Idiot

[HarveyWallbangers]

DECATUR, Ill. -- He doesn't want to do it, but diehard Chicago Bears fan Scott Wiese is changing his name.

The 26-year-old Forsyth man told friends that if his beloved team didn't win the Super Bowl, he'd become Peyton Manning after the Indianapolis Colts star quarterback.

He even signed a petition in front of 200 people last week at Decatur's Katz Piano Bar that he'd do it.

After the Colts defeated the Bears 29-17 on Sunday, Wiese started the process.

He trudged to the Macon County Courts Facility on Tuesday and filed the paperwork. The change still has to be approved by a judge.

Wiese says he really cares about the team and that his sacrifice represents the true passion of Bears fans.

[Freak Out]

This is a joke correct? Ha ha ha...Bears fans....

[Joemailman]

Could be worse. He could have promised to change his name to Rex Grossman. :mrgreen:

[Brando19]

I read about this on CNN. Man this guy's a freakin idiot. I can't believe someone would bet this. Money, I can understand...but your NAME????? And to beat it all...it didn't say this guy would win anything if the Bears won. What a freak.

[Kiwon]

Wiese says he really cares about the team and that his sacrifice represents the true passion of Bears fans.

The Bears rather have him buy season tickets and authentic jerseys for all his friends than change his name.

The title of the thread says it well - Idiot.

[BallHawk]

Could be worse, he could of bet to change it to Booger McFarland.

[MacCool606]

I'll bet his parents are proud!

[Iron Mike]

He should change his name to Laser Rocket Arm!!!!! 8)

[prsnfoto]

This guy is a bears fan which means Peyton better start watching his credit cards bozo will soon be commiting identity theft.

[BF4MVP]

wow........... :roll: :roll: :roll:

How stupid can people be..Well, he's a Bears fan so I guess pretty stupid..

[MadtownPacker]

A real stupid bet for sure but at least he is paying up. I hate it when people dont pay their bets.

Does he have to keep it like that forever or just for a while?

[the_idle_threat]

A real stupid bet for sure but at least he is paying up. I hate it when people dont pay their bets.

Does he have to keep it like that forever or just for a while?

I gathered from the article that he plans to change it back after a while, which makes it twice as stupid. A legal name change is time-consuming and expensive, and he's gonna do it twice? Dumbass.

[Sparkey]

A real stupid bet for sure but at least he is paying up. I hate it when people dont pay their bets.

Does he have to keep it like that forever or just for a while?

I gathered from the article that he plans to change it back after a while, which makes it twice as stupid. A legal name change is time-consuming and expensive, and he's gonna do it twice? Dumbass.

Not to mention, changing your name and then back is a mjor red flag with all the credit reporting agencies. A prime example of not thinking something through before doing it.

[wist43]

Bears fans may have passion, but apparently they don't have the first clue about the game of football...

Anyone who has a clue about the game knew the Bears stood no chance.

[Joemailman]

The article says a judge has to approve it. I wonder if the judge will let him off the hook by refusing the request.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Let's hope the judge is a Colts or Packers fan.

[superfan]

Maybe he can plead insanity by intoxication...

[Joemailman]

Wouldn't the fact that he bet on the Bears, whether he was intoxicated or not, be grounds for an insanity plea?

[BallHawk]

Update on the situation


Chicago Bears fan Scott Wiese is no Peyton Manning after all.

Macon County Judge Katherine McCarthy ruled this week that Wiese can't legally call himself Peyton Manning because it would be too confusing and might infringe on the privacy of the Indianapolis Colts quarterback.

That's fine by Wiese.

The 26-year-old was only trying to change his name to make good on a bet he lost when the Colts beat the Bears in the Super Bowl.

"I had told the judge that I was not doing this because I wanted to change my name, but I was doing it because I was honoring a bet," Wiese told the Decatur Herald & Review after Monday's ruling. "I think she understood that."

A few days before the February game, Wiese signed a pledge in front of a bar full of people that if the Bears lost, he would change his name to match the Colts player who led Indy to victory.

Manning had a big hand in the Colts' 29-17 victory.

Wiese's parents, Debbie and Steve Wiese, were pleased by the judge's decision.

"Wiese is our family name, and we're proud of it," Debbie Wiese told the Decatur newspaper. "I also didn't want to go through the rest of my life calling my son 'Peyton Manning."

