It’s not just Mr. and Mrs. Bears Fan and their son, Walter Gale Butkus, who want the real football games to begin.
Bears starters, who have been denied the joys of tackling and blocking other human beings in preseason games, are dying to hit somebody, anybody. That will finally happen when they take on the Packers in the season opener Thursday night, which can’t come soon enough.
“I’m so (bleeping) ready,’’ linebacker Khalil Mack said Monday. “It’s been so long, it feels like already. So I’m looking forward to it, getting out there Thursday, getting to the ground with my brothers.