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This is only the SECOND time that these two teams have met in the playoffs ... this would be the 182nd game between the two teams ... most in the NFL, going back to the 1920's. Previous playoff meeting was in 1941 (story below) in a playoff to determine the conference champion. Revenge, of course, now awaits the Packers for that bitter defeat at the hands of Da Bears.
Tickets to Sunday's game are running about $500+ on StubHub and other sites; there are a "limited" number of tickets going on sale Tuesday from $134-586 at Ticketmaster.
If the Packers do win, there's a chance I could get two Super Bowl 45 tickets in the Packers Season Ticket holders lottery. Heard face value is something like $500-800.
How that Bears-Packers game in 1941 played out
By Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jan. 17, 2011 7:35 a.m.
On Dec. 14, 1941, the day of a playoff game to determine the Western Division champion, a Milwaukee Journal reporter wrote that the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, with identical 10-1 records, were the “oldest and bitterest rivals in pro football."
Some things don't change.
In the days leading up to the big game, hay and a heavy tarpaulin were put down on the field at Wrigley Field.
“A capacity crowd of 46,800 is assured,” the newspaper reported. About 10,600 tickets went to Packers’ fans.
“Tickets, which went on sale 10 days ago, were gobbled up in a couple of days,” the newspaper reported.
The Bears were a feared team.
“To most fans, except red hot Packers rooters, the Bears on paper still stand out as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, collection of football players ever assembled,” The Journal reported.
Coming just a week after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, the game was historic in another way.
According to the newspaper, there would be no tie. “Under rules which govern a divisional playoff like this, the teams will continue into an extra ‘sudden-death’ period if they are tied at the end of the regular playing time,” the newspaper reported.
The Bears had Sid Luckman. The Packers had Clark Hinkle, Don Hutson and Cecil Isbell.
The Packers were nonetheless confident. Like the 2010 team, the Packers had a strong passing game.
“Yet, despite the superiority of the Bears the Packers will go into the game armed with the sharpest single weapon either team has – the pass,” the paper reported.
Added the Journal: “It is on the pass, of course, that the Packers pin most of their hopes. No team has stopped them in the air and, if the weather does not suddenly turn cold again, the Bears will not stop them either in this third meeting, or at least so (Curly) Lambeau predicts.”
Lambeau himself was confident, telling the paper: “We beat them once, and we can beat them again.”
The teams had split their regular-season series, with the road team prevailing each time. The Bears won 25-17, and the
Packers won the second game, 16-14.
“The team which goes out with the greatest heart and desire will win,” Lambeau said.
It was not to be. The Packers lost 33-14. Two weeks later, the Bears defeated the New York Giants 37-9 before 13,341 fans at Wrigley.
Tickets to Sunday's game are running about $500+ on StubHub and other sites; there are a "limited" number of tickets going on sale Tuesday from $134-586 at Ticketmaster.
If the Packers do win, there's a chance I could get two Super Bowl 45 tickets in the Packers Season Ticket holders lottery. Heard face value is something like $500-800.
How that Bears-Packers game in 1941 played out
By Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jan. 17, 2011 7:35 a.m.
On Dec. 14, 1941, the day of a playoff game to determine the Western Division champion, a Milwaukee Journal reporter wrote that the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, with identical 10-1 records, were the “oldest and bitterest rivals in pro football."
Some things don't change.
In the days leading up to the big game, hay and a heavy tarpaulin were put down on the field at Wrigley Field.
“A capacity crowd of 46,800 is assured,” the newspaper reported. About 10,600 tickets went to Packers’ fans.
“Tickets, which went on sale 10 days ago, were gobbled up in a couple of days,” the newspaper reported.
The Bears were a feared team.
“To most fans, except red hot Packers rooters, the Bears on paper still stand out as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, collection of football players ever assembled,” The Journal reported.
Coming just a week after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, the game was historic in another way.
According to the newspaper, there would be no tie. “Under rules which govern a divisional playoff like this, the teams will continue into an extra ‘sudden-death’ period if they are tied at the end of the regular playing time,” the newspaper reported.
The Bears had Sid Luckman. The Packers had Clark Hinkle, Don Hutson and Cecil Isbell.
The Packers were nonetheless confident. Like the 2010 team, the Packers had a strong passing game.
“Yet, despite the superiority of the Bears the Packers will go into the game armed with the sharpest single weapon either team has – the pass,” the paper reported.
Added the Journal: “It is on the pass, of course, that the Packers pin most of their hopes. No team has stopped them in the air and, if the weather does not suddenly turn cold again, the Bears will not stop them either in this third meeting, or at least so (Curly) Lambeau predicts.”
Lambeau himself was confident, telling the paper: “We beat them once, and we can beat them again.”
The teams had split their regular-season series, with the road team prevailing each time. The Bears won 25-17, and the
Packers won the second game, 16-14.
“The team which goes out with the greatest heart and desire will win,” Lambeau said.
It was not to be. The Packers lost 33-14. Two weeks later, the Bears defeated the New York Giants 37-9 before 13,341 fans at Wrigley.
