I’ve to sit down right here all through the soccer season, and now even a month afterwards, and skim all the opposite jackasses on this employees say stuff concerning the Bears. None of them are from right here, most of it’s flawed, and even when it’s right what offers them the precise? Everybody’s received a goddamn thought and none have earned the pleasure of mocking this furshlugginer franchise like I’ve (and perhaps Julie). They only wish to kick us whereas we’re down to attain some factors.
To allow them to all sit there and let me and the remainder of the Bears followers who’ve sat by way of dreck for many of their childhoods and grownup lives exult in one thing, something, that was a great reminiscence. As a result of this dude is toddling off to Canton come August:
Devin Hester was nearly all we needed to watch for much too lengthy. His rookie 12 months there was extra, however he was the unquestioned spotlight. Ask any Bears fan about that sport in opposition to the Cardinals, the place his punt return received the sport, they usually’ll cackle with delight as a result of the Bears had been so terrible that night time and but nonetheless received the sport. I used to be on the Division Spherical playoff sport that 12 months in opposition to Seattle, and although he had a TD return known as again that day, I’ve nonetheless but to listen to 60,000 folks sound like they had been being taken on a curler coaster whereas standing nonetheless as quickly as he caught the ball.
Hester remains to be the one particular person to do one thing so cool in a Tremendous Bowl, on the very opening kickoff even, that they canceled the remainder of the sport as a result of all leisure worth had been wrung from the sport with one return. SHUT UP, THEY TOTALLY DID!
No kick returner ought to have the ability to win video games by himself, and but Hester did, which mentioned simply as a lot about these Bears groups because it did about him. The humorous factor about all of it was how easy it was. Hester didn’t crack some code or invent a brand new solution to return kicks. He was simply sooner and shiftier than anybody else, aided by the eye to element that Lovie Smith and Dave Toub supplied to their particular groups.
And to not get burned by him was additionally fairly rattling easy. Nobody needed to kick the ball to him, they simply saved doing it. Each particular groups coordinator was satisfied they had been the one who may resolve the issue of Hester, and none of them may. In some way Hester, in his goofy and electrifying manner, saved proving the folly of man’s ego. All anybody needed to do was admit they didn’t have the reply and they might discover salvation. However that was too easy for much too many soccer coaches.
Yeah, it might be argued that kick returners are simply soccer’s model of aid pitchers, and I’ve mentioned in these very pages that relievers shouldn’t go into the Corridor as a result of they’re part-timers. However the best one among all-time ought to. Hester took one thing that was mundane and made it appointment TV. Nobody else has. Nobody else in all probability will. That’s greater than sufficient to go to Canton.
And the remainder of the employees right here can kiss my ass and name it a love story. STAY OUT OF BEARS BUSINESS!
Properly, this wasn’t stunning
I wager you’ll have by no means guessed that the worst broadcaster in hockey would even have some galactically silly takes concerning the sport:
Bucci was reacting to Brenden Dillon dealing with suspension for this hit:
This hit was geared toward Noel Acciari’s head and nothing however his head, which is the precise kind of hit the NHL needs out of the sport. Dillon didn’t merely miss, or have Acciari flip on the final minute. He aimed for the killshot and adopted by way of.
It’s in all probability the sort of second that Bucci would like to slather in one among his dumbass and ill-fitting catch-phrases, and that’s why he’s objecting. ESPN can do higher to search out somebody to be the voice of the sport.
The strangest soccer tourney ever?
Ivory Coast might full probably the most bonkers match ever by successful the AFCON as fairly presumably the worst workforce to win a serious soccer match. How unhealthy had been Ivory Coast within the tourney they’re internet hosting? They fired their supervisor after the group stage! They had been so sure that the 2 factors they collected in these three video games had been going to see them out on their ass that they canned the coach and received prepared to begin over. Then each consequence went their manner they usually someway certified as one of many 4 greatest third-place groups (one other argument that tournaments ought to solely be 16 or 32 groups, and wait till the 48-team World Cup in two years will get a crack at this mishegas).
Ivory Coast’s 1-0 win over DR Congo within the semifinal is the primary sport they’ve received in 90 minutes. They beat Mali within the quarters in further time, needing objectives in damage time in each the 90 minutes and in further time to try this. They beat Senegal on penalties after getting a late penalty to tie it. They received drubbed 4-0 by Equatorial Guinea within the group stage.
And but they’ll play the ultimate on house soil in opposition to Nigeria, whom they’ve already misplaced to within the group stage that they had been sure they hadn’t gotten out of. Generally or not it’s like that.