You can take your World Series and push it up your tush. The NFL delivers excitement similar to that of the high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat extra-inning baseball the Blue Jays and Dodgers gave us last week. To see the heroics of Shohei Ohtani or Yoshinobu Yamamoto or even Miguel Rojas, you have to stay up late or risk missing out something incredible (with Ray Ratto deservedly putting salt on your wound). But to see the heroics of Caleb Williams or Joe Flacco, you just need to have a free Sunday afternoon. The Bears and Bengals played a funny, fascinating, fantastic game. Next up: Dinner. Deep dish pizza, maybe.
Now let me yell at you: What were you possibly doing that you didn’t watch a Week 9 football game between two crap teams on a Sunday afternoon? It is no excuse that the game aired mostly in states that border the Great Lakes. The Bears’ 47-42 win over the Bengals was tremendous.
