April 1, 2015: Fooled You

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Have you been fooled?  How many times?  What was the biggest joke?  We’ve all been there.  We’ve all been tricked into believing something, and then felt stupid when it didn’t happen, like when one of my buddies told me on April 1st that my garage was on fire while I was at work.  What are friends for?  Or when my wife told me this morning that the Final Four was moved out of Indianapolis.  Good one.  Today, I’m going to talk about some other times when I’ve been duped, specifically when it comes to my teams.

First one that comes to mind is when the Bears signed Jay Cutler.  If you were to ask my buddy in LA, which is where I was living when the news broke, he’ll tell you I was bouncing off the walls.  I was sooo happy.  We finally have an NFL QB.  We finally have a franchise QB, someone who will lead us to the promised land.  I started texting and calling my family & friends back home; this was a GREAT day.  Now I feel like I was on Candid Camera… sucka!!!!

Maybe the reason this is the first one that comes to mind is because IT’S STILL GOING ON!!!  We’ve all been suckered, and some of us Bears fans, continue to look stupid.  We blame the coaches.  We blame the offensive line.  We blame the defense.  We blame the receivers.  HELLO!?!?!  Sure you can’t pin everything on #6, but he sure is in the middle of it all.  The coach killer as he is affectionately known gets some fresh blood this year.  I’d like to think this new coaching staff can get the most out of him… get something out of him that will not make this a total failure.  First off, the only thing that will not make this whole Cutler thing a bust is winning a Super Bowl… and when I start thinking about him possibly leading us to a Super Bowl, I start feeling like an idiot again; I have to slap myself.  I see that cartoon, where the character has just done something stupid, and the picture of a donkey appears.  Not me… not again.  I believed it one time, but not again.  I refuse to believe in Cutler any longer.  I’m going to let anything, ANYTHING positive he can do from this point forward be a surprise.  My expectations are zero.

Heck, last year’s entire Bears season was one big trick.  To think, to think that they might be a Super Bowl contender was the dumbest thing.  They made asses out of all of us.  They’ve done it before.  That wasn’t the first time, and it defintely won’t be the last.  Like their last Super Bowl appearance…  Devin Hester returning the opening kick to the house.  We were going nuts.  Beer spilling everywhere.  Screaming stuff at the TV.  This game is ours…. screw the Colts… and so on and so on.  At that moment, you could not have convinced me that the Bears would lose that game.  It was destiny.  Yep, a few hours later, sitting in a drunken stupor, acting like my dog had just got run over, I had that feeling again… 
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Why do we open ourselves up for this stuff?  It’s because we’re true fans.  We’re not afraid of getting fooled, tricked, or hurt.  We don’t ask questions, we just root for our teams.  So yeah, it’s gonna happen.  And no, I’m not that guy who’ll sit there at the end of the game and say, yeah, I knew they would lose.  NO.  I wanted them to win.  They had a chance to win.  I rooted for them as hard as I could.  And now, it hurts; it hurts when your team loses the big game.  I’m not going to lie or sugar coat it.  It really, really sucks. 

I’m not even going to dig into the worst hurt of all time, the biggest trick, the biggest “fooled you” moment.  That night, when we were pouring celebratory shots, ready to watch the Cubs finish off the Marlins.  No, I don’t have time for that one… not now…. not ever.  Some may say being a Cubs fan is the biggest sucker move of all.  Easy for them to say.  There’s no choice in that regards.  I’m a Cubs fan win or lose… and yeah, it’s been all lose so far.  Yet…. here I am, getting excited for another Cubs season… thinking, it’s going to happen.  If not this year, in the next couple years…. I’m going to see it in my lifetime.  There actually IS reason to believe that with this Cubs team… I hope I won’t see that donkey again…

It doesn’t matter though, does it?  I’m going to support my teams through it all… no matter how many times they’ve fooled me, they’ve tricked me, they’ve hurt me.  This is what we do.  This is the definition of a die hard.  Today, on this April 1st, don’t be afraid to get fooled.  Don’t be afraid to go ALL IN for your teams.  It’s the only way to go…

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