Emanuel Predicts Bears Victory
Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel has high hopes for the Bears in Sunday's NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers.
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Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel has high hopes for the Bears in Sunday's NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers.
The dividing line between Bears fans and Packers fans is not as clear cut as the Illinois-Wisconsin border.
The Bears and Packers played a memorable and infamous game on Nov. 3, 1985.
It has been 69 years since the Bears and Packers met in the playoffs, and many residents of the Belmont Village Assisted Living Center in Carol Stream still remember it well.
Believe it or not, somewhere in the city of Chicago there are packers, real live genuine packers who are rooting for the Bears. Where are they and who are they?
What do you do when you are a Bears fan and your significant other roots for the Packers?
Chicago Bears fans were making a mad dash this week to cancel or change plans that originally were scheduled for the same time that the Bears host the rival Green Bay Packers for the NFC Championship Game.
If the Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, not only will they secure a trip for themselves to Super Bowl, but also for President Barack Obama.
For Bears and Packers' fans, this will be the biggest game in recent memory. It's the matchup that both fanbases dreamed of when the playoffs started. Now that it it's a reality, it just feels right.
One of the biggest matchups in Sunday's NFC Championship game will be between the Chicago Bears' offense and the Green Bay Packers' defense. The winner of that battle might take the game.
For only the second time in the history of the NFL, the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers will meet in the playoffs. And not only that, they'll meet with a shot at the Super Bowl on the line.
Despite playing at home, the Chicago Bears are a 3.5-point underdog in the NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers. And that's just where they want to be.
As the saying goes, Devin Hester is ridiculous. One moment of poor judgment can cost a team the game. One bad punt and the Packers could miss out on a chance to play for the Super Bowl. So how do you stop him?
As the final seconds ticked off the clock and the Chicago Bears moved onto the NFC Championship game, all of Chicago was sent into a frenzy as the Bears were now a week away from playing their archrival, with a shot at the Super Bowl on the line.
The kickoff for the NFC Championship Game between the Bears and the Green Bay Packers is just four days away, but beforehand, there will be a little dancing.
It's a good thing that most Blackhawks fans also love the Bears.
It's been said numerous times by talk show hosts this week: "Even if the Bears win the Super Bowl, people are still going to wonder how good this team really was."
The Bears and Packers have played each other more than 180 times, it's football's longest rivalry, but it's taken 69 years for them to meet again in the postseason.
In Sunday's NFC Championship game, the Chicago Bears won't be the only team rolling out a defense capable of dictating a game.
The NFC Championship between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers will not be played in Chicaco. Someone should probably let the Green Bay Press-Gazette know that.
As big as the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game is going to be, it's a game that could be decided by a single aspect.
It just hit me. The Bears and the Packers are going to play each other on Sunday in their most meaningful match up since the NFL became an entity.
The Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers' defenses rank among the best in the league in most major defensive categories. But could you argue that the Bears have the better defense?
The football rivalry is in now its ninth decade. The baseball one is entering its 12th. On the gridiron, the adversaries haven't met in the postseason for 70 years. On the diamond, meanwhile, they haven't met in the playoffs for…well, ever.
The Chicago Bears are one win away from reaching the Super Bowl for the first time since 2006. But in the NFC Championship game, there will be more on the line than just that.
