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As the Bears and Packers warmed up for their NFL-record 213th game against each other, this one in the wild-card playoffs at Soldier Field, it only seemed as though the Packers had won something like, oh, 200 of the previous 212.
In fact, that would be giving them too much credit by almost double. The victory tally was Packers 109, Bears 97, with six ties — fairly close, taken over the long arc of rivalry history.
But let’s not kid ourselves: Over the last three-plus decades, the rivalry has been as evenly matched as a lone poppy-seed bun against a barrel of bratwurst.