Bears Bust-y, yet Unattractive

Bears fans, starving for another Super Bowl Championship, got a teaser last season by their team bustling all the way to the Super Bowl for only the second time in their illustrious history. Rex Grossman, the starting Quarterback during that run has become the physical embodiment of the roller coaster ride that Bears fans have experienced over the course of the past few seasons. I cannot recall another player in the NFL whose fans question so lustily whether the team was victorious because of or despite his performance.

Grossman, a former first-rounder out of Florida, was pre-ordained the star Quarterback of the future by Chicago Management. Injuries plagued his opening act. His second- act, though not completely written, has featured a strange and turbulent enigmatic journey.

In Chicago, he has been called "Good Rex", "Bad Rex", "Potential Rex" and I would add even "T-Rex", as his future with the Bears has looked at times like that of a species headed for extinction. Just when you think he is finished however, he entertains fans with another glimpse of what was originally promised. An injury to Brian Griese allowed Grossman back into the starting lineup recently, where he once again is displaying a modicum of talent albeit inconsistent.

Bears fans have a propensity to be overly enthusiastic when the final outcome goes their way, failing to see the bigger picture which bears cracks all about Solder Field. Part of the fans' disappointment in Grossman is based more on the illusion of Grossman's potential greatness than anything else. The team when successful has relied on a Super Bowl caliber Defense and Special Teams to carry the load, while the Offense has been like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates ("You never know what your gonna' get").

The moments when the offense has let the team down it has been with such force as to bury them. Turnover-laden games that have been turned on the dime of Grossman's ineffectiveness and shoddy team play calling. More often than not the element that has led to that downfall has been the poor decision-making and bad Generalship of Grossman.