Harry Chappas

Fiesta bowl is surprisingly good.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Dec 31, 2013 -> 10:11 AM) He didn't stand out due to the coaching. If more of those hurries turned into sacks, which they would have with last year's coaching staff, the fans would have been calling for his head. For comparison, Carimi gave up 31 hurries last year, but he gave up 7 sacks. Mills and Long have a lot of potential on the right side and showed flashes during the year in the run game. The run blocking, however, looked even better when Mills got hurt and Britton took over on Sunday. The good thing is that Mills is only a rookie and should only get better. When Mills went out the Bears seemed to played better. I like Mills and I hope there is not a thing in the front office to get the draft picks out there. They created opportunities for Britton so he did see the field. They compared Webb to Mills yesterday and the thing that they said was the biggest difference was Mills got a lot more help than Webb got. Coaches are paid to put guys in the best position to succeed and it seemed that at least on the offensive side of the ball they did a good job with it.

Will be interesting to see how the country folk react up in Wisco. The rest of the story is really, well, who cares.

The irritating thing about replay challenges is that on the Jeffrey play if they give him a TD it is a booth review automatically and the ball could be moved back, by making what those nitwits thought was the right call it cost bears a timeout and what would have been their last challenge. Bears lost the touchback challenge which they should have won. To b**** further, when a ball is on the field and nobody is playing it, it is a dead ball...not sure that play should have been that call. Here is my problem there. If boykins picks it up and the whistle had blown and peppers creams him it is a penalty think rogers BS late hit.

Big days for tucker and cutler Sunday.

Pack by 8

Going to be cold really cold, not good for brittle bones.

Bostic cannot read the play he ran the wrong way on many plays. Cutler gets a lot of excuses for when he plays poorly. Next week is his lottery ticket.

Still have not seen why 99% of twitter accounts are needed. Few people need to have their opinions heard.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 02:08 PM) There is zero chance the Packers beat the Bears without Rodgers.* *Unless the Bears already have the division locked up. Eddie lacy could go bats*** crazy and run for 250 yards.

Can't believe I think Baby Come Back is a great song, but I do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Xx0qFywvg

Wish You Were Here is a great song

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 12:44 PM) And none of those slobbering, mindless fans understand what WAIT FOR THE WHISTLE means. It keeps getting worse and worse. The White Sox game is even worse you sit in the lower bowl in foul territory as the foot traffic is non-stop.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 11:41 AM) I will only disagree with this part of the post, I think Crawford should have won it. Hell, even Kane thought so. But not a big deal. Oh and the guy isn't wearing the $300 sweater, he's wearing the $40 one he found online that looks awful. Wait a minute, weren't you the one telling me months ago to calm down about the bandwagon fans and just to relax and enjoy it? I f***ING LOVE THIS POST! Oh, and Cubs fans are Blackhawks fans now...there's your answer. Meathead Hawks fans are worse then cubs fans because they know nothing about hockey. I think this roster as composed, will live with the Crawford deal just fine especially with the cap increasing as it is. I am ok with Crawford, going with Raanta would have been a huge gamble .

QUOTE (rangercal @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 12:29 PM) in what sense? Are you really comparing 6 rings to 1? Not that I would be ok with not winning additional titles, but for my lifetime, as a bulls fan, I feel like I am playing with house money. 6 championships in a lifetime is a lot more than 90% of fan-bases(in any sport) can hope for. Civic icons to which no other franchise members can compare Thank God for the Blackhawks and the s***iness of the Detroit Lions.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Dec 20, 2013 -> 10:58 AM) Travel baseball used to be 11U, 12U, 13U, 14U. Then 10U's started creeping up. Recently, I've seen 9U's. I've actually heard of 8U's. I've umped those 9U games in a pinch. I may as well had a chair. There's nothing travel about it, maybe the kids are slightly more athletic and interested, but there's no real need for travel teams at 9U besides parents saying "I need my kids to play travel!" And if they play any sort of regular travel schedule, those kids will be wiped. Play once or twice a week in house, have a tournament or all-star team at the end, and call it a day. On top of that, EVERYONE has to play travel. Growing up, each town had one travel team. You don't make it? You play in-house, and the play would still be decent. If it was a really big town, maybe, they'd have 2. Now? Each town has 3-4 travel teams and at least 2 of them are filled with in-house players and have no business being travel teams. But anyone can put one together so they can say they are playing travel. Oh, and they've dropped A, B, C from teams, now it goes by color so you don't hurt anyone's feelings. As a result, you get games in tournaments that are 16-1. Fun for everyone, and brutal to umpire. There are 7U all-star tourneys and sadly yes travel baseball has taken on a mind of its own and it sucks. All leagues start their teams at 8 and by 11 just about every player is playing some sort of travel ball with in-house (neighborhood) leagues becoming non-existent. People running these leagues have to bust their ass to get the neighborhood kids competition. Youth sports in general are out of hand but for some reason baseball brings out all kinds of stupid.

