Zooey wrote:

Oak is the best common firewood in these parts. Oak is omnipresent. We have a lot of pine in the area – it’s often available for free in rounds just off”…

Non-hierarchical List of good things:
1 Rams
2 Oaks
3 Old sailing ships
4 dogs
5 crows

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“The end result is that each jay plants somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,360 oak trees every year of its seven-to 17-year life span! It’s no wonder that jays have enabled oaks to move about the earth faster than any other tree species.”

Douglas W. Tallamy, The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

zn wrote:

I think all things being even the Rams beat the Bears, they’re the better team, but…the cold will be a factor.

The weather does get ‘exacerbated’

Zooey wrote:

Okay, but what ya’ll are skipping over is that it hasn’t been very cold in Chicago yet. Nobody in Chicago has had to knock ice crystals out of their beards since sometime in early 2025. So they’re maybe acclimatized to some highs in the 40s – which is cooler than the 60s or 70s, whatever it is in LA right now – but the first “frozen beard” day is this coming Saturday.

They aren’t acclimated either.

Well, all I know is, they wouldnt have this problem if the Rams had stayed
in Cleveland.

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InvaderRam wrote:

a lot of rams influencers/pundits are getting really defensive about the weather factor. i don’t understand why. it’s a factor. the rams play in la which has really mild weather. bears players play in these conditions. it’s an advantage. hopefully, the rams can overcome it.

All the ex-players ive seen talk about it, have said its a big factor. Tom Brady for one, talked about getting ‘softer’ when he was in Tampa Bay.

Its an advantage for Chicago. Just like it was for Philly last year. Doesnt mean the Rams cant win, but I’m still surprised at the point spread. Though it has come down from 4.5 to 3.5 I’ve heard.

I hope Matt Lefleur is helping McVay with some insight on the Bears.

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“HC Ben Johnson has been making the Bears practice without heaters this season, according to S Kevin Byard.”

Shades of Bud Grant.

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Brady.

Greg Cosell

Mina and Barnwell

Orlovsky

Zooey wrote:

wv wrote:

zooey is too yoko

St. Louis is May Pang.

i had to look that up

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May Fung Yee Pang is an American former music executive. She worked for John Lennon and Yoko Ono as a personal assistant and production coordinator. When Lennon and Ono separated in 1973, Pang and Lennon began a relationship that lasted more than 18 months. Lennon later referred to this time as his “Lost Weekend”. Wikipedia

zn wrote:

True. While McVay is too heavy riff-based.

Vermeil was too Neil Diamond.

See? We’re revolutionizing coach assessment.

zooey is too yoko

I see a lot of internet-celebrity-influencer-analyst-artificial-talking-heads predicting a high-scoring game between the Bears and Rams. I dont see that but I’m no expert.

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zn wrote:

Cam Cameron went 1-15 and was fired after a year.

Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, they were immediately impressed by Tomlin.

One good indicator of Tomlin’s caliber as a coach is the number of players who left Pittsburgh and became problems elsewhere, but were never problems with the Steelers, along with the number of players who were problems before Pittsburgh but stopped being that the minute they signed with the Steelers.

Spags was too Gospel.

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Saw this on Bomani Jones vid. I had never heard this.

Back in 2006 or so, the Dolphins interviewed Mike Tomlin for their head-coaching job. Nick Saben had just left that job.

“Internal discussions revealed a committee member’s comment that Tomlin was “too hip-hop,” which reportedly played a role in choosing Cameron.”

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