The Seventh Floor Crew Suffers a Loss

I didn't catch last night's Bears game against the Browns. Something about watching a bunch of players who won't be on the team next weekend play some meaningless downs just didn't appeal to me. I was more interested in the Cubs game, and the LSU game.

So I didn't see the play that first round draft pick Greg Olsen hurt his knee. David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune did, and he's less than pleased with the fact Olsen was still on the field.

By the time the cars were parked, so were the offensive starters. Rex Grossman took three snaps—all cleanly, by the way—and then took a seat with the rest of the first-teamers.

That would have been a good spot for tight end Greg Olsen to stay.

The rookie first-round pick, whose rare size and speed could change the complexion of the Bears' passing game, left the game with 2 minutes 10 seconds left in the second quarter with a left knee sprain.

I enjoy Haugh's coverage of the Bears, but he's off on this one. Listen, Olsen is a first round pick, and though he could be a huge difference-maker for the offense this season, he needed to be on the field. Yes, the starters only stayed out for a few plays, but you know what? Olsen isn't a starter. Desmond Clark is.

Nope, Olsen is a rookie who needs to get in as much work as possible so he's ready for the regular season. Is it unfortunate he got hurt while he was out there. Is he likely to miss the season opener? Of course, but it's football. These things happen.

If you were to ask Lovie Smith whether he'd be okay with the Bears going through an entire pre-season suffering only one injury to a key player, an injury that may only cause him to miss a game, I'm guessing Smith would take that deal.

I think Haugh is overreacting to the one injury the Bears suffered in four games. It's not like Olsen is ready to tear the league apart just yet anyway. If he's going to be on the field for all three downs, he's going to have to improve his blocking. Which is something I'm sure he was working on while he was on the field in the second quarter.

Greg Olsen Has Gone Solo

Back when he was in college, Greg Olsen was a member of the Seventh Floor Crew. It was as a member of the Crew that Olsen recorded the rap song that symbolized the downfall of society as we all know it.

Then the Crew called it quits. They'd already came, saw and conquered, and wanted to go out on top. Olsen thought he'd never have to perform again.

Then yesterday happened.

Rookie hazing at training camp is an NFL rite of passage that dates to the leather helmet days, and not even first-round picks such as Olsen are exempt.

So on cue, Olsen uncorked a censored version of the X-rated ditty he earned infamy for recording as rapper "G-Reg," back when he was an 18-year-old University of Miami freshman. But then it would have to be cleaned up for this pristine-in-every-way campus of Olivet Nazarene.

It's nice to know that Olsen doesn't have any qualms making fun of himself, and his teammates appreciate him for it. From everything I'm hearing about how Olsen is performing in camp, I don't think it will be his rap career that the Bears and their fans remember him for.

Chicago Columnists Are Annoying

I tend not to read Mariotti anymore because he generally does nothing but make me angry, but once in a while I'll see a headline of his and I have to read it. Yesterday was one of those days.

Mariotti wrote an entire column on the rap song that Bears first-round pick Greg Olson recorded as an 18-year old freshman at the University of Miami.

We all did stupid things in college. You did, I did, Jerry Angelo did. But most of us never were stupid enough to record a gangsta-rap ode to dormitory sex that was so relentlessly raunchy, repulsive and denigrating to women -- ''hos'' are mentioned 15 times, ''bitches'' 18 times, the F-word 29 times -- that Snoop Dogg might even blush. Simply consider the chorus from a little ditty titled, ''7th Floor Crew,'' from a group by the same name.

And let's face it, there is no greater authority on all things Snoop Dogg than Jay Mariotti. Jay then blathers on about how this is the next step in the downfall that is the Chicago Bears. I'm pretty sure he also works in how it's all Rex Grossman's fault at somepoint.

Jay is right about one thing though. We all do stupid things at 18. Where he's wrong is in stating that what Olson did was such a horrible offense. No Jay, it's just as stupid and harmless as anything you did when you were 18, it's just you're an out of touch moron so you just don't see the difference.

I hate to break it to you, but this is nothing more than a kid being a kid and I really wonder about the motive here. If Greg Olson was a black 18-year old college freshman recording the same song, would anyone give a shit?

No. This is nothing more than middle-aged white America having trouble dealing with the fact that white people can be influenced by hip-hop culture. The horror. Oh the horror.

The thing is, the stupidity didn't stop with Mariotti's column. In an online column, Carol Slezak expressed the same kind of shock that Mariotti did and even titled it "Olsen's Rap Makes Imus Look Like Feminist."

After listening to all 8 minutes and 56 seconds of this unbelievably disgusting rap, I was shaking in anger and shock. How is it possible for these young men to have such little respect -- or is it hatred? -- for women? If Don Imus got fired for the comments he made about the Rutgers women's basketball team, these guys deserve jail time by comparison.

Jesus Christ. Did she really just say that Greg Olsen should go to prison for this?

How in the hell is what Olsen did anything like Don Imus?! Imus is a grown ass man on a nationally syndicated radio show making blatantly racist comments. Olsen was an 18-year old kid singing along to a song that you can hear just about any god damned time you turn on your radio.

This shouldn't even be a story, let alone an issue. Just another reason why the common sports fan is turning more and more to the internet for their sports news.