Greetings Bears Nation! Having recently joined the ranks of the veritable pundits that make up the world’s blogging community, I feel a sense of accomplishment that my opinions about the Bears organization will no longer be limited to the ears of drunkards staggering down North Clark at three in the morning on a Tuesday, infinitely more concerned with moaning about the crushing lakefront chill than with another round of “Good Rex vs. Bad Rex”.

And what a time to start! There’s nothing more exciting than the offseason – every team is back in the race, the slate is wiped clean, the baggage of last year has been left behind (well, except the emotional kind).  The question remains: Can the ’08 Bears enter the realm of teams that won a Super Bowl two years after losing one? Only three clubs have ever accomplished this feat – the ’70 Colts, ’73 Dolphins, and ’77 Cowboys – and, of course, those were all in an era when the term salary cap didn’t exist and dominant teams remained, well, dominant for longer periods of time. So was the run of ’06 a fluke? Or is this team ready to take back control of the perpetual mediocrity machine known as the NFC?

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