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Dallas Danner had scoring runs of 60, 40 and 10 yards to lead the Union Road Jaguars to a 27-12 win over the Virginia Beach Mustangs on Saturday. The win propelled Union Road to the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., which begins Dec. 4.
Kari Robbs added a 50-yard touchdown pass to Cricket Smith to add to the scoring for the Jaguars (11-0), which advanced to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five years.
Smith (sack, interception), Mario Brandon, Quan McClunney, Nassem Moulinand and Zach Glenn led the Union Road defense.
Games from the Pop Warner Super Bowl can be viewed on espn3.com.
Audi today it has purchased airtime during the Super Bowl for the fourth consecutive year.
For Audi, the time slot is well worth the multi-billion dollar cost.
“Since Audi began advertising in the Super Bowl nearly four years ago, we’ve achieved record levels of awareness and showroom traffic with national consideration numbers showing significant spikes post game,” Scott Keogh, Audi’s chief marketing officer, said in a statement.
Audi said its spot will air during the first break after the game starts. But the German automaker declined to say what it spent for the time slot. Trade journal Advertising Age estimates advertisers are paying between $2.8 million and $3 million for 30 second spots during the 2011 Super Bowl.
Last year, Audi’s “Green Police” advertisement featured the Audi A3 TDI, and a soundtrack created by rock legends Cheap Trick.
As an automaker, Audi will be joined Chevrolet, which said recently it planned to return to the Super Bowl after a two-year hiatus.
The North Texas Super Bowl committee has sold out of the 300 tickets it intended to put up for sale to the public beginning Thursday, and it cancelled a Cowboys Stadium launch party.
Bill Lively, the Host Committee chief, said in an emailed memo that members of the volunteer Host Committee and its Action Teams and Councils purchased the 300 tickets.
The committee’s only remaining ticket inventory: Four suites starting at $199,850 apiece.
Sportsbooks around the world are ready to offer the best Super Bowl odds with the most popular and hugest game of the NFL season happening on Sunday, February 6th, 2011. The Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas will be the setting for this expected event where the AFC champions will go head to head against the NFC champions in Super Bowl number 45.
The odds for this football betting celebration can already be found at Brobury, and fans can already start looking at those future bets to have an idea of what will be the best pick at the end. Fans got to see the New Orleans Saints taking victory home after defeating the Indianapolis Colts. For the third time in the history of the Super Bowl, the game will take place in Texas. The last two took place in Houston, and this time it will be in Dallas.
It will be Fox television broadcasting and Troy Aikman and Joe Buck narrating the game. For radio listeners, they will be able to catch the game on Westwood One radio network. And fans at the game will be able to enjoy the halftime show with the Black Eyes Peas.
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The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee has sold the last of its hospitality ticket packages for February’s big game, committee officials said Monday. The committee had scheduled an event at Cowboys Stadium on Thursday to sell the remaining hospitality packages.
But before they could be offered to the public, the packages were snapped up by host committee members and volunteers who were given access to a pre-sale, said Tony Fay, vice president of communications for the host committee.
“We have a pretty large host committee who worked pretty diligently,” Fay said.
These ticket packages were the best chance for volunteers to see the game, so it’s not surprising they sold out so quickly, he said.
The hospitality packages included game tickets, a parking pass and tickets to the Host Committee’s Gala and Media Party.
Cost of the packages ranged from $2,550 to $6,550 per person.
Since the Thursday event has been canceled, anyone still interested in purchasing tickets to Super Bowl XLV must buy them from the NFL, Fay said.
“There are a lot of great ticket options much like the packages we were selling still available through NFL On Location,” he said.
Tickets to the Super Bowl can now only be purchased as part of a hospitality package, Fay said. The available packages are a small percentage of total Super Bowl tickets, he said.
“It’s considered a sell-out,” Fay said.
The remaining ticket options are available at nflsuperbowlaccess.com.
Host committee chairman Bill Lively said in an e-mail that only four luxury suites remain in the committee’s inventory to be sold before the Super Bowl.
