Despite concerns that the Chicago Bears might not make it to Baltimore for Sunday afternoon’s game until some point in time not too far from the kickoff of Sunday afternoon’s game, the team arrived on Saturday night.
The plane landed late Saturday night at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Larry Mayer of ChicagoBears.com updated the progress via the team’s official Twitter page.
Per Mayer, BWI was “closed except for Bears plane.”
The game between the Bears and Ravens is scheduled to commence at 4:15 p.m. ET. Jamison Hensley of the Baltimore Sun reports that the field and the stadium will be ready at that time following the massive snowstorm that hit much of the East Coast on Friday night and Saturday.
At one point on Saturday, there was speculation in league circles that the game could be moved to Monday night, given both the Bears’ travel challenges and the task of clearing snow from the roads in the vicinity of M&T Bank Stadium.
Bears: Glad you could make the trip. Prepare to get your whoppin’
Not the first time the Bears have been brought into a closed airport: they were cleared to land in Denver before their Monday Night shootout against the Broncos in 1987, when all other traffic was forbidden.
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What websites are there for demanding a better receiving core, GM, O-Line, QB, and d-line. Good luck with your 2 years of doing all that with the 75th draft pick…suck it losers.
As a live-and-die-with-my-team Bears fan from 1978 to 1994 (who as a kid used to get up before dawn to watch Ray Raynor do the Bears highlights on his show, who used to embezzle his own school lunch money to buy Chicago newspapers so I could follow the Bears in my small Wisconsin town, as a young man who years later turned down overtime because the Bears were on TV, etc. etc.) I’ll tellyou what your billboard needs to say: SELL THE DAMNED TEAM.
Sell the team, give Mike Ditka an office, retire Jim McMahon’s number, and hire Mike Singletary as coach. Of course, I’ve been saying pretty much the same thing since 1994, when I gave up on the bastards.
Bears, do us a favor and knock Baltimore off. A playoff season without Pittsburgh or Baltimore would be nice for a change.
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