Monday Night

© Chicago Tribune

Ah, Da Bears are here to conquer. What a better way to show it by astounding the Arizona Cardinals in a dramatic comeback on Monday night. Nope, I wasn't really watching the game -- merely channel surfing during commercial breaks of Heroes, the new NBC show with similar premise as the X-Men but with characters having all normal human faces and only a handful of real normal people being aware of their existence. On one of those channel flips right after Hiro stopped time to let Ando win his bet on #26 in the roulette wheel, QB Rex Grossman fumbled and the Bears were behind by 14 early in the game. I thought, geez, and there's all this hoopla that the only question remaining about a Bears' repeat of 1986 is whether they would go defeatless.

But back to Heroes. So I remained awed at Heroes' storyline. Perhaps Clair's adoptive dad is in cahoots with Sylar, the loose killer who has superpowers (not exactly power to control another person's mind, but close)? And what's with the cop who could read minds? Is this a harbinger that he can eventually control minds? My favorites are the brothers Petrelli -- both with the gift of flight (hmmm, so the flying gene is perhaps X-linked? Maybe their mother is carrying the recessive gene!). I can't decide who I like better -- Nathan (the older one who's gorgeous, ambitious and -- ugh! -- a politician) or Peter (the one with the boyish charm, sentimental and reflective). After the show, I turned off the TV, as I had to complete reviewing the parasite images in the CDC website in preparation for my boards.

Later that night, imagine my astonishment when I turned to ESPN to see that the Bears won! Wow. Perhaps I can be a football fan. Tailgating seems like a fun thing to do.

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A vantage point from the Sear's Tower viewing deck: Da Bears home stadium, Soldier Field. Taken Spring 2006 when I finally made it there with friend Gerry in town.