HAPPY NEW YEAR! We here at TheAverageChicagoan.com decided to wrap up our first full inaugural year on the net by awarding a few Chicagoans with recognition for their accomplishments in 2009. These awards go only to Chicagoans and individuals representing Chicago. We realize that we could create an endless amount of awards for an endless [...]
Chicago Bears Week In Review: Vikings @ Bears
What I Predicted: Week 16: vs. Minnesota (Monday Night Football) AP and the Vikings get their revenge late in the season in a meaningful game in Chicago as Favre plays well enough to win and AP dominates as usual. Vikings take it 28 to 24. What Happened: Bears 36, Vikings 30 This magical Monday night [...]
10 Random Rants (Vol.6)
1. Enough with the character bashing of Tiger Woods people! He’s a wealthy, powerful, good-looking, successful male athlete. What do you expect? I guess it has always been human nature to lash out at others for displaying the traits we most hate in ourselves. 2. So the Cubs finally got rid of troublesome and underperforming [...]
Bears Fans Turn On Team, Eachother
CHICAGO – When a Chicago Bears fan requested chamomile tea at a Soldier Field concession stand, three other Bears fans slugged and kicked him in front of dozens of people. Security arrived ten minutes later. Gabe Andrews, a 28-year-old Borders manager and tea enthusiast from Skokie, briefly talked about his bashing. He said the three [...]
Hendry’s Focus For 2010, Fixing Bad Moves Of 2009
The GM with the hottest seat around baseball is quite possibly Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry. Many die-hard Cub fans grow more and more impatient with Hendry’s lack of forward progress this offseason. While great potential future Cubs–Chone Figgens and Curtis Granderson–found new homes, Cubs fans feared the worst. Jim Hendry confirmed it himself at [...]
Chicago Bears Week in Review: Packers @ Bears
It’s the same old song and dance, start slow, gain just enough momentum to become mediocre and then crumble under pressure. This recipe for disaster has plagued the Bears in at least half their games in 2009 which makes you wonder, is Lovie Smith properly getting his team ready to compete every Sunday? When Green [...]
The Chicago Haters Ball (All-around list)
Chicago is the third most populous metropolis (2.85 million) within the United States and the city’s natives don’t always cohabit in peace. No one can ever really agree due to the size of our city, but a few things the town can concur on are what’s good and bad in, & for, Chicago. We here [...]
Chicago Bears Week In Review: Rams @ Bears
What I Predicted: Week 13: vs. St. Louis (FOX) Forte dominated the Rams last year in St Louis and it wont be any different this season. Pace gets revenge and the bears roll 41 to 16. What Happened: Bears 17, Rams 9 Well this was obviously the least attractive game of week 12 on paper [...]