Well, our own version of it. It’s this Sunday at 7:15 Central in Chicago.
They won three in a row to qualify for the game of the week and hopefully the Giants can trip up so the game actually means something. This is the closest thing to a playoff/Superbowl scenario a Packer fan is likely to see anytime soon.
I don’t expect the Bears to lie down or rest the starters so I naturally don’t expect the Pack to pull one off.
But this is the closest to a playoff scenario (the last three games being playoff type games) and a trip to the Superbowl (the game with the Bears).
Anyone excited about the game? Any predictions?
I’m excited that there is even a chance for the game to mean something after the crappy season Favre’s had. I guess the score will be 23-10 Bears.
Anyone else want to lay out some post season predictions now while they have the chance? Who’s going to rep the AFC this year? (Answer; San Diego)
I’d like to see Farve get one more playoff run, and call it a career. There’s nothing at stake for my Saints this week, at home against Carolina, but beating them eliminates them from playoff consideration, which would be nice. I predict the Saints to win the Superbowl every year, but this year I actually have some hope of seeing that dream come true. We get a first round bye, which is a franchise first. If whoever plays Chicago scores the upset and we win our game, we’d be hosting the NFC tiltle game, another franchise first…
As long as there are no injuries, it doesn’t matter who wins. Bears have clinched homefield throughout, another win, at this point, is gravy. I expect this to be treated like the third game of the preseason: starters for a little more than a half, then work in second and third string.
All I care about is seeing the Bears’ defense mold back into form–futile, perhaps, considering my Bears have lost two major playmakers for the season. But Tillman, Johnson, and Johnson (ha!) are back on the field, so I’m hopeful that’s enough to make the difference. I never thought, as a Bears’ fan, to be more optimistic about the offense than the defense, but go figure life…
You guys have a lot at stake on Sunday. If you guys win, you get a first round bye. If you lose you could be playing on Wild Card weekend. And I hope the Green Bay Fav-a-rahs get destroyed (I’m a Vikings fan).
No, as I stated, we have already clinched the first round bye. If we lose to Carolina, we’d be 10-6. If either Dallas or Philly win this weekend, they’d also be 10-6, but we have the tie-breaker because we beat both teams. Here’s a link to the current standings:
Let me preface this by saying that I’m a Packers fan… except when they’re playing the Falcons.
Normally I’d be all about rooting for the Packers; I’m still a Brett Favre fan, and I sometimes wax poetic about the team’s history and organization. BUT…
I need the Packers to lose. Actually I need more than that. I need the Falcons to win, and the Packers, Panthers, and Giants ALL to either lose or tie on Sunday. (Or the Falcons can tie and those three can all lose. Either way is fine by me.)
Should that happen, the Falcons will get into the playoffs, and then it’s Super Bowl time. Maybe.
As a resident of Wisconsin, I would if I were a religious man pray that the Packers never make the Super Bowl because I just don’t want to deal with the inevitable fallout. Close to the last thing i want to spend my time doing is listening to people yammer about how great the Packers are.
Actually, there’s always a bit of ambivalence down here about a Saints-Panthers game. It’s our home team (Saints) versus a QB from Breaux Bridge, even closer to home (Delhomme). Breaux Bridge is about as Cajun a town as you’ll find anywhere.
Well, since Delhomme won’t be playing, I guess I’ll root for the Saints.
