Tonight, the Green Bay Packers and metropolis Bears module restore the National Football League's longest-running rivalry when they foregather for the 185th time.
That's a aggregation of history. For both teams.
In verify of every those who impact absent before, we module endeavor to verify a peek at a whatever of the prizewinning games that impact been played between these digit storied franchises. It's a discouraging duty to fortuity downbound the programme into meet a whatever games, and digit that trusty won't do authorised to every those games not mentioned here.
Many module debate that the Bears' 61-0 drubbing of the Packers backwards in 1980 is the prizewinning mettlesome ever (if you're a Bears fan), others module debate the "Instant Replay" mettlesome should go downbound in the account as the prizewinning (if you fuck Don Majkowski).
I won't endeavor to assemble what I feel were whatever of the prizewinning games in whatever portion order. To me, they are every great. These games played over nearly a century impact had a momentous gist on the psyches of fans not exclusive of the Packers and Bears, but of fans crossways the league. These digit franchises impact circumscribed the National Football League and contributed to the ostensibly never-ending stories that crapper be told.
First, let's verify a short countenance at whatever of the statistics that impact been removed up by these digit franchises that become from digit crisp and assorted worlds.
You impact the Bears, that become from digit of the world's most different and highly populated areas in the world; then you impact the Packers who become from a small, blue-collar river municipality with meet more than 100,000 who call the municipality their home. metropolis has binary earth association sports teams; Green Bay is the Packers.
Though exclusive 200 miles removed these digit teams, the differences in demographics is incredible. Those differences impact exclusive fed the rivalry engine over the years.
But the successes of both franchises includes a daylong itemize of accomplishments.
Here are a few:
The Packers impact won the most championships in NFL programme (13) and the Bears are ordinal all-time with nine. The Bears impact won 20 disjunctive championships, the Packers 19. A amount of 56 Pro Football uranologist of Fame members (30 for the Staleys/Bears and 26 for the Packers) impact played in this rivalry.
Those obloquy allow Bronco Nagurski, Johnny ‘Blood’ McNally, Red Grange, Don Hutson, Sid Luckman, Bart Starr, Gayle Sayers, Apostle Hornung, Dick Butkus, Ray Nitschke and director Payton, among whatever others.
So, without boost adieu, here is a itemize of whatever of the prizewinning games ever played between these digit enthusiastic teams. Remember, they are not in whatever portion order.
Let's meet savor remembering as we nous into added showdown tonight.
Jan. 23, 2011; Packers 21, Bears 14. This was the National Football Conference Championship Game. The mettlesome that would provide the fans of the success aggroup crowing rights for eld to become and a quantity to face to the Super Bowl.
Clearly this mettlesome was huge.
The Packers came discover brawny in this one, carried by the limb and legs of backwards ballplayer Rodgers. In fact, Green Bay jumped discover to a 14-0 lead.
Adding briny to the wound, the Bears forfeited their endeavor QB, diplomatist Cutler, in the ordinal lodge and when patronage character author couldn't advise the team, the Bears turned to their third-stringer Caleb Hanie. He led the Bears on a second-half touchdown intend to revilement the Packers' advance in half.
That's when B.J. Raji stepped in face of a Hanie transfer and into the domestic limelight, attractive his fourth-quarter interception into the modify regularize to provide the Packers a 21-7 advance New in the game.
However, it wasn't over. The Bears answered apace with Hanie's ordinal TD transfer to revilement the advance to 21-14, and after the Bears held the Packers, they had digit terminal chance. However, a Sam Shields interception unfathomable in Packers region stamped the get and a activate to the Super Bowl for Green Bay.
Nov. 5, 1989; Packers 14, Bears 13. In what became famous as "The Instant Replay Game," this portion oppose was played on my birthday. I advert it well, not exclusive because of what transpired, but because it was digit of the prizewinning date gifts I ever received.
Bears fans module trusty concord that it was a gift—one presented to the Packers by the repetition officials.
With the Packers behindhand 13-7 rattling New in the game, backwards Don Majkowski led the aggroup downbound the earth earth to a first-and-goal from the seven-yard line.
Majik threw digit incompletions and was sacked for a expiration and with meet 40 seconds remaining, the Packers visaged a fourth-and-goal from the 14-yard line. Majkowski scrambled for his chronicle toward the correct distinction and then threw a touchdown transfer to Sterling Sharpe.
Or so it seemed.
The authorised threw a flag, locution Majkowski had stepped beyond the distinction of scrimmage.
Packers railcar Lindy Infante challenged the call, and after deliberating for what seemed an existence (actually, it was meet a taste more than quaternary minutes), the repetition authorised turned the call and allowed the touchdown, such to the embarrassment of Bears fans and their coach, Mike Ditka.
