No dissin Dougie Buffone! He is greatly missed by Packer fans all over the country. Bares post game hasn't been the same!
Timpranillo posted:4. The Monsoon game 10/31/94 33-6 win. Torrential rain. Throw back uniforms. Favre "running" for that 36 yard TD. Sayers and Butkus getting their jerseys retired at halftime and then pour it on more in 2nd half. I really thought we were up much bigger at half, but it was only 14-0. Monday night game that introduced the nation to the new Green Bay Packers. Cannot for the life of me find any video at all from that game.
They have become 2 peas in a pod.
"I would hope that LaFleur wouldn’t handcuff Aaron too much. I know he said he’s changing the offense but you’ve got to let [Rodgers] play and let him do his thing. And a lot of those things that he does are not in the playbook, ...... " per Favre.
Favre shot from the hip a lot, and now he says MLF should let Rodgers continue to do it. The next Packer QB after Rodgers better be ready to join this small but growing club.
Less than 24 hours away ****ers.
It. Is. Time.
Timpranillo posted:It's bears week, which means it's time for my yearly rant against the worst franchise in all of sports.
You youngins and folks overcome by recency bias can tell me all about your "hate" for the Vikings. You're wrong. The Vikings are nothing. They are irrelevant. They are gnats. They aren't worth the time or the effort to worry about.
There is but one rival of the Green Bay Packers. Everyone else is a simply a week long discussion. The bears and the hate for them is lifelong.
As Packer fans it's our duty, it's our mandate to hold the bears in contempt above every other team. Records don't matter. The last 10 years doesn't matter. Dominating them for nearly 30 years doesn't matter. Win 20 in a row. Lose 20 in a row. They are our rivals. Period. They can go through 67 QBs in 12 years? F**K THEM. They can lose in hearthbreaking fashion? F**K THEM. No empathy. No feelings. No sympathy. F**k the bears previously. F**k the bears today. F**k the bears forever.
I write this every year - and over and over I read people and nonsense "I at least respect the bears and their fans unlike the Vikings". FOH man. I say this over and over, anyone thinking this is simply reacting to recent history of the bears being a dumpster fire. I said it over and over - the second, the literal second they experience any iota of success, they will revert to the goddamned asshats they always have been. Do I need to highlight anything more than last year?
Again. F**k. The. bears. ALWAYS. Sweep the leg. No mercy.
8. Sept. 29, 1957. The Packers upset the Fukking Bears 21-17 in the 1st regular season game played at Lambeau Field. A capacity crowd of 32,132 including NFL Commish Bert Bell, then V-P Richard Nixon, Miss America Merilyn Van Derbur, and George Halas himself, who was not coaching that season.
Hungry5 posted:Timpranillo posted:4. The Monsoon game 10/31/94 33-6 win. Torrential rain. Throw back uniforms. Favre "running" for that 36 yard TD. Sayers and Butkus getting their jerseys retired at halftime and then pour it on more in 2nd half. I really thought we were up much bigger at half, but it was only 14-0. Monday night game that introduced the nation to the new Green Bay Packers. Cannot for the life of me find any video at all from that game.
That was thoroughly enjoyable.
Week 1, 9/27/1959
Packers 9 - Bears 6
The Lombardi era begins.
Some great names and memories!
I just want to point out that at 13:56 mark of that video they show the week’s Supercash numbers.
the six numbers they show match perfectly the dates of my birthday, my wife’s bday, our three kid’s birthdays and our wedding anniversary. I think I had the winning ticket and never cashed it in.
Tavis Smiley posted:Never ages..
McCarthy not going for 2, down 28-26 with 11 min left still makes me stabby
ammo posted:8. Sept. 29, 1957. The Packers upset the Fukking Bears 21-17 in the 1st regular season game played at Lambeau Field. A capacity crowd of 32,132 including NFL Commish Bert Bell, then V-P Richard Nixon, Miss America Merilyn Van Derbur, and George Halas himself, who was not coaching that season.
You forgot Marshall Dillon!
Have to say I am more excited for this opener than I have been in the past couple of years. I really had M3 malaise. Predicting playoffs this season but a close loss tonight:
24-20 Bears
Dan Divine was the last Packer HC to beat the Bears on his first regular season game against them. Before Devine, Lombardi also did it. Hopefully MLF does it tonight.
