Your favorite games vs Bears

Great list, and since I'm about your age and basically have the same memories of GBP football, that would pretty much be mine as well.  The only difference I have is that leading up to that NFC title game, I was not nervous.  For some reason, I didn't think there was any doubt whatsoever that GB would win.  They were on a roll, they were flat-out better and they were playing with a confidence level that was unbelievable.  The Bears actually made it closer than I thought they would.  

The last team to win an NFC Championship at Soldier Field is the Green Bay Packers. 

How would you like to live with that if you're a Bears fan. 

Yeah, I was actually a little disappointed that we didn't blow those ****s out of their building in the NFC Title game, but Lovie always seemed to slow down our offense a little. Tuckers speeds it up.

The replay game was my first Packers/Bears game. Until that game, I actually liked the Bears , considering the '85 team was my NFL awakening and I watched them practice at UW Platteville.

After that game all those Ditka stories started to make sense.

No doubt whatsoever for this guy. Majik Man! That season will always be the most exciting season in my lifetime.

'89 is when I became a true Packer fan. Sure, I rooted for them, but that season is when it really set in for me, with the replay game probably being the linchpin of it all.

Great List, and I'm around the same age too, and those would be my games.  The NFCCG was just crazy, for all the marbles, amazing that we won that game.  

I think the 94 Halloween, monsoon game, before the monsoon showed up, there was the most amazing catch in MNF history, when the FG was kicked and the ball went over the net, and a dude from the stands jumped and caught the ball, and landed in the tunnel, at least 20+ feet below him.  I'll go to my grave, knowing that was the greatest catch of all time in the NFL and it was made by a Bears fan.  

I might swap 3 and 4.  That Halloween game just had a festive feel for me from beginning to end and given that it was 94, not too distant from the Bear's 1980's dominance.  You had the retirement ceremonies of Sayers and Butkus, the Monday night national spotlight, the crazy weather.

Man, that whole game was a joy.

One reminder of the NFC championship.  The Aaron Rodgers open field tackle of Urlacher and of course the Raji TD INT and the most awesome endzone dance I think I have ever seen!

All those listed in the initial post would make my comprehensive list but the monsoon game comes first because that was the only football game I've attended since moving to Il in 1986.

The surreal quality makes it even more memorable- The American flag snapping proudly during the national anthem was reduced to rags by half time. Negative yardage punts. Favre wandering down the field and scoring the only touchdown in our end zone. The incredibly **** faced bear fan sitting next to me who had his head trapped in his sweatshirt for 5 minutes. I finally dressed him like a toddler when it sounded like he was going to start crying. All the bear fans skipping the Sayers/Butkus ceremonies, saying "We'll just go under the stands for halftime" but then packing it in. Having the south end zone to ourselves(my Bear fan buddy) for the second half- two heads poking through an immense (at least 10 rows square) plastic sheet. I've always wondered if we got any face time on MNF. We weren't leaving 'cause I drove!

PackerRuss, that Monday night game with the fan that caught that FG kick jumping out of the stands was from 1995. I remember Robert Brooks burned the Bears for a 99 yard TD reception in that game also.

I married into a mixed family ( 4 Bears fan and 3 Packer fans ). We decided the 5 years ago, we should go to the first game of the year, Sunday Night Bears-Packers game. Perfect weather, Pack picked off the Bears shiny new QB toy 4 times, and AR threw to Jennings with about 40 seconds left from about 50 yards to win 21-15. Proably right behind the NFC Champ. Game

The NFCCG is definitely at the top of the list. Then last years game for the division title. Last nights game will always be a great memory.

All good posts. I would throw in three more, marked by great Brent TD plays:

1) MNF in 1995 (as mentioned above), with Favre to Robert Brooks for 99 yards -- Holmy with the ballsy call, backed up on the 1, and Brent with a perfect lofted play action pass to Brooks who'd doubled moved himself into the clear up the right sideline then outran the B***s secondary;

2) In Soldier Field the next season, Favre to Antonio Freeman with a desperate heave at the end of the first half with Free making an incredible diving, acrobatic catch into the EZ; and

3) MNF in 2002 in Champaign, Favre threw an 80+ yard strike to Donald Driver -- off a deep drop, Brent threw a perfect strike that carried nearly 70 yards in the air to DD who'd split the safeties.

Favre really did own them until Lovie came in. He never could solve Tampa 2 it seems.

Great list.

All wins.

Wouldn't change a damn thing.

That's right...Freeman was wearing a cast because he broke his arm the week earlier, IIRC

The game at Soldier Field in 1996 was early in the season before Freeman broke his arm. I can't remember the game he broke it in, but when Freeman returned from his injury with a cast on his arm it was the game against the Bears at Lambeau Field.

