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Oh, boy. Here we go.
The backup-quarterback thing.
Let me start with a personal tale from yore.
I was a lad when my father took me to my first Bears game. It was against the Cowboys at Wrigley Field.
Two memories stick: Cowboys receiver Tommy McDonald didn’t wear a facemask, and at some point the home crowd began chanting, ‘‘We want Rudy!’’
This was well before the movie ‘‘Rudy,’’ so no one was cheering for Rudy Ruettiger, the 5-6, 165-pound Notre Dame defensive end who played for a minute against Georgia Tech on Nov.