Mike Glennon's path to the Bears was carved by persistence

Definitely catching up with Houston.

For years I always thought the mark of a true and loyal Bears fan was much like that of Cubs fans.  It was a season of disappointment and frustration followed by hope and the exclamation that "there's always next year".  But there never was.  Nothing changed until one day it finally did.  The team was sold to a family who actually wanted to build a winner not just sit back and collect revenue from their MLB cash cow.

So they hired the very best MLB Exec they could and he hired a great second in command and together they set off to make the hang dog old Cubbies winners again.  It took a bit but you could at least see some progress along the way and then they finally broke through and won it all.

The Hawks under "Dollar Bill" were much the same until he passed and Rocky took over.  Since then they've drafted well, made some good trades, paid their top producers well to keep the team intact, and hired top shelf GM and coaching talent.  The result?  Three Stanley Cups in less than a decade.  Maybe one of the toughest of all championships to win and keep winning.

Then we have the Bears who for 30 plus years under the McCaskey regime have mostly gone from mediocre to worse with an occasional flirtation with winning for a year or two before craptastic drafting and other massively stupid personnel decisions and/or horrid coaching sinks them to the bottom of the NFLs toilet bowl once again like a navy and orange turd.

Since the Days of Ditka we've been through a thousand different players or more, five HCs, three GMs and a pseudo GM and the results have always been the same.  We lose far more often than we win.  Even more so recently.  Through all of these changes what's been the constant?  Ownership.  The men and woman in charge.  That has not changed.

I can handle a lot of frustration.  I've had much practice in doing it.  But what I can no longer tolerate as far as the Bears are concerned is a CEO and COB who have the balls to stand before the media and their loyal fans and say they will never sell this team because no one else can run it as well as they can.



The sheer arrogance of even making a statement like that in the face of their record and after having laid one more disastrous era on top of the last one is all I can take. I have to call 'em as I see 'em.  It's a systemic problem that starts at the top and until that is changed and someone is hired who actually can operate this team successfully I don't see a change on the horizon. 

So how can I get excited about any of this.  What actually counts, a wholesale changeover in the way the team operates is all that will save it and it ain't happening.  This is why I feel as I do and I believe it's justified.  The Second Coming will be a little too late for a sale by the McCaskeys so I'm pulling for some kind of common disaster instead. It's a bad attitude to have I know but they've pretty much earned it by now.

What the Cubs did cannot be replicated in the NFL b/c there is no farm system, and you cannot trade away your young talent for other peoples picks/younger talent. 

In the NFL there is only one way, find your franchise qb and build around him.