[NU Sports] Cofield

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Chicago (and all the surrounding countryside) is always going to be Bears country.  Every football fan I know has been raised on the Bears since we were able to comprehend football.  I got to know college football in my high school years, and made several trips to Dyche Stadium, but everyone I grew up with was a Bears fan first, and everything else (even Sox/Cubs) second.
 
If either Chicago sports talk station, or any of the three major papers DIDN'T devote 80-90% of their coverage to the Bears, they'd lose listeners, readers and ad revenue.
 
They just mentioned on ESPN AM-1000 that last night's Bears-Giants game did a 52 share in Chicago - 52% of all sets were tuned to it.  It would be hard to justify much NU football talk, based on Saturday's crowd.  I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but from Box 230 on the West side, it looked like maybe 5000 purple fans and 40,000 scarlet-clad fans.  I don't recall being outnumbered that badly since the bad old days - when Mike White and Illinois got their Rose Bowl bid in 1983 by beating us 56-24, and, as I recall, the Illini fans tore down the goalposts.
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: mlinhardt at netzero.net
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Cc: Maureen.Linhardt at plexus.com
Sent: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Cofield


Maureen did the women's football clinic last year(2005) where he was 
one of the "coaches".  Under normal circumstances she said Cofield 
sounds more like Barry White.

How can one cheer for the bears?  The bears get 50%+ of all local 
newspaper sports coverage and 90%+ of all sports radio coverage.  I 
drove down to Florida and it was refreshing to hear college talk from 
the stations in Nashville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Destin.  In 
Chicago I can't listen to sports radio, because they refuse to even 
talk about the rest of the NFL, much less college football.

Sorry about the rant, but I yearn for a more national perspective from 
Chicago's sports coverage.
-- "Jeff Beamsley" <jeffb at hilgraeve.com> wrote:
Nice to hear Barry mention Northwestern during his self-introduction.

Don't know that I've ever heard him speak before, but in that short 10
second introduction he sounded very dangerous and angry.  <G>

The commentators seem impressed with his maturity mentioning several 
times that he was playing like a veteran rather than a rookie.

Also nice that the Bears continue to figure out how to win even when 
they take the first half of the game off.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] 
On
Behalf Of Evan Bradley
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:43 AM
To: 'nwu-sports at tssi.com' Sports List
Subject: [NU Sports] Cofield

I saw Cofield make a nice TFL against the Bears last night, but then 
the
commentator incorrectly said he was drafted out of Texas (it wasn't 
Madden
who said it, and I can't remember who was doing the play-by-play).

I think I'm becoming some kind of sportscaster watchdog...

Evan

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