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Keith 11 Oct 06

Not a bad idea…I doubt they’ll run the table, but damn I think they’ve got the easiest schedule in football. Which might not be a good thing in the long run. I notice there’s no playoffs in there…

Eamon 11 Oct 06

I bought mine yesterday within 60 seconds of viewing the link on Gapers Block. Jim’s clearly got my number.

Mo 11 Oct 06

Not to start a flame war but consider it a lock the Bears will get exposed when the visit the New England Patriots.

mastorna 11 Oct 06

omg, you know you’re only setting yourself up for losing this weekend when you do this kind of thing. Its a jinks! Watch Urlacher get hurt and be out for the rest of the season.

Paulo 11 Oct 06

I can buy these for my friends who are Oakland Raider fans… use the marker to cross out the Bears schedule and write in the Riaders’s schedule. Sweet!

nate 11 Oct 06

Yup, the Bears should do just fine… right up until that 6th empty checkbox.

clifyt 11 Oct 06

Seriously need one of these for the Colts. Looks like our season is going to be as good as last years…lets just hope it doesn’t end in the first playoff game like last time (winning every game in the season means nothing if you blow it when it counts).

Jim 11 Oct 06

This has to be an impluse buy, the shirt has a life of between 1 week and 2 months before it’s completely useless and embarassing to wear. Great idea though.

Joe Ruby 11 Oct 06

It will be funny when the Bears lose. :P

Packer Fan 11 Oct 06

The bears still suck :-)

Jeff Martin 11 Oct 06

Since I live in Nashville, I need to make one of these for the Titans, just put all the checkboxes in the L column.

B-Money 11 Oct 06

The Colts? Oh please! They don’t have Edgerrin James, and 4 of their wins have been by 7 points or less. They have about as much chance of an undefeated season as I do. They’ll lose to either Denver or New England at the latest.

Meanwhile, the Bears have scored more points per game on offense and allowed fewer points per game on defense than any team in the NFL. I’ve seen enough awful Bears teams to keep my optimism reserved, but they’re better than the Colts any day.

Dan Boland 11 Oct 06

Even if they avoid injuries, I think the road to perfection ends in Foxborough. If Rex “I Wax My Eyebrows” Grossman gets hurt again, good luck getting to the Super Bowl.

If only my beloved Washington Redskins would play like they’re capable of every week, maybe they’d have a t-shirt like this… *sigh*

Emily (from Green Bay) 11 Oct 06

As much as I hate this whole thing - This is a brilliant idea. Damn you Coudal Partners.

Adam 11 Oct 06

Here the Bears fans go again. Remember last year when you all got cocky like this and then my hometeam — the Carolina Panthers — walked humbly and quietly into your house and beat the crap out of you? All because the mighty “Bears D” was too full of itself to double and triple team Steve Smith?

Now I see that maybe the hype of the local fans had something to do with that loss, just like they will with their inevitable early playoff loss this year.

Killian 11 Oct 06

Don’t worry about the Patriots- I mean the Pats barely pulled out a win vs. the Bills and you saw what a hurting the Bears put on them. My advice to Bears fans is to get those Miami hotel reservations in pronto!

Eamon 11 Oct 06

[this is blatantly inflammatory]

Wow. New England? Really? Tell you what: beat the Bills by 33 points next week and then we can discuss whether you’ve got yourselves a roadblock or a speed bump over there in NineBladesPlusALubricatingStrip Stadium. Heck, just beat them by more than 2 points this time around and we’ll let you sit at the big kids’ table.

Dave Simon 11 Oct 06

The bears do have an extremely easy schedule. Looking at that, the only games they wouldn’t be favored to win in a big way as of right now are the Giants and the Patriots. But they’ll still be favored, I think.

As far as the Colts, don’t start printing up the shirts yet. ;) BARELY snuck by the Jets and Titans. Start bragging about your team in Indy when they play a good team and win. (They also had a cheesy schedule last year until they ran into Michael Turner and the Bolts.)

How would this be for a story - Brett Favre, after struggling for two years, beats the 15-0 Bears in his last NFL game? Nah, won’t happen.

But imagine the story if the ‘72 Dolphins were all there in Miami when the Bears go for 19-0…

I really think the Bears could do it. Lovie has that team playing extremely well.

I look back to when my Broncos were 14-0 in 1998. The Giants snuck up on them and beat them in week 15. Then they didn’t play the starters in week 16 and lost to the Dolphins. But then they dominated the playoffs and ended 17-2 for the season.

I’d love to have the Broncos and Bears in the Super Bowl. That would be a heck of a game!

Dave Simon 11 Oct 06

@Eamon -

I think that the Patriots earned their seat at the big kids’ table by winning three Super Bowls in 4 years.

It is the Bears who haven’t won the Super Bowl since 1985 and lost early in the playoffs last year. (And since 1994 since they’ve won a playoff game.)

Despite the best record in football and being, IMHO, the team to beat, the Bears are the ones earning their way to the big kids’ table.

