Bears wrap up and then some

As promised, here's some Bears game day talk and pictures.

First, the pictures:

Here are the tailgaters: EMoney, Benny Baseball, LL and George. As you can tell the weather was gorgeous. Almost too gorgeous in fact with bright sunshine from which those of us who are more fair skinned needed to protect ourselves.

Here's a tailgating scene picture. Pretty typical, except there was no need for coats!

The Bears honored the Blackhawks by introducing 5 or 6 of them and the Hawks brought Lord Stanley's cup. If you can zoom in on this picture, you can see Toews holding it up. The national anthem was sung by the guy who sings the anthem for the Hawks and everyone was cheering and yelling during the anthem just like at the Hawks games. Very fun.

Though we were trailing for most of the games, our offense looked pretty good and racked up a lot of yards. If not for 4 turnovers, the Bears would have been up by 20, but as it came down to the end, the Bears were up only 19-14 after a late touchdown. They went for two but it failed. In fact, they had 6 chances during the game from inside the 3 yard line and failed to score on all of them. Not good.

A very bad coaching decision happened on the 5th try inside the 3, which was after getting stopped 3 straight times. Instead of kicking a short field goal for a two point lead with about 8-9 minutes left, he went for it and they got stuffed. Only one fan in my section verbalized that they should kick the field goal. The rest of us, mostly drunk, acted like typical fans and yelled for them to go for it. It's not the smart thing to do, especially if your career is based on wins and losses. If you're a fan though, it was great....but a lousy play call sealed their failure. Later, a much more controversial play went the Bears way and they won the game, but came awful close to losing it.

While at Billy Elliott on Wednesday at The Ford Theater downtown, I ventured into the bathroom and saw this sign. Typical no smoking sign with braille writing below it. So why take a picture??

Because look how high on the wall it is!! That's like 6' off the floor. Can you imagine a blind guy flailing along the wall on the off chance that there's a sign AND with braille on it? Even if he could barely see the sign, why hang it so damn high?