Ruben Brown wanted his teammates to know one thing: they were going to Space Mountain.
Brown arrived in Chicago as a free agent in 2004 and quickly endeared himself to his teammates through his work ethic, unselfishness, commitment to team success, and his resume as an eight-time Pro Bowler. They were ready for that.
What they might not have been ready for was the man with the stretch line war cry who declared Space Mountain as the team’s ultimate goal.
“Every time we broke our huddle down, we broke it down with the mantra ‘Space Mountain,’” Jason McKie told me.