Windy City Gridiron · Sep 3, 2018
A snack pack for a banana: Ryan Pace built his Bears with trades
In the Adam Sandler classic Billy Madison, the title character man-child has an obsession with snack packs: basic, processed chocolate pudding. Madison gets angry when it’s not included in his school lunch, and in one of the most famous ensuing scenes, he tries to trade the banana he had packed instead for a snack pack with a child in the cafeteria. He, of course, fails miserably. But not for a lack of effort in trying to make the trade by threatening to bully the kid and being as persistent as possible.
If there’s one perfect analogy for Ryan Pace in his tenure as Bears general manager, it’s Madison in that specific sequence.
