Da Bears

Sunday was one of the greatest days of my young adult life. Sure, that may be an exaggeration, but I had the best time attending the Bear’s game with my pops. Here I am pictured with Mr. Tom Thayer, sporting the Lakeshore Leap t-shirt. We got to be on the sidelines before the game, and I was literally 10 feet from Rex and Orton throwing some warm-up passes to each other. Last time, and the only time, I was on the field at Soldier, I was dressed as the Coca-Cola Polar Bear for a Mexico vs. Poland soccer game. That was futbol, not football. I have to say, however, that my favorite part of the pre-game ritual was several of the players gathering at the 10 yard line, removing their helmets, and dancing to the hip-hop being played over the loud speaker. It must be fun as hell to be one of those guys, especially when you’re the only undefeated team in the NFL. Booyah! Jeremey Piven was sitting down the row from us, and my dad and I got to chat with him for a while. He of course is a Chicago native. After the talk, we hugged it out, bitches. I am still coming down from the whole experience, and I’ll never forget it.