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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Bears by 8 1/2????? HA
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 18:45:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 18:45:06 1986
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In article <1083@homxb.UUCP> 4342bob@homxb.UUCP (R.DEMARCO) writes:
>I just noticed in the paper that the Bears are
>favored by 8 1/2 points over the Giants in 
>Sundays game.  No Way!  Someones gonna lose a lot 
>of money this weekend on that one.

If the giants are as good as the bears on defense (not so in my opinion,
but for argument's sake...) the difference will come down to the field
goal kickers, and the Bears have one of the best (this year, all year),
and the giants have one of the worst (isn't he a 5th stringer???
humor...) and he didn't do to well against the 49ers.  Maybe the
Bears will win 9-0.

I personally don't think the giants will do very well in Chicago on
Sunday, but only time will tell.  I know that "on any given Sunday..."
BUT the Bears wiped the field with Dallas (in Dallas), partially
because of emotion (Ditka coached there 9 years), and DALLAS BEAT
the GIANTS TWICE this year, didn't they?

I doubt that Mike Ditka's team will not be ready for any playoff game
this year (even though they might lose).  It just isn't Ditka's style.

BTW, in today's San Francisco Chronicle (or was it the San Jose Mercury
News), a story on the Bears harped on the fact that the Bears are not only
the best team in football (certainly the team to beat, at least), but they
are the youngest (avg. age 25.2 years).  The Bears have had 9 first round
picks in the last 9 years, and 8 of them are starters.

No team in the NFC should be able to beat the Bears, but I am afraid that
the oakLAnd Raiders might be an AFC team that can beat the Bears at their
own game - brutality.  I would be extremely surprised if Miami could
beat the Bears at a neutral site, especially in a game that the Bears
really want to win (want to win as much as the Dolphins do).  If the
Dolphins had already sewn up their playoff position, like the Bears
did, at the time they played, I think the Bears would have won big.  I think
the Bears wanted to stay undefeated, but Miami wanted to make the playoffs
A WHOLE LOT MORE.

Go Bears!!!!

(The opinions in this article are just that - my opinions).

/mykes