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Bears walk off Packers 22-16 in OT — the dawn of a new era in rivalry? Absolutely … maybe

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Mighty big night Saturday at Soldier Field, you probably heard.

The biggest Bears game since 2018, it was widely surmised.

For the surging Bears, a chance to protect their house against the mother of all unwelcome guests — their perpetual tormentors, the Packers.

Another opportunity — the Bears’ best one in years — to turn the tide in a purportedly great rivalry that for three-plus decades has been so one-sided, it might as well be viewed as the NFL’s version of the Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals.

God bless it, this felt like a moment to change everything.