Was linebacker Brian Urlacher‘s lowered-shoulder, driving pop on Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers — a highlight ruthlessly shoved down NBC viewers’ throats in every intro and outro that followed for the rest of the game — the high point of the Chicago football season?
It was a bad weekend on Lake Michigan in general, thanks to Notre Dame’s give-away loss at the Big House and Kanye West‘s impression of Rep. Joe Wilson at MTV’s Video Music Awards. But even Derrick Brooks can’t make up for losing the Bears’ 31-year-old defensive team leader for the rest of the year.
It wasn’t the only ominous sign, either, as Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler had what is called in English soccer parlance, “an absolute shocker, mate.
On two of his career-high four interceptions, Cutler scrambled only to throw back across his body deep down the middle where there was no receiver within ten yards, plays more suggestive of an NFL rookie, not a guy hailed before the season as the franchise savior and its first star-caliber quarterback since Jim McMahon.
Even Matt Forte, NFL.com’s No. 2 ranked fantasy running back entering Week 1, had a cringe-inducing sixth straight game with less than 100 yards rushing.
At least Michael Jordan was refreshingly human recalling his superhuman career in his Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame speech.
