Talk about showing up early for the big game.
Mark Patrick Pavelka arrived in Chicago three days ahead of schedule Friday night — at 8 pounds, 9 ounces — after his mother’s labor was induced to ensure that his Bears-fan dad could attend the NFC Championship Game on Sunday. “Nothing’s going to ruin this weekend — that’s for sure,” father Mark Pavelka told the Chicago Sun-Times. “If he wasn’t born by Sunday and the Bears won, I would have named him Rex.”
Best football story since Diner when the prospective bride failed the Colts trivia exam.
[By “best” I do mean “worst.”]