Four meaningless games announced
By: erw9z3

You know what's worse than spring training: preseason football. I forgot to mention this in my first post: I will rant against the preseason.
I'm not
a season ticket holder, so I'm not even talking about blatantly ripping
off people for games that are 100 times less important. No, my problem
comes when statements like this, "Devin is more of a go-get-it guy;
he's not really a jump-up-and-get-it (guy)," after a preseason game are
talked about incessantly. Mainly because, when this time in August
comes around, people are kind of, sort of bored of baseball.
Last
season, it was the dissection of a "go-get-it-guy" and a
"jump-up-and-get-it-guy" that annoyed me out of any interest in the
2009 preseason; this season, I suspect it will be the comparison of the
Bears and Chargers' defenses in preseason week two. Just let Ron Rivera go. And if Nathan Vasher has a good game, you may as well as turn the
TV off and stop reading the newspaper until the regular season starts.
Because
really, no good can come from paying too close attention to preseason
games. Last season, after Jay Cutler was criticized for something the
media took out of context, only one thing was clear: it was going to be
a long season. Not because that interception did anything to prove the
Bears would be bad; the post-game coverage was just so hard-headed and
ignorant. It was immediately clear how Cutler was going to be covered
-- just waiting for him to say or do something prima donna-like. It was
even more clear that I was going to want to punch Trent Dilfer in the
face every time he was on TV.
But, so you can plan ahead, find
time in your schedule to watch an early series or two, the preseason
schedule was announced yesterday; I thought I should mention it. Here's
the Bears' four-game schedule (exact dates and times will be announced
later):
- Aug. 12-15 -- at San Diego
- Aug. 19-22 -- vs. Oakland
- Aug. 26-29 -- vs. Arizona
- Sept. 2-5 -- at Cleveland
This will be the seventh straight time the Bears and Browns have met in
the preseason. Not that it really makes a difference, but does anyone
know why? For the life of me, I couldn't tell you why the NFL schedules
this every season.