Actually Free broke his arm later, versus Tampa. Brent led him on a post right into John Lynch. NFL Films caught Holmy on the sideline telling Favre, "Freeman's out, you broke his ****ing arm..." Freeman didn't come back until the B***s game, the next week he starred in the late season torching of the Donkeys at Lambeau where he caught 2 TDs. (OT, but in that game Denver sat Elway and played Bill Musgrave at QB, Packers killed them, IMO that contributed to the SB loss the next season because GB whipped them so bad it only added to that team's overconfidence.)

20-4 stretch from 1992-2003

2-6 stretch from 2004-2007

12-3 stretch from 2008-2014 (incl one playoff)

34-13 stretch from 1992-present  

Having my first exposure during the 70's and my formative years in the 80's, it is frankly unreal to think we have turned it around this significantly.  Having to deal with the friggin fridge, Butler kicking a 52 yarder at the clock to win it in 87, missing the playoffs in 83 because of a last second FG, Ditka in general... man it was bad. 

Not nearly on the same level of all of these...but Desmond Parker (I think) with the hot feet after two touchdown runs.

I move 6 to 2 and 4 to 3.

All on the road.  Those are the best by a mile.

NFCCG is all-time best, no argument.  Basically, we beat them in the Super Bowl.  Which they hosted.

That may never...ever...be duplicated.

I too remember seeing the 81-57 or whatever lead.  Crucial moment in accepting what I never could be and being OK with who I was.

And now this.  Pretty sure I'll be the next Czar residing in St. Petersburg.

Yes, my self-esteem is closely tied to the successes and failures of the Green Bay Packers, none of which I have a dog damn thing to do with.

Eat me.

Agree with Brakya.....and spot on regarding the dip****s that think the queens are somehow our most bitter rival.   It has been and will always be the bares.

Here's the thing I love about Emery. When he sees a problem or deficiency, he attacks it via multiple angles. He doesn't just sign one FA, he drafts the position as well.

I think the Trestman/Emery duo are going to have a fantastic run in Chicago.

It is the dip**** bare fans like the above that make those victories all the better

Last of the South Side Irish? 

This game is it and this video is a masterpiece and the theme music really fits well in  portraying the fans, the rivalry and the players.  Simply a classic for the ages.  My favorite win against the Bears.

Only two teams have had back to back 50 burgers hung on them in NFL history.

The 2014 Chicago Bears and the 1923 Rochester Jeffersons. 

HOWEVER, had they not shuttered football operations for good in 1925 the Rochester Jeffersons would be quick to point out they did not have the luxury of a bye week between their two game fail. 

Great video GBP1

That is why that is number 2 on the list for me.   The NFC championship game is easily number one.

And like the beatdown of the bares on Sunday night we have gotten to experience these in the last few years.

Lots of great stuff in there. But PutMeInCoach guy was awesome!

GBP1...I had seen before, but the goose bumps came back. Thanks for that!

One of my favorites...

2002 at Lambeau, Bears up 14-13, 2nd and goal from the 1. The Center snaps the ball, and before he can get it to Jim Miller, Rod Walker grabs it from him and forces the turnover.

I thought it was Cletidus Hunt, but it was, indeed, Walker.

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The Packers trailed 14-6 at halftime after Javon Walker ran about 100 yards and chased down Roosevelt Williams as he was about to dance into the end zone at the end of the first half."It would have been devastating to have them score like that right before the half,'' Packers coach Mike Sherman said.Green Bay still appeared on its way to another defeat when Rod Walker, filling in for injured Gilbert Brown, snatched the ball from center Olin Kreutz just as he was snapping it to quarterback Jim Miller."Those were two huge plays,'' Bears coach Dick Jauron lamented.Rod Walker timed the snap perfectly, grabbed the ball and pulled it back to his chest, covering up all in one fluid motion."I had a friend who did it all the time in high school, so I thought I might as well try it,'' Walker said. "I just went directly for the ball.''Defensive coordinator Ed Donatell saw something similar in peewee football; some teammates said they saw it in high school, but nobody could remember it happening in college. And never in the pros."I haven't seen anything like that, period,'' defensive tackle Cletidus Hunt said. "Ever, ever, ever. Miller didn't even know what happened.''Neither did most of the Packers, who figured Miller had simply fumbled the snap.Rod Walker said Kreutz told him he'd jumped the gun."He was a little upset that I jumped the snap count a little bit on him, but I told him it's part of the game,'' Walker said.Miller accepted the blame: "That's just basic football there, the center-quarterback exchange. ... Those things happen.''However infrequently.The amazing play came after Marty Booker's apparent touchdown catch was called an incompletion, and the Bears lost a challenge.

The first real "Packers/Bears" (for lack of a better term) I remember was in the mid 80's when the Bears were good and Walter Payton was grabbing Mark Lee's jersey and pulling him over the bench, resulting in Lee getting wrongfully ejected early on. That was a very competitive game for the time and I remember thinking "if only Payton had gotten caught and ejected the Packers would have won that one."