In the NFL, there’s this thing called “The Rooney Rule.” It refers to a rule that stipulates every team looking to hire a head coach must at least interview one minority for the job. (You know, not to patronize them or anything.)

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that many NFL teams simply conduct “token” interviews in order to comply with the Rooney Rule – which, oddly enough, is named after a white guy. Just recently, the Washington Redskins and the Seattle Seahawks hired two big-name coaches who happen to be white – one of whom was a highly prized college coach, Pete Carroll of USC.

Rush Limbaugh and partner(s) are trying to buy the St. Louis Rams, so of course a lot of liberals are angry that Limbaugh’s on a crusade to bring back slavery. After all, if you’ve never listened to The Rush Limbaugh Show, you can assume all sorts of things about him that aren’t true.

I’m a Chicago Bears fan, which means that I’ve hated the Green Bay Packers for a long, long time. I remember rooting against them in Superbowl XXXII (Thank you, John Elway and company!), I remember when Walter Payton’s ghost helped the Bears block a potential Packer field goal on November 7th, 1999, and I know beyond a doubt that the NFL’s All-Time Interception Leader is my least-favorite NFL player. But since my hatred for the Packers is stronger than my dislike for any one person, I’m faced with …

Oh, what a time to be a Bears fan.
Not only do we have a Pro Bowl quarterback now, but the NFL’s All-Time Interception Leader is joining the Minnesota Vikings, sticking it to Packer fans who treated him like a hero for more than a decade and got repaid with what is essentially a “Bleep you, Packers.”
Packer fans are now quick to dismiss the Bears as their second most-hated team behind the Vikings.  So what?  That just makes the NFL’s All-Time Interception Leader’s decision to join Minnesota a bigger slap in …

As a loyal Bears fan for over a good decade, I can remember a few certain highlights:

Bryan Robinson blocking a field goal attempt by the Green Bay Packers after Walter Payton died (The Ghost of Walter Payton Game)
Devin Hester returning the opening kickoff of Superbowl XLI for a touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts
The “The Bears Are What We Thought They Were!” game in Arizona in the 2006 season
The endless highlight reel that was the flukey 2001 season, including:
A 350-odd pound Keith Traylor returning an interception and trying to find someone …

Travis Henry is the NFL star who became infamous rather than famous for having nine children with nine different mothers, which is kind of like being the Octo-mom of the NFL.
At 30 now (a relatively old age for NFL running backs), he now has to pay some $170,000 a year in child support.  Yeesh.  “I’ve lost everything in this mess I’ve gotten myself into,” said Henry.  Hey, at least he admits he got himself into it.
This is exactly the kind of thing they warn you about at the NFL Rookie …

With the NFL regular season over (and the Bears out of the playoffs at 9-7), I have a little extra time to reflect on why I think football is so great to begin with.  I could have called this post “10 Reasons to Become an NFL Fan,” but I realized that my second favorite sport is college football.  So here are 10 reasons to become a football fan.
1.  Join the monkey tribe.
Watching sports is like an outlet for our inner caveman tendencies, and the aggressiveness and violence of football makes …

Here is Mike Singletary. Hall of Fame Chicago Bear. Dominant Monster of the Midway. 10-time Pro Bowler. Superbowl Champion. New head coach of the 49ers.
And this is what leadership looks like.

Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young is not having a good season.  In the first game, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he was booed by the hometown crowd for throwing his second interception.
Nothing too unusual about that, except the fact that these boo birds apparently sent Young into a tailspin;  he looked so depressed about it even Jaguars players started trying to console him.
Then:
On Monday, September 9, 2008, a distraught Vince Young left his home without his cell phone. After speaking to members of Young’s family, [Titans Coach Jeff] Fisher called Nashville …

The NFL’s Career Interception Leader loves the Packers and its fans so much that he messed with their off-season, wasn’t in the right “mindset” to be a Packer, and requested to be traded to a team within the division so that he could play them twice a year.
Now he’s a New York Jet.
To all of the Packers fans whose Favre-blindedness is starting to clear: now you see what Bears fans have been seeing all along:

Celebrating like a monkey every TD pass, getting the cameras off the wide receiver and …