Yes, this week I am reminded: it was about five years ago, when it looked like the Bears and the Seahawks might meet in the post-season, when I was granted my nom de slog and the awesome powers that come with it. Instead, Carolina stomped us, then Seattle stomped Carolina, then the Steelers stomped the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL, and I embarked on my career of nepotism and bashing Milton Bradley.
But this week I return to my Slogging roots: the Seahawks, the second-least-popular team in the NFL, travel to Chicago’s post-modern monstrosity on the Lakefront, Soldier Field. (I edited a great book on the stadium. . . ). The Bears are favored by 6 or 6.5 points after stomping the shit out of one of the worst teams in the League last week, and our savior from Denver, Jay Cutler, will be back from a concussion, so let’s hope whatever little birdies and stars and planets he sees circling his head do not make him confuse Seattle DBs for Bears WRs. Of course, with our offensive line as wide-open as Christine O’Donnell’s thighs, the Seattle DL can aim to get to our backup quarterbacks, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard and Dr. Fine.
I’ll be at the game, though probably not live-slogging it, unless the field has some wifi capabilities I know not of and I feel like lugging my laptop along. Hope to post some pre-game fun and games in the meantime.
Fun facts: the Seahawks have lost both their road games this year, and are coming off a bye week—and they’ve only won twice after their bye week since 1998. Read Mike Mulligan all about it.
You mean, “they’ve only *won* twice after their bye week”
@1, fixed thanks. My favorite spellcheck error from a student this quarter: mascaraed for masquerade. Makes a big difference when talking about Jay Gatsby as disguised.
@2 Urlacher’s not white. He’s white trash. Which, in American racial terminology, makes him not part of the dominant, even if he did bang Paris Hilton for a while.
why “second-least popular”? a 35-year old, creaky, bald republican is their marquee player. they play in a geographically isolated market. we’re lucky we have football at all.
Chicago Fan, are you surprised that Milton Bradley turned out to have by far been the least of the Mariners’ problems this year?
Correction: the Steelers stomped nobody in Super Bowl XL, something obvious to anyone who watched it and now confirmed by the ref who handed it over to Shittsburgh.
@6, yes, also, this
@6 So true.
You guys ought to stop ignoring the Sounders! Two-time defending US Open champions.
We should get rid of the Seahawks and replace them with a Women’s Soccer team.
Matt Hasselbeck is one of the top five bald white athletes of ALL-TIME!
Also, can’t wait to see how Marshawn Lynch (a real RB, good riddance Julius Jones) plays this weekend.
Beast Mode. http://sportsroids.com/wp-content/upload…
The Hawks need to start playing Whitehurst more. And draft Ricky Stanzi.
#2 best be trollin’
@10 Oh sure US Open champions. Winners of a trophy nobody has heard of, cares about, or is even sure why it is considered important.
I do know one thing though. The US Open is actually “The Lamar Hunt US Open.” Who is Lamar Hunt, you ask? Well the late Lamar Hunt aside from being a sportsman and an important and avid promoter of sports is best known as being the founder of the American Football League and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs until his death in 2006.
So to put it to you another way. Your precious tournament and trophy exists solely due to a man who is a giant of American football and one of the people responsible for making “Hand-Egg” the number one sport in America.
Your US Open is honorarium.