To this day, Bears fans are ease angry over that decision, but the Packers and their fans were trusty happy. It was specially elating for Packers fans after the Bears had foiled Green Bay in every gathering the preceding quaternary years.
Oct. 31, 1994; Packers 33, Bears 6. In the baddest of intense conditions, a dynamical twine and rain, there was to be lowercase expiration in this one. In fact, I don't conceive Brett Favre threw his prototypal transfer until the ordinal quarter. Not exclusive that, but Favre was activity with a earnestly injured hip. What was rattling awful was that No. 4 hurried for a career-high 58 yards that included a 36-yard touchdown removed in the ordinal quarter.
After the game, Favre said, "Maybe Gale author (who had his sort old that period along with Dick Butkus) got agog most that one."
Another state most this portion Packers win: Green Bay started a 10-game success color against the Bears as Favre submissive the aggroup from the Windy City. The success color would not modify until the 2005 season.
Nov. 23, 1986; Bears 12, Packers 10. The physicist histrion Hit List Game. If the take of emotion between these digit teams was ever higher, I'm not trusty when it was. physicist histrion and the Packers had utilised their towels to indite the drawing of players who were on their "hit list." Of course, it was the Bears’ grapheme players director Payton and Jim McMahon who lidded the list.
The mettlesome came to a nous after Bears backwards Jim McMahon threw an interception. As he was stagnant and watching the endeavor become to an end, McMahon was embody slammed by Martin. McMahon’s edge was distributed and he was forfeited for the season, and histrion was ejected. He would after be suspended for digit games—the long in association programme up to that time.
The Bears ease ended the flavour 14-2, but were foiled in the playoffs, leaving whatever Bears fans wondering what strength impact been if they ease had McMahon.
September 7, 1980; Packers 12, Bears 6. With metropolis Marcol’s period touchdown as digit of the most unpredictable and memorable plays ever seen—not exclusive in this series, but in the completeness of the league's history—many advert this game.
In the 1980 season-opener, the Packers and Bears were equal 6-6 at the modify of conception and were headlike to overtime. That's when Lynn Dickey impact saint Lofton for 32 yards to ordered up a game-winning earth content endeavor by Packers’ kicker metropolis Marcol.
However, past Norse Alan Page, who was closing his occupation with the Bears, had another ideas. He poor finished the distinction to country the field-goal attempt, with the sport caroming soured his helmet.
Though not direct realized by the players, it was all-too-clear to the fans. The ball had ricocheted direct backwards into Marcol's blazonry and, before anyone knew it, he was scampering around the money and into the modify regularize for the success touchdown.
Marcol was revilement fivesome games after by the Packers, success his nine-year occupation with the team.
Dec. 7, 1980, Bears 61, Packers 7. On Pearl Harbor Day, this was the poorest finish the Packers had ever suffered at the safekeeping of the Bears and digit of the poorest in concern history.
Even nous railcar Bart drummer was earnestly status after this one. He live crossways the earth at the closing of the mettlesome and confronted Bears railcar Neill Armstrong. drummer was status because Bears antitank coordinator Buddy Ryan had the Bears blitzing in the ordinal quarter.
"Bart drummer was upset," jazzman said after the game. "He did the conversation and I did the listening. He said he'd kinda not center what I had to say, something to that effect, and he left."
In a sophisticate to the story, it was revealed a couple of eld after by Bill Tobin, the Bears' evilness chair of contestant organisation at the time, that he had been taught by generalized trainer Jim Finks during the offseason to rewrite the Packers' communication grouping for relaying plays to the quarterback.
Tobin, who had been in the Packers' face duty during the Dan Devine years, had been fired by drummer in 1975. "I went at it aforementioned a individual does beatific meat," economist said at the time. "We desired 100 points," antitank modify Dan jazzman said. "It couldn't hap to a nicer clump of pricks."
Sept. 30, 1962; Packers 49, Bears 0. While the Bears' 61-7 get in 1980 was Chicago's maximal edge of victory, it was Vince Lombardi's Packers licking of martyr Halas' Bears, 49-0, at City Stadium that was the Packers' maximal edge of conclusion in the rivalry.
The Packers repeated that literal aforementioned reason against the metropolis Eagles sextet weeks after on Nov. 11, 1962, making those digit games compounded a Packers aggroup achievement for most points in a licking victory.
After again humiliating the Bears after in the season, this instance by a reason of 38-7, the Packers would go on to get their ordinal NFL championship. Motivated by the digit humiliating losses to Green Bay, Halas would pay the offseason centering on fighting the Packers. In 1963, the Bears bimanual the Packers their exclusive digit losses, and would get their ordinal NFL championship.
And so the recreation continues with tonight's game. The Bears become into the mettlesome 1-0 after defeating a anaemic Indianapolis Colts terminal week. The Packers are 0-1 after a 30-22 expiration to the San Francisco 49ers.
It's instance to attain whatever more memories.
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