Overkill

Hey, do you like on-and-on feature stories on rookie offensive lineman? Well, get a hold of today’s Tribune and read all about the Bears’ Ozzy Trapilo. How ’bout a story about the Bears at practice? A Bears’ player taking kids on a shopping trip for Christmas gifts? Or a story on the foam cheese-grater DJ Moore wore in the locker room after he caught the game-winning touchdown Saturday against the Packers? Or… You get the idea. We’re in a full-on Bears-blitz. Not the one with linebackers and defensive backs. No, this is one that grabs you by the eyes and ears and won’t let go. The only way any other Chicago team gets this kind of coverage is if they go deep into the playoffs, if that. The story on Trapilo was more like an epistle from St. Paul at his wordiest. And we don’t even know who the Bears play in the first round yet. There’s no escaping this onslaught in print, onscreen or over the radio. I just don’t get it.