Article: Tomczak takes aim at critics // Booing fans fuel intense `battler'

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 ...

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