Keep the Maalox on ice...The Bears are on the Field and in the Living Room!!

Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers....plus


Cubby's Fleece.....Plus


Tabby's #54 Urlacher Jersey....EQUALS


Chilled Maalox from the Fridge!

In the 5th Grade, I decided I was going to go to Baylor University....major Baylor Fan. I have no idea where this idea came from or the odds stacked against me to actually go...I just kept my focus...ignored the tuition challenge and graduated from Baylor...

For the same reasoning (which has no logic to it at all) I have always loved Chicago. I actually never visited Chicago until I was 31. I just knew I loved it. And when I visited Chicago it felt like I was home. I have a deep love for the Chicago Bears and the Cubs. I can handle the curse of the Cubs...other than when an idiot sticks his glove out and costs us the World Series. I, as my pastor does, believes that the Cubs are God's team. The Chicago Bears...my greatest love in sports.

So this all sounds good...NOT! I am a tender, loving, calm and compassionate person...I love everyone and I have a kind heart. That is until the Bears take the field! I can not explain what happens to me. I take every call personally, I feel very angry at any player that even touches the Bears or messes up their plays. I'm still reeling over Rex Grossman not being the quarter back this year. It makes it hard for me to love Cutler. I'm trying though. I love me some Urlacher Defense...I love me some Hester going 80 yards on a return for a touchdown!!

Once the real season starts, Cubby and I suit up on Sundays...me in my #54 Urlacher "official" Jersey...Cubby in his Bears T-shirt or Fleece. We sit on separate furniture so no waving arms, legs, clapping or jumping up and down can harm the other. You know I take a blood thinner...so I don't need any internal injuries. After a win the shirts go back in the closet and do not get washed. If we lose (I do not like to even type that word)...we wash our shirts to get the stink out of them. We are often very smelly from not washing them towards the end of the season.

Today, the Bears are playing the Packers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. There is no greater victory than when we beat the Packers (idiot Cheese heads)...in turn, there is no greater loss if we don't. Of course, our entire goal and focus is to go to the Super Bowl!

The whole point of this is that I turn into this crazed, wild-eyed, rip roaring Bears Fan that does not accept any defeat. This has never been the case in my entire life-EVER for anything! The anticipation all day gets my Game Face ON! Of course, Cubby never saw this side of me...I never knew it existed. When it started...he was fearful! Where had his sweet wife gone? I'll tell you...I'm on the field with the Bears! That's why I wear #54 for Urlacher...the best defensive player in Professional Football!! He whips 'em on the field and I feel like I whip 'em at the same time. I need a #23 Hester Jersey so I can feel the wind in my face as he runs like a cheetah (the fastest animal on the planet)....I could use a #9 Gould Jersey so I could feel the contact of the football on my foot as another smooth sailing field goal flies from the greatest distance ever!! Oh, my Bears!! I could also use a headset so I can talk to Lovie....sometimes I feel my hands around his neck as they begin to squeeze.

What all of this boils down to is that the Maalox better be chilled in the Fridge all week so I can have it on the end table as I kick back, grab the clicker and watch as the Bears kick off every Sunday!! Right now the Bears are down by 1...but are on the 3rd yard line on the 3rd down with 3 minutes to play. I'm grabbing the Maalox and signing out before it's over...the victory will send me to the moon, but the loss will cause me to wither to the floor. Check ESPN to see how my evening ended.