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| Saturday, January 19, 2002 | Go to: S M T W T F S |
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Da Birds!
Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was the hero on the night Chicago died.
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| Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb (5) gets a high-five from teammate Koy Detmer after throwing a touchdown pass. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP) |
CHICAGO - Donovan McNabb was too elusive, too shifty, too good for the Chicago Bears to contain.
Scrambling and dancing away from rushers left and right, McNabb made his homecoming a memorable one today.
McNabb maneuvered the Eagles into the NFC championship game, throwing for two touchdowns and running for a third to spark a 33-19 victory.
David Akers kicked four field goals and Philadelphia's rugged defense bottled up a Chicago offense crippled when quarterback Jim Miller was knocked out of the game in the second quarter because of a separated shoulder.
The Eagles will face the winner of tomorrow's Green Bay-St. Louis game in the conference championship. The Bears get to stay home, disappointed after winning the NFC Central and making their first playoff appearance since 1994.
Hickey Blows Da Big One!
Ken Hickey and his brainless entourage of oddly dressed (and undressed ) Bears fans actually believed the Bears would win.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
| Idiot Bears fans making fools of themselves again. These guys need to "get a life." (Dick Hertz / AP) |
CHICAGO - Hickey, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and never played in a championship at Soldier Field, has been very vocal this season. He has often taunted fellow co-workers who transferred from Cleveland to Chicago about the struggles the Browns have experienced in recent years. Last year, when the Bears were in the dumper, "Ken the Mouth" didn't have a word to say.
He is deeply saddened by the failure of the team he rooted for as a child. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the "Hey Bears Fans, Get A Life" fund.
Da Bears Fan Club Blimp Goes Down in Flames!
Was this season nothing but hot air? Will the Bears return to earth in 2002?
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| Dramatic photo marks disappointing end to Bears season. (Jack Mehoff / AP) |
CHICAGO - Soldier Field was the site of two flaming disasters on Saturday - the Bears' quest for the Super Bowl and the destruction of the fan club blimp.
The accompanying photo will serve as a shocking reminder to those who get caught up in all the 'hot air' that surrounds a winning season built on a series of marginal victories and last minute heroics.
Has Osama Been Hidin' in the Soldier Field End Zone?
Was that really Osama Bin Laden lurking about in the end zone?
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| Osama sports his battered Bears football helmet. (Mullah Mullah Mullah / Al Jhazeera) |
CHICAGO - A number of fans thought they saw Osama Bin Laden lurking in the end zone at Soldier Field. The man running around in the end zone had a beard and was wearing a long robe. Whenever the Bears had possession of the football, he would fire his AK-47 into the air and scream, "For Allah's sake, I'm wide open. Throw me the ball. Are you blind? Do you think I'm hiding in a cave?"
If Osama was really hiding in the end zone, the Bears would have never found him.
"Offense to the Senses"
Restroom conditions and behavior at Bears games are notorious, 'disgusting.' The new Soldier Field, planners say, will fix that.
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| Is that beer in that plastic cup? (Tribune photo by I. Kent Holdit) |
CHICAGO - It was at halftime of the Bears' home game against Jacksonville Jan. 6, when sanitation anarchy broke out.
Inside the crowded men's rooms near Gate 9, drunken fans who apparently couldn't wait for an open urinal relieved themselves in the sinks. Outside the restrooms, next to bathroom lines stretching more than 30 yards, more desperate fans drained their bladders into empty beer cups behind the backs of watchful buddies.
The situation around the stadium's 40 odiferous portable toilets wasn't much better. Impatient, increasingly irritable crowds rocked the green plastic outhouses when someone inside was taking too long.
"As far as football stadiums go, Soldier Field is the worst," says WMVP-AM sports radio host Lou Canellis of the stadium's public washroom conditions.
"If you think it's bad now, you should have seen it in the '70s and '80s, before the port-a-potties," said Canellis, 37, who has been attending Bears games since he was 7. "I couldn't wait to go to school and tell my friends about all these guys peeing in the sink. It was disgusting."
Flip 'Em Da Bird!
Out of the mouths of babes come wisdom and insight.
| Click on photo to hear Melissa Ann's first words. (Pee Wee Herman / AP) |
NAPERVILLE - Bears fans start young in the McCrory household. Newborn Melissa Ann was in the family room with mom and dad watching the Bears-Eagles game when she gave them a big surprise.
Melissa Ann's mom Cindy saw her gesturing with her hand and thought something big was about to happen. Cindy called to Bob, Melissa's dad, and said, "Look Bob, Melissa Ann is trying to tell us that she thinks the Bears are Number One!" Bob said, "No Cindy, I think Melissa Ann is trying to flip the Bears DA BIRD!" It was then that Melissa Ann uttered her very first words. You can hear those words by clicking on the photo at right.
Mike Ditka's Take on the Bears Loss
Even the Cartoonists Take a Shot at the Bears
