Anyone watching last nights game could feel the tension between the Bears and Packers. Tensions rised as both defenses were on their game until the Packers scored a touchdown on a fake field goal. Frustration on both sides rised as pushing and shoving after plays ensued. Everyone knows the bitter rivalry between the two teams, but how did this come to be? The Bears and Packers are the oldest teams in the league, and their rivalry started back in 1921. They have met 185 times and being that they are both in the NFC north, they face eachother twice a year. Below are some notable interactions between the teams that feed the flames of the rivalry.

 

 

Bears 61, Packers 7  (December 7, 1980) – After the Packers had suffered the second most lopsided defeat in their history, Bart Starr charged across the field to confront Bears coach Neill Armstrong. Starr was upset because Bears defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan had the Bears blitzing from all angles in the fourth quarter. “Bart Starr was upset,” Armstrong said after the game. “He did the talking and I did the listening. He said he’d rather not hear what I had to say, something to that effect, and he left.” Two years later, Bill Tobin, the Bears’ vice president of player personnel at the time, revealed that he had been instructed by general manager Jim Finks during the off-season to study film and decode the Packers’ signal system for relaying plays to the quarterback. Tobin, who had been in the Packers’ front office during the Devine years, had been fired by Starr in 1975 as part of a wholesale housecleaning. “I went at it like a tiger does good meat,” Tobin said at the time. “We wanted 100 points,” defensive end Dan Hampton said. “It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of pricks.”

 

 

 

 

 

Free agent Chad Johnson has pled not guilty to the charge of misdemeanor domestic battery TMZ.com reported. The charge comes

after his August 11 arrest for allegedly headbutting his wife Evelyn Lozada during a confrontation. He was released on a $2,500 bond.  According to the state attorney for Broward County, if convicted, Johnson faces up to a year in jail.  The pair had only been married for 5 weeks when the alleged domestic assault occurred. A day after the incident, the Miami Dolphins swiftly cut ties with the wide reciever. Lozada has also filed for divorce, but Johnson has reportedly refused to sign the papers. News broke today that the pro bowler filed for divorce today, stating that the marriage is, “irretrievably broken”. TMZ says Johnson is trying to block Lozada’s efforts to have him pay her legal fees. Johnson told the website that him and his estranged wife signed a prenup, which explains each party would have to pay for his or her own legal fees. It is yet to be determined if the prenup will be enforced due to the short length of the union.