Bears in catch-22 at QB
Published 12/31/2008 by BY MIKE MULLIGAN mmulligan@suntimes.com at Chicago Sun-Times Bears
Mike Mulligan: Kyle Orton packed his bag in Houston for the final flight home of the 2008 season and laid the book he has been reading near the top of his case for easy access. If ever there was a perfect book for a Bears quarterback, it's Orton's choice: Joseph Heller's Catch-22, a classic novel of circular logic, false dilemma and reduction to the absurd.
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