To be fair, I think that driving to a con and spending lots of time online is equally silly. I’ll get on long enough to check my mail and make sure that my server is up, and I may sit with someone else and share stuff with them, but going to a con and just playing online like you’re at home is a little odd to me.

I suppose I hadn’t thought of this things outside the stadium in terms of being a sort of Bears convention. In that light, it makes a little more sense to me, though I don’t understand why the drive to congregate would be so high when I have very little doubt that they can find plenty of like-minded folks in their daily lives to talk about football with, unlike members of some significantly smaller social groups who need to be a little more, shall we say, discrete.

To be fair, I think that driving to a con and spending lots of time online is equally silly. I’ll get on long enough to check my mail and make sure that my server is up, and I may sit with someone else and share stuff with them, but going to a con and just playing online like you’re at home is a little odd to me.
I suppose I hadn’t thought of this things outside the stadium in terms of being a sort of Bears convention. In that light, it makes a little more sense to me, though I don’t understand why the drive to congregate would be so high when I have very little doubt that they can find plenty of like-minded folks in their daily lives to talk about football with, unlike members of some significantly smaller social groups who need to be a little more, shall we say, discrete.

Wait, people actually drive to a hotel to spend time online at a convention when their own, far superior computer is then hundreds of miles away? I will never understand some furries. 😉

Wait, people actually drive to a hotel to spend time online at a convention when their own, far superior computer is then hundreds of miles away? I will never understand some furries. 😉

With a 8°F/0° forecast for Sunday I’m calling for 6 deaths in that parking lot….and a BEARS WIN!

It’s more than a little insane, particularly when you factor in:
Sunday: Partly cloudy and cold, with a high near 7. West northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -4.
Let’s see…7 degrees, 15 mph wind gives a -15 degree F wind chill. I suppose you could drink enough not to feel it. Until you pass out and die, of course.

It’s more than a little insane, particularly when you factor in:

Sunday: Partly cloudy and cold, with a high near 7. West northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -4.

Let’s see…7 degrees, 15 mph wind gives a -15 degree F wind chill. I suppose you could drink enough not to feel it. Until you pass out and die, of course.

I will never understand fanaticism over team sports….