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As much as we'd love Ditka and Butkus, I don't see it happeneing. Butkus seems a bit removed from the team. And Smith wants to distance himself from the only former coach to win a SB. I could see other guys, like Thayer, McMichael, Dent, Hampton make an appearance though. Honestly, I think they just need to keep doing what they've been doing. Whatever it is, it seems to be working.

O v O doesn't bother me! I just want our D mad as all can be against the temp!

Let America have it! After a tough game, and hopefully after a win and celebrating, we can all get a good night's sleep and be ready for work the next day! We'll be hearing enough GB and PIT hype for the week I'm sure....

Just another football Sunday....

The oddsmakers have the Packers. The national meda and casual fans have the Packers. Rodgers is becoming the new Favre. Everything points that the Packers should win. However, this is why the games are played. We have a chance. In fact, we have a good chance. If the Bears play similar to this past weekend, it could be had. The O line will have to do a beter job and the D line will have to do a better job. We need to run and stop the run. And I think we need a little Hester magic in the return game. Lastly, I think the crowd will play a huge role and list the spirits of Chicago and subdue the Packers. Now, we just need to play. 1 hour of play will determine if we are SB bound. Bear the F down!

You take on this seems to be very positive and genuine. I wasn't sure how it is perceived, but you're take has me thinking positive as well. It's time to dwell on the good...and leave the bad and ugly to the Packers.

I flippin' hate De-Waste... But I hope the fans do not boo before he sings (or whatever his screaching is called). The Natl (ESPN) press will have a field day with it as "boorish Bears fans boo Idol guy..." Forget the singer, think of the song. I honestly wish we could get him back too...or have Buddy Guy play it on guitar. Something better! De-Waste is simply a Fox move to plug American Idol. But, if it is, take the high road Bears fans...

Nice yin to the yang!

Dammit flea! My blood pressure is sky-rocketing through the ceiling watching those!!!!! I F*&^IN' HATE THE CHEAP SHOT BASTARD PACKERS!!!! HATE THEM!!! Forgot the Suhey hit...but the Martin one is forver carved in stone in my memory of why the Bears never repeated in the 80's. Someone, please help me here...as much as I want to take the high road and say I don't ever recall the bears cheap shotting a Packer since I've been watching. I'm sure it's happened, but I cann't recall. (Or refuse to recall...)

I commend your steadfastness. Just not your logic... Line. O, then D. Then secondary and WR.

