What do the Bears, Blackhawks, Northwestern, Illinois and Notre Dame have in common? In addition to being Chicago teams, they're all losers this weekend. Sad, sorry losers. Better than that, they lost in spectacular fashion.
The Fighting Irish led most of the game at North Carolina and even mounted a last-minute charge, but still lost. Illinois lost on a Juice Williams fumble. The worst loss of all is from the Bears, who scored what seemed to be a game-winning touchdown with 11 seconds left to go. Then the Falcons went on to kick a game-winning field goal as the clock ran down to zero.
Clearly, we need to change our luck, and we can't leave it in the hands of the players and coaches. Leaving it in their hands is what made us a bunch of losers in the first place. To start winning, we need to:
- Start Evans Cheruiyot at wide receiver for the Bears. He's a winner. He won the Chicago Marathon today. Sure, we know nothing of his availability to catch a ball and he looks like one tackle could crush him, but we could use his mojo right about now.
- Notre Dame needs to work the mascot. You're the Fighting Irish and you can't have a luckier season than you've had so far?
- Play each other. A winner has to emerge out of the Northwestern/Illinois game on November 22, right?
- After their game against the Redwings on October 25, the Blackhawks should take a team field trip to UFC 90 at the Allstate Arena. Not only can they pick up some tips on fighting at a mixed martial event, but they will also see one of the best fighters in the world take to the Octagon. Anderson Silva can show the team how a winner takes care of business.
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Or what the teams can do is step up their defense and stop making stupid mistakes. Those two things will probably be more successful than anything I've suggested.
I don't enjoy saying these things, just as I'm sure Bill Murray doesn't enjoy playing along as SNL makes our city into a national joke:
But such is our fate, until someone does something to change our citywide narrative.
