And you don't taunt Urlacher as you're running into the endzone ahead of him.
But all Chicago fans were glad Reggie Bush did because that and a safety and some good 'ol fashioned football weather was what gave Da Bears the motivation to stop the Saints.
With around 12:34 left in the game with plenty of time for the Saints to do some scoring, I said in a room full of nervous Chicagoans, "C'mon, Bears, only five quarters left." It literally went silent. The room was now nervous for me. I repeated, "Five quarters, Bears, that's all you need." Someone finally broke the silence and asked me if I knew where I was and what the Hell was I talking about.
Being a former tennis player, I used to psych myself up in the middle of a match by telling myself, "only three points to win this game...only seven points to win this match...",etc.
So, yes, I'd had a few beers on Sunday and we were in the fourth quarter of the conference championship game, but it made perfect sense to me that the Bears only had five more quarters to scrape through in order to win the Super Bowl. There was some brow wiping for me there and everybody went back to enjoying (feverishly) the game. When the Bears won, somebody said during all the hugging and high-fiving, "Only four quarters to go!" Maybe it was me.
And in Chicago for the last four-and-a-half months and for the next two weeks, White Sox fans and Cub fans all get along.
Posted by nora murphy at January 22, 2007 03:52 PM | TrackBack