Bears Get Their Wings, Rams Get Chicago- Bull

Well here's a shocker. Bears beat the Rams 42-27.

That's not the only shock of the night. The first one came very early at the Edward Jones Dome; on the first play of the game to be exact. It was the sound of ... was it crowd noise? It was, but it was the Bear fans making all the noise. That's no shocker, that's a shame.

Soldier Field is a 300-and-something mile drive from St. Louis and one that the good people of Chicago faith happily made tonight to cheer their Bears on to secure a first round bye in the playoffs and to cheer Rex Grossman up and over the hump of his mini-crisis. God works in mysterious ways to most, but to us, who know our football team we could see the cure coming a mile away. Just ask Edgerrin James, who by the way had his second hundred-yard-plus game yesterday after visiting the Ed.

The Rams tried, they did. But you, I , and everyone else in the country knew far too well what the result would be when the final gun went off. But this Rams team of underachievers put on quite a show - albeit for one half.

There is obviously much work to be done in St. Louis this off-season.

En route to boosting themselves into the best possible position for a playoff run, the Bears stomped the already teetering Rams fingers off the last branch of hope they desperately clung to for some sort of a playoff berth. Though those aspirations were as realistic as the chances of momma's sure-fire lottery numbers, at least they were still there and just like momma and Dr. Martin Luther King, we in Ram-Nation still had a dream. But morning has come and the light of day has revealed undeniable reality that there will surely be no dream this year, but rather extra time to build up optimism for next year.

Congratulations are in order for another step for the historically beleageured Bears organization toward the promised-land, as well as St. Louis' own hero Lovie Smith for doing it his way in Chicago and coming though shining just the way all of us knew he would way back when he first took that job.

As for the Rams, well we alot to look forward to next year.

At least we, like the rest of the Ram-faithful have a few games left to just enjoy seeing our heroes play without any distractions like playoff pressure. That sounds pathetic, I realize, but when you are a true fan as I am, just getting to enjoy another week is still a small measure of decadence.

Go Rams!