I Pity the Fool (Media)

 Mr. T, that sage and ex-resident of Lake Forest, had it right when he said, I pity the fool, in this case the Chicago media for being longtime lapdogs of the Bears.  What’s their reward for loyalty and perpetual glass-half-filled coverage? you ask.  They get thrown under the bus, or should I say, exposed to potential deadly violence.

Last week’s Halas Hall incident in Lake Forest with now ex-defensive lineman Jeremiah Ratliff was, as I suspected, more serious than the Bears were willing to let on.  In the last two days, the police report has been making the rounds.  It appears a disgruntled and possibly unbalanced Ratliff—his agent claims Ratliff has no memory of the details—threatened to kill everyone in the building and hoped that the children of someone on the staff would die.  Bears’ employees at Halas Hall were alerted to the situation.  Sports’ reporters and people conducting a bank promotion in the parking lot were left in the dark.

Not that Coach John Fox cares.  The police presence was “kind of an alert, at least in my book.”  To me, those are actionable words, as in immediate dismissal.  But the Bears don’t care about public safety.  With the McCaskeys, it’s all about the public’s cash.  Always has been, always will be.