Read All About It

What’s the old saying?  Oh, right, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.  Case in point, the Bears and their quarterback.

Yesterday, Sunday, the Tribune devoted six pages—count ’em, six—to the Mitch Trubisky saga.  Six pages trying to figure out why the Bears’ front office traded up for Trubisky in the 2017 NFL draft rather than pick either Pat Mahomes or Deshaun Watson instead.  Six pages.  Six pages to cover what could have, and should have, been summed up in five words:  Dumb teams do dumb things.  On top of this, Trubisky and the Bears’ offense stunk up the Coliseum in a 17-7 loss to the Rams.

I know, I know.  I’m a dead-forest guy trying to hold on in a digital age.  So, I went online today to the Trib’s website to look at their Bears’ coverage, and, My God.  I read a story that went on as long as Sunday’s analysis, if not longer.  Print or online, the Tribune is a media outlet of limited resources.  Coverage devoted to the Bears is coverage taken away from the high school football playoffs and the start of the college basketball season.  DePaul has started the season 5-0 for the first time since 1986.  But good news gets buried—four paragraphs on page 13 Sunday—by coverage of the death spiral.

At least there’s a silver lining to all this Trubisky-mania—the peasants and their troubadours don’t look to be drinking the Kool-Aid anymore.  Not only do people want GM Ryan “He of No Voice” Pace held accountable for his quarterback selection, a sportswriter has actually called for what would have been considered blasphemy not even three short months ago, that the McCaskeys sell the team

.No doubt the family wishes all this publicity of late would just go away.  That gets less likely with every loss.  Enjoy.