Not that the Bears are an offensive powerhouse.
As Europe's erstwhile economic powerhouse, Germany bears a particular responsibility to address the EU's structural problems.
That in a proudly wizened nutshell is the philosophy behind Gudrun Sjoden, an eco-conscious retail powerhouse that has just borne down upon SoHo from Sweden, like Glinda the Good Witch and her bubble.
The full scale of the losses is difficult to assess but the Advanced Institute for Materials Research, the university's nanotechnology powerhouse, is estimated to have borne ¥1 billion ($12.5m) worth of damage, including to some of the world's fanciest electron microscopes and other devices used to probe the surface structures of materials at the atomic level.
Warburg, who died in 1982, did not live to see the City powerhouse that he had created and that bore his name divided in pieces between a Swiss bank and an American investment house.
Other SoMa venues that bears frequent include everyone's favourite biker bar, the Hole In The Wall Saloon, Powerhouse and men-only "social" club Blow Buddies.
The band's powerhouse, however, is drummer Maya Postepski – if you squint just right she bears an uncanny resemblance to our former prime minister Julia Gillard – who played with a loose-limbed ease around an acoustic kit augmented with electronic pads.
Whatever the Bears are doing, they need to keep doing it, as the team is beginning to resemble an actual N.F.C. powerhouse, as opposed to a team that front-loads its seasons with wins.
But the acquisition of the investment banking powerhouse is ill timed: Capital markets activity and mergers and acquisitions are drying up with the bear market, and the scant amount of equity underwriting in 2001 will be horded by top players like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.
Adding together the powerhouse talents, the intense work ethic and the captivating style of the team gave Ditka and his 1985 Bears a winning formula both on and off the field.
