It will have absolutely no relevance or impact on the wild-card game Sunday between the Bears and Philadelphia Eagles, but based on the 30-plus (and counting) phone calls I’ve received from TV and radio hosts and newspapermen around the country this week already asking me about it, I’m not sure how we don’t take at least a couple minutes to remember one of the most famous games in NFL History?
30 years and four days ago, the Eagles and Bears met for just the second time in their long histories in the playoffs. It is not remembered because Mike Ditka’s Bears beat Buddy Ryan’s Eagles 20-12 — in what became one of the more bitter coaching rivalries in NFL history — to advance to meet the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC title Game for the second time in five seasons.