Here in Chicago all I heard all week was how the New Orleans Saints were so jacked up, that they were going to behead the Bears and fly to Miami for Super Bowl 41. One New Orleans DJ said that the Saints fans were wearing Saints jerseys to work all week, while Chicago fans didn’t seem to be as into this game.  Foxsports summed up what most people felt:

"The season no longer belongs to the Chicago Bears. Instead, it now seems to belong to the New Orleans Saints. Not just a sentimental favorite, the Saints may have engineered the greatest one-season turnaround in NFL history. For the six weeks, they’ve clearly been the better team. Now they must brave the freezing temperatures of Soldier Field and attempt to write the next chapter in their amazing story."

The press made this game out to be a beautifully sentimental story about Hurrican Katrina, its devastation, and the survivor mentality inherent in the city of New Orleans and its people. However, what this really turned out to be was a football game in which a 10 and 6 team visited a 13 and 3 team outdoors at their home and got a good old fashioned butt-whoopin. Dome teams were 0-9 going into championship games, and now 0-10. The Bears had one penalty agains them, caused 4 Saints turnovers and made Drew Brees throw the ball instead of using their great one-two running back punch of McCalister and Bush.

Can you name more than three Bears players? Are you wondering why I’m talking football on a tech site? I’m getting there, give me a minute. I can still name almost every player on the ’85 Bears team. They were so popular they were almost charicatures of themselves. Coach Ditka even tried to rein them in to focus on the team and the task at hand. Do you remember what happened the next year to them? They went 14-2 and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Redskins. They lost focus. Everyone was doing commercials and cashing in on their popularity. To this day Chicagoans will tell you we should have won two or three more Superbowls at a minimum. Ditka may be known as Mr. Chicago outside or our town, but within our town he’s a sellout.

I promise you this, however. We at Jamm don’t get paid to write. This is purely out of the love of the game. We won’t sell out. That’s not just my opinion. That’s a fact.

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