The McCaskeys and the Bourbons

Never has a human being needed a sudden case of laryngitis as when Bears’ team president George McCaskey gave an ill-advised interview the other day on sports-talk radio. McCaskey’s performance reminded me of an old saying, that the Bourbon dynasty of France forgot little because it had learned little. That’s the McCaskeys in a nutshell. You see, the Munster in chief feels the pain of Bears’ nation. “I get it,” team-president McCaskey said while obviously not. “You deserve your Bears being winners. The decisions we’re announcing [to keep GM Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy] might not be the easiest or most popular, but we believe they’re the best decisions for the Bears.” But fear not, Bears’ fans, for even a Bourbon got it right once in a while. When Louis XV said, “After me, the flood,” he sure knew what he was talking about, as Louis XVI could attest. George, I hope you know how to swim. That, or work out an escape plan for when the peasants come.