For a second there it felt like we would never catch Reggie Bush. I mean ever. I mean, felt as if the Saints had cracked the seal and the offense that sportswriters couldn’t stop slobbering over was awake and forever running. Points would flow. Our defense would whither. We were 13-3 and we couldn’t win.
Few had picked us to. Adewale Ogunleye kept a list in his locker of media analysts that picked the Bears to lose. In Chicago, six of 16 writers in the Tribune and Sun-Times did too.