Priorities

How important are the Bears to Chicago? Enough that Martin Luther King Jr. and Donald Trump had to share the spotlight as the Munsters fijnhally picked a new coach yesterday. They seem to have gotten the candidate they wanted, Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. While the local sports’ media—and news departments, too, for that matter—are doing cartwheels over the hire, it is worth noting that Johnson was available because his now ex-team laid a colossal egg against the Commanders in the NFL Divisional game, 45-31. No Super Bowl for Detroit this year, a new Bears’ coach regardless. And now we can watch the Munsters get that 24/7 coverage the NFL has engineered for its member organizations. What spring training?