After the Monday night game, they were saying in the Windy City the owners of the Bears have humiliated them twice.
Cited first is the made-over stadium. Though comfortable to sit in, new Soldier Field has prompted passersby to call it a spaceship on stilts wedged onto old Soldier Field.
Worse are the Bears. The team is a product, Chicago sports fans say, of club owners who don’t under-stand football, of coaches who don’t understand modern football and of players who can’t play it.
Green Bay won 38-23 the modern way, integrating a passer, Brett Favre, with a runner, Ahman Green, on a long series of clever West Coast plays.
The old-fashioned home team scored a few mean-ingless points in the second half. But the Bears are 0-3 now and, for the last two years, 4-15, numbers suggesting that neither their owners nor coaches nor most of their players have a clue.
