Kudos to Sycamore's George McCaskey
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Allow me, if you will, the chance to put on my old sports columnist hat.
In September, Shaw Media sportswriter Tom Musick sat down with Sycamore resident George McCaskey to talk about McCaskey taking over as the new chairman of the board for the Chicago Bears.
During that conversation, McCaskey said:
“There’s only one way to measure success. That is championships. We have more regular-season wins than any other team in NFL history, but we do not have more championships than any other team. We want to be tops in both categories.
“That’s the goal every year: to win the Super Bowl. Not to make the playoffs. Not to get to the Super Bowl. To win the Super Bowl."
I was prepared to call McCaskey's bluff on this as it appeared general manager Jerry Angelo and everybody involved in player personnel up at Halas Hall was going to be allowed to keep their jobs and ruin another Bears draft.
But then the news broke on my drive in Tuesday morning: Angelo was fired.
Finally, a McCaskey that lived up to the promise of winning. Finally, it appears there is some sort of accountability in Lake Forest.
Angelo has decimated this team's roster. The Bears have no depth and have continually shown they can't evaluate or develop talent under Angelo.
The Bears appeared in one Super Bowl in Angelo's time here. Since that 2007 appearance, the Bears have won one playoff game against the worst playoff team in NFL hostory.
To back up McCaskey's championship mantra, Angelo had to go. He's gone. Kudos to McCaskey.
