Vikings wide receiver Bobby Wade kicked up a ruckus with his former team, the Chicago Bears earlier this week. He said that the Bears’ Brian Urlacher had problems with the new Chicago quarterback, Jay Cutler. Jim Souhan has the story, including Wade’s amusing wordmangling:
This is why we love Bobby Wade, now more than ever.
He’s always been a nice guy, a quotable guy, a guy with NFL and life perspective. Friday, while Favre was mulling ankle replacement surgery that could have him taking snaps at Winter Park by Dec. 7, 2010, Wade was giving us something else to talk about.
“It’s something I definitely probably shouldn’t have said,” Wade said.
I disagree. He should be just getting warmed up.
Wednesday, Wade told KFAN Radio that Bears star linebacker Brian Urlacher used a derogatory term to describe new Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. “Pretty much,” Wade said, “[Urlacher] said Jay Cutler was a [bleep] for the most part.”
Cutler begged his way out of Denver when he felt new coach Josh McDaniels was too unwilling to administer total-body massages to his All-Universe quarterback. Since arriving in Chicago, Cutler has been spotted at more bars than Captain Morgan.
Friday, Wade said he shouldn’t have related Urlacher’s insult publicly. What was more interesting was that Wade didn’t retract the statement, didn’t even say that Urlacher is angry with him.
“If I had the opportunity back, I probably wouldn’t have said it,” Wade said. “However, moving forward, it was said, and my communication with Brian is still good, so it is what it is.”
Well, after the way the Green Bay Packers churned the Vikings for the last few months through the Brett Favre melodrama (and got away with it, no blame attached), it’s natural to expect the Vikings want to disrupt some other team. And really, after last season, you’d have to be a truly vicious sadist to want to make things worse for the Detroit Lions (first 0-16 season in NFL history), so the Bears were an obvious choice.
