Queueing up for a flight through Chicago recently, I stood behind three well dressed Bear fans. It was a rather long queue – about 30 minutes. The fans reveled in last Sunday’s shutout and hatched plans to obtain tickets, flights and lodging for February 4, 2007 in Miami – site of the 2007 Super Bowl.

Hubris.

Perhaps premature….. They also mentioned that the Bears were the last team to shut out the Packers in 1991….

For many, Sundays are now wide open. One wonders if the Pack will fall to the depths of the Bart Starr and Forrest Gregg era?