>>>>The hotel gift shop isn't enough? *g*
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>>>That depends. How many cheese heads and Green Bay Packers sweatshirts do you need? < s >
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>>I can answer that....NONE!:-)< Go Bears! >
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>Hi, George. Long time no see. As I'm sure you know, 'da Bears' are playing their home games here in Champaign this year while Soldier Field in Chicago is being renovated, so there's Bears stuff everywhere in town here and *lots* of traffic on game days. The Vikings were in town yesterday for the regular season opener and of course the Bears pulled off a virtually last-minute victory. Nice way to start the season! Now, if only some of that would wear off on the Illini...

I've been here, Rick. BTW, I'm glad that we'll get the chance to meet F2F at Whilfest.

Illini...< groan >I have a feel that this is one of those seasons for the football team where the season goal is to finish ahead of Northwestern.:-(