The only head coaches in Packer history to win multiple championships have their last names beginning with the letter "L" - Lambeau & Lombardi.
Holmgren and McCarthy each won 1 championship.
So now we have another - LaFleur. Hoping for similar results.
chickenboy posted:Have to say I am more excited for this opener than I have been in the past couple of years. I really had M3 malaise. Predicting playoffs this season but a close loss tonight:
24-20 Bears
You mean McVince.
Hungry5 posted:Timpranillo posted:4. The Monsoon game 10/31/94 33-6 win. Torrential rain. Throw back uniforms. Favre "running" for that 36 yard TD. Sayers and Butkus getting their jerseys retired at halftime and then pour it on more in 2nd half. I really thought we were up much bigger at half, but it was only 14-0. Monday night game that introduced the nation to the new Green Bay Packers. Cannot for the life of me find any video at all from that game.
I went to this game and I cannot describe how terrible the weather was. We had a group of 10 guys, 8 bears fans and 2 Packers fans. Sat on the lake side of the field and got completely drenched on the walk into the game.
It was about 38 degrees and blowing about 40mph. Misery cannot describe how conditions were. I will never forget it.
I will also never forget almost dying that day. I live in Indy area and my wife was vehemently against me driving to chicago on Saturday to party for three days then come home Tues day morning. I suggested I drive Sunday afternoon but she said, "Why don't you fly up and drive back with one of the guys?"
At that time you could reserve flights and pay later. So I did, American Eagle Flight 4184. She asked me how much. I told her $170. Being Mrs. Frugality she told me to drive. That plane crashed that Monday in Roselawn, IN with her co-workers husband aboard.
Well, if the game plays out the same way the Madden simulation just played out on The Fan we are in for a hell of a game. I think it was a 35-31 final with Allison catching the winning TD with 20 seconds left.
You might want to skip watching the final 2 minutes of the first half.
Of course the Bears are our biggest rivals. The vikings aren't even close to being in that discussion (and that drives the vikings fans crazy)! It ain't the Bears, however, who are blocking the Packers' games' broadcasts, in my neck of the woods. I will always hate the vikings and I will always know that the Bears are our true rivals. Now, let's kick some Bears' butt tonight! GO PACK, GO!!!
chickenboy posted:Have to say I am more excited for this opener than I have been in the past couple of years. I really had M3 malaise. Predicting playoffs this season but a close loss tonight:
24-20 Bears
WTF kind of talk is that? Packers 31 Bears 10.
1st game of the season and they are hyping it like the Super Bowl in Chicago.
That's because it is like the SuperBowl. My grandpa taught my dad and my dad taught me. A two win season against the Bears is a successful season.
At 79 I have begun to see visions of outcomes of various situations and scenarios.
I dozed off this AM and saw the bears/Packers game scoreboard which read--Packers 27--bears 20
Damn, I hope my brain was on the correct channel
PackerHawk posted:Well, if the game plays out the same way the Madden simulation just played out on The Fan we are in for a hell of a game. I think it was a 35-31 final with Allison catching the winning TD with 20 seconds left.
You might want to skip watching the final 2 minutes of the first half.
Thanks for the warning.
During the game in 2013 I was being such a crabby ass that my wife made watch the last quarter in my garage workshop. I remember screaming so loud/long after Cobb made the catch, that I almost passed out. I can't wait for the game tonight!
DocBenni posted:During the game in 2013 I was being such a crabby ass that my wife made watch the last quarter in my garage workshop. I remember screaming so loud/long after Cobb made the catch, that I almost passed out. I can't wait for the game tonight!
Maybe you should watch every game in the garage workshop.
Things I'm hoping to see tonight:
- The ball consistently being snapped with more that .0001 seconds left on the play clock.
- Jones being utilized to his full potential.
- A consistent pass rush.
- Rodgers getting the ball out in rhythm.
If all those happen, I expect to win easily. If they happen but we lose, I will still be happy that we are at least on the right track.
Packers beating the Bears 4 times in the same calendar year is like a Jimmy Graham block. It’s an incredible anomaly.
Seriously. It’s probably a very small number of times two teams played each other 4 times in the same calendar year. And then you have to win all 4! Just an all time bar trivia question.
Timpranillo posted:It's bears week, which means it's time for my yearly rant against the worst franchise in all of sports.
