[NU Sports] Cofield

[Jim Bendat]

In Los Angeles, there's good news and bad news.  The good news is that, 
because we have no NFL team, college football is king.  The bad news is 
that $C happens to be the king.

cherron604 at aol.com wrote:
> 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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