Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 9, 2024
Comparing quarterback histories of Bears, Packers really is embarrassing
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Jordan Love (left) and Justin Fields greet one another after the game Sunday in Green Bay, Wis. The hardest part for the Bears is being in the same hemisphere with the Packers.
It’s a fact a Chicagoan can get to Green Bay in 3œ hours of pasture-gazing and barn-counting, up Interstate 43, through Milwaukee to Belgium and Cleveland and Denmark (real Wisconsin towns, folks).
The trouble starts at quarterback — the position that rules the NFL, the only one that, unadorned, can change games by itself.
As reference, remember that as great as Dick Butkus was, he couldn’t propel the Bears into a single postseason game during his career. Why? He was only a middle linebacker.
