Well, they're baaaaack. It's been 21 long years, but Sunday afternoon the Chicago Bears defeated the New Orleans Saints 39-14 to advance to the Super Bowl. Bears' quarterback Rex Grossman didn't have a great game by any stretch of the imagination. But he also did not commit a single turnover and was 6-for-6 passing down a crucial stretch of the game.
After all was said and done, Grossman's overall statistics...or lack thereof...didn't seem to bother any of the Bears' players, including star linebacker Brian Urlacher.
When we asked him to do it, he has. He's a winner. I don't know what his career record is, I don't care what his stats are, he's a winner.
But we can't ignore the AFC champion either, as much as I'd like to. Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts finally dethroned pretty boy Tom Brady and the Patriots. Their 18-point rally will go down as one of the best playoff feats ever and it's in large part to Manning and his poise in the pocket.
Now, even though this year's Super Bowl won't include the beloved Saints or Patriots, it will include two teams with incredibly athletic defenses, good running games and ...uh...strong-throwing quarterbacks? I guess there really aren't many similarities between the Bears and Colts at all other than the fact that they both live and die by their quarterbacks and defense.
It will be interesting to see how the two teams match up against each other though. Each team has all the momentum in the world coming into the game and each has an incredible fan base backing them, especially on this campus. I don't know who the winner will be two weeks from now in Miami, but I do know that this campus will be the place to be for the Super Bowl.
So I'll pose this question to all you Colts fans out there: do the Bears stand a chance against Peyton Manning? Or will they be doing a new version of the Super Bowl Shuffle two weeks from now?
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Only a fool would say that the Bears have no chance. You don't get to the Super Bowl by accident.
That said, I think there's a world of difference between the type of competition the Bears have faced in the NFC playoffs and the Colts. Of the Bears' three losses this year, two of them were against AFC competition.
Can the Bears defense play their aggressive style when there are multiple effective options at the Colts' offensive disposal? It'll be interesting to see.
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