X-Rays are ptatc's specialty the alphabet, is not.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) There are studies out there that clearly point to it being dangerous. You can dismiss anything you want at this point because we don't have 100 years of data, I guess. Your choice. No, it's not football or nothing. There are other sports or activities. And he's only good at it if you let him play in the first place. Your kid might love juggling knives, but it doesn't mean you have to let him do it. Who's in charge? Yes, I played hockey. I know where you're going, but it's not going to end how you expect it to. Youth hockey and cheer-leading are just as dangerous as youth football if not more dangerous. Hockey players are moving faster than football player and rapid deceleration is greater in hockey than in football at a younger age which along with ice makes for a harder impact when you fall. One of the best wrestlers in high school had to quite the sport because of concussions. Here is one of the more recent reports I read on this matter and it again basically says, nobody has a degree of certainty about what is going on or if any of this is even new. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...a4dd_story.html

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 01:48 PM) Not really. It's still mostly focused around concussions. The problem being that until recently, concussions weren't understood well. Back in the day it was "he got his bell rung". They sat the player for a few plays and sent him back out. There were many concussions undiagnosed so it's difficult to tell in ex-Nfl players what was from concussions and what wasn't. In the younger kids found to have CTE forming there was a history of concussions or it wasn't reported if there ewas a concussion or not and if there were other variables like drugs. That is the problem. The studies that I have read all appeared to focus on the downside of football but not comparatively to other sports/activities. There is no definitive comparables. I will say that if my son sustains more than one concussion playing football, a conversation needs to be had about how important it is to him. I would like to say you are done, that's it, but he has been playing since Pop Warner age, enjoys it and I think it really helps him as a person to assimilate with others and build up self esteem and self confidence.

If the reality is true than Theo is losing friends quickly. I think a good quality of a GM is to treat other GM's fairly and not waste everyone's time trying to out-GM the other guy. Hahn got less than Santiago but more for Reed thus he got what he should have. I think that goes along way in dealing with other GM's.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Dec 19, 2013 -> 09:17 AM) Chicago radio legend Larry Lujack died yesterday. Superjock was 73. Everyone in Chicago over the age of 40 knows this guy. Guy was the morning and afternoon DJ for a while on WLS.

If you play football and have a headache now, your parents run you to the doctor and you are out two weeks minimum. Doctors do not run tests initially unless the symptoms are more severe or prolonged. Diagnosing concussions are not scientific and the degree to a concussion vary. A big problem with youth sports is the parents will get their kids into a sport and the kid may not like it, easy way out, I have a headache, off to the doctor, out two weeks. This happens more than you would like to think. I know football is not safe but I also know that other sports are not. Maybe we are finding out now that our brains are not meant for the things we do to them via sports. Pop Warner and high school football has not changed as much as college and pro. The game is not faster the players are not bigger and concussions are not more prevalent. What is more prevalent is the knowledge of the symptoms and the managing of the recovery. The concussion management science is becoming a big, big business and there is a part of me that believes they are preying on the uninformed and uneducated to concussions.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 10:57 AM) I thought most youth soccer leagues did away with heading Heading is only part, the ground, other heads, inadvertently getting hit in the head all are issues and females seem more prevalent.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 10:40 AM) When they have no idea the consequences? Smart. Check out the stats for girls sports. Football is the focal sport but it is not so far ahead of things like soccer, hockey and oh, cheerleading is the most injury plagued (including concussions) that the topic should stop with football.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 18, 2013 -> 09:46 AM) Why does a Cowboys win make the game meaningless for the Eagles? Is it because the Eagles/Cowboys meet up in the last game so if the Cowboys win, either way it comes down to who wins next Sunday? Yes