Some Pics

First, here's some pictures from NYE.

Apparently it's been a tradition for the Legal Eagles to go to Fogo de Chao. You couldn't tell that we're in a recession based on how busy they were! The place was packed!!

If you haven't been to a Brazilian steak house, these little disks control your food flow. Each disk has a red side and a green side. If you put the green side up, you're inundated with servers carrying meat on a stick. If you want the flow to stop, flip the disk to red.

And here's the four of us outside Fogo. The picture was taken by Cecil, our driver for the evening.

On to Sunday! Greg, of the Legal Eagles, had scouted out a Bears bar for us to watch the Bears game at. Very awesome! We showed up early and got prime seats in front of the projection TV. The bar, Union Pub, was packed by the time the game started.

Here are just some of the 8 TV's we were able to watch.

Just some of the Bears memorabilia in the bar. And across the street? Armand's Chicago Pizza!

And last but not least, me sporting my Julius Peppers jersey courtesy of Joisey Ken.

The game itself was fun to watch despite the 10-3 Bears loss. Two big plays did us in: a Cutler interception on 3rd and 15 in the redzone, and a timeout called by Lovie (and Mike Martz, the offensive coordinator) negating a 15 yard pick up on third down and a first down.

The former was just an awful throw by Cutler (QB rating of 43 I think) who made bad decisions all game (at least 3 of his 6 sacks were easily avoidable if he only would have thrown the ball away). We were up 3-0 at the time with a good chance to be up 6-0. Instead we were revisited by Bad Jay.

The second play was really confusing for us at the bar since, though the sound was on, you couldn't always hear everything the announcers said. It was third down and 15 with the ball around midfield and the play clock was running down with the score tied at 3-3, but Jay took the snap with 1 second left on the clock, dumped a pass over the middle to the running back who took it 16 yards for a first down. Then we find out Lovie Smith called a time out just before Cutler snapped the ball. The next play they ran resulted in a sack and was followed by a punt. Just awful. Not only was the negated play successful, but why use a timeout that you could need later in the game since the score was close? A 5 yard penalty on 3rd and 15 really doesn't matter. Your chances of making 3rd and 15 can't be much greater than making 3rd and 20. Anyway, Green Bay took the ball after the punt and scored 3 or 4 plays later. Momentum just left the Bears after the time out. It was awful.

One good thing about the game though was Lovie playing our starters the whole game. The Bears had nothing to gain by winning the game, their playoff position was set, but they will have two weeks (13 days) without a game, so they will have plenty of time to rest. Someone could have gotten hurt, but I wouldn't have blamed Lovie at all for it. I like the idea of playing your starters and working to improve. It sends the message that there's always room to get better!!