Win a playoff game, then talk smack about being the big kid.

Mike McKenna 11 Oct 06

Yes, New England will cause a problem. That’s the beauty of the NFL— the Patriots can squeeze a win out against the Bills, the Bears can crush the Bills, and I can still confidently say that this game on the 26th will be a good one. I’ll be there—so I’ll get to see first hand how legit the Bears are. If the Bears are still undefeated, and come in to New England, and beat the Patriots, I’ll buy a shirt.

Eamon 11 Oct 06

Last time I checked, we were talking about this season. If you want to talk history, understand that we still think of the Pats as an expansion team.

Jon 11 Oct 06

What’s interesting is that this shirt coincidentally depicts the blood trail of notorious 60’s serial killer Midwest Marty. So, when this becomes an obsolete reference to the Bears, it will remain a testament to the 18 women killed at truckstops across the nation.

Stu 11 Oct 06

I wish the shirt came in M or L. Football fans come in all shapes and sizes, CP!

Dan Boland 11 Oct 06

I mean the Pats barely pulled out a win vs. the Bills and you saw what a hurting the Bears put on them.

Pats-Bills was a divisional game, though. The Vikings gave the Bears all they could handle in week 3 and they’re not exactly a juggernaut.

I look back to when my Broncos were 14-0 in 1998. The Giants snuck up on them and beat them in week 15. Then they didn’t play the starters in week 16 and lost to the Dolphins. But then they dominated the playoffs and ended 17-2 for the season.

Same thing when my Redskins were 11-0 in 1991. A lot of folks thought they would go all the way because they had, at that point, beaten six teams that went on to win ten or more games that year (Lions, Cowboys, Eagles*, Bears, Oilers and Falcons). But in week 13, those damn dirty Cowboys exacted revenge and ruined the perfect season (they, too, had a who-cares, rest-the-starters loss in week 17 to the Eagles). And like the Broncos, they went on to win the Super Bowl.

* Here’s a nugget of info for you — 1991 was the only season in NFL history in which two ten-win teams missed the playoffs in the same conference (Eagles and 49ers).

Kevin OKeefe 11 Oct 06

Heck, Ditka alone can beat many of those teams. Da Bears.

Chris Griffin 11 Oct 06

Eamon is funny.

I think the Tampa Bay Bucs is definitely the roadblock here……they will CRUSH da Bears.

Bookmark this post and circle your calendars for December 17 as a reminder so I can proclaim that I CALLED IT.

Chris Griffin 11 Oct 06

Oh and remember that the Bucs are tied for 2nd place for most superbowl wins this decade behind the Patriots :)

They definitely have a history of winning….

Ben 11 Oct 06

WOOHOO! Love those Bears

Tom 11 Oct 06

“The fun ends when you play New England” - Carson Palmer in Week 4

Ok, he didn’t really say that, but he could have. We’ll see if Grossman has the same experience in Week 12.

Brett 11 Oct 06

The Colts? I’m a Colts fan (Indy resident) but they don’t have a chance. They barely beat the then 0-4 Titans this past weekend. Peyton’s doing better, but when will the happy feet make an appearance again? Peyton is a great player, great for the city and makes some funny commericals, but until he proves himself when it really matters….

Michael McCaskey 11 Oct 06

SUPER idea!! Please remit my check for 20% of all sales to Halas Hall, Lake Forest, Il - MIKE

Andrew 11 Oct 06

Actually, “McCaskey,” part of what makes this such a brilliant product is that it doesn’t say Bears — or even Chicago or NFL — on it anywhere on the shirt. So you have to be in the know, part of the club, to get it. And CP don’t have to worry about licensing, allowing them to create the product quickly and cheaply.

Coudal 11 Oct 06

Stu, we just added sizes for cornerbacks and safeties (M+L).

We’re scrambling a bit seeing as how we only had the idea for this project the day before yesterday but the shirts looks sweet and the press coverage this morning was a fun surprise too.

Now if we can only get one in Theisman’s hands before Monday Night we’ll be all set.

Dave Hodgkinson 11 Oct 06

Ah, that would be the quaint acitivity we call “American Football”. Where your “World Series” involves a few minor estates on the outer edge of a continent.

Whereras the real “football” involves only feet and no padding.

Chris J 11 Oct 06

Wow, that purchase was too easy. Doesn’t even matter if they run the table, it’s still going to be fun to wear the thing for every game!

Bob 11 Oct 06

Only sixteen straight? I guess they don’t plan to win any postseason games.

Dave 11 Oct 06

10 straight maybe. There’s no way that the Bears leave Foxboro with a win.

Jim H 11 Oct 06

Do they make a jumpsuit with the Cubs schedule?

Jeff L 11 Oct 06

Just another vote that the Bears don’t make it past the Pats.

Nice season they are having so far, though!

Keith Casey 12 Oct 06

In Ditka we Trust.

Dave Mulder 12 Oct 06

Someone should make one of these for the Detroit Lions, except instead of winning sixteen straight, they’ll be losing sixteen straight.