tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post442749265965708317..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Bears down and murder’s upNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-14570652921417883352021-12-22T22:29:12.479-06:002021-12-22T22:29:12.479-06:00My wife's magnifying mirror tells all.
As doe...My wife's magnifying mirror tells all. <br />As does the Football Reference website.<br /><br />The Three Bears (sorry!) are Jim McMillen, Red Grange, and Frank (Duke) Hanny. The year is 1925...the only season that all three were together on the Bears roster.<br /><br />The other image is from the Chicago Bears-Chicago Cardinals game of December 8, 1935 (Both teams called Wrigley home from 1931 to 1939). The Bears prevailed, 13-0, before 17,373 fans. Looks like even fewer.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13530463678054376742021-12-22T22:01:32.934-06:002021-12-22T22:01:32.934-06:00Thanks FME, though in truth, the murders are what ...Thanks FME, though in truth, the murders are what the column is about. I started out writing on that. The Bears are just the frame I put it in. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-45613275345635888472021-12-22T19:34:11.343-06:002021-12-22T19:34:11.343-06:00Describing the uptick in murders and the reasons b...Describing the uptick in murders and the reasons behind it here in Chicago so perfectly in so few words was very impressive. Tremendous aside in a puff piece. So good. So fucking good. And spot on. FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-8535414839239568392021-12-22T13:01:39.587-06:002021-12-22T13:01:39.587-06:00Well, my comment was probably too serious and nit-...Well, my comment was probably too serious and nit-picky of a response to your observations about the Bears game, regardless. But I was blind-sided by that take, as I'd have expected more of a "sheesh, look at that guy" attitude, rather than a salute.<br /><br />Sure, enthusiasm about life is a plus, especially in these dark days. Personally, though, as a recovering sports fan, I don't really find the world-wide fascination with professional spectator sports to be all that positive of a feature, not that you do. "Generally benign" sounds like high praise to me! But, sadly, no, I don't find a gentleman like that inspiring.Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-49117483981753339132021-12-22T11:48:02.448-06:002021-12-22T11:48:02.448-06:00That's an interesting point. I guess I don'...That's an interesting point. I guess I don't mean it as a general endorsement of faith in anything, no matter how vile. But sports fandom is generally benign, and to be so enthusiastic about a lousy team, is that not inspiring? Life ends the same way for all of us: a moldering corpse lying forgotten in the ground, our accomplishments having come to naught. Yet approaching life with enthusiasm is, as if it were significant, is I believe a noble value. That's what I was driving at anyway.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-21308571183240939492021-12-22T11:30:24.844-06:002021-12-22T11:30:24.844-06:00I'm sorry, but I'm very surprised to read ...I'm sorry, but I'm very surprised to read "faith unshaken" described as a "beautiful thing" by you, somebody who is appropriately cynical and agnostic. If one had to pick the single most troubling aspect about America at this juncture, it seems to me that unshaken faith would be in the running for the top spot. Faith in the Biggest Loser and his elected stooges at all levels of government being perhaps the most dangerous example.<br /><br />But I like when you write about waffles! : )Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-61878428972707270442021-12-22T07:03:45.129-06:002021-12-22T07:03:45.129-06:00Good column. I would love to watch a Bears game w...Good column. I would love to watch a Bears game with you providing some commentary. For someone who doesn't watch much you got the Ryan Pace look 100% correct.Connellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406704590565406630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-80315477069028970162021-12-22T04:59:57.708-06:002021-12-22T04:59:57.708-06:00The date's along the left edge: DEC-8-32.The date's along the left edge: DEC-8-32.kganderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005895232135682751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-72384910708734154412021-12-22T02:24:40.873-06:002021-12-22T02:24:40.873-06:00The white lettering on those b/w images is reverse...The white lettering on those b/w images is reversed, which makes reading them difficult. One says "Bears vs. Cardinals, Wrigley Field"--but there's no date. Might be from the Thirties, or even earlier, because of the helmets...and the upper deck, which dates to the late Twenties. Very, very small crowd.<br /><br />The other image pre-dates the well-known Wrigley bleachers, and the vine-covered bricks of the right-field wall, both of which were erected in 1937. Same buildings on Sheffield Avenue, though. Most of them were already there when the park was first built, in 1914.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.com