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The Chicago Bears defeated the Green Bay Packers successful a playoff crippled for the archetypal clip since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.
Chicago overcame a precocious 18-point shortage to stun their rival successful the Wild Card playoff crippled astatine Soldier Field connected Saturday. It marked the Bears' archetypal postseason triumph successful the NFL's oldest rivalry since December 1941, conscionable days aft the infamous Pearl Harbor attack.
For astir of the night, it looked similar Chicago would widen the drought, falling down 21-3 astatine halftime.
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Romeo Doubs #87 of the Green Bay Packers runs with the shot past Jaylon Johnson #1 of the Chicago Bears during the archetypal fractional of a NFC Wild Card Playoff crippled connected Jan. 10, 2026 astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago, Illinois. (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Even aft clawing back, the Bears were facing a 27-16 shortage with little than 7 minutes to spell successful the 4th quarter.
But Bears backmost Caleb Williams led back-to-back touchdown drives, with a missed Green Bay tract extremity successful betwixt those drives to springiness Chicago a precocious lead.
The Packers and backmost Jordan Love had a accidental to travel backmost with a precocious thrust successful the 4th quarter, and astir reached the brink of Chicago's reddish zone.
But the Bears' defence held, and forced an incompletion connected Love's last walk of the night, clinching a 31-27 win.
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Evan Williams #33 of the Green Bay Packers tackles DJ Moore #2 of the Chicago Bears during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot Wild Card crippled astatine Soldier Field connected Jan. 10, 2026 successful Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images)
It marked Chicago's archetypal playoff triumph since the 2010 divisional circular against the Seahawks, which was followed by an NFC Championship crippled nonaccomplishment to the Packers the precise adjacent week.
Now, Chicago is connected to the divisional circular again successful the archetypal twelvemonth nether caput manager Ben Johnson.
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Caleb Williams of the Chicago Bears looks to marque a walk during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot Wild Card crippled against the Green Bay Packers astatine Soldier Field connected Jan. 10, 2026, successful Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images)
Johnson has led 1 of the NFL's astir melodramatic turnarounds this year, ending the Bears' four-year streak of losing records and cementing them arsenic 1 of the NFC's apical contenders.
Meanwhile, the Packers volition caput into the offseason with disappointment and uncertainty aft falling abbreviated of expectations successful a play of pricey acquisitions.
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