Patriots Game Day - the good, the bad and the ugly

The Good - Gillette stadium is really nice.  It is easy to get in,  People are friendly.  Signage is very good.  Parking is excellent.  There is plenty of seating in the club (something the United Club could take note of).  The seats are very comfortable and the sight lines are very good.  Food choices are very good and the quality is excellent.  They could use a better method to get people out of the parking lots.  Traffic was very bad getting to the highways. 

The Bad - ok this is hard - It is either the Bears Offense or the Bears Defense.  As the other one is the Ugly maybe it doesn't matter which one is which.  So we will call the Offense Ugly.  So the bad is the Defense.

The Ugly - the Offense

As bad as the game looked on the TV it was worse in person.  You could only see the person who caught the passes for the Patriots, not the 2 or 3 other people who were open on almost every play.   The fans there were very considerate and didn't really taunt us or even go out of their way to rub it in.  They even went so far as to apologize for how we must be feeling.  OK THAT SUCKED!!!!

Near as I can tell the Bears are playing for a good draft pick.  We could use a great safety.  Or a cornerback.  Or a defensive lineman who can get to the quarterback.   Or a new defensive coordinator - can you draft one of them.  Or maybe a special teams coach that does not use the excuse that the players he has to work with change every week to justify abysmal performance week after week.

This game had the distinction of being the first time I seriously considered leaving at half time of a game.  I have never before left before the end of the game no matter how bad it was.  This game almost broke that streak.  It was that miserable.

There were fewer Bears fans at this game than any one so far this year.  And even given that the staff Gillette stadium commented on how many Bears fans there were there.  Apparently the Patriot fans are hard core and almost always use their own tickets.  They also stayed through most of the game.  At the end of the third quarter, with the blowout happening, rain starting to come down and it getting cold the stands were still about 70-80% full.  At the end of the game they still were over 1/2 full.  Definitely hard core.  Needless to say almost none of the Bears fans left before the end of the game.  It is just how we roll.

On to other topics.  I will be doing a more detailed review of all the restaurants we went to this season in a summary post over the next few days.  It will give you something to tide you over during the bye week.

I close with GO Bears - I am just not sure where I want to tell them to go at this point.