Lovie Smith: Are the Chicago Bears Head Coach Detractors Racist?

December 2, 2010   ·   Darrell Horwitz   ·   Jump to comments

I knew it was going to come to this. All over the airwaves in Chicago since the season started, fans were calling for Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith's head.
That's what happens when a team doesn't make the playoffs three years in a row. Coaches usually don't make it to the fourth year. But with Smith being owed over $10 million dollars for this season and 2011, Bears management decided to stage a charade that if things didn't change this year, heads would roll.
Fast forward 11 games into the 2010 season and the Chicago Bears are atop the NFC North Division and sitting pretty in the playoff hunt with a surprising 8-3 record.
You could say the team has been lucky. They have.
Everything has gone their way since the opening game against Detroit, when Calvin Johnson's touchdown catch that would have won the game for the Lions was ruled a non-catch because of a moronic NFL rule.
That changed everything. A loss there after a winless exhibition season and the vul...

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