After a few weeks of speculation, both the NFL and the band confirmed that the Black Eyed Peas will provide entertainment during halftime at Super Bowl XLV. The quartet, whose new album The Beginning hits store shelves on Tuesday (November 30), will take over the field at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on February 6 (right after the New York Jets inevitably take the lead over the Green Bay Packers in the big game). They join the likes of U2, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, the Who and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers among contemporary halftime acts who have run the show all by themselves.
Of course, being the Super Bowl halftime headliner is generally a thankless job, as it demands that a group distill their best efforts into only a handful of minutes and puts them in front of a lot of people who wouldn't normally be fans. While the Black Eyed Peas are a reasonable choice for the show (they totally dominated the Billboard charts last year and will probably do the same with The Beginning), but who else might have been better? Here are five picks we might have made before we settled on will.i.am and company.
Kanye West
The guy can do just about anything (he managed to convincingly perform at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, after all) and he put out one of the biggest albums of the year in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. What better way to complete West's victory lap than with 15 minutes of his particular brand of spectacle? U2
They had to cancel a bunch of concert dates in the United States this year because of singer Bono's back problems, and even though they're coming back for make-up dates next spring, shouldn't their return to the States be on one of the biggest stages of them all? They've done the gig before, and they have no trouble blowing the roof off of stadiums. ZZ Top
What's more Texas than ZZ Top? Nothing. The answer is nothing. Taylor Swift
She already has experience playing in stadiums, and she'll have a lot country music fans hanging around for support. Really, her biggest problem would be figuring out what songs to leave behind in order to present the show on time. Guns N' Roses
Because Axl is just about due for yet another comeback, and the biggest television stage of the year seems like an appropriate place for it. Plus, "Paradise City" only gets better with age. Who would you book for the Super Bowl halftime show? Let us know in the comments!
The Black Eyed Peas have sold 28 million albums worldwide, 31 million digital tracks, picked up some Grammys along the way and fresh off their win for Best Pop Group at the American Music Awards, the Peas will be headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show at Cowboys Stadium on Feb. 6. This marks the first time a pop group has played the Bowl since the 2004 Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
And the timing is great. Out this week is "The Beginning," the new album from the Black Eyed Peas featuring the single "The Time (Dirty Bit)" which incorporates a few lines from Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes' Dirty Dancing song "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life." Blending hip hop and dance pop with perfection, pick up "The Beginning" on iTunes or in stores and get ready for a great Superbowl Halftime Show on Feb. 6.
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Axl Rose has filed a $20 million lawsuit against "Guitar Hero" maker Activision claiming its use of the Guns And Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle" violated a deal not to include any imagery of ex-guitarist Slash on "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock." Rose said he originally granted the company permission to use the song as long as there were no Velvet Revolver songs in the game, the band co-founded by Slash. The game not only featured Velvet Revolver, but Slash was on the game's cover and was available as a playable avatar. Rose filed his lawsuit last week. "Guitar Hero III" was released in 2007.
Lady Gaga's "60 Minutes" interview with Anderson Cooper will air in February 2011, around the time of the Grammy Awards. Gaga's new album, "Born This Way," is due early next year.
Jason Mraz is the latest artist in a stellar group of performers who have contributed a track to the "A Very Special Christmas" holiday music series benefiting Special Olympics. His recording of "Winter Wonderland" is available now on iTunes. The track will also be offered as a bonus to the purchase of 2009's acclaimed "A Very Special Christmas Volume 7," featuring Colbie Caillat, Miley Cyrus, Kristinia DeBarge, Vanessa Hudgens, Sean Kingston, Leighton Meester, Mitchel Musso, Kellie Pickler, Ashley Tisdale and Carrie Underwood.
Joe Friar is the Program Director at radio station 95 KVIC and the host of the Breakfast Buzz morning show. Weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m. on 95.1 FM in Victoria.
If you want to have one less worry on your hands when meeting or speaking with businessman will.i.am born William Adams of the Black Eyed Peas, you better not address him by his government name.
According to Q Magazine, the Black Eyed Peas’ music producer, singer and rapper stated that his family doesn’t even call him William and the only people who tend to are government officials or border guards.
will.i.am who was first discovered by Compton rapper and former N.W.A. leader Eazy-E when he was 16 years-old, goes on to say that’s not even him when he’s called William Adams even though it says it on paperwork.
