WCG historian Jack M Silverstein looks back at the stars, highlights and power swings in the greatest rivalry in sports.With three minutes remaining in their first battle of the season with the defending champs, victory seemed secure for the,The day was Sept. 24, 1933, and the Packers led the defending champion.First, he took a handoff on an end-around, slowed down, and heaved a touchdown pass 46 yards to Luke Johnsos. Other times, he would have his players switch jersey numbers and play different positions during practice-just in case Halas was spying on him.In 1963, the two-time defending champion Packers lost only twice-both times to the Bears (10-3 in Green Bay and 26-7 in Chicago). A massive 81,441-seat stadium plopped in the middle of a neighborhood of regular folks. Their most memorable match came in Chicago's 14-7 victory at Green Bay in 1933.On a fake punt in the second quarter, Hinkle took the ball and headed around the end. The Packers faced fourth down on the Bears' 14-yard line. "Lombardi got us so worked up for the Bears the week before the game [in Chicago] that I think we left everything on the practice field.
The Bears and Packers have been battling since 1921, when the Chicago Staleys beat the Green Bay Packers 20-0 at Cubs Park. Bears' Gaylord "Pete" Stinchcomb scored the game's first touchdown on a 45-yard run. The Rivalry. Former Bears great Ray “Scooter” McLean coached the Packers to a 1-10-1 record. That’s Lambeau. Everything started Jan. 28, 1959, when the moribund Packers — coming off that 1-10-1 record, still the worst in franchise history — hired 45-year-old Giants offensive coordinator Vince Lombardi.“My word will be final,” Lombardi said upon his hiring,After one year, the Packers were 7-5. With Nagurski closing in, Hinkle cut back and crashed headfirst into Nagurski. The Bears, then named the Staleys and one of the league's founding teams, were ready to show the ropes to the Packers, who were in their inaugural NFL season (although they had existed as a pro football club since 1919).Chicago pounded the Packers 20-0, and, for extra measure, Staleys guard John (Tarzan) Taylor threw a sucker punch that broke the nose of Packers tackle Howard (Cub) Buck. The disdain the Packers have for the Bears-and vice versa-has been handed down through the eras. But the Packers won six of nine, and also nabbed league titles in 1936 and 1939.However, the ‘39 season was a big one for Chicago. We were hanging on. "Many things have changed in the NFL since I played," Davis says. Imagine an NFL franchise in a central Illinois city with a population of 72,174. In a 19-13 win the year before, Driscoll converted two field goals and scored a touchdown on a 24-yard fumble return.Until the 1980s, the longest stretch of dominance in the series was Green Bay’s seven-game winning streak from Oct. 21, 1928 to Nov. 9, 1930. I covered the NFC Championship Game between the Packers and Giants on Jan. 20, 2008.
If the Packers had had a robber-baron owner, they’d be playing somewhere that didn’t force fans to wear snowmobile and hunting apparel to fight the elements.Oh, that cold.
They did not have much else, but, as things turned out, the best defense brought them the NFL championship.
When a Bears' player went after Cub Buck's nose again, Buck broke the Chicago player's arm. "I thought we had one of our best teams in 1963," Davis says. "But even today the Bears game still is the one the Packers have to win.
We missed the playoffs that year, as did Green Bay, and 2009 felt like a true starting point, because that’s when Cutty came aboard and it’s also when Rodgers led the Packers to the playoffs for the first time.The Rodgers-led Packers did not miss the playoffs until 2017, and that failure combined with the drafting of Mitch Trubisky.Lovie beat the Packers in his first shot,What we need now is to officially break the Rodgers spell. Once again, a blocked field goal proved crucial, as.On the eve of the 2010 NFC championship, fans needed only to listen to Lovie Smith talk to know how the rivalry had changed in his time.“You just look at our history and it does have a respectful tone, but it can be nasty also,”,That was the last time that we had any real claim to the rivalry’s dominant team. In 2016.The second of those two losses launched the newest era in the rivalry, when Mitch Trubisky started his first game of the series. For the rematch in Chicago, Packers defensive end Charles Martin wore a towel that had a hit list of Bears players written on it. ".At the epicenter of the rivalry stand two of the most irrepressible and influential figures in NFL history-Chicago's George Halas and Green Bay's Earl (Curly) Lambeau.Each entered the league as founder, head coach, and player.
When they left, they were 9-0 losers who’d played their last game of the season, as the victorious Bears beat the Portsmouth Spartans (later the.Snow fell throughout the afternoon, but the crowd of 5,000 was as impervious to the cold and snow as were the players, many of whom did not wear head guards or stockings.The Bears were led during their six-game winning streak by three rushers:In the 1934 championship game, the 13-0 Bears lost their shot for a perfect season, losing 30-13 to the.This was a tight era, with no team winning more than two consecutive games. The best team didn't always win.
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