Maybe It’s About Chicago

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As the Democratic party’s hopes ended about five minutes after the polls had closed, with the networks calling Kentucky for Mitch McConnell, so went the Chicago Bears’ fortunes, Sunday night, on the Green Bay Packer’s first possession. The Bears went down about as ignominiously, and quickly, as the Democrats. The final score was 55-14 and, as they say, in Sportsland, “It wasn’t that close.” If Aaron Rodgers and the Packers’ coaches were sadists, they could have hung 80 on the Bears. Where have you gone, Dick Butkus … Mike Singletary … Brian Urlacher?

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