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Article: Tomczak takes aim at critics // Booing fans fuel intense `battler'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 6, 1991
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Mike Tomczak has won a lot of games for someone who has the crowd
appeal of a first-quarter timeout. He even has won a playoff game.
He has quarterbacked the Bears' only playoff victory since their
Super Bowl season. They were 0-3 when he wasn't the quarterback.
Now, he has a chance to make it two playoff victories. And
three. And more. Either he will or the Bears won't. As teammate
Lemuel Stinson said, "The fans ought to cheer him on. He's the guy
who's got to get us to the Super Bowl."
They won't, of course. Soldier Field fans cheering Tomczak is
as unlikely as robins cheering winter.
"I guess maybe in everybody's eyes - since he came in when we
had Jim McMahon - he's just always ...