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From: ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Pro Bowl gripe/Superbowl predic
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 15:43:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 15:43:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!ekblaw    Jan  6 14:43:00 1986


Bad hit?  What bad hit?

I've heard the news that the NFL fined the guy who hit the QB (I don't 
remember which player), but I also saw the play that day, and in replay this
weekend.  Bad hit?  Somebody has bad eyesight!  The defensive player on the
Bears team was going for the Lions' QB very well.  As he approached, the QB
started to duck, so the Bear ducked to make sure he got him.  Then, right
after thhe pass and right before the Bear got there (there wasn't enough time
for the Bear to get out of the way at the speed he was travelling, so all the
cries of "Late hit!" I hear from people are nonsense), the QB rose up.  The
only unfortunate thing is that the Bear player didn't have time to rise up
himself, so the hit was made low and with the shoulder & head instead of the
arms.  However, if the Bear was really out to hurt him, as some people claim,
he could have landed on him, like the Raiders, Jets, COWBOYS, and many other
teams do.  No, he avoided doing the damage that falling on a player will cause.

In all, I don't find anything wrong with the hit, and I think the fine was
wrong.  The play was just one of those unfortunate things that can happen in
a ball game (like Theismann's unfortunate injury earlier in the season).
The only time I remember the Bears eally out to beat up a team was when they
faced the Raiders two seasons ago.  Other than that, the Bears have been cool.

Robert A. Ekblaw

P.S.  I don't share your sentiments about the "Super Bowl Shuffle."  Alright,
I'll admit that the guys can't sing, but they admit it, too.  They even say in
the song that they are rapping, not singing.  Too, what they arre doing is
a shuffle, which is a type of dance step.  NOWHERE do they say that they are
singing.  Too criticize them for bad sound is ridiculous.  Too, the purpose
of the record is to use the BEARMANIA sweeping Chicago and the state of
Illinois for some good.  The proceeds of the record go to feed needy families
in Chicago.  I don't know of any other that team that uses success and a
fanatic craze to other people's benefit, not their own.  

RAE