McCaskey Family/Chicago Park District Cheap/Dumbassery Thread

[Eli]

There are few things that I get caught up on "it's the tradition" but this is one of them.

If you really want to embrace this statfag thing you've got going, it means you have to let go of (and preferably mock) tradition.

[Oleg]

Is any other NFL team handicapped as much by having a style of football they're supposed to play?  There's the Bear weather thing, which I suppose ties in with the idea that "Bear football" means running the ball well.  I don't understand why a sports franchise with ever-changing personnel should have a locked-in style of play from year to year.

It's one thing if fans and announcers want to talk about it.  It's another if the team's head coach actually believes it.

Many time over: THIS!

Just a hunch...I'm guessing that weather adds randomness and chance to a game, not the other way around.  In other words, I think bad weather handicaps the more talented teams.  Bad weather makes the better team lose more often than it should on any given Sunday.  Does that make sense?

Why should something as compeletly unpredicatable as weather have an effect on a football game or a season?

The home team has an advantage in a weather game. If you don't see that, you're brain dead. Why you'd want to take that natural advantage away from your team is beyond me. It's not the only advantage that matters. Far from it. But... (slams hand on desk) God damnit, the Bears lost home playoff games because they weren't as good as the other team. They'd have lost no matter the weather. But ask IAN's Saints if the weather was a factor in 2006.

This is the least smart thing you've ever typed.

[Internet Apex]

Bullshit. I've typed way dumber things than that.

[Philberto]

There are few things that I get caught up on "it's the tradition" but this is one of them.

If you really want to embrace this statfag thing you've got going, it means you have to let go of (and preferably mock) tradition.

Can I be a major statfag for baseball? and be a slight statfag for football (i.e. hanging on to things like domes and how I'd hate the Bears if they got one)?

[Oleg]

Bullshit. I've typed way dumber things than that.

Fine.  Please leave me to my hyperbole.

[Brownie]

Is any other NFL team handicapped as much by having a style of football they're supposed to play?  There's the Bear weather thing, which I suppose ties in with the idea that "Bear football" means running the ball well.  I don't understand why a sports franchise with ever-changing personnel should have a locked-in style of play from year to year.

It's one thing if fans and announcers want to talk about it.  It's another if the team's head coach actually believes it.

Many time over: THIS!

Just a hunch...I'm guessing that weather adds randomness and chance to a game, not the other way around.  In other words, I think bad weather handicaps the more talented teams.  Bad weather makes the better team lose more often than it should on any given Sunday.  Does that make sense?

Why should something as compeletly unpredicatable as weather have an effect on a football game or a season?

The home team has an advantage in a weather game. If you don't see that, you're brain dead. Why you'd want to take that natural advantage away from your team is beyond me. It's not the only advantage that matters. Far from it. But... (slams hand on desk) God damnit, the Bears lost home playoff games because they weren't as good as the other team. They'd have lost no matter the weather. But ask IAN's Saints if the weather was a factor in 2006.

This is the least smart thing you've ever typed.

Oleg is... right?

[Oleg]

Is any other NFL team handicapped as much by having a style of football they're supposed to play?  There's the Bear weather thing, which I suppose ties in with the idea that "Bear football" means running the ball well.  I don't understand why a sports franchise with ever-changing personnel should have a locked-in style of play from year to year.

It's one thing if fans and announcers want to talk about it.  It's another if the team's head coach actually believes it.

Many time over: THIS!

Just a hunch...I'm guessing that weather adds randomness and chance to a game, not the other way around.  In other words, I think bad weather handicaps the more talented teams.  Bad weather makes the better team lose more often than it should on any given Sunday.  Does that make sense?

Why should something as compeletly unpredicatable as weather have an effect on a football game or a season?

The home team has an advantage in a weather game. If you don't see that, you're brain dead. Why you'd want to take that natural advantage away from your team is beyond me. It's not the only advantage that matters. Far from it. But... (slams hand on desk) God damnit, the Bears lost home playoff games because they weren't as good as the other team. They'd have lost no matter the weather. But ask IAN's Saints if the weather was a factor in 2006.

This is the least smart thing you've ever typed.

Oleg is... right?

Thank God.  Wait...what?

[Internet Apex]

Well, there is no roof. So suck it.

[CT III]

Well, there is no roof. So suck it.

Thanks to your good friend Daley.

[Internet Apex]

Well, there is no roof. So suck it.

Thanks to your good friend Daley.

He's done some wonderful things by the Lakefront. We're truly blessed.

[BH]

Well, there is no roof. So suck it.

Thanks to your good friend Daley.

He's done some wonderful things by the Lakefront. We're truly blessed.

Charter One Pavilion is a great venue for a summer concert. 

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

Well, there is no roof. So suck it.

Thanks to your good friend Daley.

He's done some wonderful things by the Lakefront. We're truly blessed.

Charter One Pavilion is a great venue for a summer concert. 

X marks the fun!

[MAD]

They have these roofs that you can open and close.  It's like a sunroof, only for stadiums.  They've got one in Milwaukee that works about 40 percent of the time.

Sure, they open and close, but you know at the first chance of rain or snow or sub 30 degree weather, they'd close that shit.

And why not?

BEAR DOWN IN BEAR WEATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bear weather!

Woof Woof Woof

Yeah, we aren't those Nancies from Frisco! WOOO!

Without a dome, da bears will crush dose southern teams in the playoffs!

Lemme tell ya, without a Dome, we'll have a BIG advantage over teams that play in domes, especially when passing teams play in rain and wind and shit!

Following this chronologically, Teej, I fully expected the Dallas game after the '91 season to be where I bolded.

[Brownie]

They have these roofs that you can open and close.  It's like a sunroof, only for stadiums.  They've got one in Milwaukee that works about 40 percent of the time.

Sure, they open and close, but you know at the first chance of rain or snow or sub 30 degree weather, they'd close that shit.

And why not?

BEAR DOWN IN BEAR WEATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bear weather!

Woof Woof Woof

Yeah, we aren't those Nancies from Frisco! WOOO!

Without a dome, da bears will crush dose southern teams in the playoffs!

Lemme tell ya, without a Dome, we'll have a BIG advantage over teams that play in domes, especially when passing teams play in rain and wind and shit!

Following this chronologically, Teej, I fully expected the Dallas game after the '91 season to be where I bolded.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find that game on You Tube.

But, I did find more evidence that not having a dome helps the home team! Fork approves of this message.

[Armchair_QB]

Is any other NFL team handicapped as much by having a style of football they're supposed to play?  There's the Bear weather thing, which I suppose ties in with the idea that "Bear football" means running the ball well.  I don't understand why a sports franchise with ever-changing personnel should have a locked-in style of play from year to year.

It's one thing if fans and announcers want to talk about it.  It's another if the team's head coach actually believes it.

"Playing Bear Football" is management codespeak for "We don't want to pay a lot for quarterback".