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lawguy
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Here I am in Merrillville, Indiana (office). For those of you outside the area...most all of you, I can be at Soldier Field in Chicago by going west and a little north in about 40-45 minutes...even with dicey traffic.
If I head south and a little east, in 2 1/2 hours I will be outside the RCA Dome in our state capital, a beatiful mid-sized city I am in 15 to 20 times a year. My firm (of which I am now a partner as of Jan. 1) has an office there.
So, around here, the upcoming Superbowl (or "Big Game" if you didn't pay the licensing fee- listen to the commercials, but I digress) is a big, big deal. In fact, there is a bit of split loyalty.
In my area, which nestles up to Chicago and is considered part of "Chicagoland", the Bears are the overwhelmingly preferred "home team" However, you don't have to go too far south before it turns from navy and orange to blue and white.
The next couple weeks are going to fun!
Me? Well, I've the original '85 "Superbowl Shuffle" on my iPod if that tells you anything. I've been a Bears fan since the Colts were in Baltimore. I did not grow up here (southwest Michigan, 100 miles from Chicago), but we always got the Bears games, So by a year or two before the '85-'86 season, I was all Bears.
My Mom, on the other hand, is all Colts...and still lives in Michigan. It only goes back about 3 years. We had a family fantasy football league that was started then and Mom had Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison the first year, watched all their games, and became a big fan.
She and I will likely institute a just-for-fun contest with the winner determined in reference to the outcome of the "Big Game." Some would call it a wager. As a fundamental-type...and lawyer...I prefer to call it something else.
Like I said, this is going to be fun. I've waited 21 years.
If I head south and a little east, in 2 1/2 hours I will be outside the RCA Dome in our state capital, a beatiful mid-sized city I am in 15 to 20 times a year. My firm (of which I am now a partner as of Jan. 1) has an office there.
So, around here, the upcoming Superbowl (or "Big Game" if you didn't pay the licensing fee- listen to the commercials, but I digress) is a big, big deal. In fact, there is a bit of split loyalty.
In my area, which nestles up to Chicago and is considered part of "Chicagoland", the Bears are the overwhelmingly preferred "home team" However, you don't have to go too far south before it turns from navy and orange to blue and white.
The next couple weeks are going to fun!
Me? Well, I've the original '85 "Superbowl Shuffle" on my iPod if that tells you anything. I've been a Bears fan since the Colts were in Baltimore. I did not grow up here (southwest Michigan, 100 miles from Chicago), but we always got the Bears games, So by a year or two before the '85-'86 season, I was all Bears.
My Mom, on the other hand, is all Colts...and still lives in Michigan. It only goes back about 3 years. We had a family fantasy football league that was started then and Mom had Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison the first year, watched all their games, and became a big fan.
She and I will likely institute a just-for-fun contest with the winner determined in reference to the outcome of the "Big Game." Some would call it a wager. As a fundamental-type...and lawyer...I prefer to call it something else.
Like I said, this is going to be fun. I've waited 21 years.
