Sunday, April 1, 2007

Fans Voice Support For the Hard Line


An excerpt from Chicago Tribune report on the Bears Fan Convention:

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General manager Jerry Angelo sat and smiled, awkwardly, alongside coach Lovie Smith and team President Ted Phillips. For an hour the triumvirate listened as the most repeated theme emerging from the highlight event of the 10th annual gathering of the faithful revolved around one idea: Don't blink in the Briggs stare down.

The momentum building at the microphone was like a home crowd trying to pump up its defense to make a stand on fourth-and-inches.

"I'm with everybody else—let him sit," Trish from Naperville said.

Another fan, who called Angelo's wife, Bernie, his best pick ever, urged the GM to "stand tight and dictate and not be dictated to."

To which Angelo replied, "How do you think my dictate?"

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