The alternative hip hop artist wants to be called by his stage name will.i.am and if you happen to call him anything other than will.i.am, he warns that he can become quite hostile.
will.i.am has been having a hard time trying to explain this to immigration and has told them he’s not the person on the paper and he’s someone else. Who’s that someone else? will.i.am
“They don’t get it,” says will.i.am.
One thing’s for sure, I’m sure that Fergie as well as the other members of Black Eyed Peas know not to call him William Adams.
In other news, the Black Eyed Peas are set to perform for Super Bowl halftime on February 6, 2011
CHICAGO — The Bears showcased a new way to win Sunday.
They didn’t convert a third down in the first half, yet still led 21-13 against the hottest team in football.
They called only seven running plays in the first half, yet never trailed after the first 10 minutes.
They torched the Eagles with six plays of at least 28 yards, but also beat them with the drip-drip-drip of a 10-minute, third-quarter drive.
And they won despite forcing just one turnover.
The Bears are not Super Bowl contenders because they beat the NFC-leading Eagles 31-26. They showed the Super Bowl may be within their reach because of how they beat the Eagles.
For 25 years, the Bears have tried to win a Super Bowl with defense and turnovers.
With the exception of the 2000 Ravens, you don’t win that way. Even the 1985 Bears needed a healthy Jim McMahon. Lovie Smith’s Bears also have the Devin Hester factor on kick returns, but that’s still a long-shot. You can’t depend on kick return score every game. Not even with Hester.
Nor can you depend on turnovers.
Philadelphia, tied with Chicago for the NFL lead with 26 takeaways, learned that Sunday when the Bears didn’t turn it over once.
“There are going to be games where you don’t have a turnover,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said. “You’re going to keep battling and fighting and trying to get one, but there are games when that doesn’t happen.”
It didn’t happen much for Chicago, either. The Bears had just one takeaway, an end-zone interception by safety Chris Harris.
“This defense thrives off turnovers,” Harris said. “When we don’t get turnovers, normally we don’t win.”
This was the second time in five years Chicago beat a winning team without creating at least two turnovers. The other was the 2008 season opener against the Colts.
The best teams can stop good teams even when the ball doesn’t bounce their way.
Chicago recovered none of Philadelphia’s four fumbles and still dominated. That’s an impressive sign.
So are runs of 61 and 28 yards by Matt Forte and passes of 39 and 34 yards to Devin Hester, 34 yards to Johnny Knox and 30 yards to Earl Bennett. That is the explosiveness promised by the hiring of offensive coordinator Mike Martz. Yet it wasn’t the all-or-nothing Martz the Bears have often seen. He also mixed in a Ron Turner-like 17-play field goal drive.
“You can’t ask for anything more than that,” Harris said.
The best teams can score quick. And they can score slow. And now the Bears can, too.
“We can hit you from a lot of different places,” Forte said.
As long as they pick the right order to hit from. The Bears called more than twice as many passes as runs in the first half, but finished with more official runs (counting scrambles) than passes for the fourth week in a row.
“The last couple of games it’s been more balanced and you can see the difference between that and the beginning of the year,” Forte said. “If we continue to keep it balanced between the run and the pass, we’ll continue to get better.”
Balance works only when the Bears get off the bus passing and then come out for the second half running. You pass to take the lead in the NFL and run to protect it. Jay Cutler’s 247 yards passing created room for Forte’s 117 yards rushing, not vice versa.
If the run truly set up the pass, Cutler wouldn’t have passed (or scrambled) on 17 consecutive third downs in the win over Minnesota. Nor would Cutler have passed on every third down in that 17-play drive Sunday, when he needed 5, 8, 2 and 5 yards.
“That was the signature moment in the game for us,” Cutler said of the long drive.
It could be the signature win for the Bears. As long as they remember how they won. By passing first, running second, mixing big gains with small ones and playing a defense that doesn’t need to depend on an avalanche of turnovers.
This was a game of importance for both teams, as the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles are fighting for their playoff lives, and both stood at 7-3 entering the game. Plus, the game had other interesting side issues, including the play of Michael Vick and the Bears defense. It certainly was no accident that the game's starting time was moved to 3:15 Central (it originally was scheduled for a noon kickoff).
