I’m kinda surprised that Jay Cutler making his first trip to Denver as a member of the Chicago Bears is getting the attention it is from the sports blogosphere. For a few reasons:

  • Sunday’s tilt was, after all, a preseason game.
  • Denver is hardly the cultural apex of anything, so who really cares how they feel about Cutler, or for that matter, how they feel about pleated pants or the fiat standard. Oh, you can ski in Denver? Great. The snow’s better in Utah, anyway. The only downside is that I’m pretty sure Utah is still a slave state.
  • It was a preseason game. Wait, I already said that.
  • I probably didn’t need bullet points for this. Or blockquote.

Long story short: Cutler played well, Orton got a bloody finger, and one team had more points than the other. I guess that America’s hardon for football is insatiable. And sure, these teams won’t play each other all year. And yes, Broncos coach Josh McDaniels has already decimated that team with nothing to show for it. But are we that worked up over a preseason game? We are? Oh.