There were still a few seats
There were still a few seats in the main cabin, which is how my friend Matt Lederer and I came to leave for O'Hare airport in our Jim McMahon jerseys. I'm not sure what I expected: a Learjet with a dozen North Side business types, perhaps, or a DC 3 filled with a football loving Boy Scout troop. We instead found ourselves seated in a tired L 1011, with a Kodiak bear painted on the tail, the rows packed with a few hundred fans of the cartoon variety: huge beer swilling South Siders with the sort of mustaches that suggest virility. Dow: / NASDAQ: / S 500:CHICAGO (AP) There was a giant replica cake right next to the Ernie Banks statue, and an old time band played as fans made their way through the main entrance.The famed marquee had a message, too.Birthday, Wrigley Field, it read.Exactly 100 years after the Chicago Federals pounded the Kansas City Packers in the first game at wholesale jerseys the famed ballpark, Wrigley was the scene of a joyous birthday bash on Wednesday afte