Sunday, September 26, 2010

Monday Night Wallpaper



I know what you are thinking: What a nice, old black-and-white photo of Dick Butkus that Mark has put on his long-ignored blog as part of his anti-Packer, pre-Monday Night Football frenzy.

Not so quick...

As I discovered when I lived in upstate New York, sometimes the best place to be a Chicago Bears fan is far away from Chicago.

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, those Starting Lineup action figures of Bears players were the rage. At an Illinois Toys R Us, those babies would be snatched up before even reaching the shelves. In New York? I could find them in the discount bins...

On Sunday, I was in Target and saw a group of the much-cooler McFarlane NFL figures. A couple of things: First, there were no Cleveland Browns figures for any Target employee to snatch up, should or she be so inclined. Secondly, way in the back, I found a McFarlane Toys NFL Sports Picks Legends Series 6 Dick Butkus Action Figure!

Try to find one of those at an Illinois Target...

These figures are amazingly life-like. In fact, I posed mine in front of my laptop thusly ...



... in front of a turf background and then took a series of photos with my trusty Kodak. I then manipulated one of the pictures a bit in iPhoto to give it a grainy, black-and-white looks and – VOILA! That's the picture at top.

So, it looks like a vintage picture of the greatest Chicago Bears defensive player ever (who my Dad and I met 41 years ago this month at Father and Son night at St. Teresa Catholic Church in Kankakee, Ill.), but it's just a cool reproduction.

I can tell you for a fact that it makes a cool computer wallpaper. So, my gift to Bears fans all geared up for the Monday night blow out of that Green Bay team is this:

Dick Butkus Wallpaper

Click that link and get your very own!

Go Bears!

More later,


Mark
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