WHAT IF CHICAGO NEVER EVER WON ANOTHER TITLE IN ANY SPORT

Would I be glad? Yessir.

I can't let it go. I just don't like the swagger. The uppityness. The superiority that its denizens think they have.

Maybe I got it from college days. Maybe from high school days when sports announcers would talk about the teams "coming down here (Champaign) to play." It was just an attitude thing even back then. Even back when the good southern Illinois coaches hadn't left the area for better paying jobs in the north.

The whole mind set of a people that think southern Illinois is Peoria or Springfield. To some anything south of I-90 is southern Illinois. And the best way to insult a people is to ignore them, to act as if they don't exist.

Maybe the way they'd trash Carbondale at SIU. Literally trash it.

Or just maybe it was the way they'd talk with their accents. When some of them start in, I want to offer them a kleenex to unclog their nasal passages.

See what the Super Bowl did to me. Oblivious to the game and undecided whom to root for, I was at the FBR Golf Tournament, but before I got back home, I knew it was the Colts just by the antics of the Bears fans at the golf tourney.

Oh well, I got my wish. But it's never as much fun rooting against some team as it is rooting for a team.