Bears win. You wouldn't know it though. Every Sunday I end up watching Sportscenter or the NFL Network, looking for highlights from the games I didn't see and hoping to hear a mention of the Bears' consistency, competence, and, at times, flourishes of brilliance. They don't exist. At the start of every season, I hope that once Favre falls apart, once the Giants prove uninspiring, that national sports coverage will move on to winning teams, to more exciting prospects. That never happens. The stories are always about the same teams, but the story lines change. Oh well. This is not the subject of this blog post.

Detroit gets a pass on referring to the call as "controversial" because when you haven't won a divisional match up since 2007, you get to say things like that. Detroit is sort of like your depressed friend who gets a pass for a lot of bullshit because you are just happy he or she hasn't gone completely nuts and, well, you hope they're working through things. Detroit gets to say a lot of mean things because we know they don't mean it, times have just been tough. Everyone else is full of it.