July 1, 2009

It’s been a busy off-season. I spent two weeks down in Florida for Father’s Day with my wife Kara’s family and I got to go to the Desmond Clark golf outing.

Then last weekend I was in Detroit because my buddy Drew Stanton of the Lions got married. We stayed at the new MGM Hotel & Casino downtown and that was fun. It’s just like a Vegas casino.

July 4^th weekend I’ll be spending downtown. I’m going to the Cubs game on Sunday, going to throw out the first pitch and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at the seventh inning stretch. I think there’s more pressure throwing out the first pitch. Everyone expects your singing to be bad, but if you go out there and your throw doesn’t reach the catcher you know you’re going to make somebody’s Not Top 10 list. I’d rather throw it into the bleachers than not reach the plate.

I also played Olympia Fields, it’s a really nice golf course that has hosted the U.S. Open here in the South Suburbs. I played with Paul Levin of Levin BMW, he’s a member there. It was a good time except it was hot as hell and we had to walk the course.

This week I’ll be working out every day, staying in shape, going to the facility to run and do drills, keep myself right for training camp.

Man, we gotta get moving on building up my Twitter following! I have over 2,000 but there are 4 million people here in Chicago. I want to try to get 10,000 by the end of training camp. Let’s make it happen. I’m going to try to make my Tweets interesting so people will want to read them, so follow me at gregolsen82.

Greg Olsen is the starting tight end for the Chicago Bears. His blog for www.playerpress.com runs at www.golsen82.com. Follow him on Twitter as gregolsen82.