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	<title>Bear Down: Chicago Bears Podcast &#187; Blog</title>
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		<title>Ben from New Mexico poses a question&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bear Down Podcast,
Love the podcast.  Keep up the good work.  I hope you guys keep the momentum going for the 2010 season.
Here&#8217;s my question:  Which Bears player do you think would win a hotdog eating contest?
I&#8217;m going for a shocker.  I think Johnny Knox wins this thing outright.  His speed and quickness give him [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Bear Down Podcast,</p>
<p>Love the podcast.  Keep up the good work.  I hope you guys keep the momentum going for the 2010 season.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my question:  Which Bears player do you think would win a hotdog eating contest?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going for a shocker.  I think Johnny Knox wins this thing outright.  His speed and quickness give him the advantage over the guys with bigger frames.  Plus he seems like a smart guy who would research eating techniques before the big day.</p>
<p>Go Bears.</p>
<p>-Ben from New Mexico</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>We asked our Facebook Fans which Bear would win in a hot dog eating contest&#8230; </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>the results</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-166 aligncenter" title="hotdogcontest" src="http://www.beardownpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hotdogcontest.jpg" alt="hotdogcontest" width="365" height="383" /></p>
<p>-</p>
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		<title>A letter from a &#8220;&#8216;non-fan&#8217; fan&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.beardownpodcast.com/blog/a-letter-from-a-non-fan-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul from the UK corrects our grammar:
Hi. I really enjoy the podcast even though I&#8217;m 5k miles away in the UK and don&#8217;t follow the Bears or the NFL. I do watch the superbowl if I remember It&#8217;s on and can stay awake till 4am.
Aaaanyway, just wanted to kindly point out a gramatical mistake on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Paul from the UK corrects our grammar:</p>
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Hi. I really enjoy the podcast even though I&#8217;m 5k miles away in the UK and don&#8217;t follow the Bears or the NFL. I do watch the superbowl if I remember It&#8217;s on and can stay awake till 4am.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Aaaanyway, just wanted to kindly point out a gramatical mistake on your Meet The Crew page. It should be their, not there.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Much love!</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Paul</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He writes again saying:</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<div>Hi again</div>
<div></div>
<div>Since you found my previous email to be so enigmatic and fascinating, I thought I&#8217;d put your collective minds at rest with some more information on your biggest non-fan fan.</div>
<div></div>
<div>I love comedy and listen to all sorts of podcasts and radio shows. My favourite episodes of Comedy Death Ray Radio have been the ones featuring Mr Matt Walsh. Last time he was on he mentioned Bear Down so I checked it out.</div>
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<div>I do like the NFL but it&#8217;s not covered so much over here. Plus, if you don&#8217;t have a team to follow, it&#8217;s hard to care, you know? So I&#8217;ve kept listening &#8217;cause I like you all and enjoy the fake ads and phone calls and so on. When the Bears are discussed in depth I kinda zone out but then prick up again if somebody does a funny. I have a feeling that if I keep on listening, I&#8217;ll become a big Bears fan one day. Fingers crossed.</div>
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<div>Keep up the good work fellas, and who knows, just maybe you can convert apathetic foreigners like me to the Bears cause one joke at a time.</div>
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<div>Much love, hugs, high fives and ass slaps!</div>
<div>Paul, Scotland</div>
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		<title>A Letter from Lucas in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys,
It&#8217;s your biggest fan in all of Iraq again. Just thought I&#8217;d say thanks for making this horrible season a little brighter with the podcast. The only thing I get to see about the games is the highlights they show on ESPN when I go to chow, assuming we&#8217;re not out on a mission. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s your biggest fan in all of Iraq again. Just thought I&#8217;d say thanks for making this horrible season a little brighter with the podcast. The only thing I get to see about the games is the highlights they show on ESPN when I go to chow, assuming we&#8217;re not out on a mission. Usually I&#8217;ll find out the score sometime the day after the game from my wife, she emails it to me. Hopefully things turn around for da bears, but if not, at least I&#8217;ve got bear down to keep me upbeat about next season. As a small aside, my wife had our daughter on the 3rd of November. The only reason i mention it is her name, Addison Patricia Lunsmann. I know most of you are south side fans, but for the one of you that loves the cubbies like I do, you can appreciate her name. That was an uphill battle with the wife, but I got my way in the end. Of course most people don&#8217;t know the address to Wrigley field, so it&#8217;s just a cute name to them. Thanks again for the great podcast guys and happy veterans day.</p>
<p>Lucas</p>
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		<title>Bears Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of our favorite Bears Quotes. What&#8217;s yours?
