I popped open the jar of Con Queso cheese dip and I was ready to go. I had been waiting all week for this game and the Bears were about to kickoff.

But it was a game that slowly rolled downhill.

The Bears dropped like flies on the field as the Eagles took control of Soldier Field. They started with Jim Miller and continued through Mike Brown, Des White and Marty Booker – yet Chicago still had a 14-13 lead in the third quarter.

And I still had hope.

It only got uglier from there, and Donovan McNabb showed his true Chicago spirit by running in a five-yard touchdown. He finished it off by shooting the ball through the uprights for a 33-17 showdown. There was no help for Chicago with just three minutes left on the clock.

And suddenly I reached the bottom of my jar of cheese dip.

Then there was a game at New England and I found out that those yellow first-down markers are good for something. The field of white was too much for me to handle after watching the Bears lose, and I turned off football for the rest of the day.

The Ravens opened Day 2 of the playoffs with a more bruising loss than the Bears had, at 27-10. But that was before the Rams took the field.

I was going to boycott this game. I thought about it. The Bears wouldn’t be able to get revenge on the Packers. Chicago and St. Louis residents wouldn’t get to see a Rams-Bears game – as funny as that would have been.

But it was Sunday – and there was nothing better to do. And so the final two teams of the weekend took the field – the two antithises of a Bears fan.

Turnover after turnover, I couldn’t help laugh by the sixth interception. The poor Green Bay fans, who traveled so far, watched an embarrassing performance by their Packers.

The weekend wrapped up with just four teams left standing.

The Rams will host the Eagles, the Steelers will host the Patriots, and Bears fans will have to find something better to do.

As for me, I think next weekend I’ll switch from cheese dip to salsa and watch the Rams make it to the Superbowl – because even the Bears fans know its going to happen.