After what happened Sunday on and off the field there is absolutely, positively no doubt the Packer losing streak and its end was all about former Bears (and Saints) head coach Mike Ditka.
When the McDonald's commercials began airing the Packers were at 6-0 and for three weeks and two different versions, at least that's all I saw, the Packers lost games to Denver, Carolina and Detroit - yes the Lions of all teams and at Lambeau Field no less - while the Vikings won all three games during that span and it took a week (even Ditka can't pull off miracles) before the Bears won the next two games, so you all know it had to be because of demonic forces.
Evidently Da' Coach either didn't know what was happening, which is entirely possible, or he doesn't have any pull with McDonald's advertising agency to keep those commercials running for another five days in order to knock the Packers out of the playoffs and keep the Bears winning streak going.
However the football gods were on the Packers side Sunday when a new Ditka commericial was unveiled where he tore off his Packers vest to reveal a Bears vest underneath.
The effect was immediate this time. In a span of six hours and 45 minutes the Bizarro World the Packers, Bears and Vikings were living in for three weeks where the Packers and Aaron Rodgers sucked and the Bears and Jay Cutler and the Vikings were playoff caliber returned to the natural order of things and "The Curse" was over.
I like the world where superstition and rituals mean something. Where the "Pouring of the Beer", green underwear, the right t-shirt of jersey, clean clothes or the same clothes each week work. After being in a very pronounced funk tending seriously towards depression I'm feeling much better now.
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