the season was just judged on like did you win the Super Bowl

and the answer was no every season. So it's

and reflecting back I think there's a lot of like super cool things that happened

and I think you have to enjoy those super cool things as they happen

or else like what's the point in being a sports fan but sometimes in the moment

that can be very hard. You're like win it or it doesn't matter it's september 2018 bears at packers this is remember

that game the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and maybe start the path

of the zeitgeist.

I'm your host Thomas Emerick, and my guest is Rodeviz Radio executive producer, Column Kelly,

who's been on a heater hosting Rodeviz radio podcast, getting folks excited for fantasy drafts on the horizon,

be it coming up now or the week of Labor Day.

We're in that part of summer with endless possibilities, even for the Bears,

who opened the season in primetime with their young quarterback taken near the top of the draft,

entering his second season, Mitchell Trubisky.

The NFL sends them to Green Bay home of your Packers column who have beaten them 14 out of 16 times prior all during the Aaron Rogers era.

But what was your level of confidence like entering this chapter in week one of the 2018 NFL season?

There's always a huge amount of optimism when it came to the Packers.

I guess, you know, eternally, we're very fortunate as a franchise to be successful

continuously, but people will judge success when I say that word in different ways.

We've had long runs without Super Bowls where we should have had Super Bowls.

But each season, when it starts, it feels like there's a chance that you're certainly going

to be there for the division.

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