Ah, Bears training camp, where hope flows, dreams live and 16-0 is a distinct possibility. It is into this wonderland that I tiptoe, knowing that truth sometimes is looked upon as the ultimate buzzkill and that the bearer of it had better be helmeted, padded and most definitely cupped.
So when Elliott Fry made a 60-yard field goal in practice Saturday and his kicking competition, Eddy Piñeiro, made a 63-yarder the next day and news accounts had a bright shaft of light coming down from heaven and an accompanying voice declaring that it sure looked like the Bears kicking game was headed in the right direction, I couldn’t help but notice that nobody was actually rushing the kickers or that the kicks weren’t made in a real game.