I must've missed that thread in my stupor over the win! Then again, I probably hit it up w/o remembering! I don't put a lot of stock into this other than, he'd a Packer. i hate Packers. His actions or lack of actions was douchey. I hate him more now. That's it.... And I gurantee, if it were Cutler, this would be all over ESPN...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-zJzB-chA http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/...avanaugh-video/ Last word on the Aaron Rodgers-Jan Cavanaugh video Posted by Mike Florio on January 17, 2011, 6:31 PM EST When we posted on Sunday the item regarding video from WBAY-TV showing Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers breezing by a breast cancer patient hopeful that he’d sign her hat, we knew there would be a reaction. Packers fans, basking in the franchise’s biggest win since Brett Favre left town, have no interest in any criticism of their new green-and-golden boy. It’s obvious. It’s predictable. And we don’t blame them for being protective of their star quarterback. After all, plenty of fans of other teams blindly have defended far, far worse behavior by their star quarterbacks. (The Falcons circa 2007 and the Steelers circa 2010 come to mind.) Rodgers, as we admitted on Sunday, was fully within his rights to not acknowledge the existence of Jan Cavanaugh while walking through the airport as the team either was heading to or returning from Atlanta. And we had every right to react to the video, as harvested, edited, and presented by WBAY, by opining that Rodgers was acting like an ass. Since the item surfaced here and at Deadspin, a litany of excuses and clarifications has emerged on Rodgers’ behalf. For some bloggers inclined either to pander to Packers fans or to settle old scores with (or possibly, to gain some traffic by sparking a public fight), the caught-on-film conduct of Rodgers has been overlooked or minimized in favor of attacks against those who dared to point out what the video obviously shows — Rodgers walking past Jan Cavanaugh as if she didn’t exist. How strong is the desire to defend Rodgers from criticism? We’ve even been accused of running a payola ring, trading favorable coverage of players for cash. Yes, at least one man with a cheesehead fashioned from tin foil suggests that we have funded PFT by illegally taking money from agents to say nice things about their clients, and to say bad things about the clients of their competitors. (For the benefit of those who will be inclined to think it’s true unless we dignify the delusion with a denial, the accusation is completely untrue.) Actually, it was against our interests to post the story criticizing Rodgers, since we had submitted a request on Sunday for a Packers player to appear this week on PFT Live. We’ve got a feeling that, for perhaps the same reason WBAY so quickly deleted the video, our request will be denied. It doesn’t matter whether it was Rodgers or any other player. Whoever walked by Jan Cavanaugh like she wasn’t even there was going to get reamed on the pages of PFT, because I believe that cancer patients deserve the highest level of respect and deference that can be provided. Anyone whose life has been touched by the disease knows what I mean. We all can see in Jan Cavanaugh the mother or sister or aunt or friend or neighbor who has had to confront a silent killer that could kill — and, frankly, eventually will kill — many of the people reading these words. (For those of you who make it to 45 without getting cancer, that’s probably about the time you’ll start worrying from time to time about all the different organs in your body, and your spouse’s body, that eventually could be infested with it.) This, in the lull between a boring Seahawks-Bears game and the start of the Jets-Patriots game the WBAY report, forwarded to us by multiple readers, struck a nerve with me. So what of the follow-up report from WBAY, which likely has spent much of the past 24 hours apologizing to angry viewers for depicting Rodgers in a negative light and simultaneously applying lips to the buttocks of anyone and everyone in the Packers organization, that Rodgers signed a jersey the week before for Cavanaugh? Apparently, some of you think that makes his decision to walk past her without a nod or a smile or anything else fine and dandy. I don’t. If anything, this familiarity tends to reinforce the notion that Rodgers knew or should have known that Cavanaugh has cancer, making his failure to offer a friendly nod or a wave or a quick “not today, maybe next time” while she waited for him to sign her hat even more strange. Many Packers fans have pointed out all the charitable things that Rodgers has done over the years. He deserves credit for that. And so allow us publicly to declare, “Attaboy.” Folks who frequent this site on a regular basis know that we aren’t terribly impressed by the things athletes do while the world is watching. As one high-level executive with a team other than the Packers (and not an NFC North rival) observed in response the WBAY video, what we do when tired, cranky, busy, etc. reveals more about our true character than what we do when attending a charitable event arranged through the team and/or handlers. As to the argument that Rodgers was wearing ear buds and thus not paying attention to his surroundings, that excuse doesn’t cut it as to anyone who is over the age 0f 15. Rodgers knows that fans gather in that airport when the Packers come and go. Choosing to remain in his own little world isn’t the way to interact with those whose interest in football helps pay Rodgers’ salary. (Which was the real point of our first story on the matter.) As to the idea that Rodgers was just focused on the task at hand, the Packers were flying to Atlanta, not walking into the Georgia Dome. As to the idea that Jan Cavanaugh wasn’t bothered by Rodgers’ decision to snub her, that’s her prerogative. And we respect her for it. She’s a Packers fan, she lives in the area, she wants to see the team do well, and she’s got bigger things in her life to worry about than whether Aaron Rodgers will give her the time of day. Bottom line? As we said last night on Twitter, nothing said or argued or reported since we first posted the item changes for us the image of Rodgers ignoring Jan Cavanaugh. But if it will make Packers fans feel better to complain about our coverage of the incident instead of acknowledging (as a few grudgingly have done) that Rodgers handled the situation poorly, nothing we can say or argue or report will change that. More.... http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/...ney-comes-from/

Nursin' a hangover! Not sure 'bout everyone else...

You can make fun of Cutler. He is your pledge... Reilly can eat a sack of nuts. At least you have followed Cutler at length as a fan of the team and base your opinion on what you've seen. Reilly just got the Cliff's notes version from the ESPN douchebags to write his article. My thing...as long as Cutler is winning, his teammates like him, and he's not getting arrested,etc...I love him! He's still maturing. He's a young man. Maybe made a mistake dissing Elway or not making smiley faces with the media...but, he seems to be improving as an NFL QB. And that's what I want.

It was a Packer. So, therefore Rodgers is a prick. GB = prick, regardless of the circumstance

Agreed... And I love your picture at the bottom!

I'm sick whenever Green Bay wins, period... I can deal with the Lombardi name on the trophy...cie la vie. But I can't deal with GB hoisting it!

