WEEKEND FOLLIES

THE stench at SOLDIER FIELD on sunday was terrible. i never knew that the rotting flesh of a bear could be that bad. combine that with the hopes & dreams of a season going up in smoke and it was not a very pleasant place to be. 

THE CHICAGO BEARS proved on sunday that they are a really soft football team that plays without passion and has ZERO chance at making the playoffs and might not even see 8-8 for the season. JAY CUTLER, rather than being the answers to all of our worries has become the worry itself. he simply sucks and has still yet to take responsibility when speaking to the media.  bad.

KYLE LONG was upset about the fans booing at halftime after the bears gave us 30 listless minutes and said it was "unacceptable" for the fans to boo like that. HEY JAGWAD, let me tell you what's unacceptable. it's when you spend the better part of the half looking at the sky and the defensive line of MIAMI is running thru your spot like open tolling on the edens and you have cleat impressions on your chest. real bad.

JARED ALLEN benched in the second half. deservedly so.

JEREMIAH RATLIFFE? awesome performance but unfortunately, it was a solo performance. 

is SEATTLE suffering from super bowl hangover?  3-3 after six games and following in the footsteps of many previous champs who struggled to make the playoffs.

NFC playoff teams for this year?  now that i've had a six week peek, here they are: detroit, green bay, dallas, philadelphia, arizona and whoever floats to the top in the absolutely dreadful nfc south. seattle stays home.

the AFC will bring the following 6 teams to the dance: patriots, colts,ravens & denver being the slam dunks and add two wild cards in the bengals & chargers.

ok, listen up because you won't see this very often in this column. NOTRE DAME played a hell of a football game on saturday night before bowing to the defending nation champion FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES 31-27. and no, despite COACH BRIAN KELLY'S rantings, they didn't get screwed by the officials at the end of the game.  even irish apologist and former coach LOU HOLTZ said it was offensive pass interference. the irish will learn that you have to play all 60 minutes every game and will be monsters NEXT year.

i know i've said it before but how strong is the SEC? 4 of the top 5 ranked teams in the nation are from the SEC WEST but the unfortunate part is that ALABAMA plays AUBURN & MISSISSIPPI plays MISSISSIPPI STATE next month which will probably knock two of those teams out of the playoffs and allow MICHIGAN STATE & OREGON to sneak in the back door if they hold serve because their one loss was early in the season. 

the CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS are off & running with 7 of a possible 8 points in the first four games. they are loaded for bear and will need every bit of it to survive the western conference playoffs.

do you believe DERRICK ROSE is healthy?  i do but please do something with that hairdo. jesus.   later.