The final score was Bears 31, Eagles 26. With the Packers loss earlier in the day, the Bears now sit alone atop the NFC North at 8-3. They scored a season-high 31 points, and Jay Cutler had a terrific day, ending up with a 146.2 QB rating on four TDs and zero interceptions.
Almost every other win this season has been blamed on factors other than the Bears simply beating the other team. Against Detroit, it was the catch in the end zone, Minnesota gave up on their coach, Miami was banged up and so on.
But no excuses today. The Bears beat a legitimate contender in Mike Vick and the Eagles on Sunday, and now the masses had better recognize the Bears as a legit contender in the NFC.
Let's take a look at the victory and examine how things went down on Sunday.
TEN BEST
1. New England (9-2)
2. N.Y. Jets (9-2)
3. Atlanta (8-2)
4. Baltimore (7-3)
5. Pittsburgh (7-3) -- Coach Mike Tomlin refused to criticize the NFL for not suspending Oakland Raiders defensive end Richard Seymour for punching Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and for fining him only $25,000. "I don't have a reaction," Tomlin told reporters. "I tend to focus on the things that are relevant to our team moving forward and the things that we can control. That doesn't fall into either category." Hmmm. You wonder if Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz couldn't benefit from that same sort of thinking.
6. Green Bay (7-3)
7. Philadelphia (7-3) -- How good is Michael Vick? In seven games, he has thrown 11 touchdown passes and has not been intercepted. He is responsible for a combined 16 touchdowns and has lost just one fumble. At this rate, the Eagles are beginning to look like a possible Super Bowl contender.
8. New Orleans (8-3)
9. N.Y. Giants (6-4) -- Michael Clayton, a first-round pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004, has been signed to help get the Giants through a rash of recent injuries to their receivers. He had been catching passes for the UFL's Omaha Nighthawks, the same team that released wideout David Kircus of Rockford, a former NCAA Division II All-American at Grand Valley State, before the beginning of the season following his latest legal problems.
10. Indianapolis (6-4)
MIDDLE OF THE PACK
11. Chicago (7-3)
12. Tampa Bay (7-3)
13. San Diego (5-5)
14. Kansas City (6-4)
15. Jacksonville (6-4)
16. Oakland (5-5)
17. Washington (5-5)
18. Miami (5-5)
19. Tennessee (5-5)
20. Seattle (5-5)
21. Houston (4-6) -- Arian Foster is the first running back in the league to reach the 1,000-yard mark this season. He has rushed 194 times for 1,004 yards (5.2 average) and has scored 12 touchdowns on the ground and lost just two fumbles. Now, if only the Texans could stop opposing teams from scoring on them.
22. St. Louis (4-6)
23. Dallas (3-8)
24. Cleveland (3-7)
25. Minnesota (3-7)
26. Arizona (3-7)
27. San Francisco (3-7)
BOTTOM FEEDERS
28. Denver (3-7) -- It has gotten so bad that Broncos coach Josh McDaniels is being asked whether he plans to bench starting quarterback Kyle Orton and put rookie Tim Tebow in as the starter. "I don't know. I'm not willing to go there," he told reporters. Perhaps not. But those questions are going to get tougher to deflect if the Broncos keep up their losing ways --15 of their past 20 games under McDaniels. He, of course, created this monster when he insisted Denver pick Tebow in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft.
The Black Eyed Peas are the confirmed Super Bowl XLV half time show headliners.
Unconfirmed reports that the Black Eyed Peas were going to play the half time show had circulated for two months before it became official.
The Peas have been a part of other football shows. They took part in the 2005 Super Bowl pregame show titled, “Bridging Generations” and performed at the NFL Kickoff Concert in Pittsburgh in 2009.
The hip-pop act will be the first representation of pop music since the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake “wardrobe malfunction” in 2004. In years since the incident, the half time bookers selected more seasoned acts such as Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Prince and the Who.
David Hill, Fox Sports president, vowed that the musical entertainment would get younger once the Super Bowl moved back to his network in 2011.
Super Bowl XLV will take place at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas.
Eating a bowl of black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day will bring prosperity...or so goes the timeless Southern tradition. The National Football League plans to have a prosperous halftime at Super Bowl XLV by serving up The Black Eyed Peas as the featured performer.
