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Think Your Life Is Rough? Pretend You're In Marion Barber's Shoes!

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After failing to stay in-bounds to kill the clock with ~50 seconds left, Barber hangs his head, finds an empty bench, sits down, and shakes his head. Lovie Smith is also shaking his head, uttering something under his breath. Caleb Hannie goes over to Barber's side, pats Barber on the knee, and tries to cheer him up. Barber looks disgusted, and continues shaking his head. Barber looks away from Hannie.

Meanwhile, sure enough, Prater kicks a ~56'ish yd field goal to send the game to overtime. As the Bears stagger out to the center of the field for the coin toss, all the Bears are hanging their heads. They can't believe what just happened. The Bears win the toss, elect to get the ball, then their offense precedes to drive into Bears FG range. But look out! Marion "The Barbarian" Barber has Tim Tebow on his fantasy team!... Barber precedes to fumble. Denver bounces back and wins on a ~51'ish yd field goal.

You are Marion Barber entering the Bears locker room. How do you feel right now, and what are your teammates thinking?

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He's always been a fumbler... fumbler in Dallas, got benched several games for that. Now he's a fumbler here. Got his shot to shine, but he screwed it up bad, and screwed up the Bears' chances of going to the playoffs. Too bad, too bad :(

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Oh and let's ignore the fact Marion Barber makes NFL money. If you factor that in, I'm sure we'd all like to be in his shoes, but I'm speaking from a non-financial perspective :P.

Oh, in that case I would hate to be in his shoes. And I guess I wouldn't want to get beaten up like they do every week. I wouldn't want to be a Chicago Bear, and I wouldn't want to be called Marion. But other than that...

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I feel bad for Barber ive always like him, strong runner, can break tackles, and works hard.

Yea, do you remember this play? Granted, you could consider this another blunder of his, but at least he compensated for it. Best 2-yd run I've ever seen.

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