The Chicago Bears Are Incredibly Pleased With Themselves

By Eamonn Brennan

Sunday night. Merely two nights ago. What were you doing? Were you watching “Entourage,” in which each main character continued to act exactly like they always do, and all plot was eschewed in the favor of hot girls on jet skis? Or maybe you watched “Mad Men,” the best show on television. (Even Chuck Klosterman thinks so.) Or that irrelevant show-thing where that British dude offended a bunch of virgins? Riveting!

Or maybe you, like so many others, saw what I saw — the superhuman Bears beat the living bejeesus out of the confused, scared little mamby-pambies called the Indianapolis Colts. Let me check … yep. This really happened. I can’t stress that enough.

Of course, the Bears deserve to relish their victory. They played well. And they proved the “haterz” all wrong. Usually, a win is a win, and a team with high expectations goes back to business the next day. Not the Bears:

“Wrong, wrong, wrong,” Kreutz repeated, chuckling. He didn’t specify exactly what he was referring to. But then, he didn’t have to, did he? The persistent doubt perturbed the Bears. Tommie Harris, the subject of a column last week quoting an NFL doctor as saying Harris had the body of a 35-year-old, gave a hint at how much when he tapped my arm during an interview of another player. “Guess my 35-year-old knee held up today!” Harris snarled. “Y’all are not jumping on our bandwagon [now],” Harris said to nobody in particular. “It’s full.”

Wheeee! One win! Let’s all freak out and gloat all day Monday and make David Haugh’s job even more unenviable! We’re 1-0! We’re 1-0!

Of course, Haugh bails the team out with the standard “we know it’s just one game” stuff from Kreutz later in the column, just before the Bears can play the underdog card for the bajillionth time:

As old and tired as the no-respect act feels to longtime observers, it works for the Bears. Doubt is fuel, especially for a defense full of proud veterans who felt disrespected. That foundation never formed a year ago, but the way the Bears tackled and pursued against the Colts illustrated an urgency missing during the Super Bowl hangover season.

For once, I just want the Bears to be good. And as part of that, I would like them to know they’re good, and to know the fans know they’re good, so that every time they beat a team with an injured quarterback they don’t think they shocked the world. I don’t ask for much.

Posted at 1:20 pm
on September 9th, 2008
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