At last Thursday’s Dallas Cowboys' game against the New Orleans Saints, the NFL made the announcement that the Grammy award-winning group will perform Feb. 6 at Cowboys Stadium.
The Peas have sold more than 28 million albums worldwide and close to 31 million digital tracks since forming in 1998. Earlier this year, the band made history when Nielsen SoundScan validated the Peas’ history making chart topper “I Gotta Feeling” as the first song to ever hit the 6 million mark in digital downloads.
The song was the triumphant, front running single from the group’s multiplatinum album, The E.N.D., camping at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for fourteen weeks. The successful album spawned The Peas’ first three No. 1 hits. Along with “I Gotta Feeling”, the disk produced “Boom Boom Pow” (twelve weeks at No. 1) and “Imma Be” (two weeks at No. 1).
The Peas’ follow-up album, paradoxically named The Beginning, is set for release on Tuesday.
Based on the response of concert-going fans, the group is just hitting their stride. The Black Eyed Peas were the sixth highest grossing tour (29.5 million) for the first half of 2010 according to Pollstar’s Top 100 North American Tours.
The Peas follow on the heels of some legendary featured performers, including The Who, U2, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Paul McCartney and Prince.
When the Baltimore Ravens signed explosive receiver Anquan Boldin and brought in veteran T.J. Houshmandzadeh, I thought this team finally had the offensive fire-power to go along with a punishing defense.
No longer would the Ravens be feared on only one side of the ball. With this much talent, hell, 15-1 and 14-2 was very doable. And I know I wasn’t alone in thinking that the Ravens were Super Bowl champions in waiting.
Well, I’m still waiting.
After watching the Ravens limp past Tampa Bay 17-10 in front of 70,989 chilled fans at M & T Bank Stadium, I’m still waiting for this team to get its act together on offense.
I’m still waiting for this team to play the complete game, offensively, defensively and on special teams. Frankly, I’m still waiting for this team to play up to its potential.
Sure, the Ravens are 8-3 and leading the AFC North heading into a monumentally big home contest against rival Pittsburgh. Yes, the most important thing is just winning games and positioning yourself for the playoffs.
But come on, there has to be some concern or sense of urgency about not putting together a dominating performance on both sides of the ball in the same game?
Sunday was a perfect example of what has been wrong with the Ravens this season.
The defense was ferocious. Linebacker Terrell Suggs and the defensive front harassed Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman, holding him to 162 yards and the Bucs offense to only four plays of 15 yards or more.
They contained the angry running LeGarrett Blount to 55 meaningless yards and held the Bucs offense to three points through three quarters. And yet, this was still a football game.
Why, because of an offense that struggled to move the ball and put points on the board. Again.
The Ravens amassed 349 yards of offense, 92 of which were on the ground. That is 24 yards below the rushing average for the season.
The Big O scored 17 points, all of which came in the first half. Are you kidding me? Against a Bucs defense that is 16th overall and 29th against the run!
Keep in mind, 65 of those yards came on a busted play in which Todd Heap got behind linebackers Barrett Ruud and Quincy Black for a second quarter touchdown.
There was also a pass interference call near the end of the first half that could have been a no-call and put the Ravens inside the red zone. On the next play, Joe Flacco hit Derrick Mason for a 10-yard score.
“We are putting the pieces together every day,” RB Ray Rice said. “No matter what you see, we are still winning.
“There is only one ball to go around. That’s tough on us, because we all want the ball. But we are playing together, and we are going to get it. In the meantime, we are still winning.”
That’s nice. But it didn’t happen in Cincinnati. It didn’t happen in New England. And it didn’t happen in Atlanta two weeks ago.
The good news is that the defense was able to watch the final seconds tick off the clock. You can thank Rice for that, as he touched the ball on five straight plays on the final drive and picked up three first downs.
“That was huge,” Rice said. “The defense trusted us. They played their butt off, and we took it from there. They do for us, and we needed to do it for them.”
Now all they have to do is do it for each other, for four quarters in the same game.
Next week against the Steelers would be a good time to start. If not, all those Super Bowl dreams might go up in smoke.
CHICAGO --They like to do things big and LOUD in Chicago. They brag about the tallest building, the busiest airport, the toughest football team. This place is not called the Windy City because of the weather (as everyone thinks) but because of the bluster, the hot air, coming from the people.
