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Marvel Comics Finally Puts Soldier Field Out of Its Misery

Dec 18, 2009 – 11:00 AM
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What hell hath Jay Cutler wrought on the Windy City? Instead of doing for the Bears what Kyle Orton couldn't, the team is as unremarkable as ever. Except now they're paying their quarterback tens of millions of dollars.

Worse: some Bears-loving super villains have blown up Soldier Field, presumably because unlike their law-abiding brethren, they weren't just going to sit idly through another unfulfilling season. But as villains are wont to do, they're blaming the good guys.
"My first choice was to blow up Wrigley Field," says Brian Michael Bendis, writer of the four-issue Marvel Comics series Seige. "[Marvel Comics Editor in Chief] Joe Quesada is so in love with baseball, he couldn't imagine blowing it up." ...

"I'm not the biggest sports guy and I meant no disrespect to sports fans, but we needed something so horrendous to happen for them to be united again," he says. "Hopefully, this will ring in a new day for Marvel readers."


Bringing back Rex Grossman would have been more horrendous, I'd think. Which explains this comment from Bendis: "I heard from numerous Chicago fans who told me they were glad I put the team out of its misery."
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