Thread: Oh MAN! Talk about "Post Super Bowl" Blues...

I've started paying attention to college hoops. nuff said.

Originally Posted by Jimmors

Speaking of Post-Superbowl Blues:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/31...cks/index.html

This Sunday's Super Bowl could prove to be a real heartbreaker for some fans of the losing team.
A new study suggests that the emotional stress fans feel after a loss may trigger fatal heart attacks, especially in people who already have heart disease. Stress generates the so-called fight-or-flight response, which causes sharp upticks in heart rate and blood pressure that can strain the heart.
For people with heart disease -- or for those who are at risk due to factors such as obesity, smoking, and diabetes -- such strain can prove harmful, if not fatal.
In the study, which was published Monday in the journal Clinical Cardiology, researchers analyzed death records in Los Angeles County for the two weeks after the 1980 and 1984 Super Bowls, both of which featured teams from Los Angeles. (The game days were included.) Then, as a control, the researchers looked at the same data from the corresponding days in the intervening years.
Health.com: 9 surprising heart attack risks
In 1980, when the Pittsburgh Steelers staged a fourth-quarter comeback to beat the underdog L.A. Rams, heart-related deaths shot up 15% among men and 27% among women in the subsequent two weeks, compared with the same period in 1981 through 1983.
There was also a significant increase in deaths among people ages 65 and older, the study found.

LOL!!!!!! ..... well Jimmors, I ain't feelin' THAT bad! ...... but, is does still sting.


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I knew better too, G Baby, but drank the navy & orange kool-aid ANYWAY....

I, for one, will never look upon this team with any degree of shame or ill-will. What we managed to accomplish this year with a team that wasn't really built to carry itself as far as it went was nothing short of phenomenal. They beat the Packers once, and though the score indicates that the game was closer than it actually was because of a 4th Quarter surge, the Eagles. Sure, we lost games to the Giants, Seahawks, Redskins, Patriots, and Packers twice and looked bad doing it, but in the end, we were one game away from the Super Bowl in what had to be one of the more improbable runs in recent history.

Guitarzan, Sheila, and J.D., we have nothing to be ashamed about. Could the season have gone better? There were perhaps three games in the regular season that we threw away because of poor execution from the offensive line as well as poor playcalling from Mike Martz (Seattle, Washington, and Green Bay #2). If we had won those games knowing about the Bears what we know now, we would have finished with a 14-2 record, and would have probably hosted the Packers in the Divisional Round instead of the NFC Championship Game. More over, we would have been the #1 overall seed in the NFC, and who in the media would have dared to criticize us to the point of what we saw out of this season as bordering on persecution? Sure, we would have been grilled over the losses the Giants and the Patriots, and the pundits such as Trent Dilfer and Mark Schlereth would have said that we were exposed on our offensive line in those games, but think about what nearly was before going off half-cocked simply because we lost to the Packers in the NFC Championship Game at Soldier Field in Chicago.

One last thing: this ranting and raving about the perceived ineptitude by Lovie Smith by people on this message board is getting ridiculous. What people don't realize is that in seven seasons, with less than an abundance of quality talent at the skill positions, Coach Smith has managed to guide the Bears to four winning seasons, three NFC North Division titles, and an NFC Championship/berth in Super Bowl XLI. In 2004, he inherited all the bad apples from the Dick Jauron regime and finished with a paltry 5-11 record. Out of that came a decent draft by Jerry Angelo, and the Bears finished with big seasons the next two years, though they still never had the big offenses that other successful teams in the playoffs enjoyed. In 2006, with arguably the worst starting quarterback in the league and in the history of the Super Bowl, Coach Smith led the Bears to the NFC Championship on the legs of his two stud runningbacks. Though we lost in the Super Bowl, it was the most successful season the Bears had enjoyed since 1985, when the franchise won its only Super Bowl under Coach Mike Ditka.

