Not without their best player, Darrelle Revis, who sustained a season-ending knee injury last week, or their best offensive player, Holmes, who seemed in such deep pain that, while lying on his back, he could not bear holding onto the ball.
His irresistible "Vandal Gummy" sculptures (vibrant 7-foot-high fiberglass bears holding Department of Corrections placards) are ironic political statements and examples of the growing impact these 4 World Trade graffiti artists are having on popular culture.
Also, at 40 seconds, there are a couple bears holding hockey sticks, on ice, playing hockey.
And then on top of that, all the shops have Valentine's teddy bears holding little squishy hearts piled up by the tills.
Millions of women are watching soaps, buying James Blunt albums and sending those cards with bears holding heart balloons.
Playful too: a 9-foot tall fiberglass polar bear holding a beach ball will greet visitors in the lobby (pictured above).
One ad features a computer-generated image of a grizzly bear holding an infant, meant to signal the tough but tender skills of its litigators.
The bar was more emphatically German with its stuffed deer head and three-foot carved wooden bear holding business cards and mints.
But with the Bears holding a two-game lead in the division, the Vikings could finish with a winning record and still not make the playoffs.
For example, there was that teddy-bear company he started before opening the City Club — people could send a bear holding a little horn to somebody for a birthday — that ultimately failed.
