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January 11, 2007
It's the most awful time of the year
It never ends! Mayor Daley and his Seattle counterpart have made another asinine wager over the outcome of the Bears/Seahawks playoff game on Sunday.
Mayor Daley put pork chops from Ditka’s Restaurant and a smorgasbord of other Chicago culinary delights on the line today in a bet with Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels that the Bears will beat the Seahawks in Sunday’s NFC semi-final at Soldier Field.
Daley is so confident about a Bears team that’s been dissed by the national media that he firmly predicted that the team would return to the Super Bowl for the first time in 21 years.
Forget about the injuries that have sidelined defensive stalwarts Tommie Harris and Mike Brown. Chill out about quarterback Rex Grossman’s zero passer rating against Green Bay.
Daley says the Bears are headed for Miami.
Strangely enough, I wrote about this exact same thing exactly a year ago. Mayor, I'm BEGGING you. Get a new shtick. I'm sick of it! Isn't there something they can bet other than food? For example, if Chicago wins, Seattle has to give us Microsoft. And if Seattle wins, we have to send back Boeing. Or something.
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Posted by oz115 at January 11, 2007 10:33 PM
Comments
I agree that these "mayor bets" are pointless and have long since lost any attraction they once had. But it did give me a good laugh: when Channel 7 News ran their obligatory story last night on the wager, they got in a rude little jab at Jerry Taft, the increasingly portly weatherman. After showing the chops, pizza, Italian beef etc. that Daley is offering up, when the camera came back to the live studio shot, Ron Magers said "Looks like Jerry's dinner!"
Ouch.
Posted by: Pete at January 12, 2007 09:41 AM