Thanks MNF

This was quoted on the Bears game last night: "One of the great Chicago sports fans, Jim Belushi..."

My question is, what makes him a great fan? That he's rich, and famous for some ungodly reason, so he can afford going to games?

Thanks to Jim Belushi's perpetual idiocy, people are thinking that everyone either from Chicago or a fan of any Chicago team is a hackey, unfunny, coat-tail riding jackass. And this is just not true. Many of us have college degrees, we've gotten jobs that we didn't get just because of our last name, and we're actually capable of making funny observations (myself excluded).

At one point the announcers, who may not have been as terrible as usual last night, asked Belushi if the Cubs have brought about sort of a losing tradition in Chicago.

Let's get this straight. I do not want Jim Belushi representing any sort of expert on Chicago sports. He's probably too busy making terribly unfunny sitcoms and telling people that his last name makes him famous to pay attention to any real intelligent conversations on sports. But at least he appears like he's a big fan, right? No.

I'm not even sure how Belushi responded to the question. It was probably something like, "Hey, my brother is the reason I'm here right now. Have you seen that show 'According to Jim'? I'm Jim! I'll never be nearly as funny as my brother was. Oh, you asked me a question? I'm Jim!"

I despise Jim Belushi. I can't believe there was no one they could get from St. Louis in the booth, since, you know, the game was in St. Louis. But then again, ABC couldn't have done any of their cross-promotional bullshit since his show is/was on ABC. Everything he has done has pretty much been a slap in the face to everything his brother did. If he's made a funny movie, I'm not aware of it. Sitcoms are hackey, and Belushi is definitely a hack. And has anyone caught Blues Brothers 2000? Or the 'new' Blues Brothers. At first I was like, well, that's cool, they're keeping it up like a tribute. But they're just making it look ridiculous now.

So, again, thanks Monday Night Football for bringing Jim Belushi into the foreground to make everyone who is a fan of any Chicago team look like a complete jackass who is great at recycling cliches. It's not like all of us are White Sox fans. Oh snap!