You youngins and folks overcome by recency bias can tell me all about your "hate" for the Vikings. You're wrong. The Vikings are nothing. They are irrelevant. They are gnats. They aren't worth the time or the effort to worry about.
There is but one rival of the Green Bay Packers. Everyone else is a simply a week long discussion. The bears and the hate for them is lifelong.
As Packer fans it's our duty, it's our mandate to hold the bears in contempt above every other team. Records don't matter. The last 10 years doesn't matter. Dominating them for nearly 30 years doesn't matter. Win 20 in a row. Lose 20 in a row. They are our rivals. Period. They can go through 67 QBs in 12 years? F**K THEM. They can lose in hearthbreaking fashion? F**K THEM. No empathy. No feelings. No sympathy. F**k the bears previously. F**k the bears today. F**k the bears forever.
I write this every year - and over and over I read people and nonsense "I at least respect the bears and their fans unlike the Vikings". FOH man. I say this over and over, anyone thinking this is simply reacting to recent history of the bears being a dumpster fire. I said it over and over - the second, the literal second they experience any iota of success, they will revert to the goddamned asshats they always have been. Do I need to highlight anything more than last year?
61-7. Perry over Cumby. Ditka. Kevin goddamned Butler. Their goddamned horrific fields. Dan Hampton. Their fans. Dan Singletary and his stupid goddamned eyes. Their shitass stadium. Doug Plank. Buddy Ryan. Hub Arkush. Doug Buffone. Butkus. Every f**king guy on the SCORE. THEIR F**KING FANS. Coming back to you now, isn't it?
Again, KEVIN, AND I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH, FUKKING BUTLER.
No pity. No mercy. F**k the bears.
With that, let's review the top best wins over the bears, this list is too hard to limit to 5. And, let's add another to the list.
1. NFCC game 1/23/11 21-14 win. For pure importance it doesn't get bigger than this. Literally it can't unless rules are changed for who can play for SB. Only the 2nd playoff meeting of all time. In Chicago. Winner goes to the Super Bowl. I've never been so amped/nervous/demented about a game in my life. Mainly because I'm fairly confident my father would have died that day if they lost. But, also because as disappointing it would have been to lose the NFCC, losing the NFCC to the Bears would have been an absolute horror show. I sometimes think beating the Bears in the NFCC was more satisfying than the Super Bowl win, as no matter what - we will always be able to say we beat them at their place and prevented them from going to the Super Bowl. That said, I know the win wouldn't mean as much without the SB title.
2. We Have A Reversal 11/5/89 14-13 win. I'm a sophomore college at Illinois. Surrounded by Bears fans. The emotions of that play go from elation to getting trash talked to doing the trash talking. Ditka still pissed off to this day. The asterisk. Plus, at the time you really thought this was a resurgence of the Packers after years of hot garbage, as well as a win in a 3-18 stretch vs them.
3. Taken by Chester Marcol! 9/7/80 12-6 win. The glasses. The single bar facemask. A guy named Chester. Sudden Death. Craziest ending ever. I hope he still has that football...
4. The Monsoon game 10/31/94 33-6 win. Torrential rain. Throw back uniforms. Favre "running" for that 36 yard TD. Sayers and Butkus getting their jerseys retired at halftime and then pour it on more in 2nd half. I really thought we were up much bigger at half, but it was only 14-0. Monday night game that introduced the nation to the new Green Bay Packers. Cannot for the life of me find any video at all from that game.
5. Epic Beatdown 11/9/14 55-14 win. I lived through 61-7. I heard Dan friggin Jiggets talk about it on Chicago radio every 12 minutes. Knowing that they probably could have put up 80 and backed off is even better than topping 61-7.
6. COBB!!!!! 12/29/13 33-28 win. Maybe the 3rd most important game in terms of playoff impact. Rodgers first game after coming back from collarbone. Winner goes to playoffs. Great game back and forth. Boykin with the crazy fumble recovery TD and of course the Cobb TD pass after Rodgers just missed getting killed by Peppers. I was SCREAMING about Jordy getting murdered on that play and it wasn't called. Thank god we don't have to relive that missed call.
7. ON ONE LEG 9/9/18 24-23 win I mean. You go from "welp season's over" to "OMG KIZER IS THE WORST ****ING QB IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH" to "GERONIMO!!!" to Randall Cobb again ripping the hearts out of the bears to sweating out the last drive after a just insanely horrible roughing call that to this day is inexplicable.