&#8220;A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don&#8217;t have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.&#8221;
 -Walter [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are some of our favorite Bears Quotes. What&#8217;s yours?</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don&#8217;t have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.&#8221;<br />
 -Walter Payton</p>
<p>&#8220;You cunts on offense are playing like a bunch of cocksuckers and you cocksuckers on defense are playing like a bunch of cunts&#8221;<br />
 -Papa Bear</p>
<p>&#8220;I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.&#8221;<br />
 Gale Sayers</p>
<p>&#8220;If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn&#8217;t the same as the one I was wearing, I&#8217;d run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.&#8221;<br />
 -Bo Jackson</p>
<p>&#8220;When it&#8217;s third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I&#8217;ll take the whiskey drinkers every time.&#8221;<br />
 -Max McGee, former Green Bay Packers receiver</p>
<p>&#8220;Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<br />
 -Gale Sayers</p>
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		<title>The weekly email from Tony from Clearwater</title>
		<link>http://www.beardownpodcast.com/blog/the-weekly-email-from-tony-from-clearwater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bear Down
As you know I own an amazing sports bar in Clearwater and people are like “you should be mayor of this town” and I’m like no comment. Anyway sorry if I seem a little bummed out today I was just remembering how I lost like 15 really good friends when the towers went [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Bear Down</p>
<p>As you know I own an amazing sports bar in Clearwater and people are like “you should be mayor of this town” and I’m like no comment. Anyway sorry if I seem a little bummed out today I was just remembering how I lost like 15 really good friends when the towers went down on 9/11.  Well after watching that terrible game against San Francisco every body in the bar was so depressed they wanted to kill themselves and they were like Tony “would you kill yourself” and I was like “hey guys be cool just be chill it’s gonna be ok” and they were like “Man Tony you’re the coolest, you should be the next Dr. Phil”.</p>
<p>Here’s my question why  does Chicago give Cutler a 40 million dollar contract extension in the middle of the season, we already had him for a couple of years. I would never do that and I have a lot of hot waitresses with nice tits.</p>
<p>Tony from Clearwater</p>
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		<title>Heather from Erie, PA asks:</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys
I was raised in Buffalo where my dad is a big Bills fan and my mother was a Bears fan. I kind of like both teams. My question is, is being a Bears fan a matrilineal trait or a patrolineal trait?
Heather from Erie,PA

Heather, “the trait “Bears fan” is passed down thru the mother, much [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys</p>
<p>I was raised in Buffalo where my dad is a big Bills fan and my mother was a Bears fan. I kind of like both teams. My question is, is being a Bears fan a matrilineal trait or a patrolineal trait?</p>
<p>Heather from Erie,PA</p>
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<p><em>Heather, “the trait “Bears fan” is passed down thru the mother, much like being jewish. If you’re dad is a Bills fan it doesn’t matter, you’ll still love cased meats and tenacious linebackers for your whole life.”</em></p>
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		<title>Marco can go suck it along with Ice Titan</title>
		<link>http://www.beardownpodcast.com/blog/marco-can-go-suck-it-along-with-ice-titan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marco writes:
Hey Dillweeds
I got more Bears knowledge in my left nut than you guys have in your whole families. Why don’t you guys “Shut down” Chicago Bears, you’re wasting internets space douche-jags.
Marco from Stone Park

A note to Marco&#8211;We challenge your left nut to Bears Trivia. Meet us at Tin Horn Flats. We&#8217;ll be the ones [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marco writes:</p>
<p>Hey Dillweeds<br />
I got more Bears knowledge in my left nut than you guys have in your whole families. Why don’t you guys “Shut down” Chicago Bears, you’re wasting internets space douche-jags.</p>
<p>Marco from Stone Park</p>
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<p><em>A note to Marco&#8211;We challenge your left nut to Bears Trivia. Meet us at Tin Horn Flats. We&#8217;ll be the ones singing Bear Down as loud as humanly possible. </em></p>
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		<title>More Fan Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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Bear Down
What’s up? I love the podcast it’s righteous. My heart got broken by Tommie Harris and the rest of the D-line. We should clone Dan Hampton and Wilbur Marshall while they are still alive and start 5 Dan Hamptons and 6 Wilbur Marshalls on every defensive play. In fact I challenge you guys to [...]]]></description>
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Bear Down</p>
<p>What’s up? I love the podcast it’s righteous. My heart got broken by Tommie Harris and the rest of the D-line. We should clone Dan Hampton and Wilbur Marshall while they are still alive and start 5 Dan Hamptons and 6 Wilbur Marshalls on every defensive play. In fact I challenge you guys to name a better defense than that. And don’t tell me this isn’t possible.</p>
<p>Carter from Aurora, IL</p>
<p>
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>
Dear Bear Down</p>
<p>What’s going on with the picks to click? It’s confusing.</p>
<p>Pete from Peotone</p>
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		<title>Tony from Clearwater writes (again):</title>
		<link>http://www.beardownpodcast.com/blog/tony-from-clearwater-writes-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bear Down,
I had a bunch of friends down here watching the game at my bar down here in Clearwater. I had like monitors synchronized to show one giant image, people were like “Tony is the coolest with his giant TV”. But too bad the Bears lost cause I talked to Lovie this week and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Bear Down,</p>
<p>I had a bunch of friends down here watching the game at my bar down here in Clearwater. I had like monitors synchronized to show one giant image, people were like “Tony is the coolest with his giant TV”. But too bad the Bears lost cause I talked to Lovie this week and he promised a win, I know Lovie because I used to be a fireman in Chicago and I pulled him out of a car with the “jaws of life” and saved his life, and Lovie was like “Tony you’re the coolest for savin my life, we’re gonna be buddies”.  My question is this whatever happened to Cap Boso(people say I’m built like him) and I Greg Olsen better than Cap Boso?</p>
<p>Peace in Middle East<br />
 Tony from Clearwater, Fla</p>
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		<title>Beardown is headin to San Fran</title>
		<link>http://www.beardownpodcast.com/blog/111/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention Beardown Podcast Friends We&#8217;re heading to San Fran for the game. Where&#8217;s the tailgate and who has the Oldstyles? BEARDOWN!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attention Beardown Podcast Friends We&#8217;re heading to San Fran for the game. Where&#8217;s the tailgate and who has the Oldstyles? BEARDOWN!</p>
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