[MJZiggy]

"I also didn't want to go through the rest of my life calling my son 'Peyton Manning."

She should just go back to "hey stupid."

[BooHoo]

"hey stupid" is an appropriate name for him.

[Packers4Ever]

"I also didn't want to go through the rest of my life calling my son 'Peyton Manning."

She should just go back to "hey stupid."

LMAO, MJ, :lol: :wink:

[the_idle_threat]

I'm sure she calls him "son."

The family trailer is not big enough to accomodate name-calling. Name-calling leads to yelling, which leads to beer bottle throwing, which gets all the hound dogs barking outside, and then there's no quiet in the trailer park all night long.

[woodbuck27]

A real stupid bet for sure but at least he is paying up. I hate it when people dont pay their bets.

Does he have to keep it like that forever or just for a while?

I gathered from the article that he plans to change it back after a while, which makes it twice as stupid. A legal name change is time-consuming and expensive, and he's gonna do it twice? Dumbass.

He may compensate by coming back as Bronco Nagurski? :)

[the_idle_threat]

A real stupid bet for sure but at least he is paying up. I hate it when people dont pay their bets.

Does he have to keep it like that forever or just for a while?

I gathered from the article that he plans to change it back after a while, which makes it twice as stupid. A legal name change is time-consuming and expensive, and he's gonna do it twice? Dumbass.

He may compensate by coming back as Bronco Nagurski? :)

I'll bet his buddies would respect that a heck of a lot more than Peyton Manning. :idea:

[Fritz]

If the name change had worked he probably could've gotten a commercial or two.

[pbmax]

Bump!

Because I thought we had a people are idiots thread in here somewhere. We have many idiot threads, just not that one.

Here is the stat:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dr5FiTDX4AIIlrk.jpg:large


But here is the problem. The show neither correlation or causation with successful results. The Packers can average nearly 6 yard per run on first down because they do it less than 40% of the time and the team has its nickel package in expecting a throw.

Running doesn't cause winning, its a successful strategy in some cases because the defense expects something else.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I will legally change my name from Tank Elf Duke to Todd Thompson if Pack win the Super Bowl this season.

[texaspackerbacker]

Bump!

Because I thought we had a people are idiots thread in here somewhere. We have many idiot threads, just not that one.

Here is the stat:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dr5FiTDX4AIIlrk.jpg:large


But here is the problem. The show neither correlation or causation with successful results. The Packers can average nearly 6 yard per run on first down because they do it less than 40% of the time and the team has its nickel package in expecting a throw.

Running doesn't cause winning, its a successful strategy in some cases because the defense expects something else.

+ 1

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Speaking of names, some of you might have noticed that I'm now referring to the Polar Bear as "Todd." I'm only doing so to get back at the uncool Pack fans who called Favre "Bert."

Speaking of Favre, he was the GOAT in my book, especially in my awesome autobiography, "A Brief History of Tank: The Life and Times of Tank Elf Duke"...until I found out about Favre refusing to throw to a downtrodden, undrafted rookie free agent in training camp.

Speaking of the aforementioned book, here's a brief excerpt:

Chapter 1: Mein Kampf

On the day I was dishonorably discharged from the mental institution with a couple of worthless pieces of cardboard papers, my father - despite my blemish protestation - slaughtered a horny goat and threw a merry-making festival in my honor. My good friend, D'Tyrant Michaels, known infamously as the "white guy with a black name who digs Asian chicks," would later tell me that the pompous soiree rivaled only that of the prodigal son's.

I missed my own fucking debauchery, for, as an anti-social left-fielder, I was at the local Redskin casino that night, playing poker and squandering away the meek 600 frogskins I had to my name. In the aftermath, my dear father abandoned his eldest son - me, Tank Elf Duke - on the gloomy streets of Baltimore.

It's been a struggle ever since.

[QBME]

He may compensate by coming back as Bronco Nagurski? :)

Hey, Woody - welcome back!! Where ya been? You and Mae should have closed up the cabin weeks ago!!

Oops, my bad. Woody is still MIA.

[wpony]

It could be worse they could change it to a name hated throughout much of the league Jay Cutler lol

[Pugger]

I will legally change my name from Tank Elf Duke to Todd Thompson if Pack win the Super Bowl this season.

I don't think you have to worry about changing your name.