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Sunday, February 04, 2007
Sunday Bird Blogging: Bears Superbowl Edition
Bears fan Bosco the Peach-Faced Lovebird will be ringing his little bells every time Brian Urlacher makes a tackle
UPDATE: If you're watching ads during today's game, be sure to watch for this one.
Today's the day. The time is right for dancing in the end zone with Bears and lassoing Colts behind the line of scrimmage. All that and Prince singing Purple Rain at halftime in a game that may well be played in plain old driving rain. Wish they were playing at Soldier Field in Chicago, where it was predicted to be in the range of -2 to +2 degrees this afternoon. Bears weather!
Chicago's Jennifer Jennings Band sent us a link to their special Bears Superbowl anthem, Rock on Chicago Bears, to get us in the mood. Mary Ellen and I are wearing our NFC Championship Bear shirts, and I dug out some Bears paraphernalia I bought back in the dark ages, when the Bears last played in the Superbowl in 1986.
Sunny the Sun Conure intends to follow the game online, so he can enter comments in all the football blogs and generally trash talk about the Colts. He predicts Colts QB Peyton Manning will choke. Again. This morning Sunny found a picture of the famous Picasso sculpture that presides over Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago and is insisting it's a bird:
And Sunny was positively put out by a CAT wearing a Bears helmet in front of Chicago's Art Institute:
Sunny sez the Monsters of the Midway seem to be everywhere these days.
The seven parakeets -- Whitey, Queenie, Ginger, Hambone, Peanut, Jumbo and Georgie -- were too edgy about the game to even have their pictures taken this morning. They'll be twittering nervously and pecking on chips and dip until the last whistle is blown in Miami today. They won't be alone ... My prediction? Bears 21, Colts 17. So there.
Note: Neither of the above photos was photoshopped. This kind of thing really IS going on in the frigid reaches of Bear-mad Chicagoland. Hey, when your team gets to the Superbowl every 21 years or so, you go all out!
See our previous post to check out a video of the Super Bowl Shuffle and other recollections of Bear games past.
February 4, 2007 at 11:27 AM in Bird Blogging, Music | Permalink
Comments
Hahahaha! This was very cute. Only... hey, the 2, -2 degrees doesn't account for the 20-30 below windchill factor.
Did you see that they broke one of those huge helmets when they were trying to put it on the lions at the Art Institute of Chicago? I'm sure the cold had everything to do with that!
I kind of wish the Bears were playing at Soldier Field, too. Can you imagine what the city would be like? It's going to be crazy as it is!
Sweet post and...
"GO BEARS!!"
;)
Posted by: | Feb 4, 2007 12:49:32 PM
Two words on the Bears loss: Gross, Man! LOL. It's hard to believe they got to the superbowl with a quarterback as bad as he is. The rest of the team played well in the rain but Rex was really bad. Really bad.
Posted by: Roadrunner | Feb 5, 2007 8:10:25 AM
Natalie: I certainly CAN imagine what Chicago feels like when that Arctic cold sweeps down. I had to deal with it for many years. Brrrr!
Maybe if the Superbowl had been played there, though, the Bears would have had a better chance to win. All I can say about the Bears quarterback is I hope he moves on before next year and we finally get a REAL quarterback.
Posted by: barb | Feb 5, 2007 12:00:49 PM
