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It was bad enough that the Bears were forced to play the Buccaneers in London today, but it was downright nauseating that they played our American national anthem followed by “God Save the Queen.”  Yuck!  Francis Scott Key wrote the poem “Defence of Fort McHenry” in 1814 (from which was taken “The Star-Spangled Banner“) after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships during the War of 1812.  Does the NFL not see the sickening irony there?  (more…)

You know I have always been impressed with quarterback Donovan McNabb.  He has always had a reputation as a classy guy, but Bears fans got to see that first-hand a couple of years ago when after a game where the Eagles beat the Bears and Jay Cutler got pounded, McNabb made a b-line to Cutler after the game and took the time to give Cutler a hug and some heartfelt words of encouragement.  That always stuck with me.  (more…)

By now I’m sure everyone’s heard that Hank Williams, jr.’s “All My Rowdy Friends” theme song, used on Monday Night Football for forever, will no longer be used and ESPN is parting ways with Hank all because he compared Barack Obama to Hitler.  I don’t see what the big deal is.  Hitler was a Socialist, and it looks like Obama is too.  So the real question is, what does ESPN have against free speech???

And as far as Monday’s game between the Bears and the Lions?  Well, I think all my rowdy friends and I will watch it on a local channel.  I’m done with ESPN.

Alex Edler’s hit on Taylor Hall.

Marco Sturm’s hit on Lennart Petrell.

Funny isn’t it how since the NHL implemented rule 48.1 concerning ‘illegal checks to the head’ that all of a sudden there are all these hits to the head?

Roger Ebert wanted people to believe he attempted a mea culpa today by writing that he was “probably too quick to tweet” about Ryan Dunn’s death, which Ebert insinuated yesterday was because Dunn was drinking and driving.  Ebert tweeted yesterday,

“Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive.”

Yeah, just one thing.  The toxicology report won’t be made public for 4-6 weeks, so, as I said yesterday, Ebert is just assuming that Dunn was drunk while driving since he was at a bar prior to the accident; Ebert doesn’t actually know if Dunn was drunk, and Ebert’s not actually sorry.  (more…)

I just noticed on this picture of the Ryan Dunn crash site that was posted in a UK Daily Mail article that there are two sets of skid marks in the left lane next to where Dunn went off the road:

Gee, I hope Dunn wasn’t being chased or something like that.  Maybe he was trying to escape somebody and was trying to exit off the ramp on the right-hand side there and lost control of his car.  If so, then someone is guilty of a hit-and-run type situation.

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Roger Ebert’s “apology” no apology at all

Hearing the news today about Jackass star Ryan Dunn’s untimely passing was distressing enough, but then I read that one of our own Chicagoans, film critic Roger Ebert, dissed Ryan Dunn and his fellow Jackass compadres mere hours after Dunn had died.  Ebert tweeted,

“Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive.”

It would have been tasteless enough that Ebert was disrespecting the memory of someone who had just died, but Ebert did so while assuming Dunn had been drinking and driving.  (more…)