Again. F**k. The. bears. ALWAYS. Sweep the leg. No mercy.
This isn’t a rant. It’s a freaking essay and it is amazing.
chickenboy posted:Have to say I am more excited for this opener than I have been in the past couple of years. I really had M3 malaise. Predicting playoffs this season but a close loss tonight:
24-20 Bears
Me too. Predicting a Packers blow out win because, why the **** not? Bears are a much better team and are at home. Still don’t give a ****.
Packers 33 Bores 7
Timpranillo posted:
5. Epic Beatdown 11/9/14 55-14 win. I lived through 61-7. I heard Dan friggin Jiggets talk about it on Chicago radio every 12 minutes. Knowing that they probably could have put up 80 and backed off is even better than topping 61-7.
This is my favorite by far. Usually I get pretty wound up when the Pack and the Bears play, but this game was so relaxing to watch. I've never seen the Packers have their way with a team like they did that night. The fact that it was the Bears made it all the better.
Sorry if this has been posted, not looking through all previous posts......but 538 has the bears winning tonight. https://projects.fivethirtyeig...ions/?ex_cid=rrpromo. Oooops, copy didn't show what I wanted, it's just saying bears by 64% winning.
Yeah, 538 had about the same percentage of Hillary winning.
AtTheMurph posted:I went to this game and I cannot describe how terrible the weather was. We had a group of 10 guys, 8 bears fans and 2 Packers fans. Sat on the lake side of the field and got completely drenched on the walk into the game.
It was about 38 degrees and blowing about 40mph. Misery cannot describe how conditions were. I will never forget it.
I will also never forget almost dying that day. I live in Indy area and my wife was vehemently against me driving to chicago on Saturday to party for three days then come home Tues day morning. I suggested I drive Sunday afternoon but she said, "Why don't you fly up and drive back with one of the guys?"
At that time you could reserve flights and pay later. So I did, American Eagle Flight 4184. She asked me how much. I told her $170. Being Mrs. Frugality she told me to drive. That plane crashed that Monday in Roselawn, IN with her co-workers husband aboard.
Great story. Sometimes it's incredible just how much pure unadulterated luck can make a difference in our daily lives. Man, that had to be weird finding that out the next day about what a close call that really was for you.
I keep going back and forth on this game tonight, if I truly had a gun to my head on who wins, I'd pick the Bears. There's a lot of reasons I would expect it will be very close, and if the Pack pulls it out it's probably because Trubisky still makes some inaccurate throws and their kicker gets the yips. If QB and K play well for the Bears, I think they win as I think they will win the trench battle.
The defense has to carry tonight. There has been SO much draft equity and FA signings spent that the defense has to be good. I'd actually be ok with a 13-10 loss while the offense finds its way. But if the defense gives up 30 plus then everything has gone horribly wrong.
Like the optimism about the Packers scoring a bunch of points but the Bears held the Rams to six last year and don't see it. Packers victory likely depends on defense forcing several mistakes.
Pack prevails after late missed FG by Bares 20 to 17.
fightphoe93 posted:AtTheMurph posted:I went to this game and I cannot describe how terrible the weather was. We had a group of 10 guys, 8 bears fans and 2 Packers fans. Sat on the lake side of the field and got completely drenched on the walk into the game.
It was about 38 degrees and blowing about 40mph. Misery cannot describe how conditions were. I will never forget it.
I will also never forget almost dying that day. I live in Indy area and my wife was vehemently against me driving to chicago on Saturday to party for three days then come home Tues day morning. I suggested I drive Sunday afternoon but she said, "Why don't you fly up and drive back with one of the guys?"
At that time you could reserve flights and pay later. So I did, American Eagle Flight 4184. She asked me how much. I told her $170. Being Mrs. Frugality she told me to drive. That plane crashed that Monday in Roselawn, IN with her co-workers husband aboard.
Great story. Sometimes it's incredible just how much pure unadulterated luck can make a difference in our daily lives. Man, that had to be weird finding that out the next day about what a close call that really was for you.
It still sort of haunts me. We have been out with the coworker whose husband died on that flight. Thankfully she hadn't had any kids. They were newly married, but I had two at that time and one was 1 yr old.
Makes you understand how important life insurance is. Cheapo wife would have gotten some $$ from the airline (I think the coworker got something like $600k) and some that I had at the time, but it would not have been enough.
I have enough now.... almost.