But Chicagoans are being awfully quiet about their beloved Bears this year. The game Sunday was about Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick, Version II, proving that he and the Eagles were for real.
Instead, the Bears stuffed him, sacking him four times and giving him his first loss as a starter. They beat the Eagles 31-26 to move to 8-3 and – shhh -- all alone into first place in the NFC North.
The game positively, absolutely, definitively proved that the Bears are, or might be, um, well uh, for real.
The star quarterback of the day was not Vick, who couldn't break from the pocket -- "I can always run when I want to,'' he said. Easy to say now.
The star QB was Jay Cutler. He hit long passes for the Bears, ran when he had to, took big hits when it was best. He threw four touchdown passes and had a quarterback rating for the day of 146.2.
If you don't know what that rating means exactly, know this:
It was 10 points short of perfect.
"It means a lot, but we're trying to get to the Super Bowl,'' receiver Earl Bennett said. "Everyone knows we're one of the best teams in the league.''
Look, as of now, not even a city always looking to thump its chest has been willing to say that. No one knows that the Bears are one of the best teams.
In 1985, the year Bears fans still live in, they were showing the "Super Bowl Shuffle" video in storefront windows about now. People were crowding outside one window, singing and dancing, and then moving down a block to sing and dance some more.
Now, the Bears are the quietest, best story in the NFL.
"Perception this time of year really doesn't matter a lot,'' coach Lovie Smith said. "We knew this was a big game, and whether we've gotten enough respect or not, none of that really matters, either.''
Are the Bears a great team? No.
No way. They don't even have an offensive line. But while the NFL has great players, it is without a great team. And the Bears have a super fast defense, excellent special teams and a star quarterback.
They also are on the most amazing injury-free run, and they seem to have stumbled onto one hell of a coaching staff. They have won four games in a row.
Put it all together and, well, why not them?
Of course, everything also could fall apart at any moment. Shh. Chicago knows.
"The mindset was, of course, they are one of the top offenses coming in,'' Smith said. "And if you claim to be a top defense, you want to play the best offense around with a special player.''
This is the defense's team, but the question, bluntly, is whether to believe in Smith and Cutler.
Cutler was brought in to give Chicago a star quarterback for the first time since anyone can remember. He has the big arm, and can make things happen.
But he has never been to the playoffs. Never. Last year, he was Mr. Interception. But this year, he's starting to deliver, more and more each week.
"It's a new system. It takes time,'' he said. "It takes time for everyone to learn it. It takes time for me to learn it.''
Cutler was developing toward stardom in Denver, but left before his time. With the Bears, he has been brought down by a weak offensive line, and a coaching staff that didn't know how to adjust.
This year, Smith continued his pattern of firing the bulk of his staff and hiring again. And it's working.
I believe in Cutler. But Smith?
Understand this: Smith was done, gone, fired. This was his last year, for sure, and the only reason he's still here now is that the Bears didn't want to pay a big coach's salary to a guy who wasn't on the sidelines.
He led the Bears to one Super Bowl, but that was behind a great defense, too. Then he dumped the defensive coordinator when it was over because he didn't want anyone else getting credit.
Smith's handling of assistant coaches over the years has been comical, showing a real lack of leadership. When he arrived in Chicago, his idea was to instill the enthusiasm of college football into the NFL. So he hired a staff of assistants from colleges, without NFL experience.
Big mistake. The players had no respect for their own coaches.
Since then, Smith has scapegoated his staff over and over, put his friend and yes-man, Bob Babich, in way over his head to run the defense and set a world record for firing assistants. He has argued for years that the Bears are a running team.
This year, in Smith's last chance, he hired Mike Martz, a passing nut and former NFL head coach, as the offensive coordinator. He hired Rod Marinelli, another former NFL head coach, to run the defense.
And he brought in former Vikings head coach Mike Tice to run the offensive line. He has taken a welcome mat of a line and turned it into something manageable.
Smith has come all the way from wanting college coaches on staff to wanting NFL head coaches. He has either learned or has just stumbled and bumbled onto something.
I'm going with Option B. But who cares?
It is all fitting together perfectly for the Bears. There's no turning back now, Bears fans.
