based on the prior season, but it seemed like a good bet that the Bears offense would cripple their team’s chances and the Colts would continue to be the Colts who have scored in buckets.
We’ll have to wait and see, but it sure seemed like the Bears made a pretty strong statement tonight and the Colts really looked unimpressive overall. With Tom Brady rumored to be out for the season and the Chargers getting off on the wrong foot, could there be a new group of powers in the AFC this season?
2 Comments
September 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm
wyd you file it under the lions
September 8, 2008 at 7:38 pm
If you correct your spelling, I shall tell you. Otherwise, it will just have to remain a mystery.