Sunday, December 15, 2019

A So-so Fan


This is the kind of Bears’ fan I am.  We ran around yesterday doing all sorts of stuff that could’ve been done today after church.  But who wants to buy pierogi and rye bread for Christmas Eve when the Bears are playing the Packers at noon?

And how odd that the Bears should be traveling to Green Bay as underdogs.  Demographically speaking, Chicago is Goliath to Green Bay’s David, and that’s the problem.  The Packers have a David on hand who can aim his slingshot to hit Goliath and his Midway Monsters right between the eyes.  So, underdogs we are.

This is also the kind of Bears’ fan I am.  Opera soprano Renée Fleming will be appearing in a musical, “The Light in the Piazza,” at the Lyric Opera.  Fleming is a Hall of Famer in her own right, and we were able to get tickets for December 29th at 1:30 PM…which should be halftime during the Bears-Vikings game.  Last game of the regular season with a playoff berth possibly on the line, and I’m going to a musical.

Of course, Aaron Rodgers could wield his slingshot this afternoon so as to make game-number sixteen in the Bears’ schedule irrelevant.  If by some miracle it still should matter, the NFL can always flex a game with playoff implications to 7 PM, by which time we’d be home.  Or I could find out the final score during intermission at the Lyric.

And if it were the White Sox needing to win their last game of the season to make the playoffs, what would I do?  Go with my heart, of course.

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