"Hell yeah, the Bears are going all the way. San Diego scares me a little bit, but only a little bit," Joey Scapini said. More than half a dozen employees gathered in the walkway between the big Buddha and bronze lion statue to watch a TV embedded in a desk.
Despite all the possible visual distractions--the exploding skulls, gargoyles and poster advertising vibrating tongue rings--all eyes were on the Bears. One of the few customers in the shop, Joe Ordonez of Burbank, had just finished up having a portrait of his daughter tattooed on his arm when the game started. He stuck his head out of the room to catch a few glimpses of his team.
His daughter, Tricia Ann Ordonez, died a year and a half ago at the age of 23, and he had been meaning for a while to immortalize her image on his arm. Ordonez is a longtime Bears fan, though he is less optimistic than Scapini. He thinks the Bears have only a 50-50 chance of making it to the Super Bowl.
"I'll watch the game at halftime when I get home," he said, as he grabbed his arm. "I think this is more important than the game.
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