Dang! How many Lions QB's have we KO'ed over the years!?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/...for-jay-cutler/ Let’s hear it for Jay Cutler Posted by Mike Florio on January 14, 2011, 5:04 PM EST Rick Reilly has done the impossible. No, he hasn’t written a new version of Leatherheads that doesn’t, you know, completely suck. Reilly has made Bears quarterback Jay Cutler into a sympathetic — and thus likable — figure. Cutler had given us not much to feel good about in five NFL seasons. Apart from playing much of the 2007 season with undiagnosed Type I diabetes (we’d hate to see how long it would have taken to catch the disease if he didn’t work for a company that has a team of doctors available at any given moment), Cutler hasn’t done much of anything that makes many people want to buy his jersey and/or see him be successful. Suddenly, however, we want the guy to be successful. Personally, I want to see him win the Super Bowl. And it’s all Rick Reilly’s fault. When last mentioned on these pages, Reilly was being castigated by Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports for recklessly characterizing some of the nuances of a morning jog on the cobblestones of Pamplona next to a battalion of large, horned mammals. Though Reilly’s latest effort won’t potentially place anyone who relies on the accuracy of his words in danger (grave or otherwise), it represents the kind of superficially-reasoned bias that clumsily hides a deeper agenda. Reilly makes it clear that he doesn’t like Cutler. But it’s unclear why. Maybe Cutler didn’t act sufficiently impressed with the guy who allowed himself to believe that being a damn good back-page-of-SI columnist meant that he had the chops to write movies (he doesn’t) or host SportsCenter (he definitely doesn’t). Maybe “Riles” is simply doing a solid for his old buddy John Elway, persuading Broncos fans to quit moping and whining about the decision to trade Cutler and to start looking ahead to the future. Or maybe Reilly was looking to mail one in during playoff week, and Cutler provided the easiest target for Reilly’s periodic quota of word salad. Reilly’s complaints at times are too petty to even be called petty. He seems to chastise Cutler for handling his charitable works the way that many are taught to handle such business, without seeking publicity, attention, or recognition for their efforts. “He’s a giving person who does things behind the scenes and hates it when he gets found out,” Reilly writes. “A few days before Christmas, he and [girlfriend Kristin] Cavallari brought presents for an entire ward of sick hospital kids. A reporter for the Sun-Times got wind of it and asked him about it. Cutler refused to discuss it.” If that paragraph had appeared in a positive, or even balanced, look at Cutler, there would be nothing significant about it. In the context of Reilly’s column, it comes off as a complaint that Cutler should be more like the athletes who love to talk to others about all the nice things that they do. More than ever, with five episodes of ProFootballTalk Live to produce each week, we realize the importance of content to a media operation. But we wish more NFL athletes would choose not to wear their charitable acts like logos sewn onto their jerseys. Reilly also knocks Cutler for not basking in the limelight that comes with being an NFL quarterback. “Cutler could own Chicago if he wanted,” Reilly says. “In a city that has had as many good quarterbacks as Omaha has had good surfers, Cutler could have his name on half the billboards and all the jerseys. My God, the kid grew up a Bears fan! But he doesn’t even try. He has zero endorsements and doesn’t want any. If there is such a thing as a Jay Cutler Fan Club, Cutler is having a membership drive — to drive them out.” Reilly’s effort to paint Cutler in a bad light has backfired like a ’71 Vega, exposing more about Reilly than he ever would want his audience to know. To Reilly, pro athletes should seek out as much attention as possible. To Reilly, pro athletes should lend their names and likeness to any and all companies that will pay them even more money and provide them even more attention. To Reilly, pro athletes should do charitable works in that same spotlight, so that everyone will see it and, in turn, love them. Well, at least we now understand why Reilly attempted to leverage one thing he does really well into a multi-platform gig at ESPN that promised more money, more fame, and more chances to let the world know that he does charitable works, too.

I'll be pondering some good possible song choices over the weekend as well!

Dang! I thought he made it! Still worthy though as you say!

This is such a cool thread! Those are awesome! Some others that comes to mind... 1. The fumble pick up in the snow in the 1985 NFC Championship game 2. McMahon's helicopter TD 3. Cutler's helicopter TD 4. Dent's flying hit on the Rams' Greg Bell in the backfiled stopping him dead 5. Butkus tearing heads off! 6. Ditka's long TD tun after the catch 7. Walter's big block agasint Minny that let Jimmy Mac hit the open target 8. Big Keith Traylor's TD run! 9. Wooten's hit on Favre 10. Any hit on Favre! 11. Tillman's takeaway from Moss 12. Big hits by Atkins, O'Dradovich, Bill George, Wilbur, Wilson, McMichael, Fridge, Dent, Hampton, Buffone, Connor, Plank, Fencik 13. Any punishing run by Nagurski 14. Ditka thwoing a clipboard on the sidelines 15. Any Papa Bear yelling scene on the sidelines 16. The SB carryoff of Buddy and Ditka 17. Hester's impressive grab in the first game of the season if I recall correctly. or it may have been Dallas. 18. Some highlight of the 44-0 Dallas trouncing in '85 19. KO'ing Stafford twice 20. Any O Line love from 85 21. Some Galloping Ghost footage 22. Some Luckman footage 23. Gale Sayers big multi-TD day 24. Walter's record breaking run against the Saints 25. Wultiple Walter leaps in the end zone 26. Walter's gazelle straight leg trides into the end zone 27. Walter's TD pass to Jimmy Mac 28. Jimmy Mac headbutting his O-line 29. Walter's retirement at Soldier 30. A few HoF induction shots 31. Mike Brown miracle TD's 32. A Waddle catch 33. Johnny Knox long bomb recently - I forget Jets or Vikings 34. Fridge TD, rushing and catching 35. A neal Anderson run 36. A Forte run 37. A Gould kick 38. A Butler kick 39. A Trace Armstong sack 40. A Jim Flanigan sack Sorry, I'm giddy about this!

Regrdless, we still need to draft that sopt high.

jason, that is the best damn under a minute videos I've ever seen! Thank you for making an already exciting week even better! And kudos on making it look great! I will have a peek at your other videos!

Ha!