Times were tough the following three seasons. Records of 7-9 (2007), 9-7 (2008), and 7-9 (2009) raised the ire of Bears fans all over the nation. Hell, even I questioned whether Lovie had lost his intensity since earning the huge pay raise in days and weeks following Super Bowl XLI. However, one thing always redirected my mode of thinking when I thought of what Lovie Smith was as a coach: he could have Bob Babich and Ron Turner coaching all he wanted, but the Bears defense and offense were only going to be as successful as the players' talent levels warranted. Finally, in 2009, Jerry Angelo decided to become more proactive in his dealing with the team, and he traded two years worth of 1st Round picks and QB Kyle Orton for the talented-but-raw Jay Cutler. Though Cutler struggled his first season in Chicago, averaging an interception with every touchdown pass (26 TDs to 26 INTs), I never lost faith in the team, because I knew that he needed to get comfortable in an offensive scheme. When Angelo signed Julius Peppers, Chester Taylor, and Brandon Manumaleuna (the latter, admittedly, did not fare too well this season, though Taylor was sort of hit-or-miss), it was a sign that the organization was committed to moving forward with building a team that would eventually compete to play in Super Bowls. When Lovie Smith and the front office conferred over the past two seasons to sign three coaches who were not only strong assistant coaches, but also were former head coaches (Rod Marinelli, Mike Martz, and Mike Tice), it was another sign that this team did not intend to sit by idly and lose to the extent that they from 1992-2004. All of this bared fruit in 2010; Chicago won its first division title in four years and were a Caleb Hanie "pick-6" to B.J. Raji away from possibly winning the NFC Championship Game with a 17-14 score, should the Bears have driven the length of the field at the end of the game without faltering.

Know this: I fully expect that Jerry Angelo will make some big moves this offseason. He will get either a big 1st Round draft pick or a couple of big free agents to beef up the weak areas of this team. I fully expect that he will go after Logan Mankins and possibly even Nnamdi Asomugha if the price is well-within our range. I think he will confer more with Mike Martz, Mike Tice, and Rod Marinelli on the big positions that we need, and I think he will coordinate his efforts with Tim Ruskell on matters with the offensive line as well. Jerry Angelo and Lovie Smith are on the cusp of building some very strong teams here for the future if they maintain this kind of focus and intensity in the offseason. They cannot afford to be cheap in signing free agents when it is warranted, and they must do a better job in drafting players at skill positions on offense and defense in the higher rounds. If we do all of this, and I don't see why the precedent of being proactive will fade away from the levels we've seen over the past two offseasons this Spring and Summer, and provided that the creeks don't rise and we have lock-out instead of business as usual, then I see no reason for us to not be back challenging the favored Green Bay Packers for the division title next season.

All is not lost, you three that I mentioned up above. You have to have faith in your team, else you are like the majority of University of Tennessee football fans are here in Knoxville when things aren't going well: you become a fair-weathered fan. I can't stand fair weathered fans.

Well put.

Originally Posted by Dagan81

All is not lost, you three that I mentioned up above. You have to have faith in your team, else you are like the majority of University of Tennessee football fans are here in Knoxville when things aren't going well: you become a fair-weathered fan. I can't stand fair weathered fans.

I "get" all that you're saying Dag....and I certainly don't consider myself a "fair weather fan". I'll bitch my ass off for sure. But, that's only because I HATE losing....and I also hate when there's NO FIGHT.

But, I still don my BEARS gear....and start watching at 10:00 a.m. ~ ALL the BEARS Pre-game stuff, and am PINNED to the TV during every single game....AND win or lose....watch all of the Post Game stuff. Every single week.

What really kills me, and adds mega fuel to the fire....and frankly disgusts me is that I live on the Illinois/Wisconsin Boarder. I mean......right ON it.
And you would NOT BELIEVE the amount of "BEARS FANS" that are not only supporting the Packers, which I don't have a real problem with...I believe you can back your division....but they are actually Flying, and Wearing THEIR Colors!!!!
THAT just really messes me up.

I may, as much as I hate to say it.....BACK OUR DIVISION. But I would certainly NOT do it WEARING Green Bays "Colors"!

I would find a bar just over the boarder......and route for the NFCN......in my full blown BEARS Gear! ~ Right there in amongst all those Packers fans. I would be PROUD ... and would not hesitate to SHOW how PROUD I am of being a BEARS Fan. Even though I'm seriously pissed off with them (BEARS) at the moment.

And I believe even THEY would respect that more so then all these "turncoats" donning Packers' gear.


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