Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Week 1: Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears

     The NFL has many rivalries such as Seattle and San Francisco, Minnesota and Green Bay, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. But, the most notable rivalry in history is the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, dating back to 1921. All of this hype was started by the legendary Coach Vince Lombardi.  
      This rivalry means much more to these fans than what meets the eye. Since 1921 the Chicago Bears have lead the series 93-90-6 which is extremely close for a rivalry that's been going on for more than 90 years. With two of the largest names in the NFL battling it out at least twice in the regular season, Aaron Rogers in slowly putting the Green Bay Packers back on top. On the other hand Jay Cutler is slowly running the organization into the ground. Back in the 1970s and the early 1980s the Bears just dominated the rivalry. Players like William "The Fridge" Perry and Walter Payton were such dominate players, the Packers just couldn't preform in the draft like the Bears did. Now that Aaron Rogers is Quarterback he's now 11-4 all-time against the Bears. The only Quarterback to have a better record against Chicago is Brett Favre.         
      As we saw in the season opener we didn't know what to expect, with Chicago being 5-11 and the Packers being 13-5 last season. Both teams kept the game very close, which was very surprising. Even with the Packers not having Star Wide Receiver Jordy Nelson they still ended up pulling out the win. Surprising as it is, the Bears were the first to score with a field goal. It wasn't until the end of the first quarter that Green Bay finally scored. After a lot of back and forth play in the Second quarter is when the game was all tied up again at 10-10. The game didn't get interesting until the 3rd and 4th quarter, when the Packers started to rack-up the points against the Bears. Once Green Bay got on a roll Chicago couldn't stop them. Every time the Packers scored the Bears came right back with either a touchdown or a field goal, but the Bears just couldn't keep up with them. 
      This was the first game of the season for both teams. As everyone knows, first games never go well and this game was no different. But who knows, maybe one of them could be Superbowl champions. But until next time...





For Wesley.

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