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In the intro for Sunday Night Football, we saw a horrible cross-promotion featuring NBC's hit television series, "Heroes". I noted to my friends how ridiculous it was and that it would be the lowlight of the night.
Once, again.....I was REALLY wrong.
Rex Grossman gave the nay-sayers more ammo. Bernard Berrian made a rare dropped catch.....TWICE (One of which could've been a touchdown). Devin Hester couldn't break a run. The defense allowed a certain wide receiver that I hate to get open constantly and let Tony Romo look like Madden's love child.
Oh, and Lance Briggs got hurt. Oh, so did Nathan Vasher, Tommie Harris, Adam Archuleta, Alex Brown, Ruben Brown, Fred Miller, Darwin Walker and Adewale Ogunleye.
The turnover woes continued as Grossman threw three interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown. Cedric Benson also added to his fumble totals, although the replays showed his knees were on the ground before the ball was ripped out.
The Bears looked horrible and the Cowboys used it to their advantage by humiliating them. Gotta give credit to them for making the proper second half adjustments, in which they scored 31 of their 34 points. The Bears looked like they made no adjustments, whatsoever. However, that can be tough to do when half your team is laying on the field.
The Bears currently stand at 1-2 with the division opponents coming up in the next three weeks, consecutively. Will the Bears beat the woeful Vikings and Lions? How will they do against the 3-0 Packers?
With all the injuries they are suffering, it's hard to tell until the final whistle blows.

"Open the gate, or we'll crash through it."
Talk about famous last words!
As we arrived for the home opener on September 16th, we were stunned to find that the Adler Planetarium Lot wasn't just blocked off.....but the whole driveway leading to it was blocked off from ANY traffic!!
Cars, trucks, buses, RV's, Breadtrucks, shopping carts, dogs and cats were circling the stadium, trying desperately to find SOMEWHERE to park until they opened the parking lot at 11:15...exactly 4 hours before the game.
However, no matter where they went, cops waved tickets at them, security threatened to tow them, hoodlums tried stealing hubcaps.....ok I made that last one up.
We were forced to drive the Bears Bus around the city, finally sitting at 16th and Wabash unti we felt the time was right to go back to the stadium. We were welcomed to a huge line that wrapped around the stadium, all the way to the 18th Avenue exit from Lake Shore Drive. Luckily, we cut across on McFetridge.
Needless to say, many tailgaters and fans were upset over the long-unenforced 4 hour parking rule now being forced upon us like a shot to the head with a sledgehammer.

As I posted on the ChicagoBears.com forum........
"The parking situation is WAY out of control!!! My group has been tailgating for 7 years and this is the first time they've pulled this crap. There were absolutely no problems when the lots were opened more than 4 hours before the game. Why stop now and cause traffic headaches and long lines for all of us avid tailgaters (and people trying to get good parking)?
I don't know about you, but I've had enough. It seems as if someone (the city, park district, Soldier Field, Standard Parking) keeps taking away one or two things from us tailgaters each year.
First we were all forced to the Adler Lot when the new stadium opened in 2003.....but it cost a lot more money to do so. ($45 Adler parking at old Soldier Field --- $75 Adler parking at new Soldier Field)

The slightly rejuvenated Bears Bus will leave Casa del Cohen at 9am, hopefully arriving at the Planetarium parking lot around 10am. The company line regarding the parking is that they don't open until 4 hours before the game.
Our company line is, "Open the gate or we'll crash through it."
If you're feeling adventurous, swing by and say hello to the 3DC Crew!! You can't miss us. We'll be packed in with the RV's and buses.