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WARNING SIGN
Maybe you have seen the shoe ad painted on a building just off the inbound Eisenhower Expressway that depicts a menacing-looking Cox and his vow to “personally welcome each and every quarterback to Chicago.”
Judging by his total of sacks this year–one–we only can assume Cox must be taking the quarterbacks out for a pregame dinner.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
For a big talker, Cox isn’t much of a tackler. The mouth that roars had another Cox-like game Sunday, making a whopping three tackles against the Packers. He also continued to be Dave Wannstedt’s most visible adviser on the sidelines, getting closer to the head coach than he did to the Green Bay ballcarriers most of the time.
The unfortunate thing isn’t so much that Cox is offering Wannstedt wisdom, it’s that Wannstedt may just be desperate enough to listen.
THE NAME GAME
The transplanted Tennessee Oilers haven’t drawn any better than they did in Houston, and owner Bud Adams says he is open to the idea of changing the team’s nickname to something more closely identifiable with the state of Tennessee.
And that would be . . . what? The Grand Old Oprys? The Minnie Pearls? The Velvet Elvises?
SOFA SURFING
Haven’t the baseball playoffs been terrific? Even though the Lords of Baseball have forced viewers to go to three different networks to watch the postseason, the games have been worth every push of the channel selector button. Now if they could only get rid of Tim McCarver and those annoying Miller Lite commercials (brought to you by Dick).
IN THE ZONE
And if you watched Florida’s Livan Hernandez ring up 15 strikeouts against the Braves Sunday night, you know that the only thing wider than the National League strike zone is one of umpire Eric Gregg’s old cummerbunds.